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Hendricks said the parties have raised numerous issues, such as whether Harold Nye acted improperly by keeping the materials at home and whether blocking their use violates Ronald Nye's and McAvoy's free speech rights. But he said the parties need to present more evidence on those questions. In the meantime, the judge said if he allowed disclosure of the materials without seeing them first, "they're out in the public" even if he later ruled the items should be returned to the state. Two parolees, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, were eventually convicted of killing the Clutters and were executed in 1965. Four years later, Harold Nye began a two-year stint as the KBI's director. The hunt for the family's killers mesmerized the nation and drew journalists from throughout the U.S. to the small western Kansas town of Holcomb. Hickock and Smith fled to Florida after the Kansas murders, and authorities in December exhumed their remains to test them for DNA in the hopes that it might help lead to a break in the unsolved killing of a Sarasota, Fla., family a few weeks after the Clutters' deaths. "In Cold Blood," which takes the reader through the killings, the Hickock and Smith's trial, and their execution is celebrated because it reads like a novel. However, scholars have long debated its accuracy. Richard Adler, a forensic psychiatrist from Seattle, said the documents kept by Harold Nye are significant because Capote's account of the Clutter case "may be inaccurate" in "pivotal ways." Alder attended Tuesday's hearing and said he's reviewed some of the materials in question. "The public would have great benefit in having access to them," Adler said after the hearing. "This is a very celebrated case, and the general public's understanding of the case stems from Truman Capote's account."
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