I've been spending time in prisons lately speaking with murderers in Colorado and Kansas, which raises fundamental questions for me as a journalist. What's the job of a reporter in this situation -- to challenge the false or outlandish things a killer is saying or simply let him or her talk? "InColdBlog" obviously gets its name from the gold standard of all true crime writing, Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, and I've often thought about Capote having a full five years to...
Published on May 14, 2010 09:27