Helen St. Clair is a researcher and writer investigating patterns of violence against women and the children who become collateral damage—the cases that made headlines and the ones that disappeared.

Her work draws on decades of legal research, courthouse archives, and public records to document not just individual crimes, but the systems that failed to prevent them and continue to fail today.

The Killing Trails: Two Centuries of Violence Against Women in Western North Carolina is the first book in The Unrecorded Dead series, a multi-volume investigation covering every region of North Carolina. Future volumes will expand to other states and examine violence against women and children across America.

The rivers remember. Her books make sure we do too.