Ill Be Gone In the Dark
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(Take one of your hyper-gulping breaths, clench your teeth, inch timidly toward the insistent bell.
This is how it ends for you.)
The unsolvable mystery is the death of McNamara herself.
Monsters Recede But Never Vanish is an episode title that applies to both mysteries.
(Its not any one thing, she wrote.
It never had been.
She put her health on the line to find justice for his victims and their families.
Its a bittersweet triumph.
(Several articles about the incident, his firing, and his failed appeals bidcan be found here.)
He was a cop who thought himself above the law.
But, the show argues, that story would not have been told without her.
Its a wound that both father and daughter will have to build around and occasionally nurse their entire lives.
But its a fascinating exercise in 21st-century crime-solving.
When your mom dies, youre the best memory of her.
Everything you do is a memory of her.
He apparently blamed the crimes on an inner personality named Jerry.
Note: An earlier version of this recap used an incorrect initialism for the Golden State Killer.
It has been corrected.
