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Tourists Still Visit Holcomb After In Cold Blood Fame
Twenty years after the Clutter murders in Holcomb Kansas visitors still stop at the farm and trace the killers. Some residents moved away or never read the book while others remember the 1959 crime and the 1965 execution of the killers. Truman Capote researched the case and published In Cold Blood earning wide fame.
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Charles O. Smith
Kansas State Penitentiary
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