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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: survivor-centred true crime on the hunt for the Golden State Killer

Documentary series on Michelle McNamara’s obsession with the criminal who terrorised California for decades is a tough but sensitive and compelling watch
Michelle McNamara, on whose book the documentary series I’ll Be Gone In the Dark is based. Photograph: Home Box Office Inc./HBO

For all the true crime books, films, TV series and podcasts made by amateur sleuths and journalists alike, some of the most extraordinary contributions to the genre are those whose work actually helps to solve the case at hand and bring about justice.

One such person is the late Michelle McNamara whose reporting – first on her blog, True Crime Diary, and then in her

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