Mark I. Pinsky, "Met Her on the Mountain: The Murder of Nancy Morgan "
English | ISBN: 0813187141 | 2022 | 220 pages | EPUB | 932 KB
English | ISBN: 0813187141 | 2022 | 220 pages | EPUB | 932 KB
In June of 1970, the body of 24-year-old Nancy Morgan was found inside a government-owned car in Madison County, North Carolina. It had been four days since anyone had heard from the bubbly, hard-working brunette who had moved to the Appalachian community less than a year prior as an organizer for Volunteers in Service to America. At the time of her death, her tenure in the Tar Heel State was just weeks from ending, her intentions set on New York and nursing school and a new life that she would never see. The initial investigation was thwarted by inept police work, jurisdictional confusion, and the influence of local corruption. Fourteen years would pass before an arrest in the case would be made, but even then, a pall would be cast over the veracity of the evidence.
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