A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer\u2014the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade\u2014from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case.<\/p>\n
“You\u2019ll be silent forever, and I\u2019ll be gone in the dark.”<\/em><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n At the time of the crimes, the Golden State Killer was between the ages of eighteen and thirty, Caucasian, and athletic\u2014capable of vaulting tall fences. He always wore a mask. After choosing a victim\u2014he favored suburban couples\u2014he 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.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll Be Gone in the Dark<\/em>\u2014the masterpiece McNamara was writing at the time of her sudden death\u2014offers 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 woman\u2019s 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 Michelle\u2019s lead researcher and a close colleague. Utterly original and compelling, it is destined to become a true crime classic\u2014and may at last unmask the Golden State Killer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer\u2014the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade\u2014from Michelle McNamara, the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","book_status":[],"book_genre":[],"class_list":["post-14263","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/14263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_status?post=14263"},{"taxonomy":"book_genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_genre?post=14263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}