In meeting in Kansas, ex-cons Perry Smith and Dick Hickock are breaking several conditions of their respective paroles. The meeting, initiated by Dick, is to plan and eventually carry out a ...

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.

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 book “In Cold Blood.” ...