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Hey you and welcome.

My name is Mike.

And in this whole episode, well, you know, I often get asked, right? What got me into true crime?

I've been telling these stories since like 2019 on videos and, you know, on podcasts.

So, you know, sometimes people ask me, hey, what, you know, what got you into true crime?

Well, here's a little story for you folks.

When I was a teen, my mama, she got me a copy of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.

And ever since I read that when I was like 15 or 16, I kind of, I guess, been sort of obsessed with the genre.

If you haven't read it, you got it, right?

It's like one of the very first true crime books.

Like, obviously, Capote, a very famous writer, in Cold Blood, was released in 1965, and it's probably

his most famous work.

It's one of the original famous true crime books.

That's one of Capote's most famous novels, along with Breakfast at Tiffany's, which shockingly,

I haven't read.

And in Cold Blood was the true crime account of the Clutter family murders. And in Cold Blood is very

fitting because they were absolutely horrendous. The real story of what happened to the Clutter

family, it's pretty grim. And if you look at the title of this all episode, here's my

take pal. And it all begins in good old Kansas.

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