Ill Be Gone In the Dark
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These next 54 hours?
and as a fellow scribe.
(Every creative object wants the safety and warmth of staying inside your head, he writes.
Youre trying to drag it out into the light.)
She had his voice in her head.
She had the details of 50-plus cases making endless cross references in her mental rolodex.
But he didnt actually stop he moved, 400 miles south to the Santa Barbara area.
It was enough to change his profile: He was no longer the East Area Rapist.
He was the Original Night Stalker.
And, comprehensively, he was the Golden State Killer, so lets call him that from now on.
McNamara was deputizing her readers.
The final connection Rat in a Maze makes is between McNamara and a survivor, David Witthuhn.
He started drinking and self-medicating.
He died in his sleep in 2008, just as McNamara would in 2016.
Neither one would live to see the justice they sought.
He also terrorized survivors.
McNamara did not want to catch his attention.
It opened doors for her.
