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When Truman Capote saw the NY Times headline in November 1959 of the murders of the Clutter family of Herb, Bonnie, Nancy, and Kenyon in Holcomb, Kansas that would become his book In Cold Blood, he was not thinking of the family that had just been executed in their home or the even the killers, although all of it was immediately appealing. He was thinking of himself. His immediate phone call to The New Yorker was because he recognized the elements of an opportunity that matched what he was looking for with very specific criteria that also matched the level of sensationalism he desperately desired.