Michelle McNamara‘s legacy lives on. For years, the writer spent her time digging into mysteries on True Crime Diary, a blog she created that cultivated a massive fanbase.
However, her life changed in 2008, when she learned of the Golden State Killer, a name she created for a man responsible for 50 home-invasion rapes and 12 murders in the ’70s and ’80s.In 2013, she was asked to write a lengthy feature for Los Angeles Magazine about the case and the hours of investigation she had done.
After that was published, she landed a book deal and began working on I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer.In 2016, McNamara died in her sleep at the age of 46 from an accidental overdose.
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