It was April 13, 1965, and Truman Capote was calling to say he wouldn’t be visiting condemned killers Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith on the eve of their executions. Charles McAtee ...

and Capote was faced with the fact that he had reached them as a friend as well as artist and biographer; that his trust and warmth, especially for Perry Smith, was the very thing their lives had ...

Famed writer Truman Capote, southern born and bred but now ... two young men named Dick Hickcock and Perry Smith, Truman uses those same tactics to gain access to them. Truman's fascination ...

4. The Gallows and the Novel - As Perry Smith and Richard Hickcock face a death sentence, part four explores Truman Capote's coverage of the infamous case and his ensuing novel "In Cold Blood ...

The shuttered prison in Kansas, the United States where the killers chronicled in Truman Capote’s In Cold ... were Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry Smith, who were convicted of murdering ...