Truman Capote and the Legacy of In Cold Blood is the anatomy of the origins of an American literary landmark and its legacy. Ralph F. Voss was a high school junior in Plainville, Kansas in mid-November of 1959 when four members of the Herbert Clutter family were murdered in Holcomb, Kansas, by 'four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives,' an unimaginable horror in a quiet farm community during the Eisenhower years. No one in Kansas or elsewhere could then have foreseen the em