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McNamara was born on April 14, 1970, in Oak Park, Illinois, the youngest child of stay-at-home mother Rita (née Rigney) and trial lawyer Thomas W. McNamara. [6] She had four older sisters and one older brother. [7] Her parents were Irish Americans, and she was raised Catholic.
Jun 29, 2020 · As director Liz Garbus (Lost Girls) and McNamara's widow Patton Oswalt explain, the show portrays McNamara's consuming obsession, and the events that preceded her death in April 2016. We know who the Golden State Killer is because Michelle McNamara named him.
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Jun 28, 2020 · Here's what to know about Michelle McNamara, how her husband Patton Oswalt helped finish her book 'I'll Be Gone in the Dark' after her death, before you watch the HBO series.
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- A Lifelong Obsession
- ‘Swimming Through The Darkness’
- The ‘Powerful Absence’ of The Golden State Killer
With a consistent focus on the stories of survivors of violent crimes, McNamara’s work helped to shape what’s now become the highly popular true crime genre. Through her website, TrueCrimeDiary, established in 2006, McNamara tracked numerous cold cases and pieces of breaking news, pulling at threads and constantly finding new angles to investigate....
As testimony from survivors, interviews with police officers and detectives and pieces of physical evidence came together, McNamara was able to compile most of I’ll Be Gone in the Darkbefore she died in April 2016. She did not live to see the book published, nor did she get to see the Golden State Killer eventually arrested. Interviews with McNamar...
In April 2018, police arrested Joseph James DeAngelo, then 72, alleging that he was the serial killer and rapist known as the Golden State Killer, who carried out murders, rapes and break-ins in Sacramento, the San Francisco Bay Area and parts of southern California in the ‘70s and ‘80s . A former police officer, DeAngelo was linked to more than 45...
Aug 30, 2020 · Michelle McNamara and her husband Patton Oswalt in 2011 (Getty Images) Michelle McNamara was an American true crime author. She grew up in Oak Park, Illinois, and was the daughter of Thomas...
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer is a true crime book by the American writer Michelle McNamara about the investigation of the Golden State Killer. The book was released on February 27, 2018, nearly two years after McNamara's death and two months before an arrest would be made in the case.
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Jun 29, 2020 · McNamara, the hero of the well-reviewed series, was happily married to standup comedian and actor Patton Oswalt and mom to their daughter Alice; she obsessively conducted research and interviews...
