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; "The Legend of Nance Dude")
What would lead a grandmother to murder her two-year-old granddaughter? Rage? Insanity? Greed? Total despair? The Legend of Nance Dude presents all the known facts surrounding Roberta Putnam’s grizzly murder and the arrest, trial, and subsequent conviction of her grandmother, Nancy Ann Kerley, also known as Nance Dude.
Stanley has woven a speculative tale, drawing on both historical fact and oral tradition, of Nance Dude’s metamorphosis from a happy loving child to a convicted murderess.
Maurice Stanley learned the story of Nance Dude from his grandmother, who saw Nance and Roberta Putnam out walking not long before Roberta’s death. Dr. Stanley remembers walking up Utah Mountain, accompanied by his father, and seeing the site of Roberta’s murder. The North Carolina Humanities Council presented a series of performances of the play Nance, based on Dr. Stanley’s book, and invited him to participate as a “humanist scholar” in 1999.
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. He has also written several college philosophy textbooks,
including
Logic and Controversy.
Dr. Stanley holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a retired lecturer of philosophy and religion at UNC Wilmington. He lives with his wife in coastal North Carolina, where he enjoys reading, writing, and watching classic films.