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HIGH POINT â This is the story John Railey always wanted to tell.
Having spent much of his life on the Outer Banks, the 60-year-old High Point journalist and author had heard for decades about the 1967 unsolved murder of Brenda Joyce Holland, a 19-year-old makeup artist for âThe Lost Colonyâ theater production. Now though, Raileyâs the one telling the tragic tale, and he tells it as itâs never been told before.
Railey wrote for the Winston-Salem Journal for 21 years, where he was a reporter and then the Opinion page editor.
Raileyâs new book, âThe Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banksâ ($21.99, The History Press), is the first nonfiction book written about Hollandâs baffling disappearance and murder. With the clarity of the investigative journalist that he is, Railey cuts through the mystery of the young womanâs homicide, the mistakes of the lawmen assigned to investigate the slaying, and the myths linked to the case to reach the v