Bodies of 'Cold Blood' killers exhumed in Kansas

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I've been up -- case gets hot again it involves two killers.

Who -- made infamous in Truman Capote in cold blood Phil Keating joins us live on the story from Sarasota Florida.

Phil what is pushes back into the limelight again this case.

Absolutely modern DNA science unavailable in 1965.

When those notorious killers were executed and then buried.

But now possibly this could all solved another quadruple murder that happened here 53 years ago today.

-- And grab it.

It Hartman.

Don -- can't forget that horrific day in 1959.

When he walked in on cliff walker Christine and their two children all shot dead in their Florida home.

It remains Sarasota county's oldest unsolved major crimes.

But 53 years later detective Kim the gal thinks the walker killers are the same infamous killers of the clutter family in Kansas one month earlier.

Harry Smith and Dick hick -- subjects of Truman Capote he's landmark novel in cold blood.

A -- and Smith for driving -- -- 1956.

Chevrolet Bel Air.

And the walker family was shopping for 1956 Chevrolet to ten model and they're basically the same vehicle.

Both for Smith and Hitchcock were arrested for the Kansas killings several witnesses spotted them in Sarasota the -- -- love and after the -- died.

All testified that Hancock had a scratched face and whomever -- -- Walker left semen at the scene.

And how that Smith and Hitchcock have been -- zoomed eight Kansas medical examiner will see if I there's DNA matches the -- seen.

In what could be the unwritten catalog to Capote is famous book.

Senator pre DNA science type of evidence cliff walker is -- -- -- plug and -- -- was missing from the walker house.

And it turned -- always driven hick -- were arrested for the Kansas murders in Las Vegas one of them had on a nearly identical pocket knife.

In their pocket.

Wow that is a fascinating story fell -- great work by the detected on the scene there.

Thanks very interesting -- -- reserves but actually.

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