HBO's I'll Be Gone in the Dark details her exhaustive research.
a docuseries that chronicles McNamara's work, death, legacy, and the murderer she dragged into the limelight.
with Kera Bolonik, who'd been friends with McNamara since high school. Bolonik quotes Oswalt as saying: The immediate reason DeAngelo was arrested: DNA belonging to a relative of DeAngelo matched DNA found at one of the crime scenes. The relative had submitted their DNA to a genealogy website to learn more about their family history . Detectives traced the relative's family tree to DeAngelo, who fit the profile of the Golden State Killer they'd been hunting for decades.
But Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones did not credit McNamara's work with directly cracking the case,,"It kept interest and tips coming in but other than that there was no information extracted from that book that directly led to the apprehension."
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