by paracletepress | Jan 29, 2026 | Crime, Met Her on the Mountain
Richard Lewis Johnson, the Madison County, N.C., man who confessed to me twice that he was part of a group of five local men who kidnapped, raped and murdered federal anti-poverty worker Nancy Dean Morgan in 1970, is dead. He died Jan. 24 of what are believed to be...
by paracletepress | Dec 24, 2025 | Met Her on the Mountain
For some time, Richard Johnson’s estranged son, Chris, who appears in several sections in Met Her on the Mountain, has been working on a memoir, How I Survived the Man Who Met Her on the Mountain. The book, a searing account of life with Richard Johnson, is now out...
by paracletepress | Jun 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Over the past month I have made two visits to St. Simons Island in hopes of completing research for our next cold case project, Murder in the Rectory, the 1938 shooting of the Rev. Charles Lee, of Christ Church Frederica (see my previous blog item, below, “New Murder,...
by paracletepress | Mar 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Google Alert about my 2013 book was intriguing: Murder, Mystery and Mayhem Book Club – Meets the last Tuesday of the month at 5:30. We will meet at Slate’s Mercantile at 140 W Pine St., Mt. Airy – January’s selection is “Met Her on the Mountain: The...
by paracletepress | Jan 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Latest update on our newest true crime project: the 1938 murder of Reverend Charles Lee, a second cousin of Robert E. Lee, on St. Simons Island, Ga., as he prepared his Sunday sermon, a killing that generated national headlines (...
