You could drop Truman Capote overnight because you weren’t ... After the crowning achievement of In Cold Blood came a “deluge of distraction leading to inebriation, disinhibition and disease.” ...

Two typical Americans, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, methodically shotgunned a family of four to death for no apparent reason, on November 14, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas.

If you thought crime fiction was unsettling, these true crime books will make you realise that reality can be far more ...

In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote, follows a real historical crime from the 20th century. In 1959, the Clutter family was brutally murdered in Kansas. The book follows the aftermath of both the murders ...

Tom Hollander leads a breathtaking cast, playing Truman Capote, the writer and social butterfly famous for the novels Breakfast At Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood. A tremendous raconteur ...

as Truman Capote wrote in “In Cold Blood”: “Four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives.” A day shy of 45 years later, the tragedy lingers. It shows prominently in the lives ...

It was April 13, 1965, and Truman Capote was calling to say he wouldn’t be visiting condemned killers Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith on the eve of their executions. Charles McAtee ...

Famed writer Truman Capote, southern born and bred but now part ... After reading a newspaper article about the just occurred November 14, 1959 cold blooded murders of the Clutter family in ...

4. The Gallows and the Novel - As Perry Smith and Richard Hickcock face a death sentence, part four explores Truman Capote's coverage of the infamous case and his ensuing novel "In Cold Blood ...

The shuttered prison in Kansas, the United States where the killers chronicled in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood were executed is now a tourist attraction. From now, former wardens and ...