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Clifton Collins Jr. is an American film and television actor. He is a Primetime Emmy Award, Independent Spirit Award, Satellite Award, and four-time ALMA Award nominee, and a Screen Actors Guild Award winner.After various small parts, he gained attention for his performance as a gangster in the crime drama One Eight Seven (1997). He then played featured parts in the major productions Traffic (2000) and The Last Castle (2001), and gained further recognition for his co-starring role as Perry Edward Smith in the biographical film Capote (2005) of which he shares personal stories in this interview. His subsequent films include Babel (2006), Star Trek, Crank: High Voltage (both 2009), Pacific Rim (2013), Knight of Cups (2015), The Mule (2018), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), and Nightmare Alley (2021). He won a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for his performance in the independent film Jockey (2021).You can see him in recent projects such as Ari Aster's Eddington (2025) and Clint Bentley's Train Dreams (2025) which have garnered high praise from many audiences and critics around the world.Follow Clifton Collins Jr on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrwupass/?hl=enSubscribe for more acting content!: https://www.youtube.com/@anytownactorslab8898Anytown Actors LAB Services: https://www.anytownactorslab.com/Master the Art of Acting: https://stan.store/anytownactorslab/p/acting-mastery-programFollow Anytown Actors LAB on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@anytownactorslabFollow Anytown Actors LAB on Instagram: instagram.com/anytownactorslab/

On November 14, 1959, two petty criminals, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, crossed Kansas, murdered the Clutter family in the tiny hamlet of Holcomb, Kansas and unwittingly enabled a New York City writer named Truman Capote to achieve immortality for all three of them. Capote, as he would have dressed while visiting Holcomb and Garden City Kansas When Truman Capote arrived in Kansas, Smith and Hickock were not yet on law enforcement's radar.  Capote's initial intent was to write about the reaction of the town and its inhabitants but he had at least enough self awareness to understand that it would be next to impossible for someone with both his New York and blatantly homosexual persona to ingratiate himself to the appropriate degree. Harper Lee, 1960, photo taken by Truman Capote Capote enlisted Harper Lee as his partner in journalism and set about trying to induce the locals, both law enforcement and private citizens, into sharing any valuable insight.  His initial wardrobe of a pillbox style hat, long sheepskin coat and scarf that hung all the way to his feet did him no favors but Harper Lee seems to have helped him win over his most productive source and access to important information.  Alvin Dewey, as a member of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation or KBI, the state agency with jurisdiction over the investigation and a resident of Garden City, was logically designated to coordinate the investigation with other assigned members of the KBI.  Initially repelled by Capote, Dewey eventually was charmed especially by Harper Lee, who also became friendly with Dewey's wife Marie, and it wasn't long before Capote and Lee were getting regular invitations to dinner. Clutter house, 2009, much like it appeared in 1959  Arriving shortly after midnight on the morning of November 15, a full moon completely illuminated both the Clutter home, and the expansive series of barns, which Smith said excited Hickock, Dick thinking the proprietor of such a spread had to possess a great deal of money.  With no need for headlights, Hickock shut them and the car engine off and parked behind a tree, allowing the two men to appraise the situation. Hickock mug shot Richard Eugene “Dick” Hickock was born on June 6, 1931 in Kansas City, Missouri.  His parents, Walter and Eunice, were typically devout, hard working lower middle class Kansas Midwesterners who raised their family on a 44 acre farm in the small town of Edgerton.  Walter Hickock worked as a mechanic by day and farmed his acreage during off hours.  Industrious, he built the farm's main family residence by himself.  His oldest of two sons, Dick was popular in high school and lettered in several sports but Dick's parents were unable to provide the financial means to send Dick to college after his graduation in 1949.  Instead, he went to work for the Santa Fe Railroad and pursued another interest, women.  Many surmise that the critical event in Hickock's life was a serious car accident in 1950, in which he was almost killed, spent days in the hospital and emerged with disfigured facial features and possibly permanent brain damage. Married at age 19 to his 16 year old girlfriend who produced two children, Hickock seems to have undergone a personality change in which he suddenly began gambling, kiting checks and living beyond his means.  He also managed to conceive a child with another woman, prompting a divorce from his first wife.  Saying that he wanted to “do the right thing,” he married the mother of his third child but continued to subsidize menial jobs, mostly as an auto mechanic, with petty crime.  Whether it was for writing bad checks or stealing a rifle from a private residence, Hickock finally caught his first five-year jail sentence in 1956 for “cheating and defrauding.”  He was paroled from Kansas State Penitentiary on August 13, 1959. Smith mug shot Perry Edward Smith was born in Huntington, Nevada on October 27, 1928, perhaps appropriately, his birthplace is now a ghost town.  His father John “Tex” Smith and mother Florence “Flo” Buckskin were rodeo riders who performed in small towns across the northern great plains. Described as a full blooded Cherokee by Capote, Flo was in fact Shoshone-Paiute.  In 1929, Smith's parents moved to Juneau, Alaska, where Tex hustled a living as a bootlegger.  Both parents were alcoholic, Tex violently abusive to both his wife and his four children and frequently absent for lengthy periods of time.  During these absences, Flo engaged in numerous adulterous affairs, eventually precipitating an especially violent beating at the hands of Tex in 1935, behavior that convinced Flo to flee to San Francisco.  Usually in an alcoholic haze, she was unable to care for her children, who were eventually placed in a series of institutions and Catholic orphanages, Perry already arrested by the age of eight.  Subjected to repeated physical abuse, especially at the hands of the nuns he frequently encountered, Smith evolved into an angry and aggressive loner, constantly in conflict with others.  Eventually, his father intervened, removing Perry from San Francisco and taking him throughout Nevada and Alaska, settling in the latter state until Perry's enlistment at age 16 in the Merchant Marine.  After that, in 1948, he enlisted in the US Army, serving in both Japan and Korea and receiving the Bronze Star for action as a combat engineer during the pivotal Battle of Inchon.  But, despite his honorable discharge, he frequently fought with other soldiers and civilians and spent lengthy periods in the stockade.  He intended to return to Alaska and live with his father but, most likely because of their tempestuous relationship, he moved to Washington State in the summer of 1952 and there he suffered a serious motorcycle accident that almost forced the amputation of both legs and left him with a permanent limp, constant pain and an aspirin addiction.  While in Washington he also fathered an illegitimate son, who was raised by an Army buddy as his own child.  Smith then spent a year convalescing in a hospital before returning to Alaska, where he hoped to reunite with his father.  They built a hunting lodge together in a remote part of the state, called the Trapper's Den Lodge but had a serious and violent falling out in 1955, when the lodge failed.  Smith drifted across the Midwest and with a partner, broke into an office in Phillipsburg, Kansas where they stole anything of value.  Arrested after a traffic stop, Smith and his accomplice broke out of jail, stole a car and it was New York City before Perry was apprehended by the FBI and taken back to Kansas to face the music.  In 1956, he received five to ten years for the previous burglary and interstate flight.  It is at the Kansas State Penitentiary that he met Dick Hickock, at some point sharing a cell. Robert Blake in the 1967 film as Perry Smith, an uncanny likeness The 1967 film reproduction of the book only added to Capote's celebrity runway.  While some have attributed the author's downward spiral to the emotional trauma of his involvement with Hickock and Smith, Capote's thinly concealed eagerness for the two men's execution and his alcoholism and drug abuse were only enabled by the ability to coast along on his reputation, his great wealth allowing a lifestyle of indulgence and artistic inactivity. Truman Capote, in front of the motel he frequented in Garden City, Kansas. Next door was one of the few "wet" restaurants in the city. By the time the two suspects were returned to Garden City, Capote had so ingratiated himself with Alvin Dewey that he was granted a privilege denied to every other journalist covering the Clutter case; interview access to Hickock and Smith.  This would not be the only benefit granted by Dewey but it was extremely significant.  The egotistical, verbose Hickock was an easy subject for Capote who drained him of as much information as possible but Perry Smith was initially wary. Ultimately fascinated by Capote and, insecure about his lack of formal education, that a man of letters would be interested in conversing with him, Smith also established a close relationship.  After getting this exclusive access, Capote then returned to New York with Harper Lee, as there was nothing for him to do but wait for the trial, scheduled for March 22, 1960.

Okay, but really, what do you want your nickname to be?? Morgan starts us off with the medical mystery of Gloria Ramirez, commonly known as the "toxic woman" which we hate that name so we will stick with Gloria! Taylar then wraps up this episode with the case of the Clutter Family Murders and the Walker Family Murders! ALL AD CODES AND LINKS ARE HERE! JOIN OUR PATREON FOR 2 EXCLUSIVE EPISODES EACH MONTH AND THE ENTIRE BACK LOG OF EPS AND BONUS MATERIAL GO WATCH ON YOUTUBE Be sure to like, comment, subscribe and turn on post notifications for our channel! Let's Get Creepy!! Follow us on Instagram Check out our website Sources:  In Cold Blood By Truman Capote, In Cold Blood Film By Robert Blake, In Cold Blood TV Miniseries By Eric Roberts, Capote Film by Clifton Collins Jr., Infamous Film by Daniel Craig, Once Upon a Crime S5 E1: A Crime to Remeber,  Medium .com: The Unsolved Mysteries “The Walker Family Murders” By Michael East, The True Crime Edition: The Clutter Family Murders”, Realtor .com: “The Untold Story Behind the Infamous In Cold Blood Murder House” By Clare Trapasso, Garden City Police Website: Famous Cases, Sarasota Head Tribune: The Walker Murders Unsolved, Wiki: Truman Capote, Walker Murders, Richard Hickock, Perry Edward Smith, Clutter Family Murders, Ranker: “The Horiffic Myrder of the Clutter Family” By Berlin Sylvestre, Time “Anatomy of a Murder”, Rolling Stone Cold Blooded, Crime Archives, The New Yorker Magazine, The New York Times

In part two of The Clutter Family murders, they discuss what led Perry Edward Smith to join Richard "Dick" Hickock in the robbery, and later murder, of Herbert Clutter and his family. Then, we discuss his family as well as his ancestors. This may be one of the most interesting trees yet!

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Book Vs Movie (Replay) “In Cold Blood” Truman Capote’s “Non-Fiction Novel” Vs the Richard Brooks Movie   The Margos tackle true crime in this episode that features Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood which was a sensation when it was first published in 1966 and started a new genre called the “non-fiction novel.” Capote first read about the Clutter family murders in early December 1959 in a small section of the New York Times. Based on that one clip, he decided to go to Holcomb, Kansas (along with lifelong friend Harper “Nell” Lee as his assistant) on behalf of The New Yorker to get the story about how a small town handles a horrific crime. It never occurred to Capote that though he himself comes from a small town (Monroeville, AL) his years of celebrity as a New York City writer and novelist would enchant even the most grounded folks in Holcomb. With Lee’s help, Truman spent years getting to know the residents of Holcomb along with dozens of members of the police and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to get close to the killers Perry Edward Smith and Richard Eugene “Dick” Hickock. Capote became a millionaire after its publication but his friendship with Lee faltered and he was said to be haunted by the executions of Smith and Hickock for the rest of his life. In Cold Blood is now the second best-selling true crime book of all time behind Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi. The story of the creation of the book was the premise of two movies in 2005--Capote starring Philip Seymour Hoffman (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor) and Infamous with Toby Jones. In this ep the Margos discuss : The incredible life and sad decline of Truman Capote The true story of the Clutters and how disappointed their friends and family were by Truman’s limited view of them How Truman Capote created a sexier image of Smith and Hickock by using photos from celebrated photographer Richard Avedon The way In Cold Blood introduced true crime to the masses Movie trivia and the incredible use of “real” people and locations to give it a “cinema verite” look and feel The casting of Robert Blake (Perry Smith,) Scott Wilson (Dick Hickock,) John Forsythe (Al Dewey) and Brenda Currin (Nancy Clutter.) The truly awful remake from 1996 starring Anthony Edwards (Dick Hickock) and Eric Roberts (Perry Smith.) The excellent mini-series that features interviews.] with the descendants of Herb & Bonnie Clutter--Cold Blooded. The episode about the murders from the ID TV A Crime to Remember Clips Featured: In Cold Blood  trailer Truman Capote describing why he took on the Clutter murder as his first non-fiction novel (From the mini-series Cold Blooded) Dick Hickcock talks his way into writing a bad check Perry Smith talks about his abusive childhood Truman Capote talks about how to write about difficult topics (from the 1966 Maysles Brothers documentary “A Visit with Truman Capote”   Join our Patreon page to help support the show! https://www.patreon.com/bookversusmovie  Book Vs. Movie podcast https://www.facebook.com/bookversusmovie/ Twitter @bookversusmovie www.bookversusmovie.com Email us at bookversusmoviepodcast@gmail.com Brought to you by Audible.com You can sign up for a FREE 30-day trial here http://www.audible.com/?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R Margo D. @BrooklynFitChik www.brooklynfitchick.com brooklynfitchick@gmail.com Margo P. @ShesNachoMama http://thechingonahomesteader.weebly.com/

  Book Vs Movie “In Cold Blood” Truman Capote’s “Non-Fiction Novel” Vs the Richard Brooks Movie   The Margos tackle true crime in this episode that features Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood which was a sensation when it was first published in 1966 and started a new genre called the “non-fiction novel.” Capote first read about the Clutter family murders in early December 1959 in a small section of the New York Times. Based on that one clip, he decided to go to Holcomb, Kansas (along with lifelong friend Harper “Nell” Lee as his assistant) on behalf of The New Yorker to get the story about how a small town handles a horrific crime. It never occurred to Capote that though he himself comes from a small town (Monroeville, AL) his years of celebrity as a New York City writer and novelist would enchant even the most grounded folks in Holcomb. With Lee’s help, Truman spent years getting to know the residents of Holcomb along with dozens of members of the police and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to get close to the killers Perry Edward Smith and Richard Eugene “Dick” Hickock. Capote became a millionaire after its publication but his friendship with Lee faltered and he was said to be haunted by the executions of Smith and Hickock for the rest of his life. In Cold Blood is now the second best-selling true crime book of all time behind Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi. The story of the creation of the book was the premise of two movies in 2005--Capote starring Philip Seymour Hoffman (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor) and Infamous with Toby Jones. In this ep the Margos discuss : The incredible life and sad decline of Truman Capote The true story of the Clutters and how disappointed their friends and family were by Truman’s limited view of them How Truman Capote created a sexier image of Smith and Hickock by using photos from celebrated photographer Richard Avedon The way In Cold Blood introduced true crime to the masses Movie trivia and the incredible use of “real” people and locations to give it a “cinema verite” look and feel The casting of Robert Blake (Perry Smith,) Scott Wilson (Dick Hickock,) John Forsythe (Al Dewey) and Brenda Currin (Nancy Clutter.) The truly awful remake from 1996 starring Anthony Edwards (Dick Hickock) and Eric Roberts (Perry Smith.) The excellent mini-series that features interviews.] with the descendants of Herb & Bonnie Clutter--Cold Blooded. The episode about the murders from the ID TV A Crime to Remember Clips Featured: In Cold Blood  trailer Truman Capote describing why he took on the Clutter murder as his first non-fiction novel (From the mini-series Cold Blooded) Dick Hickcock talks his way into writing a bad check Perry Smith talks about his abusive childhood Truman Capote talks about how to write about difficult topics (from the 1966 Maysles Brothers documentary “A Visit with Truman Capote” Book Vs. Movie podcast https://www.facebook.com/bookversusmovie/ Twitter @bookversusmovie www.bookversusmovie.com Email us at bookversusmoviepodcast@gmail.com Brought to you by Audible.com You can sign up for a FREE 30-day trial here http://www.audible.com/?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R Margo D. @BrooklynFitChik www.brooklynfitchick.com brooklynfitchick@gmail.com Margo P. @ShesNachoMama http://thechingonahomesteader.weebly.com/

In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel by author Truman Capote, published in 1966. It chronicles the 1959 murders of four members of the Herbert Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas. Herb Clutter was a wealthy farmer in western Kansas. He employed as many as 18 workers, who admired and respected him for his fair treatment and good wages. Two elder daughters, Eveanna and Beverly, had moved out and started their adult lives; Nancy, 16, and Kenyon, 15, were in high school. Two ex-convicts recently paroled from the Kansas State Penitentiary, Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, committed the robbery and murders. It happened in the early morning hours of November 15, 1959. The plan was hatched by Hickock who learned about Mr. Clutter from Floyd Wells, a former cellmate (yes, Hickock had a “jacket”). Wells had worked for Herb Clutter and told Hickock that Clutter kept large amounts of cash in a safe at his home. Hickock hatched the idea to steal the saf --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mike36/support

In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel by author Truman Capote, published in 1966. It chronicles the 1959 murders of four members of the Herbert Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas. Herb Clutter was a wealthy farmer in western Kansas. He employed as many as 18 workers, who admired and respected him for his fair treatment and good wages. Two elder daughters, Eveanna and Beverly, had moved out and started their adult lives; Nancy, 16, and Kenyon, 15, were in high school. Two ex-convicts recently paroled from the Kansas State Penitentiary, Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, committed the robbery and murders. It happened in the early morning hours of November 15, 1959. The plan was hatched by Hickock who learned about Mr. Clutter from Floyd Wells, a former cellmate (yes, Hickock had a “jacket”). Wells had worked for Herb Clutter and told Hickock that Clutter kept large amounts of cash in a safe at his home. Hickock hatched the idea to steal the safe and start a new life in Mexico. According to Capote, Hickock thought this would be "a cinch, the perfect score." Hickock later contacted Smith, another former cellmate, to enlist him in committing the robbery with him. The travesty in this is that Herb Clutter had no safe and did all of his business by check. After driving more than four hundred miles across the state of Kansas on the evening of November 14, Hickock and Smith arrived in Holcomb, located the Clutter home, and parked the car in an isolated area. They had been drinking. The farm sat on a large estate in a desolate and rural area of the town miles away from the center square. The pair entered through an unlocked door while the family slept. Upon rousing Mr. Clutter, the pair attempted to get him to disclose the whereabouts of the safe. Mr. Clutter denied having one. Hickock and Smith believed that Mr. Clutter was lying. They awoke the rest of the family. Upon discovering there was no safe, they bound and gagged the family and continued to search for money, but found little else of value in the house. Determined to leave no witnesses, Smith and Hickock briefly debated what to do. Smith, who was a ticking time-bomb, unstable and prone to violent acts in fits of rage, slit Herb Clutter's throat and then shot him in the head. Capote wrote that Smith later said, "I didn't want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat." Kenyon, Nancy, and then Mrs. Clutter were also murdered, each by a single blast to the head. Hickock and Smith left the crime scene with a small portable radio, a pair of binoculars, and less than fifty dollars in cash. Smith later claimed in his oral confession that Hickock murdered the two women. When asked to sign his confession, however, Smith refused. According to Capote, Smith wanted to accept responsibility for all four killings because, he said, he was "sorry for Dick's mother." Smith added, "She's a real sweet person." For Hickock’s part, he has always maintained that Smith committed all four killings. On the basis of a tip from Wells (Hickock’s former cellmate), who contacted the prison warden after hearing of the murders, Hickock and Smith were identified as suspects and arrested in Las Vegas on December 30, 1959. Both men eventually confessed after interrogations by detectives. They were brought back to Kansas, where they were tried together for the murders. Their trial took place at the Finney County courthouse in Garden City, Kansas, from March 22 to March 29, 1960. They both pleaded temporary insanity at the trial, but local psychologists hired by the state evaluated the accused and pronounced them sane. The jury deliberated for only 45 minutes before finding both Hickock and Smith guilty of murder. Their conviction carried a mandatory death sentence at the time. After five years on death row at the Kansas State Penitentiary (now known as Lansing Correctional Facility), Smith and Hickock were executed by hanging just after midnight on April 14, 1965. Hickock was executed first. Smith followed shortly after. An interesting historical note is that the gallows used in their executions now forms part of the collections of the Kansas State Historical Society. When Capote learned of the quadruple murder, before the killers were captured, he decided to travel to Kansas and write about the crime. He was accompanied by his childhood friend and fellow author Harper Lee, and together they interviewed local residents and investigators assigned to the case and took thousands of pages of notes. It took Capote six years to write the book. When finally published, In Cold Blood was an instant success, and today is the second-biggest-selling true crime book in publishing history, behind Vincent Bugliosi's 1974 book Helter Skelter about the Charles Manson murders. It was later turned into a movie produced and directed by Richard Brooks, starring Robert Blake as Perry Smith, Scott Wilson as Richard "Dick" Hickock, and John Forsythe as Alvin Dewey. For those of you who are crime-novel enthusiasts, I cannot recommend the book and the motion picture enough. Buckle up. You are in for a wild ride.