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  • Perry Smith (center) is escorted into the Garden City, Kan., courthouse in 1960. Smith and Richard Hickock were executed for killing four members of a Kansas family. Now authorities want to check their DNA in connection with the 1959 unsolved slaying of a family of four in Florida. (Associated Press)

    Can dead killers solve mysteries?

    A Florida detective is trying to prove that the two men convicted and executed for the 1959 Kansas killings that became the basis for Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" are also responsible for a pair of slayings in Florida during that same period.


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