Part 8 excerpted from “And Every Word Is True” — A Sequel to Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” — November 15, 2019 marks the 60th anniversary of the 1959 Clutter family murders in western Kansas, and in a nine-part series of excerpts appearing exclusively on Medium, author Gary McAvoy presents compelling new details of a murder investigation that continues to fascinate readers of Capote’s masterwork, adding new perspectives to…

Part 7 excerpted from “And Every Word Is True” — A Sequel to Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” — November 15, 2019 marks the 60th anniversary of the 1959 Clutter family murders in western Kansas, and in a nine-part series of excerpts appearing exclusively on Medium, author Gary McAvoy presents compelling new details of a murder investigation that continues to fascinate readers of Capote’s masterwork, adding new perspectives to…

Part 6 excerpted from “And Every Word Is True” — A Sequel to Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” — November 15, 2019 marks the 60th anniversary of the 1959 Clutter family murders in western Kansas, and in a nine-part series of excerpts appearing exclusively on Medium, author Gary McAvoy presents compelling new details of a murder investigation that continues to fascinate readers of Capote’s masterwork, adding new perspectives to…

Part 5 excerpted from “And Every Word Is True” — A Sequel to Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” — Continued from Part IV — Search & Seizure Discovery While an engrossing and superbly told story, parts of In Cold Blood have long been laid bare as exaggerated, contrived, wrong, or plainly fabricated. …

Part 4 excerpted from “And Every Word Is True” A Sequel to Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” — November 15, 2019 marks the 60th anniversary of the 1959 Clutter family murders in western Kansas, and in a nine-part series of excerpts appearing exclusively on Medium, author Gary McAvoy presents compelling new details of a murder investigation that continues to fascinate readers of Capote’s masterwork, adding new perspectives to…

Part 3 excerpted from “And Every Word Is True” — A Sequel to Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” — November 15, 2019 marks the 60th anniversary of the 1959 Clutter family murders in western Kansas, and in a nine-part series of excerpts appearing exclusively on Medium, author Gary McAvoy presents compelling new details of a murder investigation that continues to fascinate readers of Capote’s masterwork, adding new perspectives to…

Part 2 excerpted from “And Every Word Is True” — A Sequel to Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” — Continued from Part I — Introduction Forensics O n November 16, 1959, a young writer in Brooklyn named Truman Capote was reading The New York Times when the headline of a brief article on page 39 caught his eye: “WEALTHY FARMER, 3 OF FAMILY SLAIN: H. W. …

Part 1 excerpted from “And Every Word Is True” A Sequel to Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” — Truman Capote’s bestselling book In Cold Blood has captivated worldwide audiences for over fifty years. It is a gripping story about the consequences of a trivial robbery gone terribly wrong in a remote village of western Kansas. But what if robbery was not the motive at all, and perhaps something…

Whether we are aware of it or not, few among us are immune from using strange but commonplace idioms in our daily conversations. For example, when was the last time you “rolled down the window” in your car? Power windows became popular in 1948 and it’s pretty rare to find…