John Railey

John Railey has spent much of his life on the Outer Banks. A graduate of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, he is a former editorial page editor of the Winston-Salem Journal and investigates mitigating factors in death penalty cases for the State of North Carolina. His previous books for The History Press--The Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks: Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland, Andy Griffith's Manteo: His Real Mayberry and Murder in Manteo: Seeking Justice for Stacey Stanton--are top sellers on the Outer Banks. He is also the author of the memoir Rage to Redemption in the Sterilization Age: A Confrontation with American Genocide.