IN COLD BLOOD — FULL STUDY GUIDEEssential QuestionHow do crime, environment, psychology, and moral responsibility shape human behavior and reveal hidden truths about American society? Background InformationTruman Capote’s In Cold Blood is a nonfiction novel published in 1966 that reconstructs the real-life murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, and the investigation that led to the capture, confession, trial, and execution of the killers, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith. Through detai