1 Season
7 Episode
I'll Be Gone in the Dark - Season 1 Episode 2 Reign of Terror
After a decade of terror, the Golden State Killer vanished. One woman refused to let him disappear.
Michelle McNamara reflects on the 1984 murder of her childhood neighbor Kathy Lombardo, which she credits with planting the seed for her lifelong fascination with unsolved crimes. Local detectives who worked the East Area Rapist (EAR) case in the ‘70s – and citizen detectives who picked up where they left off – discuss a proliferation of serial rape cases in Northern California at the time, discussing an era when victims were often too ashamed to speak out and sexual crime was minimized in the press and the courtroom.
- Year: 2021
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary, Crime
- Studio: HBO
- Keyword: california, 1970s, amateur detective, overdose, murder, serial killer, rape and murder, true crime, rapist, prescription drug abuse, sacramento, serial rapist, southern california, sex crime, murder mystery, 1980s, crime writer
- Director: Liz Garbus
- Cast: Amy Ryan