WARNING: CRIME SCENE PHOTOS ARE GRAPHICTwo families, mysteriously murdered under similar circumstances, just a month apart. One was memorialized in Truman Capote’s classic novel, In Cold Blood. The other was all but forgotten. Dick Hickock and Perry Smith confessed to the first: the November 15, 1959 murder of a family of four in Holcomb, Kansas. Despite remarkable coincidences between the two … coincidences between the two crimes, they denied committing the second: the December 19 murder of a family of four in Osprey, Florida.
Over half a century later, a determined Florida detective undertakes exceptional efforts to try to bring closure to the long-cold case.
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Very interesting if you have read “In Cold Blood.” An unknown side story.
To much back and forth.
It’s just ok, with an unresolved ending.
It’s done as a non-fiction report on the possibility that the two killers portrayed by Truman Capote in his book “In Cold Blood” were guilty of a similar murder that took place in PA a few weeks before the one reported on by Capote.
There is no definative proof that this is true, but the conclusion that it is – is based on the similarities of the two multiple murders of entire families, and the possibility that the “Cold Blood” murderers were in the area of the PA murders around the time they occurred.
It’s not a page turner. It’s rather dry actually. Facutal.
It’s also not that long. 180 pages on my Kindle. That can change depending on the typesizee you choose to use.
A good book
This is a follow up to Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, murders that occurred before the In Cold Blood case. Almost wish I hadn’t read this book. Individuals too twisted to live on this planet.
Interesting but very short book.
Makes a compelling case for the murderers of “In Cold Blood” to be the murderers here. After all these years, even DNA can’t quite prove it, but the coincidences are too eerie.
Interesting