![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, one of the most striking aspects of these conversations was how many of the local residents who had interacted with them personally professed their belief to us, unprompted, that Lee had had a hand in the writing of In Cold Blood. ![]() ![]() Perhaps not surprisingly, recollections of Truman, even now, were varied and not always flattering: Lee, however, was highly regarded by everyone. It was a strange sensation to have two literary luminaries brought down to earth in such a remote, unpretentious place first-hand anecdotes being shared along with homemade sandwiches and paper napkins. Rupp had been the high school boyfriend of Nancy Clutter and still lived next door to the Clutter house where the murders took place he almost never speaks to reporters.Įveryone we met with recalled Capote and Lee quite vividly. But perhaps because we were two women travelling alone (Lesley was six months pregnant at the time), the doors opened more easily to us and we spent the week in the homes of many local people, including Bob Rupp. Years of dealing with Capote acolytes and curious tourists had left the handful of Holcomb residents who remembered Truman and Nelle understandably hesitant to open their homes and memories to journalists. ![]()
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