The Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks: Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland

by Arcadia Publishing

Overview

In the summer of 1967, 19 year old Brenda Joyce Holland disappeared.

A mountain girl who had come to Manteo to work on The Lost Colony, Brenda's body was found three days later, floating in the Sound. This riveting narrative, built on unique access to state investigative files and multiple interviews with insiders, searches for the truth of the unsolved murder. This island odyssey of discovery includes séances, a suicide, and a supposed shallow grave.

Journalist John Railey cuts through the myths and misdirections to finally arrive at the long-hidden truth of what happened to Brenda Holland that summer on Roanoke Island.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467147392
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	05/03/2021
Series:	True Crime
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	1,089,107
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

John Railey has spent much of his life on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. A graduate of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, he is the former page editor of the Winston-Salem Journal, has written for the Coastland Times on the Outer Banks and has won numerous national, regional and state awards for his writing and investigative reporting. He is the author of the memoir Rage to Redemption in the Sterilization Age: A Confrontation with American Genocide.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 9

Author's Note 13

The Cast 17

Prologue 19

Part I The Town and the Crime

Soaring 29

"Seasons of Loss" 43

Lost in Her Colony 48

"An Ungodly Scream" 59

"Tell Me Who Did It" 78

Part II The Investigation

"If There Is Any Justice" 91

Packing a Pistol and Tear Gas 104

Dotty and the Wayward Bus 109

The Thing in the Casket 114

"I Did Not Kill the Holland Girl" 120

Seances and the Supernatural 128

"I Can't Do Anything but Kill You" 133

A "Confession" 145

"Something Broke Inside Me" 154

Part III The Reckoning

"He Came Looking for Me and Found Her" 165

Dotty on the Bridge 177

This Case Made Straight 189

Epilogue 199

Bibliography 203

About the Author 205

Editorial Reviews

"Ultimately, when Railey shares his conclusion about who killed Holland, he is persuasive. But we will never know if it would have been enough to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.What we do know for sure is that Railey, already widely admired as an investigative journalist, has written a masterpiece of entertaining non-fiction.It should serve as a model for any other writer who wants to sort out an unsolved crime and write a readable and entertaining book about it." Chapelboro.com

"This book will catch your interest and only tighten its grip as you read." Winston-Salem Journal

"Ultimately, when Railey shares his conclusion about who killed Holland, he is persuasive. But we will never know if it would have been enough to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. What we do know for sure is that Railey, already widely admired as an investigative journalist, has written a masterpiece of entertaining non-fiction. It should serve as a model for any other writer who wants to sort out an unsolved crime and write a readable and entertaining book about it." Chapelboro.com

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