• VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) -- Court documents that supported three search warrants in the investigation of two girls missing since 1971 can be unsealed but without the names and other identifying information of numerous reported victims of sexual assaults, a judge ruled late Friday.
• Judge Steven Jensen granted an attorney general's office request to release redacted copies of the documents that another judge used in 2004 to grant the searches at the boyhood home near Alcester of David Lykken. Authorities said at the time that Lykken might have been involved in the disappearance of Cheryl Miller and Pamella Jackson as well as other unnamed people.
• A Union County grand jury indicted Lykken on six murder counts, but state prosecutors later dropped all charges after concluding a jailhouse informant lied about Lykken admitting to killing the girls.
• Attorney General Marty Jackley said last month that Miller and Jackson died when their Studebaker drove off a gravel road and landed in a creek.
• Lykken, who is in prison on an unrelated 227-year sentence for rape and kidnapping, appeared at Friday's hearing over interactive video from the penitentiary in Sioux Falls. He served as his own lawyer, wore prison garb and sat behind a table covered with documents.
• Lykken argued against the release of the search warrants, saying he was 16 at the time and his privacy was protected as a juvenile.
• "These were made against an innocent minor resident and none of these allegations in these search warrants are true in any way, shape or form," Lykken said.
• Jensen concluded the dismissal of the indictment and closure of the case both support the documents' release. All of the victims in the case agreed to it, as well, as long as identifying information is redacted.
• "The court has no legal basis to prevent disclosure of these affidavits at this point," he said.
• Jensen denied Lykken's request to delay the hearing on grounds he wasn't given enough time to prepare.
• The documents will be released 10 days after the order is entered, which will likely happen next week.
• "It gives the opportunity for the public to see why it was important for law enforcement to be searching in that location for the two missing South Dakota teenagers,"

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