| The grave of Richard Hickock, a convicted killer who along with Perry Smith was chronicled in Truman Capote's book "In Cold Blood", is seen in the Mount Muncie Cemetery in Lansing, Kansas December 4, 2012. A Sarasota County detective is trying to crack a 53-year-old unsolved murder case. Smith and Hickock were both executed on April 14, 1965. (Reuters/Dave Kaup / December 18, 2012) |
1:58 p.m. EST, December 18, 2012
LANSING, Kan.?
Kansas officials have exhumed the bodies of two men executed for the 1959 slayings of a Kansas family made infamous in Truman Capote's nonfiction novel, ?In Cold Blood.?
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said the bodies of Richard Hickock and Perry Smith were exhumed Tuesday at the Mount Muncie Cemetery in Lansing at the request of Florida officials.
The Sarasota County sheriff's office asked for the exhumation to collect DNA that could help solve the 1959 murders of Cliff and Christine Walker and their two children in Osprey, Fla.
The Walkers were killed soon after the slayings of Herb Clutter and his family in Holcomb, Kan.
Sarasota officials say Hickock and Smith fled to Florida after the Kansas killings and were in the area when the Walkers were killed.
Source: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sfl-in-cold-blood-killers-exhumed-20121218,0,2305364.story?track=rss
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