num_pages: 352
description: A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killerthe elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decadefrom Michelle McNamara the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case.Youll be silent forever and Ill be gone in the dark.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 as obsessed with the case as she was.At the time of the crimes the Golden State Killer was between the ages of eighteen and thirty Caucasian and athleticcapable of vaulting tall fences. He always wore a mask. After choosing a victimhe favored suburban coupleshe often entered their home when no one was there studying family pictures mastering the layout. He attacked while they slept using a flashlight to awaken and blind them. Though they could not recognize him his victims recalled his voice: a guttural whisper through clenched teeth abrupt and threatening.Ill Be Gone in the Darkthe masterpiece McNamara was writing at the time of her sudden deathoffers an atmospheric snapshot of a moment in American history and a chilling account of a criminal mastermind and the wreckage he left behind. It is also a portrait of a womans obsession and her unflagging pursuit of the truth. Framed by an introduction by Gillian Flynn and an afterword by her husband Patton Oswalt the book was completed by Michelles lead researcher and a close colleague. Utterly original and compelling it is destined to become a true crime classicand may at last unmask the Golden State Killer.
language: English
title: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
publisher: Harper