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 | 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 Mark Pinsky | Jul 6, 2022 | Crime, Drifting into Darkness, Met Her on the Mountain
After a brief rest in Durham following our return from Alabama, I headed west to North Carolina to promote my latest book, Drifting Into Darkness, as well as the updated, paperback edition of Met Her on the Mountain. My First Stop: Greensboro The first stop was...
by Mark Pinsky | May 31, 2022 | Crime, Drifting into Darkness, Met Her on the Mountain
After spending half a century reporting on murder, it’s probably not surprising that I don’t read many true crime books for enjoyment and escape. I think it’s because I’ve spent so long covering the dark side so closely, without the reader’s luxury of being able to...
by Mark Pinsky | May 24, 2022 | Crime, Met Her on the Mountain
In the second half of Movie-Made Appalachia: History, Hollywood, and the Highland South, author and University of Georgia professor John Inscoe pivots to the portrayal of Appalachian women on the big and small screen. In earlier films, Appalachian women – often older...
