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.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation will continue testing material collected from the remains of convicted murderers Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, said Deputy Director Kyle Smith.

This clever novel asks us to imagine that Truman Capote didn’t get the whole story in his true crime masterpiece, In Cold Blood. Capote introduced us to two young ex-cons named Perry Smith and Richard ...

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 ...