In the early hours of Sunday morning, November 15, 1959, Herbert Clutter, his wife Bonnie and two of their children, Nancy aged 16 and Kenyon aged 15, were murdered at their farm in Holcomb, Kansas. These crimes were immortalized by Truman Capote in his novel "In Cold Blood".
At the time of her death, Nancy Clutter was the girlfriend of Robert "Bobby" Rupp, who, a year after the tragedy that marked his life, was interviewed by journalist Andy Waldrop.
In this report, Bobby confessed that in the year after Nancy's death, when he was in deep sadness, a song came out that touched him deeply, it was called "Teen Angel". The lyrics speak of a young man afflicted by the loss of his love of 16 years. As it happened to him.
This is the song.