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New Files Taint ‘In Cold Blood’

Stranger Than Fact

True-crime book not entirely factual.

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Author Truman Capote in 1975. (AP)

Truman Capote always maintained that his true-crime bestseller In Cold Blood was “immaculately factual.” But a new discovery implies that he was probably lying. A forgotten stash of Kansas City Bureau of Investigation files on the murders in the book was recently dug up, showing that the events of at...

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