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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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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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Herbert W. Clutter is seen in an undated photo. Clutter, along with his wife, son and daughter, were slain in November 1959 in their farmhouse in Holcomb.

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Bonnie Clutter is seen in an undated photo. Mrs. Clutter, her husband and her children were slaughtered in their home Holcomb in 1959.

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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.

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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.

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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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