Barry Bowe's Blog, page 56
October 30, 2020
In Cold Blood: Movie
In Cold Blood is a two-man show starring Scott Wilson and Robert Blake. In Cold Blood: Movie For the last six days I presented segments about Truman Capote’s best-seller In Cold Blood and its blockbuster movie adaptation. I covered the victims first, then the killers, the murders, the manhunt, the book, and Capote. But, damn, […]
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October 29, 2020
In Cold Blood: Capote
Truman Persons was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on September 30, 1924. In Cold Blood: Capote Truman Persons was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on September 30, 1924. He was the son of a teenaged mother and salesman father, but his parents’ relationship was stormy. Nelle Harper Lee was born seventeen months later in Monroeville, […]
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October 28, 2020
In Cold Blood: Book
In Cold Blood begins and ends with Truman Capote. In Cold Blood: Book The book and movie In Cold Blood begins and ends with Truman Capote. But let’s go back to the beginning to when Truman Persons was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on September 30, 1924. It wasn’t until he was 11 years old […]
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October 26, 2020
In Cold Blood: Manhunt
The killers started their getaway by driving 2,1000 miles to Acapulco. In Cold Blood: Manhunt Chief Mitch Geisler of the Garden City Police Department – that’s GCPD – was one of the first officers to arrive at the murder scene at the Clutter’s farmhouse. Ritch Rohleder, his assistant, arrived with the chief. Rohleder, an expert […]
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October 25, 2020
In Cold Blood: Murders
Two men murder a father, mother, son, and daughter in cold blood. In Cold Blood: Murders In 1959, Dick Hickock, 28, was serving time in Leavenworth Prison for stealing a rifle out of someone’s home. One day, his cellmate Floyd Wells told him he used to work on a wheat farm in Holcomb, Kansas, along […]
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October 24, 2020
In Cold Blood: Killers
It sounded like an easy score – $10,000 inside an unlocked farmhouse. In Cold Blood As I said yesterday, during the fall of 1991, I took a cross country trip by train from Philadelphia to Palm Springs, California. Somewhere along the way the train stopped at a rural depot. I looked outside and saw a […]
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October 23, 2020
In Cold Blood: Victims
The grisliest murder scene ever seen in this part of Kansas. In Cold Blood: Victims During the fall of 1991 – wow – almost 30 years ago – I finished conducting better than a year’s worth of research for my first book – the classic true-crime Born to Be Wild – I already had the […]
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October 22, 2020
Quiz Show
A nerdy know-it-all geek from the Bronx with an IQ of 170 Quiz Show As far as I’m concerned television began in 1951 with I Love Lucy. That’s when my family bought our first TV set. I was 8 years old. Prior to that, kids sat around and listened to radio shows with their family, […]
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October 21, 2020
Murder of Scott Ruffalo
Murder of Scott Ruffalo Yesterday I reviewed the movie The Last Castle. In the process of doing research, I learned about the murder of Mark Ruffalo’s younger brother Scott. So, as what might be expected of America’s Best Crime Writer, I stuck my nose in to see what I could learn in a few hours. […]
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October 20, 2020
The Last Castle
I disobeyed an executive order. I violated my duty as a commanding officer The Last Castle I watched The Last Castle last night. It’s a 2001 movie – back when they were still making movies and not computerized crap – by a writer & director I never heard of – David Scarpa & Rod Lurie respectively. As […]
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