Truman Capote House shortly afterwards. For Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" was a turning point, as he explained to Roy Newquist ("Counterpoint", 1964): The "new book", "In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences" (1965), was inspired by a 300 word article that ran in the November 16, 1959 "The New York Times". The story described the unexplained murder of the Clutter family in rural Holcomb, Kansas, and quoted the local sheriff as saying, "This is apparently the case of a psychopathic killer." Fascinated by this brief news item, Capote traveled with Harper Lee to Holcomb and visited
Jeff Truman "The Doctor Blake Mysteries". He also wrote for "" (nominated for an AWGIE award in 2012), "", and "". In total Truman received five AWGIE nominations and in 2013, won the award for Best Original Mini Series for "Underbelly: Badness". Truman wrote the feature film "Envy" which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1999. He also had a small role in Bryan Singer's "Superman Returns". Truman died on 2 December 2014, after suffering a brain haemorrhage, he was 57. Jeff Truman Jeffrey Maxwell Truman (4 November 1957 – 2 December 2014) was an Australian film and television screenwriter