Question relating to the Clutter family murders.

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Floyd Wells, who had once worked for the Clutters, told Dick Hickock that in his office, Herbert Clutter had a safe full of money—about $10,000 (remember this was in 1959).

If that had been true, how would Wells know about it? Would the Clutter family members point out the safe to their hired hands? Would they open it up and dole out wages in front of the hired hands?

My guess is Hickock never thought about that very hard. He probably just figured it would be easy to pull off the job, as Capote indicates.

I had the opportunity recently to sit in on a college English class that was discussing IN COLD BLOOD, which is where this was brought up.