Michelle McNamara

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Michelle Eileen McNamara (April 14, 1970 – April 21, 2016) was an American true crime writer.

She was the author of One Woman's Obsessive Hunt for the Golden State Killer, a true crime book based on the Golden State Killer, and she helped coin the phrase "Golden State Killer."

The book was published posthumously in February 2018 and is being turned into an HBO documentary series.

Early life and education

McNamara grew up in Oak Park, Illinois, the daughter of Thomas W. McNamara, a trial prosecutor, and Rita McNamara (née Rigney), a stay-at-home mother. Her parents were Irish. McNamara was the youngest of the couple's five daughters and one son. They grew up in Ireland.

She graduated from Oak Park and River Forest High School in 1988, and in her senior year, she was editor-in-chief of the Trapeze student newspaper. McNamara graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor's degree in English in 1992. She earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota.

Personal life

Patton Oswalt, a McNamara married comedian, died on September 24, 2005. Alice, the couple's daughter, was born on April 15, 2009.

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Career

McNamara left Los Angeles to work in film and television in 1997 after graduating from high school.

McNamara's website, TrueCrimeDiary, was launched in 2006. McNamara had a long-running obsession with real crime, which stems from Kathleen Lombardo's unsolved murder, which occurred just blocks from where she lived when she was young. McNamara and true crime reporter Billy Jensen were on a SXSW Interactive panel titled "Citizen Dicks: Solving Murders With Social Media" in 2014. McNamara and Jensen have been friends for a long time, due to their shared passion for investigating and writing about true crime.

McNamara became interested in the murders of the East Area Rapist, Original Night Stalker, and the Visalia Ransacker, among other epithets. The murderer was later identified as the Golden State Killer, due in large part to McNamara's attempts to bind these crime clusters together in public memory after the EAR and ONS crimes were linked by DNA. In 2013, and 2014, she penned articles about the serial killer for Los Angeles magazine about the serial killer. McNamara's dogged persistence and trustworthiness with revealing details about GSK cases secured her an unusual degree of cooperation from law enforcement officials, according to Paul Holes, an investigator for the Contra Costa County district attorney's office. She then signed a book contract with HarperCollins and began to write a book about the case.

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer was about two-thirds finished at her death. Following her death, true crime writers Paul Haynes, Billy Jensen, and widower Patton Oswalt edited and finished the book. The book, which came out posthumously on February 27, 2018, (almost two years after her death), debuted on number 2 on the New York Times Best Seller list for non-fiction and nonfiction. For 15 weeks, the book was on the bestseller list.

HBO announced on April 9, 2018 that it had acquired the rights for her book and was transforming it into a documentary series called "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" on HBO. On April 24, 2018, filming for the series began. Liz Garbus produced the documentary film I'll Be Gone in the Dark, which premiered on June 28, 2020.

Joseph James DeAngelo, the Golden State Killer at his house, was arrested on the evening of April 24, 2018. According to Oswalt, authorities' use of the killer's name, which McNamara coined, was "proof of her work's influence."

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