Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
Apr. 26th, 2018 09:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chris_gerribComes news today that the Golden State Killer has been captured. The suspect, a 73-year-old former police officer, was a genuine piece of work, as you can read at the link.
What's fascinating about this story is the rest of the story. The killer was the subject of the book I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer. The book was a significant help in finding the killer, and it's from that book we get the killer's nom-de-murder.
What's more interesting is that the author, Michelle McNamara, was born and raised in Illinois and married a famous actor, Patton Oswalt, then died suddenly at the age of 46. The book was released posthumously and very recently. If you put all of that in a novel, it would be rejected.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
What's fascinating about this story is the rest of the story. The killer was the subject of the book I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer. The book was a significant help in finding the killer, and it's from that book we get the killer's nom-de-murder.
What's more interesting is that the author, Michelle McNamara, was born and raised in Illinois and married a famous actor, Patton Oswalt, then died suddenly at the age of 46. The book was released posthumously and very recently. If you put all of that in a novel, it would be rejected.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
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Date: 2018-04-27 05:23 am (UTC)As to that, I liked the idea in the 1980s TV show Remington Steele that the eponymous character’s only qualification to be a private eye is that he’d somehow absorbed a lifetime’s worth of old crime noir movies and TV shows… and yet, because art imitates life and vice versa, quite exasperatingly often his “This reminds me of…” would turn out to be spot on.
… Who the hell is “famous actor Patton Oswalt”?
“American stand-up comedian” - Wikipedia
… Oh. Of course, silly me.