Michelle Eileen McNamara was an American true crime author. She was the author of the book I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer. McNamara helped coin the moniker ‘Golden State Killer’ of the serial killer identified after her death as Joseph James DeAngelo.
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Michelle Eileen McNamara was an American true crime author. She was the author of the book I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer. McNamara helped coin the moniker ‘Golden State Killer’ of the serial killer identified after her death as Joseph James DeAngelo. She died in her sleep on April 21, 2016 in her family’s Los Angeles home. The book was released posthumously in February 2018 and later adapted into the documentary series I’ll be Gone inThe Dark which debuted on HBO on June 28, 2020.
She married comedian Patton Oswalt on September 24, 2005. The couple’s daughter Alice was born on April 15, 2009. She is interred at Los Angeles’ Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles. She had a long-standing fascination with true crime originating from the unsolved murder of Kathleen Lombardo that happened two blocks from where she lived when she was young.
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