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Joseph James DeAngelo, known as the "Golden State Killer" who terrorized California during a two-decade, six county rape, murder and robbery spree, was sentenced Friday to 11 consecutive terms of life without parole. The subject of an HBO documentary series, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, which was based on writer Michell…

HBO has released the trailer for I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, its six-part documentary series about the hunt for the Golden State Killer undertaken by crime writer Michelle McNamara. Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus, helmed the series along with Elizabeth Wolff, Myles Kane and Josh Koury. Episode 1 debuts June 28 at 10…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Documentary Films has given the green light to a docuseries based on Michelle McNamara's bestselling true-crime book I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, and production is underway. Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Liz Garbus (HBO's Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria…

Comedian and AP Bio star Patton Oswalt took to social media today in response to the arrest in the Golden State Killer case, a case made famous by his late wife Michelle McNamara in her book I’ll Be Gone in the Dark. McNamara’s I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, chronicles a serial rapist and murderer who was believed to have…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Documentary Films has acquired the rights to journalist Michelle McNamara’s bestselling true-crime book I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, to develop as a docuseries. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark is a meticulous exploration of the case of an elusive, violent…

“I’m not trying to say that this is meaningless,” said Patton Oswalt, who won an Emmy tonight in the variety special writing category for his Netflix stand-up show Patton Oswalt: Talking for Clapping, “But everything seems like the lights were turned down by 50%” Oswalt was talking about the death of his wife…

Crime writer Michelle McNamara, founder of the website True Crime Diary and wife of comedian Patton Oswalt has died in her Los Angeles home at 46. The news was made public by Oswalt’s publicist. No cause of death has been provided, but it’s been disclosed that she died in her sleep. McNamara’s True Crime Diary covered…