Perry Edward Smith is led by police officers into the courthouse at Garden City, Kan., Jan. 6, 1960. Smith was arrested in Las Vegas and charged with first degree murder in the slaying of four members of the Herbert Clutter family at their farm house in Holcomb, Kan. (AP Photo/William Straeter)
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Herbert W. Clutter is seen in an undated photo. Clutter, along with his wife, son and daughter, were slain in November of 1959 in their farmhouse in Holcomb, Kansas. (AP Photo)
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Bonnie Clutter is seen in an undated photo. Mrs. Clutter, her husband and two of her children were slaughtered in their home Holcomb, Kan., in 1959. (AP Photo)
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Kenyon Clutter, 15, is seen in an undated file photo. Kenyon, along with his mother, father and sister, were slain in Nov. 1959 in Holcomb, Kan. (AP Photo)
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Nancy Clutter, 16, is seen in an undated file photo. Nancy was one of four family members including her mother, father and brother, who were slain in November 1959 in Holcomb, Kansas. (AP Photo)
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The caskets containing the bodies of the slain members of the Herbert Clutter family are loaded into hearses before the Garden City Methodist Church, on Nov. 18, 1959. A crowd of about 1,000 people attended the service. (AP Photo)
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Richard Hickock, seated right, listens as Finney County Attorney Duane West, standing left, speaks during a hearing at which Judge M.C. Schrader, unseen, explained charges of four counts of muder against Hickock and companion Perry Smith, in Garden City, Kansas, on Jan. 7, 1960. (AP Photo)
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The knife and shotgun, used in the slaying of the Clutter family, were shown by investigating officers in Garden City, Kansas, on Jan. 5, 1960. Left to right;Finney County deputy Mickey Hawkins; Garden City police investigator Rich Rohloder; Kansas Bureau of Investigation Chief Logan Sanford; Finney County undersheriff Wendle Meier. (AP Photo)
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William Floyd Wells, an inmate at the Kansas State Penitentiary is shown as he enters a police car at city jail to be taken to testify in the murder trial of Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, March 23, 1960. Wells gave officers the tip that led to the capture of Hickock and Smith after the mass slaying of the Herbert Clutter family last November. (AP Photo/William Straeter)
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This was the side door of the Herbert Clutter home where Hickock and Smith enetered the house to rob Clutter, but ended up slaying the family of four, taken on Jan. 4, 1960. Clutter himself was sleeping in the side room to the left of the door and the rest of the family were sleeping on the second floor on the night of Nov. 15, 1959. (AP Photo)
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Perry Smith, 31, right, smiles and turns to make a comment to Richard E. Hickock, 28, back to camera, as both men left the court room in Garden City, Kansas, on March 30, 1960, following their convictions of the Clutter family. A jury found both men guilty of first degree murder and were sentenced to death. (AP Photo)
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In this photo taken Oct. 19, 2009, a grain truck passes by a park dedicated to the Herbert Clutter family in Holcomb, Kan. Fifty years ago, the Clutter home on the outskirts of Holcomb was the scene of the brutal murder of Clutter, his wife Bonnie and their two children inspiring Truman Capote to write "In Cold Blood". (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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In this photo taken Oct. 19, 2009, the former home of the Herbert Clutter family is seen in Holcomb, Kan. Fifty years ago, the home was the scene of the brutal murder of Clutter, his wife Bonnie and their two children inspiring Truman Capote to write "In Cold Blood". (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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The graves of Perry Edward Smith, right, and Richard Eugene Hickock, left, sit on a sloping hillside at the Mount Muncie Cemetery, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, in Lansing, Kan. Smith and co-defendant Richard Eugene Hickock, the two men who were the subjects of Truman Capote's iconic book "In Cold Blood," were executed in April 1965 at the Kansas State Penitentiary for the killings of four members of the Herbert Clutter family in Holcomb, Kan. A Florida detective wants to exhume their bodies because he believes there’s evidence linking them to similar murders of a Florida family. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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In this photo taken Oct. 19, 2009, a memorial to the Herbert Clutter family is seen in a Holcomb, Kan. park. Fifty years ago, the Clutter home on the outskirts of Holcomb was the scene of the brutal murder of Clutter, his wife Bonnie and their two children inspiring Truman Capote to write "In Cold Blood". (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Perry Edward Smith is led by police officers into the courthouse at Garden City. Smith was arrested in Las Vegas and charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of four members of the Herbert Clutter family at their farmhouse in Holcomb. Fifty years ago, the Clutter murders inspired Truman Capote to write "In Cold Blood."
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WILLIAM STRAETER / Associated Press
Perry Edward Smith is seen as he was returned to the Finney County Courthouse in Garden City, in this 1960 photo. Smith was arrested in Las Vegas and charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of four members of the Herbert Clutter family at their farmhouse in Holcomb.
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This is the farm home of Herb Clutter family near Garden City where the father, mother and two children were gagged, bound and shot to death. Authorities are shown carrying one of the bodies from the home to the ambulance at left. The bodies of Clutter, a 50-year-old well-to-do farmer; his wife, Bonnie, and their two children, Nancy and Kenyon were found in the home early Nov. 15, 1959.
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Author Truman Capote stands in the living room of the Clutter ranch house where four members of the Kansas family were murdered in 1959. Capote's account of the crime and its solution. "In Cold Blood" was a best-seller and is being filmed in the actual locales. Despite critical comment, Capote declares his "non-fiction novel" was an advance in literature.
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Clutter family murder suspect Perry Edward Smith, right, is interviewed by Dr. Mitchell Jones, staff psychiatrist of the Larned, Kansas State Hospital, March 21, 1960.
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Richard Hickock is seen in 1960. Hickock was hanged with Perry Smith in 1965 after being convicted in the 1959 quadruple murder of the Herbert Clutter family.
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Perry Smith is seen in 1960. Smith was hanged with Richard Hickock in 1965 after being convicted of the quadruple murder of the Herbert Clutter family in 1959.
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