It was April 13, 1965, and Truman Capote was calling to say he wouldn’t be visiting condemned killers Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry ... at Lansing. The prison chaplain, James Post, had ...

Perry Smith and Dick Hickock swung from the gallows ... and writing the “nonfiction novel.” After Hickock and Smith had been sent to prison, Capote requested visiting privileges.

Among the notable inmates executed at the prison were Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry Smith, who were convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family on Nov 15, 1959, in the family ...