Essay Archive - In Cold Blood: A Review
In Cold Blood: A Review
Upon arriving in Holcomb, a small congregation of buildings on the
high wheat plains of western Kansas, Perry and Dick, two men recently
paroled for petty crimes, left almost no evidence behind except for a
bloody footprint and a radio they stole from the Clutter house. In the
investigative nonfiction murder story "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote, the
story of Perry and Dick and the night of November 15, 1959 is relived.
This fast-paced and straightforward documentary talks about the nature of
American violence, and details the motiveless murder of four members of the
Clutter family and the investigati....
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