{"product_id":"9780895876119","title":"Met Her on the Mountain: A Forty-Year Quest to Solve the Appalachian Cold-Case Murder of Nancy Morgan","description":"\u003cp\u003eMadison County in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina is a place of ear-popping drives and breathtaking views.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is also where federal antipoverty worker Nancy Dean Morgan was found naked, hogtied, and strangled in the backseat of her car in June 1970.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn 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\"?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMet Her on the Mountain: A Forty-Year Quest to Solve the Appalachian Cold-Case Murder of Nancy Morgan\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003ci\u003eMet Her on the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e is a stirring mix of true crime, North Carolina political history, and one man's devotion to finding the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John F Blair, Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022738243824,"sku":"9780895876119","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780895876119_p0.jpg?v=1763856013","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780895876119","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}