In November of 1959, the four members of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas were murdered in their home.  A pair of ex-convicts, who met in the Kansas State Penitentiary, were eventually tracked down and tried for the crimes.  The duo were both executed on April 14, 1965.

Learning of the crimes before the murderers were captured, Truman Capote travelled to Kansas, along with his childhood friend Harper Lee, to interview residents and the investigators assigned to the case.  Six years later, Capote turned nearly eight thousand pages of notes into In Cold Blood, considered by many to be the prototypical true crime novel.  A few weeks back, the book was the answer to Final Jeopardy, which spurred me into adding it to my waitlist at the library.