She not only makes McNamara a presence, she also makes her the primary storyteller, through a host of ingenious - if not always wholly transparent - strategies. One was to keep McNamara present in the story, and on that count Garbus succeeds beyond any expectation. Oswalt, her publisher and several of her peers in the true-crime community finished it, and it was a best seller when it was published two years later, just before DeAngelo’s arrest. After years of work on the case of the man she named the Golden State Killer (also known as the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker), she died in her sleep in 2016 with the book unfinished. ![]() The McNamara story is heartbreaking in its own right (and well known, in part because of her marriage to the actor and comedian Patton Oswalt). And while it does cover the crimes and the seemingly futile efforts of California law enforcement agencies, over more than 40 years, to solve them, its six episodes (beginning Sunday) are focused mainly on the book’s author, Michelle McNamara, and her own progressively more obsessive effort to track the killer down. Instead it’s an adaptation of the book of the same title, which was published, with astonishing serendipity, two months before the sudden identification and arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. ![]() ![]() True-crime fans who come to the HBO documentary “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” should know in advance that it is not, strictly speaking, a true-crime series about the decades-long hunt for the serial rapist and murderer known as the Golden State Killer.
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