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 ...

Perry Smith and Dick Hickock swung from the gallows long ago. Truman Capote, the author whose best-selling book “In Cold Blood” immortalized the brutally murderous pair, also has died.

But one day a year or so ago, a prisoner in the penitentiary, a sometime farm hand who had once worked on the Clutter farm, told two fellow convicts, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith ...

the cold-blooded killers were Perry Edward Smith and Richard Eugene Hickock, recently paroled criminals who’d met while serving time for burglary at the Kansas State Penitentiary. Fellow ...