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DNA evidence links ‘In Cold Blood’ murderers to 1959 Florida cold case

Police think crime similar to the one made famous in Truman Capote’s novel may have been committed by the same duo Two men hanged almost five decades ago for a murder that inspired one of the greatest true-crime novels of all time could soon be unmasked as the perpetrators of…

Novelist Gore Vidal dies at age 86

US novelist Gore Vidal, the iconoclastic commentator on American life and history in works like “Lincoln” and “Myra Breckenridge”, has died at age 86, the Los Angeles Times reported. The writer’s newphew Burr Steers said Vidal died Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills of complications from pneumonia, the…