Before her untimely death, writer Michelle McNamara obsessed over the search for the Golden State Killer, who terrorized California during the 1970s and ‘80s by murdering 12 people and raping 50 others.
She channeled her energy and commitment to solving the mystery into a relentless and consuming investigation before she died tragically in her sleep after an accidental overdose.
Her 10-year journey to identify the killer was documented in the book,, which was finished with the help of her husband, Patton Oswalt, crime writer Paul Haynes and investigative journalist Billy Jensen.
Not long after it was published posthumously in 2018, the Sacramento Sheriff’s Office arrested 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo, using DNA evidence to identify him
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