Author Truman Capote's riveting "non-fiction novel" In Cold Blood was a smash best-seller upon its publication in 1966. The in-depth psychological account of two drifters who brutally murdered a rural Kansas family became a critically acclaimed film in 1967. Thirty years after the book's release came this television miniseries. With the television production's expanded running time, more details from Capote's book are included, including a deeper examination of the killers' twisted minds. In Cold Blood stars Eric Roberts and Anthony Edwards, and was directed by Jonathan Kaplan - who would go on to work with Edwards as a producer for the hit tv show ER.