Michelle McNamara and "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" Published (2018)
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McNamara wrote the majority of the book before her death in 2016; it was completed posthumously.
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Michelle McNamara
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True-crime writer who named the "Golden State Killer" and wrote "I'll Be Gone in the Dark." She died in 2016, two years before investigators used genetic genealogy to identify Joseph DeAngelo.
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"I'll Be Gone in the Dark" Published (2018)
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Michelle McNamara's book "I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer" was published on February 27, 2018 — just two months before DeAngelo's arrest. Completed posthumously by Paul Haynes and Billy Jensen after McNamara's death in 2016, the book became an instant New York Times bestseller. It was adapted into a six-part HBO documentary series in 2020. The title comes from a threat the Golden State Killer made to one of his victims. The book is widely credited with renewing public pressure to solve the case.
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McNamara wrote the 2013 LA Magazine article that coined the name "Golden State Killer."
Oswalt was married to McNamara and became the public advocate for her work after her death.
Oswalt ensured McNamara's unfinished book was completed and published after her death.
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