In Cold Blood, Truman CapoteOn the night of 15 November 1959 ex cons Dick Hickock and Perry Smith broke into the wealthy Cutter familys home in Holcomb, Kansas. Unable to find the safe stuffed with money theyd been told about, they tied up and then killed the four family members before going on the run. Six weeks later they were caught in Las Vegas. They were tried, convicted and executed by hanging six years later. Truman Capote read about the murders in the New York Times and

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