In this episode we begin to take apart a monumental myth of True Crime lore. The high school assigned text and Kansas government official truth of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. The official story seems like a simple one: Herb Clutter and his family were massacred in his modern Holcomb, KS farmhouse in 1959 by two paroled ex-cons: one dreamy and deranged, and the other a demonic sociopath, thus ending an age of Arcadian innocence in small-town Kansas. But the real story, unearthed from files only found in the last decade, is far more complex and interesting, and may have even been a murder-for-hire 'job.' It's a story of the vast transformation of midwestern American farming in the 1950s that left the families of the would-be killers broke and unsettled, and those like Clutter's presiding over large, mechanized, estates. But for this episode, we sta ...