Capote Classic 'In Cold Blood' Tainted By Long-Lost Files

'In Cold Blood' May Not Be Accurate
This combo made from file photos shows Richard Hitchcock, left, and Perry Smith, the two men hanged for the Nov. 15, 1959 murders of Herb and Bonnie Clutter and their children in Holcomb, Kan. that became infamous in Truman Capote's true-crime book "In Cold Blood." Their remains were exhumed Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, in an effort to solve the slayings of a Florida family killed six weeks later. (AP Photos, File)
This combo made from file photos shows Richard Hitchcock, left, and Perry Smith, the two men hanged for the Nov. 15, 1959 murders of Herb and Bonnie Clutter and their children in Holcomb, Kan. that became infamous in Truman Capote's true-crime book "In Cold Blood." Their remains were exhumed Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, in an effort to solve the slayings of a Florida family killed six weeks later. (AP Photos, File)

GARDEN CITY, Kan.—Truman Capote's masterwork of murder, "In Cold Blood," cemented two reputations when first published almost five decades ago: his own, as a literary innovator, and detective Alvin Dewey Jr.'s as the most famous Kansas lawman since Wyatt Earp.

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