In the fourth part of In Cold Blood, during the trial, Capote makes the murderer of the Clutter family, Perry Smith seem understanding, sympathetic to others, and shows a humane side as he protects the reputation of his partner-in-crime. The statement Perry Smith originally gives Detective Alvin Dewey, states that he killed Kenyon and Herb Clutter while Dick killed Nancy and Bonnie Clutter. Perry has this cleared at the trial when Dewey states, “He said everything else in that statement was true and correct. Except these two things. And that was that he wanted to say he killed Mrs. Clutter and Nancy Clutter—Not Hickock. He told me that Hickock…didn’t want to die with his mother thinking he had killed any members of the Clutter family. And he said the Hickocks were good people. So why not have it that way” (286). Perry acts selflessly as he comes clean about killing the entire family. Aside from simply telling the truth about who killed whom, Perry confesses to the killings to protect Dick’s mother, his partner-in-crime. Perry has met both of Dick’s parents, and admires them. By including this detail of why Perry confessed to all of the killings, Capote makes Perry seem like an innocent man, when he really is the guilty murderer that killed an entire family.