S4 Ep25: The Clutter Family: The Case Behind Truman Capote's In Cold Blood

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The horrific killing of four members of the Clutter family in 1959 led author Truman Capote to write In Cold Blood, the book credited with launching true crime as a genre. But how much of what Capote wrote was as "immaculately factual" as the author led the world to believe?

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0:58.0	Listen. Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they change laws, change society or even earn the label Crime of the Century.
1:17.0	But the stories that made headlines in decades past aren't necessarily remembered today. I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author, and in each
1:26.6	episode of this show I'll examine a case that's maybe lesser known today, but was huge when it happened.
1:35.1	This is crimes of the centuries. Truman Capote waited anxiously for their deaths, but appeal after appeal stayed
1:59.1	their hangings for five years. Still Capote refused to publish a word until Perry Smith and Dick
2:06.9	Hickok were in the ground. Maybe he feared them, maybe the point of his and the world's first non-fiction novel,
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