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You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in True Crime history,

and the authors that have written about them.

Gacy, Bundy, Domer, The Nightstalker, BTK,

every week, another fascinating author, talking about the most shocking and infamous killers in True Crime history.

True Murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufanski.

Good evening.

Two families mysteriously murdered under similar circumstances just a month apart.

One was memorialized in Truman Capote's classic novel, In Cold Blood.

The other was all but forgotten.

Dick, Hickock and Perry Smith confess to the first, the November 15th, 1959 murder of a family of four, in Holcomb, Kansas.

Despite remarkable coincidences between the two crimes,

they denied committing the second, the December 19th murder of a family of four, in Osprey, Florida.

Over half a century later, a determined Florida detective undertakes exceptional efforts to try to bring closure to the long, cold case.

The book that we're featuring this evening is in Cold Blood, the true story of the Walker Family Murder, with my special guest journalist and author, J.T. Hunter.

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