COLD BLOODED: THE CLUTTER FAMILY MURDERS is a docuseries that focuses on the crime that shocked the nation - the 1959 brutal murder of four members of the Clutter family. The crime, seemingly without motive, would later be chronicled in Truman Capote's seminal book, In Cold Blood.
Genre: Documentary
Cast:Beth Tedrow , Larry Welch , Kevin Bascue , Gwyneth Frack , Paul Dewey , Luke Daigle , Charles Shields , Charlie Troutner , Don Cullivan , Linda LeBert-Corbello , Connie Penick , Gerald Clarke , Diana Edwards , Larry Thomas , Bob Rupp , Corbin Crable , Steve Quakenbush , Mitchell Jones
On November 15, 1959, the Clutter family was brutally murdered. New interviews with the people who knew the Clutters and the police who worked the case shines a new light on an event that would change the world.
After the Clutter family murders, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith are on the run. New interviews give insight into the people they were before the murders. Truman Capote becomes interested in the case.
Dick Hickock and Perry Smith are caught in Las Vegas and the time is uneasy as the are returned to Garden City. Interviews explorer their return and subsequent trial.
Truman Capote's book languishes because he wants to end it with the executions but the executions are on hold during the appeals process. New interviews talk about the executions.