Richard Eugene "Dick" Hickok

Richard Hickok grew up in an ordinary family, was a child who studied well, and went in for sports. In the university he was even popular due to his sport skills. All this lasted until the moment he got into a serious car accident where his face was disfigured. The author describes him as a person whose face seemed to consist of several parts that are poorly connected. He had crooked, asymmetrical eyes, lips slightly raised, and upturned nose.

Richard's dossier consisted mainly of bad checks and petty theft. But later it becomes known that he felt weakness for young girls, who were 12-14 years old. The reason was divorce with his first wife. After Dick was caught, he explained his addiction by acting on impulse desire, not thinking about the consequences and whether it was good or bad.

Dick has no respect for human life, and indeed for life. Even after the murder of 4 people, Dick quite deliberately crushes the dog with the wheels of a car just like that, without any explanations or need.

Perry described Dick as a completely normal person, but without a conscience, who is capable of killing without any purpose.

But according to psychiatrists, due to his mental disorder, Dick is not able to experience empathy and affection for people and think about the consequences of his actions towards them. So, he decided to take a weapon from which the Clutter family was later killed. Although with all this, Dick, among other drawings, tattooed a bouquet with an inscription: “For Mom and Dad.”

Also, his psychopathic personality disorder is well illustrated after the murder, when after a few days he completely wrested the incident, not to mention any feeling of guilt or repentance.

On top of that, Richard can be described as quite an intelligent man, as he drew up a plan for robbery to every detail, and a sufficiently lucrative, because he looks at people through the prism of the benefits they can bring him, so he met Perry. Although after two weeks after their "work," he was thinking about how to get rid of him.