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Two years and four days after journalist Michelle McNamara\u2019s untimely death, there has been a development in the case she devoted herself to solving. Her book, <\/span>I\u2019ll Be Gone in the Dark: <\/span><\/i>One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer<\/span><\/i><\/a>, is definitely the most powerful book I\u2019ve read this year. \u00a0In it, she wrote passionately and eloquently about her obsession with the case of the Golden State Killer. In fact, it was Michelle McNamara who first coined the term \u201cGolden State Killer\u201d \u2013 a name that has since been adopted by the media.<\/span><\/p>\n And now, after eluding capture for over 40 years, an arrest has finally been made in this long unsolved case. Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, has been revealed as the suspected Golden State Killer \u2013 the man responsible for at least 12 murders and 48 rapes in California from 1976 to 1986.<\/span><\/p>\n Joseph James DeAngelo is a former policeman who was fired from the Auburn Police Department in 1979. The arrest was made on the basis of DNA evidence and although he was not one of the leads that Michelle McNamara investigated in her book \u2013 there is no doubt that her meticulous research, zealous passion and poignant writing has played a vital role in reviving interest in this case. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The first thing I thought of when I read about Joseph James DeAngelo\u2019s arrest was Michelle McNamara \u00a0\u2013 in particular the letter that she wrote to the killer whose identity she would never know. The letter predicts the day the killer would be caught with chilling accuracy, saying \u201c<\/span>One day soon, you\u2019ll hear a car pull up to your curb, an engine cut out. You\u2019ll hear footsteps coming up your front walk.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n It\u2019s been a few weeks since I read <\/span>I\u2019ll be Gone in the Dark<\/span><\/i>, but these words still give me chills \u2013 even more so now than the first time I read them. Reading this book was an incredibly emotional and deeply disturbing experience for me \u2013 one I will be revisiting very shortly. I always knew this was a book that I\u2019d read more than once, I just never imagined I would want to re-read it again so soon. In the light of recent events, you can be damn sure I will be picking it up tonight!<\/span><\/p>\n I ended my review for<\/span> I\u2019ll be Gone in the Dark<\/span><\/i> with the words \u201c<\/span>It\u2019s books like this one that keep interest in unsolved cases alive so that one day the truth may be brought to light\u201d. Words really cannot express how relieved I am to see this come to pass.<\/span><\/p>\n Overall, I think Patton Oswalt\u2019s tweet to his late wife really sums things up perfectly:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI think you got him, Michelle.\u201d #IllBeGoneInTheDark<\/a> #MichelleMcNamara<\/a> #GoldenStateKiller<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/sfI4ugGvzk<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) April 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n