{"id":6928,"date":"2017-08-24T21:48:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T01:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/truecrimetruant.com\/?p=6928"},"modified":"2025-08-07T20:45:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T00:45:21","slug":"in-cold-blood-murders-that-live-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forensicfilesnow.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/24\/in-cold-blood-murders-that-live-on\/","title":{"rendered":"In Cold Blood: Murders That Live On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>New Variations on Truman Capote&#8217;s Storytelling<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s post starts a little sabbatical from <em>Forensic Files<\/em> to concentrate on some new developments related to the classic true-crime book\u00a0<em>In Cold Blood.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6933\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6933\" style=\"width: 117px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6933\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/forensicfilesnow.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/24\/in-cold-blood-murders-that-live-on\/in-cold-blood-red-cover\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/In-Cold-Blood-Red-Cover.jpg?fit=183%2C276&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"183,276\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"In Cold Blood Red Cover\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;One of many editions&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/In-Cold-Blood-Red-Cover.jpg?fit=183%2C276&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/In-Cold-Blood-Red-Cover.jpg?fit=183%2C276&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-6933\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/truecrimetruant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/In-Cold-Blood-Red-Cover.jpg?resize=117%2C177\" alt=\"\" width=\"117\" height=\"177\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6933\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of many editions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Truman Capote&#8217;s story of the slaughter of four members of a well-liked Kansas farming family in 1959 established a new literary genre: the nonfiction novel.<\/p>\n<p><b>Cradle to gallows.\u00a0<\/b>Capote interviewed people connected with the Clutters, who were terrorized and shot during a home invasion \u2014 way before someone invented that term \u2014 waged by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, a couple of young ex-cons.<\/p>\n<p>By interspersing that intelligence with information from interviews with investigators and Perry Smith, Capote created a 343-page narrative that included in-depth backstories of the characters, a moment-by-moment narrative of the murders, and coverage of the police work, convictions, and eventual executions of the killers.<\/p>\n<p>Of the two truants, Smith by far had the more sympathetic story, or at least Capote portrayed it that way. The son of a Native American mother and white father who once had a happy marriage and worked together as rodeo performers, Smith suffered from a series of long-running tragedies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unexpected bromance.<\/strong> His mother sank into severe acoholism, her four kids lived in an orphanage for a time, and two of them committed suicide. An accident left Smith with mangled legs and constant pain.<\/p>\n<p>Smith and Capote developed a bond during the time he was researching his book.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6990\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6990\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/forensicfilesnow.com\/?attachment_id=6990\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Young-Truman-Capote.jpg?fit=225%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"225,225\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Young Truman Capote\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;A Young Truman Capote&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Young-Truman-Capote.jpg?fit=225%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Young-Truman-Capote.jpg?fit=225%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-6990\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/truecrimetruant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Young-Truman-Capote-150x150.jpg?resize=178%2C178\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Young-Truman-Capote.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Young-Truman-Capote.jpg?w=225&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 85vw, 178px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Young Truman Capote<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Capote, too, came from an unstable household damaged by alcoholism, but he found a way out and turned himself into a member of the glittering literati of his day.<\/p>\n<p>He had early success with his novels\u00a0<em>Other<\/em>\u00a0<em>Voices, Other Rooms,<\/em>\u00a0published in 1948 when he was 23, and\u00a0<em>The Grass Harp<\/em>\u00a0three years later. His novella <em>Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s,<\/em>\u00a0later the basis for the Audrey Hepburn movie of the same name, came out in 1958.<\/p>\n<p>But <em>In Cold Blood<\/em> was his blockbuster. It has sold 100 million copies, <a href=\"https:\/\/study.com\/academy\/lesson\/in-cold-blood-setting-importance-quotes.html#:~:text=Truman%20Capote%20wrote%20and%20published,the%20New%20York%20literary%20world.\">according to Study.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are at least three movies based on the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wholesome, meet dissolute.<\/strong> My favorite, the 2005 release\u00a0<em>Capote <\/em>with\u00a0Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener,\u00a0portrays the author&#8217;s efforts to make a literary conquest out of the quadruple homicide that rocked the Kansas town.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen the film about the same number of times I&#8217;ve read the book\u00a0<em>In Cold Blood,<\/em>\u00a0at least four.\u00a0The story of the unlikely face-off between the high-functioning 4-H-meeting-attending Clutter family and the two margin-dwelling assailants makes for an unusual American tableau.<\/p>\n<p>The means of storytelling was a precursor to books such as Sebastian Junger&#8217;s 1997 best seller,\u00a0<em>The Perfect Storm,\u00a0<\/em>which featured a reconstructed story of a commercial fishing boat that disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Capote&#8217;s book probably will never vanish from the public consciousness, and two new developments related to the story have recently emerged.<\/p>\n<p>First, information about a manuscript that told the story of the Clutter homicides through the eyes of Dick Hickock has leaked out. A seven-part sparsely viewed story about the manuscripts exists on YouTube. I will give it a watch and report back.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6935\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6935\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6935\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/forensicfilesnow.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/24\/in-cold-blood-murders-that-live-on\/the-guilty\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/The-Guilty.jpg?fit=202%2C249&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"202,249\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Guilty\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Murderers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock. Smith later told Capote that he liked Nancy Clutter and could see she was trying to put him at ease. He shot her anyway.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/The-Guilty.jpg?fit=202%2C249&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forensicfilesnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/The-Guilty.jpg?fit=202%2C249&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-6935\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/truecrimetruant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/The-Guilty.jpg?resize=233%2C287\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"287\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smith (top) and Hickock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Fresh retelling.<\/strong> And coming up in November, Soho Press is publishing\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/sohopress.com\/books\/no-saints-in-kansas\/\">No Saints in Kansas<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0a novel told from the perspective of a fictional friend to the real-life Nancy Clutter, the dynamic 16-year-old at the center of <em>In Cold Blood<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The author, Amy Brashear, grew up near Holcomb.<\/p>\n<p><em>No Saints in Kansas<\/em>\u00a0is written for a teenage audience, but I&#8217;m going to give it a read myself and report back on it just the same. It might make a nice holiday gift for a nascent true-crime fan in the family.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for this post. Until next week, cheers. <em>\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/truecrimetruant.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/29\/just-sweats-fraud-murder\/\">R.R.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Update: Read <a href=\"http:\/\/truecrimetruant.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/08\/in-cold-blood-alternate-facts\/\">part 2<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Variations on Truman Capote&#8217;s Storytelling This week&#8217;s post starts a little sabbatical from Forensic Files to concentrate on some new developments related to the classic true-crime book\u00a0In Cold Blood. Truman Capote&#8217;s story of the slaughter of four members of a well-liked Kansas farming family in 1959 established a new literary genre: the nonfiction novel. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forensicfilesnow.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/24\/in-cold-blood-murders-that-live-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In Cold Blood: Murders That Live On&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[201],"tags":[202,204,205,203],"class_list":["post-6928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-cold-blood","tag-in-cold-blood","tag-no-saints-in-kansas","tag-perry-smith","tag-truman-capote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>In Cold Blood: Murders That Live On - Forensic Files Now<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/forensicfilesnow.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/24\/in-cold-blood-murders-that-live-on\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In Cold Blood: Murders That Live On - Forensic Files Now\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Variations on Truman Capote&#8217;s Storytelling This week&#8217;s post starts a little sabbatical from Forensic Files to concentrate on some new developments related to the classic true-crime book\u00a0In Cold Blood. 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