In \;the \;early evening of June 2 5\, 1980 in Pocahontas County\, West Virginia\, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian\, 26\, and Nancy Santomero\, 19\, were murdered in an isolated clearing. They were hitchhiking to a festival known as \;the& nbsp\;Rainbow \;Gathering but never arrived\; they traveled with a&nbs p\;third \;woman however\, who lived. For thirteen years\, no one was prosecuted for \;the \;"Rainbow \;Murders\," though deep suspi cion was cast on a succession of local residents in \;the \;commun ity\, depicted as poor\, dangerous\, and backward. In 1993\, a local farme r was convicted\, only to be released when a known serial killer and diagn osed schizophrenic named Joseph Paul Franklin claimed responsibility. With \;the \;passage of time\, as \;the \;truth seemed to slip away\, \;the \;investigation itself caused its own traumas--turni ng neighbor against neighbor and confirming a fear of \;the \;viol ence outsiders have done to this region for centuries. Emma Copley Eisenbe rg spent years living in Pocahontas and re-investigating these brutal acts . Using \;the \;past and \;the \;present\, she shows how t his mysterious act of violence has loomed over all those affected for gene rations\, shaping their fears\, fates\, and \;the \;stories they t ell about themselves. In "The \;Third \;Rainbow \;Girl\," Eise nberg follows \;the \;threads of this crime through \;the \;complex history of Appalachia\, forming a searing and wide-ranging portr ait of America--its divisions of gender and class\, and of its violence.\n
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