Met Her on the Mountain: A Forty-Year Quest to Solve the Appalachian Cold-Case Murder of Nancy Morgan Author: Mark I. Pinsky | Language: English | ISBN:
B00FEOSUMM | Format: EPUB
Met Her on the Mountain: A Forty-Year Quest to Solve the Appalachian Cold-Case Murder of Nancy Morgan Description
Madison County in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina is a place of ear-popping drives and breathtaking views.
It is also where federal antipoverty worker Nancy Dean Morgan was found naked, hogtied, and strangled in the backseat of her car in June 1970.
An inept investigation involving local, state, and federal law-enforcement agencies failed to find a clear explanation of the motive or events of her murder. The case was left unsolved. Years later, after most of the material evidence had been lost or mishandled, one of Nancy’s fellow VISTA workers—the last person known to have seen her alive—became the prime suspect, based on the testimony of one of the town’s most notorious resident criminals. Did he kill Nancy, or was he another victim of the corrupt local political machine and its adherence to “mountain justice”?
Met Her on the Mountain: A Forty-Year Quest to Solve the Appalachian Cold-Case Murder of Nancy Morgan is a tangled tale of rural noir. Author Mark Pinsky was profoundly struck by Nancy’s story as a college student in North Carolina in 1970. Here, Pinsky presents the evolution of his investigation and also delves into the brutal history of Madison County, the site of a Civil War massacre that earned it the sobriquet “Bloody Madison.” Met Her on the Mountain is a stirring mix of true crime, North Carolina political history, and one man’s devotion to finding the truth.
- File Size: 4291 KB
- Print Length: 294 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0895876116
- Publisher: John F. Blair, Publisher (September 23, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00FEOSUMM
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #62,191 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
Reading this book was reminiscent of Gloria Jahoda's The Other Florida (1994). She lived in Tallahassee where her husband was a professor at Florida State University. The Panhandle and its people, flora, and fauna fascinated her. Her interest was genuine, unlike many others, and the locals quickly recognized it. So, when she drove up to an isolated habitation, they would talk to her. Natives, most anywhere, can instantly spot the condescension of social workers and others and take appropriate measures.
Met Her on the Mountain is a lesson in many things and a monument to his long research and talents. Reading like a murder mystery, a novel, it is real. He appreciated the beautiful environment and the nuances and complexities of its inhabitants, the latter universals. This book is compelling reading.
I remember Mark Pinsky and The Protean Radish, fortunately collected by the library, during the student protests at Duke University in the 1960s. I was a young manuscript librarian, neither approving or especially disapproving. He, like us also, has come a long way.
I flew to the index. Only one reference to a Rector, Miss Clarine, and nothing to worry about. Rector is my middle name, and Rectors are numerous, long-time inhabitants. They are the Richters of Germany from the Germanna First Colony, 1714, in Virginia. They came from the ancient iron mining and forging area around Siegen, and earlier from near Meissen in Saxony. They abound in Madison's cemeteries and have given their name to geographic features. An old friend, long resident there when in the country, early found his nest . I know a bit of the county. I was familiar with "Bloody Madison," but not the murder case, and only last year the Rector clan.
This book is well worth Mr.
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