True Crime

All we know is what Capote wrote and that he said that was what Perry Smith told him about the crime. There is a telling scene in the movie "Capote" which I think is great, where Capote goes to visit Smith's surviving sister and she tells him how he acts very sweet and vulnerable but would just as soon cut your throat as look at you. I think that probably summed up Perry Smith better than anything we know about him. He was an angry little man out for revenge against society for perceived slights throughout his life. If it hadn't been the Clutters it surely would have been someone else.