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In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

In 1959 four members of a Kansas farm family were shot dead. Follow the hunt for their killers, the confessions, the trial, and the years of waiting for the gallows.

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16 parts, about 31 minutes to read.

Why read it

  • Watch a Kansas farm family's last ordinary day unfold beside the approach of the two parolees driving across the state to kill them
  • See how a former cellmate's mistaken story of a farmhouse safe led to four killings for under fifty dollars, then pointed detectives to the killers
  • Weigh a killer's brutal childhood against a sanity rule that held the trial psychiatrist to a bare yes or no answer

Who it is for

  • Readers of true crime who want victims and killers seen up close
  • Readers curious how a small town murder investigation and trial unfold
  • Readers weighing the death penalty and questions of criminal insanity

What the summary covers

  1. The Last Day in Holcomb2 min
  2. Gloves, Rope and a Policy2 min
  3. Saturday Night1 min
  4. Sunday Morning2 min
  5. The Search for Persons Unknown2 min
  6. Dead Ends and Mexico2 min
  7. Perry Smith's Past2 min
  8. An Informer Talks2 min
  9. The Search Narrows2 min
  10. Arrest and Interrogation2 min
  11. Perry Smith's Confession3 min
  12. Jail in Garden City2 min
  13. The Trial2 min
  14. Sanity and the Verdict2 min
  15. Death Row1 min
  16. The End of the Case2 min

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