The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
In the early evening of June 25, 1980, Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were killed in an isolated clearing in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. They were hitchhiking to a festival known as the Rainbow Gathering but never arrived. For thirteen years no one was prosecuted for the "Rainbow Murders," though suspicion was cast on a succession of local men. In The Third Rainbow Girl, Eisenberg follows the threads of this crime through the complex history of Appalachia, forming a searing portrait of America and its divisions of gender and class, and of its violence.
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Iâm sorry, Emma, but what was the point in including your own story?
Just because you lived there & knew the area was not reason enough to add your life story.
The readers did not care for, nor was that the reason why we picked this book.
& I skipped your chapters.
Sadly enough though, even the chapters about the actual murder case was a huge letdown, especially the ending with Liz..
This shouldnât be labeled as true crime & the rainbow murders definitely deserve a different writer.
Perhaps Vincent Bugliosi!
Iâm so disappointed in this book..
Just because you lived there & knew the area was not reason enough to add your life story.
The readers did not care for, nor was that the reason why we picked this book.
& I skipped your chapters.
Sadly enough though, even the chapters about the actual murder case was a huge letdown, especially the ending with Liz..
This shouldnât be labeled as true crime & the rainbow murders definitely deserve a different writer.
Perhaps Vincent Bugliosi!
Iâm so disappointed in this book..
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