On November 15, 1959, the Clutter family was brutally murdered. New interviews with the people who knew the Clutters and the police who worked the case shines a new light on an event that would change the world.
After the Clutter family murders, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith are on the run. New interviews give insight into the people they were before the murders. Truman Capote becomes interested in the case.
Dick Hickock and Perry Smith are caught in Las Vegas and the time is uneasy as the are returned to Garden City. Interviews explorer their return and subsequent trial.
Truman Capote's book languishes because he wants to end it with the executions but the executions are on hold during the appeals process. New interviews talk about the executions.
