I'll Be Gone in the Dark
by Michelle McNamara · first published 2018
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For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true crime journalist who created the popular website TrueCrimeDiary.com, was determined to find the violent psychopath she called "the Golden State Killer." Michelle pored over police reports, interviewed victims, and embedded herself in the online communities that were
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark is a great book about an author's obsession with the GSK. [1] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/books/michelle-mcnamara-p...
on “How the Golden State Killer was found: A covert operation and private DNA” ↗…assume this is hinting about the case of "Joseph James DeAngelo" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_James_DeAngelo), also known as the Golden State Killer. This year, I read Michelle McNamara's book "I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer". Highly recommended! As I understand, it is relatively easy to cross-contaminate samples. How is this risk reduced? Or do all people who…
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