Truman Capote famously adapted In Cold Blood from this 335-word story on page 39 of the NYT. From my amateur archive of similar articles comes Poison Mystery Widens After a Suicide Note, which begins, “The mystery of who poisoned 16 churchgoers here with arsenic-tainted coffee seemed to be solved the other day when a congregant shot himself to death, leaving a note that the police said tied him to the poisonings.” See also: Inmates’ Elaborate Plans to Escape From Sing Sing Are Thwarted.