I'll be gone in the dark : one woman's obsessive search for the Golden State Killer

McNamara, Michelle, 1970-2016, author.

Large Print 2018

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, true crime journalist Michelle McNamara was determined to find the violent psychopath she called "the Golden State Killer." Michelle pored over...

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Cold cases (Criminal investigation) California

McNamara, Michelle, 1970-2016

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ISBN:

9780062871305
0062871307

Edition:

First HarperLuxe Edition; Large Print Edition

Description:

xx, 475 pages (larger print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits, facsimiles, photographs ; 23 cm
large print

Other Title:

I will be gone in the dark
One woman's obsessive search for the Golden State Killer

Notes:

"Framed by an introduction by Gillian Flynn and an afterword by her husband, Patton Oswalt, the book was completed by Michelle's lead researcher and a close colleague [Paul Haynes]."-- Amazon.com

Contents:

Time line map
Cast of characters
Introduction, by Gillian Flynn
Prologue
PART ONE: Irvine, 1981 ; Dana Point, 1980 ; Hollywood, 2009 ; Oak Park ; Sacramento, 1976-1977 ; Visalia ; Orange County, 1996 ; Irvine, 1986 ; Ventura, 1980 ; Goleta, 1979 ; Goleta, 1981 ; Orange County, 2000 ; Contra Costa, 1997
PART TWO: Sacramento, 2012 ; East Sacramento, 2012 ; The Cuff-links coda ; Los Angeles, 2012 ; Contra Costa, 2013 ; Fred Ray ; The one ; Los Angeles, 2014 ; Sacramento, 2014 ; Sacramento, 1978
PART THREE, by Paul Haynes and Billy Jensen
Afterword, by Patton Oswalt
Epilogue: Letter to an old man

LCCN:

bl2018045329

Control Number:

2475481

Other Authors:

Flynn, Gillian, 1971- writer of introduction
Haynes, Paul, contributor
Oswalt, Patton, 1969- writer of afterword

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