According to Vulture, McNamara knew Lombardo from church. The murder was never solved, and the event would later mark the start of a lifetime obsession for McNamara. McNamara later described the way she was haunted by Lombardo’s murder as “the specter of that question mark where the killer’s face should be.”.
Michelle McNamara, the author of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, died before the killer was found. Her novel was published in 2018, and McNamara died in 2016. Throughout her life, McNamara was drawn to true crime stories. After graduate school, she started a blog called True Crime Diary, ...
Updated Jun 28, 2020 at 7:11pm. Getty Actor and comedian Patton Oswalt (L) and Michelle Eileen McNamara arrive at the premiere of Paramount Pictures and Mandate Pictures' "Young Adult" held at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on December 15, 2011 in Beverly Hills, California. HBO’s I’ll Be Gone in the Dark follows the story ...
Getty Actor and comedian Patton Oswalt (L) and Michelle Eileen McNamara arrive at the premiere of Paramount Pictures and Mandate Pictures' "Young Adult" held at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on December 15, 2011 in Beverly Hills, California.
A post shared by Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) on Jan 5, 2020 at 2:08pm PST. McNamara and Oswalt have one daughter , Alice Rigney Oswalt. Oswalt told The Guardian in 2019 that the only way he made it through McNamara’s death and the salvation he found afterward was through fatherhood.
The murder was never solved, and the event would later mark the start of a lifetime obsession for McNamara. McNamara later described the way she was haunted by Lombardo’s murder as “the specter of that question mark where the killer’s face should be.”.