INCOLDBLOOD

In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood is a 1966 book by American author Truman Capote; it details the brutal 1959 murders of Herbert Clutter, a successful farmer from Holcomb, Kansas, his wife, and two of their four children. When Capote learned of the quadruple murder, before the killers were captured, he decided to travel to Kansas and write about the crime. He was accompanied by his childhood friend and fellow author Nelle Harper Lee, and together they interviewed local residents and investigators assigned to the case and took thousands of pages of notes. The killers, Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Smith, were arrested some six weeks after the murders, and Capote ...

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in cold blood

Adverb

  1. In a ruthless and unfeeling manner; premeditated and deliberate.
    It was not a suicide! He was murdered in cold blood.


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