At the end of 2012, the worlds of classic literature, true crime, and science merged for one thrilling moment. In December authorities in Sarasota County, Fla., announced they would ask to exhume the bodies of Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, convicted murderers whose exploits were the subject of Truman Capote’s “nonfiction novel” In Cold Blood, to see if DNA testing could link the two men to the December 1959 murder of Cliff Walker and his family. On Tuesday the Associated Press reported that, no, it couldn’t:
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