60 years ago, Truman Capote penned masterpiece ‘In Cold Blood:’ Does it stand the test of time?

60 years ago, Truman Capote penned masterpiece ‘In Cold Blood:’ Does it stand the test of time?

He could have chosen a different murder. At the time literary icon Truman Capote was looking for a crime to be the subject of his experimental new book, there was no shortage of headline-making family murders – the three family members slaughtered by mild-mannered Kansas college student Lowell Lee Andrews in 1958; the unsolved 1959 murders of four members of the Walker family in Osprey, Fla.; Melvin Rees’ 1959 slying of four members of the Jacks…