Judge rules that Ronald Nye can write book on Clutter murders using files that show ‘vast discrepancies’ with bestselling account written by Truman Capote
The son of a Kansas law enforcement officer who helped investigate the 1959 killings that inspired the book In Cold Blood can publish his father’s field notes that he says substantially contradict the account found in Truman Capote’s literary masterpiece.
In a ruling made public on Monday, the Shawnee County district court judge Larry Hendricks said he made an error when he initially blocked publication of the criminal investigation files in 2012. His decision means that Ronald Nye of Oklahoma City can use his father’s files for a book he plans about the slayings of prominent farmer and community leader Herbert Clutter, his wife and two children in Holcomb.
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