I will not let this review defeat me! I will not! I have so much to say about this book I don’t know how to organize it, and I’m still not sure what I’m going to rate it even as I type this; and I’m still freaked out by it, and still sad, and I want the Golden State Killer caught, but what if he’s dead?? If he’s dead, we’re never going to catch him!! ARGGGGh. Okay, so I’ve been looking forward to this book […]
Don’t read this when you’re home alone!
In the 1970s, the East Area Rapist terrorised California by committing 50 rapes. His crimes had escalated from peeping to burglary until he began threatening women, tying them up and attacking them. They escalated again when he chose victims whose male partners were present. Later, after his crimes took a deadlier turn when he murdered twelve people, he was known as the Original Night Stalker. McNamara coins her own name for him, The Golden State Killer. Putting together decades of history in a readable, easy […]
A True Crime Book and a Husband’s Tribute
I don’t usually read true crime – I remember reading a book in middle school which was basically an encyclopedia of famous serial killers but it wasn’t a subject matter that hooked me. It might because it feels like the focus can too easily be on the serial killer to the detriment of the victims, and it can easily be forgotten that the victims were real living humans with lives and potential and not fictional characters. I’ve read Capote’s In Cold Blood but that was […]