The jury took 40 minutes to convict Dick Hickock and Perry Smith of the Clutter family murders. On the gallows five years later, Perry Smith's last words were an apology.

In the third and final episode on the Clutter family murders, Katie Ring walks through what actually happened inside the farmhouse that night, based on the killers' own confessions. Then the trial, the executions, and the complicated legacy of Truman Capote: the writer who formed a personal bond with the killers, may have let them die to finish his book, and never completed another major project afterward. This episode contains descriptions of murder and violence. Please listen with care.

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