Four-hour ‘In Cold Blood’ documentary airing this weekend
SundanceTV will air a four-hour documentary series “Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders” this weekend.
The documentary will air as a two-night special from Saturday to Sunday at 8 p.m., SundanceTV said on its website.
Herb, Bonnie, Nancy and Kenyon Clutter were killed in their home on Nov. 15, 1959, in Holcomb.
SundanceTV said the special “takes a fresh in-depth look at the legendary case – digging into the resulting investigation, and the convictions and executions of Perry Smith and Richard Hickock.”
Viewers will watch first-hand accounts of relatives, family, friends, townspeople and law enforcement.
“Surprisingly, no definitive documentary has ever been made about the Clutter family murders – an event so stunning that it spawned Truman Capote’s landmark book, In Cold Blood, gave birth to a whole new literary genre: the non-fiction novel, and marked the start of America’s obsession with true crime,” said Jan Diedrichsen, General Manager for SundanceTV and Sundance Now.
Other movies that will air during their “True Crime Marathon” include “Murder in the First,” “Infamous,” “Summer of Sam,” “Bonnie and Clyde,” and “Zodiac.”
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This story was originally published November 16, 2017 at 12:15 PM with the headline "Four-hour ‘In Cold Blood’ documentary airing this weekend."