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Guest Column: One of Manteo’s most brutal murders still cries out for answers

Editor’s note: John Railey is the author of the new book Murder in Manteo: Seeking Justice for Stacey ...

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Column: Seeking justice for Brenda Joyce Holland

By John Railey Fifty-three years ago this month, Brenda Joyce Holland, the 19-year-old makeup supervisor for The Lost ...

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Column: My mother’s gift to me was newspapers

As my mother lay dying this fall, I read newspapers to her, paving our longest journey together with ...

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The Lost Colony murder: Crime scene failures resonate

Editor’s note: The State Bureau of Investigation assigned cold-case investigator Tony Cummings to the unsolved strangling death of ...

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Lost Colony murder: Memorialize Brenda

Nobody’s ever really gone as long as we keep telling their stories, to riff on ancient sayings to ...

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Lost Colony murder: The case against Dr. Linus Edwards

Editor’s note: The State Bureau of Investigation assigned cold-case investigator Tony Cummings to the unsolved homicide of Brenda ...

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The Lost Colony Murder: Danny Barber’s ordeal

Dare County Sheriff Frank Cahoon knocked on the Manteo door of Lost Colony singer Danny Barber early on ...

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Lost Colony murder: Here comes the break

Editor’s note: The State Bureau of Investigation assigned cold-case investigator Tony Cummings to the unsolved homicide of Brenda ...

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The Lost Colony murder: A mother’s painful loss 

Geraldine Holland once had this dream: Her slain daughter Brenda visited to name her killer. 

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Lost Colony murder: In the dentist’s shadow

In the dentist’s shadow As we reported here last Sunday, the State Bureau of Investigation assigned cold-case investigator ...

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