The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia Audiobook (Free)

A stunningly written investigation from the murder of two youthful women–showing how a violent crime casts a shadow over a whole community.

In the first evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were murdered within an isolated clearing. These were hitchhiking to a festival known as the Rainbow Gathering but never appeared. For thirteen years, no-one was prosecuted for the ‘Rainbow Murders,’ though deep about The Third Rainbow Girl: The EXTENDED LIFE of a Increase Murder in Appalachia suspicion was cast on a succession of regional residents locally, depicted as poor, dangerous, and backward. In 1993, an area farmer was convicted, and then be released whenever a known serial killer and diagnosed schizophrenic called Joseph Paul Franklin stated responsibility. Using the duration of time, as the reality seemed to slide away, the investigation itself caused its own traumas-turning neighbor against neighbor and confirming a fear of the violence outsiders did to this region for centuries. Emma Copley Eisenberg spent years living in Pocahontas and re-investigating these brutal serves. Using the past and the present, she shows how this secret act of assault has loomed over all those affected for years, shaping their anxieties, fates, and the stories they tell about themselves. In The Third Rainbow Gal, Eisenberg comes after the threads of this crime through the complicated background of Appalachia, developing a searing and wide-ranging family portrait of America-its divisions of gender and class, and of its violence.