Truman Capote keeps the reader focused on the Clutter’s murder story by bringing back the “Zenith radio” into the accounts of Dick and Perry after the killings, so that Capote can connect the events from the first story of the murder into the second story of Dick and Perry, ultimately allowing him to tell two stories at once. After Dick and Perry kill the Clutter family, Dick and Perry steal the “Zenith radio” known to have been one of Kenyon’s possessions. Alvin Dewey, the detective assigned to the case of the Clutter family recalls the important observations he has collected from people in the community about the mystery. He remembers Mrs. Helm’s investigation of the house as she whispers, “’Something here is wrong, I feel it, I know it, but I don’t know what it is.’ And then she did know. ‘It’s the radio! Where is Kenyon’s little radio?’” (102). While telling the mystery part of the murder story that takes place in Holcomb, Capote is reminding the reader of the events that took place on the bloody night of the murders. As the reader progresses throughout the story, Capote discusses the aftermath of the killings and the murderers. As a way of bringing the reader back to the actual murder itself, he reminds them of objects relating to the family his story is based on. The next time Capote discusses Dick and Perry after Mrs. Helm’s realization of the missing radio, is when Dick and Perry are driving in the old Chevrolet out of Kansas. Capote describes the scene as, “As for Perry’s other belongings—a card-board suitcase, a gray Zenith portable radio” (106). Although the stories of the murderers and the community in Holcomb come together the one night of the killing, they return to separate accounts for the rest of the book up until the middle of the second part. A strategic way of connecting these two stories together is bringing the “Zenith radio” through all of the sections of the novel. The “Zenith radio” appears throughout the book in situations where the Clutter’s are alive, after they are dead, during the investigations, and then again with the murderers as they flee the state. This device links the two separate stories together with common objects such as the radio enabling Capote to successfully tell two accounts within one non-fiction novel.