Met Her on the Mountain: A Forty-Year Quest to Solve the Appalachian Cold-Case Murder of Nancy Morgan
About this ebook
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.
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About the author
A former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and Orlando Sentinel, Mark Pinsky holds degrees from Duke University and Columbia University. As an investigative journalist specializing in capital murder cases around the Southeast, he has written for the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. Though this is his first true-crime work, he has previously published four religion-oriented books, including The Gospel According to the Simpsons. He resides in Maitland, Florida.