Alvin Dewey
Alvin Adams Dewey was an American special agent of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
Early life
Dewey was born in Murdock, Kansas, on September 10, 1912, to Alvin Adams Dewey Sr, originally from Illinois, and Nellie E. Dewey.Career
Dewey is most known for his role as the chief investigator of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, a case made famous by Truman Capote's 1966 book In [Cold Blood]. He worked to find the killers, Perry Edward Smith and Richard Hickock, in late 1959, before they were found on 30 December of that year in Las Vegas, Nevada.Dewey had previously worked as a Kansas state trooper, as an FBI special agent, and as the sheriff of Finney [County, Kansas|Finney County].