The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley EisenbergRead about another entry on the list.
One June 1980 night in Pocahontas County, W.V., two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were murdered while hitchhiking to a festival called the Rainbow Gathering. For over a decade following, no one was prosecuted for the crime — although the suspicion that was cast on local residents wormed its way into the community.
This captivating, complicated narrative looks at how the case turned neighbors against each other in an investigation whose long fingers reach generations.
The Third Rainbow Girl is among Kendra Winchester's fifteen top books about Appalachia and James Polchin's seven top queer true crime books.
The Page 99 Test: The Third Rainbow Girl.
--Marshal Zeringue
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