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HBO’s new six-part docuseries I’m going to Be Gone in the Dark it is based in Michelle McNamara’s book of the same name and describes his quest to find the famous Golden State Killer, a serial rapist and killer who was active during the 1970s and 1980s. McNamara worked on the search for the killer and the writing of her book until she died in the year 2016, and a man was captured and tied to crimes in 2018.
A variety of murders, assaults and robberies that occurred in California in the years ’70 and ’80, and when McNamara, a film and TELEVISION writer and true crime fanatic, he began to look in the cases, she connects the dots between them. In the 1970s, Visalia, CA, was “terrified by 85 burglaries and a murder, a series of crimes attributed to an author known as the Plunderer of Visalia“according to NPR.
In the 1970s and ’80s, there was a series of assaults and murders in California attributed to what the authorities were calling to the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker. According to CNN, the suspect of the crimes they ranged in location from Orange County to Sacramento. McNamara found similarities in some of the rapes and murders, and came to the conclusion that all these crimes were most likely committed by the same person. She he was baptized as the Golden State Killerand the authorities kept that name, which continues his search, although many decades have passed.
After DNA matching became more advanced in 2001, the case got a new life as a pieces began to come together. McNamara followed the trail of the Golden State Killer years that she wrote her book I’m going to Be Gone in the Darkbut she died in her sleep, in 2016, before the end of the work, or seeing a resolution on the case.
On April 24, 2018, the authorities arrested former police officer José James DeAngelo Jr. after matching his DNA to that found in some of the Golden State Killer at the scene of the crime. He was accused of 13 counts of murder and numerous counts of kidnapping and possession of weapons. Their positions within the six counties of California: Sacramento, Santa Barbara, Orange, Ventura, Tulare, and Contra Costa, and all, but Tulare, and Contra Costa are seeking the death penalty.
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DeAngelo Jr. has not yet been sentenced, but starting in March, is planned to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence instead of the death penalty, The New York Times reported in the court documents.
You can see all the history of the Golden State Killer I’m going to Be Gone in the Dark on HBO from June 28.
