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In Cold Blood

‘In Cold Blood’ prosecutor Duane West cancels musical production
Associated Press
January 22, 2011
The man who prosecuted one of the most infamous murder cases in Kansas history has canceled plans to stage a play he wrote in Garden City.
‘In Cold Blood’ prosecutor authors Wild West musical
Associated Press
July 23, 2010
Fifty years after prosecuting one of the biggest murder trials in Kansas history, Duane West has penned a musical he hopes will someday play on Broadway.
Scholarship honors Clutter murder victim
Associated Press
February 17, 2010
A scholarship is being offered to honor one of the victims of a southwest Kansas killing that was chronicled in Truman Capote’s novel “In Cold Blood.” The Herb Clutter Memorial Scholarship is named for the father of a family that was killed in 1959 at their Holcomb farmhouse.
50th anniversary of slayings memorialized by ‘In Cold Blood’ approaches
Associated Press
November 9, 2009
It’s one of America’s most haunting crime stories: four members of a Kansas family brutally murdered on Nov. 15, 1959, at their rural farmhouse.
Clutter family memorial dedicated
Associated Press
September 13, 2009
Nearly 200 people came to the rural southwest Kansas town of Holcomb to pay tribute to the family of four whose 1959 killing was chronicled in Truman Capote’s novel “In Cold Blood.”
Location chosen for Clutter memorial
June 26, 2009
A location has been picked for a memorial to honor the family of four whose 1959 killing in rural southwest Kansas was chronicled in Truman Capote’s novel “In Cold Blood.”
Artwork by ‘In Cold Blood’ killer displayed
Associated Press
March 23, 2008
After nearly 50 years spent rolled in a newspaper, a drawing of Christ by convicted killer Perry Smith sits in a display case in the atrium at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library.
‘Cold Blood’ focus of state program
By Terry Rombeck
February 3, 2008
Roy Bird thinks all Kansans should read “In Cold Blood.” It is, after all, one of the most famous books set in the Sunflower State.
Owners put Clutter House on the market
The Associated Press
August 30, 2006
The site of the infamous Clutter family murders near Garden City is up for sale.
‘Blood’ work
‘Capote’ director searches for deeper truth to story chronicling the state’s most infamous murders
By Jon Niccum
November 11, 2005
Truman Capote often bragged that while investigating the events that inspired the true crime novel “In Cold Blood,” he possessed a “94 percent recall of all conversation.”
Hollywood bypasses Kansas on dual Capote projects
By Jon Niccum
April 9, 2005
Whether it involves mammoth meteors hitting the earth or underwater animated tales, Hollywood studios often come up with the same ideas at the same time. This year’s coincidental project involves writer Truman Capote. Two large-scale productions are under way that focus on Capote’s research in small-town Kansas for his signature work, “In Cold Blood.”
In the end, just a home
A house with a history of murder finds new life
By Crystal K. Wiebe - Special to the Journal-World
April 6, 2005
Space is one of the things Donna Mader likes best about her house. So much in fact, that when she moved there in 1990, she hardly knew how to fill it all. Having been cramped with six children into a smaller place on the main highway for years, Donna simply didn’t have enough stuff.
Death penalty: Kansans continue to debate capital punishment decades later
By Suzanna Adam - Special to the Journal-World
April 6, 2005
In the days when the West was being won, frontier justice often was meted with a rope at the nearest tree, eliminating the complexities of judge and jury.
Beyond the fame: Holcomb has changed much from the time Capote wrote his book
By Amber Brozek - Special to the Journal-World
April 6, 2005
In the opening paragraphs of “In Cold Blood,” Truman Capote wrote: “Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans — in fact, few Kansans — had ever heard of Holcomb.”
Composite character becomes hero
A KBI agent’s story
By Patrick Smith - Special to the Journal-World
April 5, 2005
One of the most seasoned and decorated lawmen in Kansas history, Alvin Dewey Jr. was forever immortalized in Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood.”

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