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New book about “In Cold Blood” murders won’t be Capote’s version

High Plains Public Radio
Published December 9, 2014 at 12:00 AM CST
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The 1959 murders of the Clutter family members, who lie in the northwest corner of a Garden City, Kan., cemetery, are still getting plenty of attention. A book based on a detective’s notes from the case promises new information. ";
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This house in Holcomb, Kan., is where four members of the Clutter family were killed. The case, made famous in “In Cold Blood,” still intrigues.
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An upcoming book could give new insight into the 1959 murders of the Clutter family near Holcomb, Kansas.  A recent ruling allows the state detective’s son to publish his father’s personal notes. 

Ronald Nye says his book will contradict Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood,” reports the Kansas City Star.

Nye didn’t reveal much more about the western Kansas killings, except to say, “They arrested the right murderers and executed them for the right reasons.”

Nye’s father Harold passed away in 2003.
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