When author Michelle McNamara was investigating the East Area Rapist and Original Night Stalker (soon to be know as the Golden State Killer) cases, she needed to rely on a network of other individuals including members of law enforcement and the survivors themselves to piece together enough of the story to write her 2018 book “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark.” Sadly, McNamara unexpectedly passed away before the book could be published, leaving others to rally to make sure the work got done. Now, just over two years later, a team of documentary filmmakers turned McNamara’s book into a six-part docuseries for HBO. And the poetic nature of collaborating on this project is not lost on them.
“Writing is solitary and documentaries are such a collaboration. We got to go to work every day and work with 20-plus people,” said producer and co-director Elizabeth Wolff during Atx Television Festival’s virtual panel for the show,...
“Writing is solitary and documentaries are such a collaboration. We got to go to work every day and work with 20-plus people,” said producer and co-director Elizabeth Wolff during Atx Television Festival’s virtual panel for the show,...
- 6/6/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
The Murder Squad, a collaboration between retired detective Paul Holes and investigative journalist Billy Jensen, launched in spring of 2019 with the aim of helping to solve cold cases by asking listeners to pitch in on investigation. On Monday, they announced that their podcast may have scored its first cold-case breakthrough.
Thanks to a listener, the podcast helped lead to the arrest of James Curtis Clanton, a former Colorado resident who is now a suspect in the 1980 killing of 21-year-old Helene Pruszynski.
In the newest episode of the podcast, Holes and Jensen interview “Jessi,...
Thanks to a listener, the podcast helped lead to the arrest of James Curtis Clanton, a former Colorado resident who is now a suspect in the 1980 killing of 21-year-old Helene Pruszynski.
In the newest episode of the podcast, Holes and Jensen interview “Jessi,...
- 1/14/2020
- by Brenna Ehrlich and Andrea Marks
- Rollingstone.com
In March 2017, in the final months of law enforcement’s 40-year hunt for the Golden State Killer, the private genetic testing company FamilyTreeDNA and their parent company, Gene by Gene, were served with a federal subpoena to provide “limited information” on one of their account holders. Investigators were looking for genetic matches between the then-unknown serial killer’s DNA (which had been collected from the crime scenes) and profiles in the company’s public genealogy database, Ysearch, and they’d hit on a partial match. The subpoena required FamilyTreeDNA to...
- 2/1/2019
- by Amelia McDonell-Parry
- Rollingstone.com
Joseph DeAngelo, the man alleged to be the long-sought ‘Golden State Killer,’ has been cleared in the 1975 murder of 14-year-old Donna Jo Richmond in Exeter, California. Richmond was beaten, strangled and stabbed 17 times; Oscar Clifton, a convicted sex offender, was found guilty of the murder and sentenced to life in prison, where he died in 2013. The Richmond case was reexamined after DeAngelo, 73, was arrested last year and charged with 13 murders, including the 1975 murder of a college professor in nearby Visalia, while DeAngelo was employed as a police officer with the Exeter Police Department.
- 1/9/2019
- by Amelia McDonell-Parry
- Rollingstone.com
A Sacramento judge has ruled that alleged Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo, 73, cannot afford a private defense attorney and will continue to be represented by a public defender. At a hearing on Thursday, December 6th, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Sweet declared that DeAngelo is indigent after reviewing his financial assets, which include several automobiles, a motorcycle and a home in Citrus Heights, the Sacramento suburb where he’s accused of raping several victims.
“It will take an extraordinary amount of resources to litigate the charges in this case,” Sweet said.
“It will take an extraordinary amount of resources to litigate the charges in this case,” Sweet said.
- 12/7/2018
- by Amelia McDonell-Parry
- Rollingstone.com
Joseph DeAngelo, the 72-year-old former police officer accused of being the long-sought “Golden State Killer,” was arraigned in a Sacramento court on Thursday on 13 new rape-related charges . DeAngelo was arrested in late April after evading investigators for more than 40 years, thanks to new familial DNA technology and the use of public genealogy databases that linked him to DNA from the crime scenes. DeAngelo had already been charged with 13 murders that occurred in several counties over a 10-year span, but prosecutors have agreed to consolidate all of the charges in Sacramento County,...
- 8/24/2018
- by Amelia McDonell-Parry
- Rollingstone.com
It's been more than 20 years since JonBenét Ramsey was found murdered in her parents' Boulder, Co, home, but now her father may allow authorities to open up the case once more. According to a new report, John is considering giving investigators permission to exhume his daughter's body. A cold case unit has been created to solve the crime using modern techniques, which recently led authorities to the Golden State Killer. "I am very pleased the new district attorney is setting up a cold case team," John told Radar Online. "That is often the only way older cases are solved. I'm hoping JonBenét's case is the first one they work on." The six-year-old beauty queen was found murdered in her parents' upscale home on Dec. 26, 1996. The killer broke into their basement and snuck up to her bedroom where she was sleeping. Investigators said she was carried to the basement, bound, silenced with duct tape,...
- 5/16/2018
- by Megan Heintz
- In Touch Weekly
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