Ich ging in die Dunkelheit

The killer always came at night: From 1976 to 1986, a series of rapes and murders occurred in quiet suburbs of California that shook the entire country. Suddenly, the murderer would be in the bedroom, waking his victims with the harsh glare of his flashlight. Time and again, he escaped unnoticed into the darkness.

Michelle McNamara was just a child when this killer was on the loose. As an adult, she set out to track him down and spent over eight years investigating on her own. To follow the murderer, she had to delve into the darkness herself: into the mind of a deranged individual who inexplicably always stayed one step ahead of the police.

Michelle McNamara got closer and closer to the monster – and died just before she could finish her book. Two friends completed it for her. Upon its release, it became a bestseller. When the killer was finally caught shortly thereafter, there was at last a final horrifying answer to the question of how he had managed to remain unidentified for so long.