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Truman Capote, a Cyanide Pill, and a Shocking High Society Murder

GREAT AMERICAN SCANDALS

One night in 1955, police busted into a Long Island mansion to find a woman cradling the body of her naked, dead husband. The story behind the grisly scene was even more salacious.

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