by paracletepress | Dec 4, 2024 | Met Her on the Mountain
In the interest of due journalistic diligence for this piece for the North Carolina Assembly ( My 50-Year Obsession with an Unsolved Mountain Murder), I visited Richard Johnson earlier this week at the Nash Correctional Institute in eastern North Carolina, a trip not...
by paracletepress | Jun 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
Last month my wife and I traveled to the Spoleto music festival in Charleston. S.C., in part to celebrate our wedding anniversary (43). While there, we also met with my collaborators in our latest, cold case, nonfiction project: “Murder in the Rectory.” For now, I’ll...
by paracletepress | Oct 31, 2023 | Crime
There are few things I like more than setting my feet on the soil of Madison County, especially after a long absence. A part of me will always be there. I’m recently back from an eventful, long weekend in Hot Springs, Marshall and Mars Hill, where the leaves were near...
by paracletepress | Sep 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
Opinion By Mark I. Pinsky August 17, 2023 10:16 AM I’ve finally gotten around to listening to David Zucchino’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2021 book “Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy.” Zucchino, who won the 2022 North Carolina...
by paracletepress | Apr 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
As I hoped, I got a decent amount of screen time last night on CNBC’s “Blood & Money” episode on the Hood murders in the 1990s, which I covered for the LA Times. The episode will be rebroadcast Sat., April 29, on the Oxygen network, at 9 p.m....
