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in cold blood  

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  • The classic 1965 nonfiction novel In Cold Blood, by New York reporter Truman Capote, describes the grisly story of the shotgun murder of a family of four in rural Kansas in 1959. While in prison, Dick Hickock had heard his cellmate, Floyd Wells, speak of his former employment by the wealthy Clutter family. [Source: Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime; In Cold Blood]

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