The Killing Trails: Two Centuries of Documented Violence Against the Women of Western North Carolina (The Unrecorded Dead) Hardcover – December 4, 2025

As Featured on the Missing in the Carolinas podcast Episode 166Between 1808 and 2025, more than 150 women and girls were murdered in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Most of their names have been forgotten.This book remembers them.The Killing Trails documents two centuries of violence against women across the Appalachian highlands — from frontier-era killings to modern domestic homicides, from victims found along remote trails to cases that remain unsolved. Some women narrowly escaped. Others are still missing.It names the dead. It traces the patterns. It exposes the systems that failed to protect them — and continue to fail today.This is a reckoning. The rivers remember. After you read this book, so will you.Book 1 of The Unrecorded Dead seriesAlso by Helen St. Clair: The Mill Town Murders Read more