John Railey

John Railey has spent much of his life on the Outer Banks. His previous books from The History Press, Andy Griffith's Manteo: His Real Mayberry (2022) and The Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks: Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland (2021), have been top sellers on the Banks. A graduate of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, he is the former editorial page editor of the Winston-Salem Journal and investigates mitigating factors in death penalty cases for the State of North Carolina. He has won numerous national, regional and state awards for his writing and investigative reporting. He is also the author of the memoir Rage to Redemption in the Sterilization Age: A Confrontation with American Genocide.