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[1] Phillip K. Tompkins, “In Cold Fact,” Esquire, June 1966, 58.
[2] Truman Capote. In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. (New York: Random House, 1966).
[3] Truman Capote. Selected Writings of Truman Capote. (New York: Random House, 1963).
[4] Ralph F. Voss, Truman Capote and the Legacy of "In Cold Blood,” (Tuscaloosa: University Alabama Press, 2011).
[5]Gerald Clarke, Capote: A Biography, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988).
[6] George Plimpton. Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career. (New York: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, 1997).
[7] Charles J. Shields. Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee. (New York: Henry Holt, 2006).
[8] George Plimpton. "The Story Behind a Nonfiction Novel." The New York Times, January 16, 1966.
[9] Jack De Bellis. "Vision and Revisions: Truman Capote's In Cold Blood,” DISCovering Authors. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Student Resources in Context. Web. Accessed May 11, 2015.
[10]”Deep Throat” was the pseudonym given to the confidential informant (later revealed to be FBI Associate Director Mark Felt) who provided information in 1972 to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward. Deep Throat provided key details about the involvement of U.S. President Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the Watergate scandal.
[11]The New York Times, November 16, 1959, 39.
[12] Great Moments. San Francisco Film Festival. History.sffs.org (published May 4, 2006). 1974. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
[13] Ralph F. Voss. Truman Capote and the Legacy of In Cold Blood. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2011).
[14]In Cold Blood paints a more dramatic (but fictitious) scene that occurs on December 4, five days prior to the actual visit, in which Harold Nye, alone at the Hickock farm, spies the murder weapons but does not confiscate them.
[15]As readers will later discover in detail, Wells plainly perjured himself, and despite the KBI being aware of it, they allowed Wells’s sworn testimony to stand—a fact Capote was likely unaware of when he wrote In Cold Blood.
[16]Clarifying the record, it was Finney County Attorney Duane West who questioned Wells on the stand, not assistant prosecutor Logan Green, as identified by Capote in his book.
[17]Don Kendall, “Cellmate Tells Hickock Plan,” The Hutchinson News, Hutchinson, KS, March 24, 1960, 21.
[18]Although never mentioned in his book’s omniscient narrative, Capote’s presence is noted here for historical accuracy.
[19] Interview with the author.
[20] Interview with the author.
[21] Interview with the author.
[22] Interview with the author.
[23]Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders. Written and directed by Joe Berlinger. SundanceTV, November 2017.
[24] A “one-down position” is an intervention technique in which the therapist avoids gaining advantage over a patient, so as not to trigger feelings of inferiority.
[25] Interview with the author.
[26] Topeka Journal, 1969 (full citation not available).
[27] Internal KBI email messages, July/August 2012.
[28] The Kansas Supreme Court has interpreted that State’s eavesdropping and privacy statutes to allow one-party consent for taping of conversations, and has ruled that as long as one party consents to the conversation, the other party cannot challenge the eavesdropping in court. In other states, both parties to the phone conversation must consent to the recording.
[29] Referring to Larry Welch, author of Beyond Cold Blood: The KBI from Ma Barker to BTK. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012), in a discussion with The Wall Street Journal reporter Kevin Helliker.
[30] David and Albert Maysles. “USA: The Novel: A Visit with Truman Capote; later titled With Love from Truman. (1966; New York: Maysles Films, Inc.), TV.
[31] Irving Malin. Truman Capote’s ‘In Cold Blood’: A Critical Handbook. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1968)
[32] Originally published in Esquire magazine, June 1966.
[33] George Plimpton. "The Story Behind a Nonfiction Novel." The New York Times, January 16, 1966.
[34] Phillip K. Tompkins. “In Cold Fact.” Esquire, June 1966.
[35] As related to the author in a January 2018 phone interview with Keith Denchfield, the Meier’s son-in-law.
[36] George Plimpton. "The Story Behind a Nonfiction Novel." The New York Times, January 16, 1966.
[37] Kevin Helliker. "Capote Classic 'In Cold Blood' Tainted by Long-Lost Files." The Wall Street Journal, February 8, 2013.
[38] Kansas Bureau of Investigation: 1939–1989. (Topeka: Jostens, 1990).
[39] Sheriff Jim Kramer, email correspondence with the author, December 8, 2017.
[40] David Hickock and Linda LeBert-Corbello. In the Shadow of My Brother's Cold Blood. (iUniverse, 2010)
[41] David Hickock and Linda LeBert-Corbello. In the Shadow of My Brother's Cold Blood. (iUniverse, 2010). Kindle Edition, location 341.
[42] Truman Capote. In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. (New York: Random House, 1966), 170.
[43] Gerald Clarke. Capote: A Biography. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988), 319.
[44] Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin, and Nancy Marie Patterson Tischler. The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams. (New York: New Directions Pub, 2000). 368.
[45] As one example: T. Madison Peschock, What was Harper Lee's role in writing 'In Cold Blood?' AL.com, accessed March 8, 2016, https://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/03/what_was_harper_lees_role_in_w.html
[46] Kerry Madden, Up Close: Harper Lee, (New York: Viking/Penguin Group, 2009), 120.
[47] Charles J. Shields. I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee. (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2008), 107.
[48] Nelle Harper Lee, "Dewey Had Important Part In Solving Brutal Murders," The Grapevine, March 1960, 8.
[49] Charles J. Shields. Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee. (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2006), 239-240.
[50] Truman Capote. In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. (New York: Random House, 1966), 84.
[51] C.B. Palmer. "A Farmer Looks at Farming '54." The New York Times, August 1, 1954, SM8.
[52] Alvin A. Dewey. (November 27, 1959). Memorandum for the File. Garden City, KS. Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
[53] Alvin A. Dewey (1959). Memorandum for the File: Interview with [redacted]. Garden City, KS. Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
[54] Truman Capote papers. Manuscripts and Archives Division. The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations, Box 7, Folders 1-14.
[55] Alvin A. Dewey (1959). Memorandum for the File: Interview with Kenneth Lyon. Garden City, KS. Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
[56] Wendell Cowan (1959). Memorandum for the File: Interview with Dr. V. A. Leopold. Garden City, KS. Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
[57] Wendell Cowan (1959). Memorandum for the File: Interview with Dr. V. A. Leopold. Garden City, KS. Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
[58] Nelle Harper Lee. Research Notes dated December 27, 1959. Truman Capote papers. Manuscripts and Archives Division. The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
[59] Truman Capote. Research Notes, undated. Truman Capote papers. Manuscripts and Archives Division. The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
[60] Dr. Keith Collins, email to the author, December 27, 2017.
[61] Alvin A. Dewey (November 27, 1959). Memorandum for the File: Interview with Kenneth Lyon. Garden City, KS. Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
[62] Librium, released in 1960, and Valium, 1963, also fell into this category.
[63] C. B. Palmer. "A Farmer Looks at Farming '54." The New York Times, August 1, 1954, SM8.
[64] Betty Friedan. The Feminine Mystique. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1963)
[65] Horwitz, Allan V. “How an Age of Anxiety Became an Age of Depression.” The Milbank Quarterly 88.1 (2010): 112–138. PMC. Web. 26 Dec. 2017.
[66] Truman Capote. In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. (New York: Random House, 1966), 30.
[67] Nelle Harper Lee. Research Notes, 1959. Truman Capote papers. Manuscripts and Archives Division. The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations, Box 7, Reel 7, Folders 11-14. Used with permission of the Capote Trust.
[68] Alvin A. Dewey (November 27, 1959). Memorandum for the File: Interview with Kenneth Lyon. Garden City, KS. Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
[69] Larry Welch to Andrew Holland, December 29, 1997.
[70] Kansas Bureau of Investigation: 1939–1989. (Topeka: Jostens, 1990).
[71] Larry Welch. Beyond Cold Blood: The KBI from Ma Barker to BTK. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012).
[72] Email to KBI staff, July 21, 2012.
[73] Kansas v. Nye, McAvoy et al. District Court of Shawnee County, KS. 26 Nov. 2014. Print.
[74] Kansas Bureau of Investigation: 1939–1989. (Topeka: Jostens, 1990), 77.
[75] Today the NCIC database is available to every cop in every car on every beat; it’s the computer being checked, for example, while your car has been pulled over for an observed offense.
[76] With one exception: Kevin Helliker’s reporting in The Wall Street Journal on new discoveries in the Clutter investigation were based in part on information contained in Nye’s notebooks (February 2013).
[77] Details which do not appear in the Capote Archives at either the New York Public Library or the Library of Congress.
[78] George Plimpton. Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career. (New York: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, 1997), 170
[79] Plimpton, Truman Capote, 170.
[80] Interview with Ronald Nye.
[81] Gene Smith. "Topekan disputes lurid tale of Capote." Topeka-Capital Journal (Topeka, KS), December 14, 1997. Web.
[82] Charles Ferruzza. "Killer Queen." The Pitch. December 1, 2005. Web.
[83] George Plimpton. Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career. (New York: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, 1997), 170.
[84] According to Stuart Hinds, Assistant Dean for Special Collections & Archives at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Capote most likely visited the Colony Club.
[85] Plimpton, 170.
[86] Interview with Ronald Nye.
[87] Email interview with the author, September 23, 2018
[88] Charles J. Shields. "See NL’s Notes." In Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee. (New York: Henry Holt, 2007). Kindle edition, 173
[89] Dolores Hope. "The Clutter Case: 25 Years Later KBI Agent Recounts Holcomb Tragedy." Garden City Telegram (Garden City, KS), November 10, 1984, 11A.
[90] Michael Bruntz. "Technology might have helped solve crime faster." LJWorld.com, April 5, 2005.
[91]Alvin A. Dewey (November 23, 1959). “Memorandum for the File.” Garden City, KS. Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
[92] Kevin Helliker. "Capote Classic 'In Cold Blood' Tainted by Long-Lost Files." The Wall Street Journal, February 8, 2013.
[93] Email interview with the author, January 18, 2018.
[94] Patrick Smith, “Garden City officer forgotten in Capote’s book,” Lawrence Journal-World, April 5, 2005, www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/apr/05/garden_city_officer/)
[95] Smith.
[96] Smith.
[97] David Hickock and Linda LeBert-Corbello. In the Shadow of My Brother's Cold Blood. (iUniverse, 2010). Kindle Edition, locations 286-287.
[98] Hickock, 362-370.
[99] Hickock, 409-411.
[100] Author’s email interview with Dr. James S. Walker, December 2018.
[101] Truman Capote. In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. (New York: Random House, 1966), 279.
[102] Katherine Ramsland PhD. Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer. (Lebanon, NH: ForeEdge, 2016).
[103] Author’s email interview with Dr. Katherine Ramsland, December 2017.
[104] James E Post. (1960). Special Progress Report. Kansas State Penitentiary. Lansing, KS.
[105] At age 25, Perry’s brother James “Tex” Smith took his life not by shotgun, as described by Capote, but by gassing himself in the kitchen, desolate over his wife’s own suicide the same way two days earlier.
[106] UPI, “Husband, 25, Follows Wife in Death Act,” Daily Capital Journal (Salem, OR). November 19, 1949.
[107] Associated Press, “Alaska Trapper Rotated Home from Battle; Cheered at Dock,” Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, October 2, 1951, 1.
[108] As revealed by Smith’s son, Jewell James, in Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders. Directed by Joe Berlinger. SundanceTV, November 18, 2017.
[109] http://www.lummi-nsn.org/
[110] As later described by Capote in an interview with George Plimpton, “The Story Behind a Nonfiction Novel,” The New York Times, January 16, 1966, http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/12/28/home/capote-interview.html.
[111] Inmates Release Schedule, Kansas State Penitentiary, Lansing, KS, November 17, 1959.
[112] Jack Curtis, “I Remember Perry Smith,” Los Angeles Times, January 28, 1968, B25.
[113] “Richard Eugene Hickock inmate case file,” Parole Board Summary of Clemency Hearing, April 4, 1965, 119-24. Accessed June 8, 2013.
[114] Truman Capote. In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. (New York: Random House, 1966), 340.
[115] Tim Carpenter, “Former prison official recalls notorious case,” Lawrence-Journal World, December 29, 2002, accessed December 3, 2014, http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2002/dec/29/former_prison_official/.
[116] Michael Bruntz, “Witness to Execution,” Lawrence-Journal World, April 5, 2005, accessed December 8, 2012, http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/apr/05/witness_to_execution/.
[117] Curtis.
[118] Email interview with the author, September 23, 2018
[119] Anne Taylor Fleming, “The Descent from the Heights,” The New York Times Magazine, July 16, 1978.
[120] Alvin A. Dewey. (1959). “Memorandum for the File: Floyd Wells Period of Employment.” Garden City, KS. Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
[121] Capote was mistaken about Wells’s 3-5 year sentence as quoted in his book. In an interview with Kansas reporter Ted Blankenship, Wells affirmed the longer stretch as the sentence given by the court, as also confirmed in prison reports.
[122]Bob Greer. “'He Musta Done It,’ Key Witness Testifies." Garden City Telegram, (Garden City, KS). March 24, 1960. 1.
[123] Richard E. Hickock. Unpublished letters to Mack Nations. May 24, 1961.
[124] Hickock.
[125] Hickock.
[126] Hickock.
[127] Hickock.
[128] Hickock.
[129] Don Kendall. “‘Smoke Screens’ Set by Hickock.” Hutchinson News (Hutchinson, KS), March 30, 1960, 2.
[130] Kendall.
[131]Hickock.
[132]Truman Capote Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. Box 7, Folders 1-14.
[133] Wayne Owens. (1959). Statement by William Floyd Wells. Lansing, KS. Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
[134] Ted Blankenship. “‘Wells Justifies Role in Murders.” Hutchinson News (Hutchinson, KS). April 8, 1960.
[135] Bob Greer. “'He Musta Done It,’ Key Witness Testifies." Garden City Telegram, (Garden City, KS). March 24, 1960. 1.
[136] “Wells Denied Clemency.” Hutchinson News (Hutchinson, KS). April 12, 1960.
[137]Sally J. Keglovits, “In Cold Blood Revisited: A Look Back at an American Crime.” https://garymcavoy.com/in-cold-blood-revisited.
[138] Interview with the author.
[139] Rubin, Richard. Confederacy of Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South. (New York: Atria Books, 2002).
[140] Kevin Helliker. "Capote Classic 'In Cold Blood' Tainted by Long-Lost Files." The Wall Street Journal, February 8, 2013.
[141] Truman Capote, Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote, Edited by Gerald Clarke, (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Vintage International, 2012), Kindle Edition, Kindle Location 6686.
[142] Ralph F. Voss. Truman Capote and the Legacy of In Cold Blood. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2011).
[143] Alvin Dewey letter to Truman Capote, May 14, 1961. Truman Capote papers. Manuscripts and Archives Division. The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
[144] Dale E. Saffels in letter to Col. Guy Rexroad, October 19, 1961, “Richard Eugene Hickock Inmate Case File 708,” Kansas Historical Society, Kansas Memory, www.kansasmemory.org.
[145] Dale E. Saffels to Col. Guy Rexroad, October 19, 1961, “Richard Eugene Hickock Inmate Case File 708,” Kansas Historical Society, Kansas Memory, www.kansasmemory.org.
[146] Gerald Clarke. Capote: A Biography. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988), 343.
[147] Colonel Guy Rexroad to Dale E. Saffels, November 1, 1961, “Richard Eugene Hickock Inmate Case File 709,” Kansas Historical Society, Kansas Memory, www.kansasmemory.org.
[148] “KSIR Well-Managed, Investigation Shows.” Hutchinson News (Hutchinson, KS). November 3, 1961, 1.
[149] Mack Nations to Warden Tracy Hand, January 13, 1962.
[150] Truman Capote. Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote. Edited by Gerald Clarke. (New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Vintage International, 2012). Kindle Edition, locations 6482-6486.
[151]Kevin Helliker. “‘In Cold Blood’ Killer’s Never-Published Memoir Raises Questions About His Motive.” The Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2017.
[152] Richard Hickock as told to Mack Nations, “America’s Worst Crime in 20 Years,” Male magazine, December 1961, 30.
[153] Kurt Hoffman, email message to redacted recipients, October 9, 2003.
[154] Wayne Owens. (1959). Statement by William Floyd Wells. Lansing, KS. Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
[155] Wayne Owens. Off the Record Supplement to Signed Statement of William Floyd Wells. Topeka, KS. December 10, 1959.
[156] "Key Witness Recalled Here." Garden City Telegram. March 23, 1960.
[157] Ted Blankenship. “Wells Justifies Role in Murders.” Hutchinson News (Hutchinson, KS), April 8, 1960.
[158] Bob Greer. ”Key Witness Recalled Here." Garden City Telegram. March 23, 1960.
[159] Ellsworth Lapham Fersch. Thinking About Psychopaths and Psychopathy: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions with Case Examples. (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse), 2006.
[160] As noted in the Case File chapter, this scene is portrayed quite differently in In Cold Blood.
[161] Richard Eugene Hickock, Letters to Mack Nations, June 5, 1961.
[162] Duane West. “'In Cold Blood' prosecutor recalls Kansas family murders.” Produced by Fernando Salazer, The Wichita Eagle, November 17, 2017. Video, 4:45. http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article185271663.html.
[163] The knife and shotgun were recovered, of course, but those had been thoroughly cleaned of blood and fingerprints after the crimes.
[164] For a deeper dive into the Walker family murders, read J.T. Hunter’s In Colder Blood: True Story of the Walker Family Murder as depicted in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood (RJ Parker Publishing, 2016).
[165]Emailed to the author in April 2013.
[166] David Hickock and Linda LeBert-Corbello. In the Shadow of My Brother's Cold Blood. iUniverse. Kindle Edition, locations 493-496.
[167] Hickock and LeBert-Corbello, location 465.
[168] Bob Greer. “'He Musta Done It,’ Key Witness Testifies." Garden City Telegram, (Garden City, KS). March 24, 1960. 1.
[169] Richard Eugene Hickock, Letters to Mack Nations, June 5, 1961.
[170] Interview with the author, December 2018.
[171] Charles D. McAtee. Memorandum to File: Interview with Hickock, Richard Eugene. Lansing, KS. Kansas State Historical Society. (1964)
[172] “Inmate Files – Executed Prisoners,” Kansas State Penitentiary. Operations Division – 1962-1965, Kansas Historical Society, accessed December 13, 2017, http://www.kshs.org/archives/197780.
[173] George Plimpton. "Some Thoughts on Capote." The New York Times, August 26, 1984, http://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/26/us/some-thoughts-on-capote.html.
[174] Alvin Dewey as told to Dolores Hope. “Brutal murders awakened sleepy southwest Kansas town.” Salina Journal (Salina, KS). November 11, 1984, 1.
[175] Ralph F. Voss. Truman Capote and the Legacy of In Cold Blood. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2011), 197-198.
[176] Truman Capote. In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. (New York: Random House, 1966), 87.
[177] Capote, 84.
[178] Voss, 205.
[179] Duane West. “'In Cold Blood' prosecutor recalls Kansas family murders.” Produced by Fernando Salazer, The Wichita Eagle, November 17, 2017. Video, 1:40. http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article185271663.html.
[180] Matt Campbell, “As TV revisits the ‘In Cold Blood’ case, here’s how The Star originally reported it,” The Kansas City Star, November 17, 2017, http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article185253028.html.
[181] Dick Parr and Joe Wellington. “Four in Family Slain.” The Kansas City Star. November 16, 1959, 1.
[182] Ken Curtis, telephone interview with the author, January 28, 2015.
[183] Jack Curtis, telephone interview with the author, January 29, 2015.
[184] National Affairs. “In Cold Blood.” Time, November 30, 1959.
[185] Don Kendall. “Pastor Will Note Quieting of Rumors.” Hutchinson News (Hutchinson, KS). January 10, 1960, 25.
[186] Houdyshell, V. (1959). Interview of Doctor Austin J. Adams. Wichita, KS. Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
[187] Truman Capote. Research Notes, undated. Truman Capote papers. Manuscripts and Archives Division. The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
[188] Robert Barron, “Enid man recalls scene of 1959 murders,” Enid News & Eagle, January 29, 2012, https://goo.gl/TxTFBU.
[189] Truman Capote. In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. (New York: Random House, 1966), 191.
[190] Truman Capote. Research Notes, Acknowledgments, undated. Truman Capote papers. Manuscripts and Archives Division. The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
[191] Steve Walker, “Drawing Blood,” The Pitch, October 4, 2001, https://www.pitch.com/arts-entertainment/movies/article/20614232/drawing-blood.
[192] Smith and Hickock filed four appeals through March 1965, three of them to the U.S. Supreme Court. All were denied.
[193] Email interview with the author, September 23, 2018
[194] A&E Television Networks, "American Justice: Murder 'In Cold Blood'," 1997.
[195] Joe Stump, “Kansas gets F grade in 2015 State Integrity Investigation,” The Center for Public Integrity, November 9, 2015, https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/11/09/18397/kansas-gets-f-grade-2015-state-integrity-investigation
[196] Editorial Board, “Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt grants a license to secrecy,” The Kansas City Star, April 29, 2015, https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article19900083.html, accessed May 12, 2015.
[197] Laura Bauer, Judy L. Thomas and Max Londberg, "‘One of the most secretive, dark states’: What is Kansas trying to hide?" The Kansas City Star, November 12, 2017.
[198] Derek Schmidt, News Release, “AG Schmidt asks court to stop online auction of KBI files, order files returned,” Office of the Attorney General of Kansas, October 1, 2012. ** NOTE: the AG’s use of the word “returned” is incorrect, since Harold Nye originated his own personal notebooks.
[199] Although since removed following the embarrassing disclosures revealed in our defense, the actual page has been preserved for historical posterity on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, at https://web.archive.org/web/20120625094156/http://www.gcpolice.org:80/History/Clutter/Pictures_for_Clutters.htm.
[200] Larry Welch in letter to Andrew Holland, Producer, Tower Productions, December 29, 1997.
[201] K.S.A. 45-221(a)(30).
[202] Kansas assistant attorney general in letter to Capote Productions (Manitoba) Inc., September 30, 2004.
[203] Gerald Clarke, ed. Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote. (New York: Random House, 2004).
[204] Truman Capote. Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote. Edited by Gerald Clarke. (New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Vintage International, 2012). Kindle Edition, locations 5896-5911.
[205] Columbia Pictures Corp., Contract with Truman Capote for film rights, dated November 9, 1965.
[206] George Plimpton. Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career. (New York: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, 1997), 171.
[207] Ralph F. Voss. Truman Capote and the Legacy of In Cold Blood. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2011), 205.
[208] Kevin Helliker. “‘In Cold Blood’ Killer’s Never-Published Memoir Raises Questions About His Motive.” The Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2017.
[209] Interview with Ron Nye, in conversations with his mother Joyce Nye, who related Peggy Johnson’s account of the occasion.
[210] Voss., 229.
[211] Kansas Bureau of Investigation: 1939–1989. Topeka: Jostens, 1990, 59.
[212] Kansas Bureau of Investigation, 77.
[213] Mike Shields. “State’s top cop has developed a long arm.” Lawrence Journal-World, July 14, 2002 (Archive). Web.
[214] Shields.
[215] “Kansas Bureau of Investigation: 1939–1989.” 83.
[216] Lee Davidson, "FBI files shed light on Ezra Taft Benson, Ike and the Birch Society," Salt Lake Tribune, November 16, 2010. http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=50349153&itype=CMSID
[217] Associated Press, “Kill Ike’s Farm Program His Aim,” Hutchinson News, January 5, 1960, 40.
[218] George Plimpton. "The Story Behind a Nonfiction Novel." The New York Times, January 16, 1966.
[219] Memorandum, “Concerning FBI Evidence Results,” December 3, 1959. Harold R. Nye Personal Journals.
[220] Ashley B. Dreff PhD, Entangled: A History of American Methodism, Politics, and Sexuality (Nashville: New Room Books, 2018).
[221] Email interview with the author, February 2018.
[222] See Sirrell v. IMS Health Care, Inc., 564 U.S.__, 131 S.CT. 2653, 2667 (2011).
[223] See New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713, 91 S.CT. 2140 (1971).
[224] State of Kansas v. Ronald Nye, Gary McAvoy et al (2014)
[225] Interview with the author, July 2018.
[226] State of Kansas v. Ronald Nye, Gary McAvoy et al (2014), Final Memorandum Decision and Order.
