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Jun 30, 2020 · Michelle McNamara, true crime blogger and author whose years hunting the Golden State Killer are documented in the HBO series I'll Be Gone in the Dark, spent years of her life...
She was the author of the true crime book I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, and helped coin the moniker "Golden State Killer" of the serial killer who was identified after her death as Joseph James DeAngelo.
Jun 29, 2020 · Michelle McNamara—true-crime junkie, mom, founder of True Crime Diary, wife to Patton Oswalt—sadly died in 2016, long before HBO's 'I'll Be Gone In the Dark.'
Jan 20, 2024 · It was Michelle McNamara’s blog, True Crime Diary, that arguably set the course for the rest of her life. In 2011, she began regularly writing about a macabre string of rapes and murders from the 1970s and 1980s that remained unsolved.
Jun 28, 2020 · Her interest in true crime was sparked by a murder that occurred in her community when she was 14 years old. Less than a mile from McNamara's home, 24-year-old Kathleen Lombardo was dragged...
Feb 15, 2018 · In 2006, she launched her website, True Crime Diary, where she chronicled hundreds of unsolved crimes.
Jun 26, 2020 · McNamara’s research on the Golden State Killer, which resulted in the 2018 book “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,” introduced the U.S. to the then-largely unknown serial killer who killed 13 people and raped dozens of women across California in the 1970s and 1980s.
Jun 27, 2020 · Michelle McNamara, a writer known for her popular cold-case website True Crime Diary, gave the Golden State Killer his now-notorious name back in 2007. She then began on a nearly decade-long hunt...
Apr 23, 2016 · Michelle McNamara, a true crime writer who founded the website True Crime Diary and the wife of writer, comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, has died, the Associated Press reported Friday. She...
Apr 21, 2021 · Nearly a year later, in one of the final posts to True Crime Diary, McNamara herself broke down Keyes’ final note to the FBI (which she called “four pages of bad, junior-high level goth poetry”) and potentially linked the killer to several other arson homicides.
