When True Crime Became All Too Real - The American Scholar

When True Crime Became All Too Real - The American Scholar

Sixty years ago, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith were executed for the murders of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas—crimes famously depicted in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. The chilling story of the home invasion and subsequent killings of the family of four continues to absorb the public, so much so that cellblocks such as the one where Hickock and Smith were held—and where Capote conducted the interviews that formed the basis of his true…