The Making of a True Crime Classic (from "Mystery, Murder, and Mayhem")

In the late 1950s, Truman Capote was a well-known New York City writer, best known for his novella, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. But everything changed in November 1959 when he read about the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas. Sara Sligar, author of Take Me Apart and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California, gives Ed the backstory to what became Capote’s classic true crime book, In Cold Blood.