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On November 15, 1959, in a small town in Kansas, the four members of the Clutter family were brutally murdered in their home. The crimes were seemingly motiveless, and no clues were found to identify the killers. Five years, four months, and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith were hanged for the murders at the Kansas State Penitentiary. Based on these events, and after conducting extensive and meticulous research with the real-life protagonists of the story, Truman Capote's career took a dramatic turn, leading him to write In Cold Blood, the novel that definitively established him as one of the greats of 20th-century American literature.