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In Cold Blood started as a study in how a heartbreaking killing impacted a Mid-West community. But Truman Capote got sucked into the story.

At first, the folk of Holcomb, Kansas, distrusted the flamboyant writer.

But slowly, he won the small city round.

And when the killers were caught, he built an unbelievable and controversial bond with them.

In this episode, Capote’s friend and biographer, Gerald Clarke, describes the awful murders of the Clutter family in 1959, how Capote spent six years writing his masterpiece and its legacy on true crime and non-fiction literature.

You can get a copy of In Cold Blood here.

You can get a copy of Gerald Clarke’s Capote here.

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