12. What observations most interested Dewey when investigating the Clutters' murders? a. The murders used rope to kill the Clutters
b. All the Clutters were shot in the head area
c. Each of the Clutters were in comfortable positions before their murders
d. All of the Clutters were wearing their pajamas
- In Cold Blood

c. Each of the Clutters were in comfortable positions before their murders

Explanation:

Alvin Dewey had been assigned to work on investigating the murders of the four members of the Clutter family and capturing whoever may have done it.

The murders were very peculiar to Dewey because each of the Clutters appeared to have been made comfortable before they were murdered, a fact which interested Dewey because he wondered why the killers would go through the trouble of doing so.

When interrogating Perry Smith who was one of the murderers, Dewey finds out that it was Smith who put the Clutters in comfortable positions before they were killed.

the correct answer is:

this is an example of the writer telling through description rather than showing through dialogue.

sometimes writers like to explain explicitely what's happening instead of adding dialogues of the situations., which is the case in this passage,

i'm pretty sure you can use the word uproar