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Evil Has A Name: The Untold Story of the Golden State Killer Investigation
Paul Holes, Peter McDonnell, Jim Clemente
4.44 AVERAGE
274 reviews for:
Evil Has A Name: The Untold Story of the Golden State Killer Investigation
Paul Holes, Peter McDonnell, Jim Clemente
4.44 AVERAGE
Interesting story but it felt a bit drawn out.
Some interviews had a sensationalised and over-dramatic tone that annoyed me.
Production wise, the music and sound effects were unnecessarily overused during dramatic points and some interviews had bad audio quality that made it difficult to understand what the subject was saying.
It's not really a book, it's more or less a long podcast in the style of Serial or S-Town.
Overall, it's worth a listen if you're into true crime and want something to pass the time but it's average and it won't blow you away.
Some interviews had a sensationalised and over-dramatic tone that annoyed me.
Production wise, the music and sound effects were unnecessarily overused during dramatic points and some interviews had bad audio quality that made it difficult to understand what the subject was saying.
It's not really a book, it's more or less a long podcast in the style of Serial or S-Town.
Overall, it's worth a listen if you're into true crime and want something to pass the time but it's average and it won't blow you away.
This book is a must-read if you enjoyed I'll Be Gone in the Dark. It does a great job letting the reader peer into the investigation, empathizing with the victims, survivors and sleuths who unmasked D'Angelo. It was a highly enjoyable listen!
This podcast is the reason my Sunday afternoon went completely different than I had planned, because after chapter five I could not stop listening.
Originally I only chose this because I wanted to save the remainder of another audiobook for my Sunday run, and because I had read Michelle McNamara’s book. In some places, it’s a little too manipulative and the effects are a bit much, but overall it’s a really gripping account of the investigation into the Golden State Killer. I’m not even that interested into true crime or serial killers, and this pretty much scratches my boundaries of what I am comfortable reading and listening, but well, I listened to 2/3 of the whole thing in one go.
Originally I only chose this because I wanted to save the remainder of another audiobook for my Sunday run, and because I had read Michelle McNamara’s book. In some places, it’s a little too manipulative and the effects are a bit much, but overall it’s a really gripping account of the investigation into the Golden State Killer. I’m not even that interested into true crime or serial killers, and this pretty much scratches my boundaries of what I am comfortable reading and listening, but well, I listened to 2/3 of the whole thing in one go.
If you read and enjoyed "I'll Be Gone In The Dark" by Michelle McNamara this is a great follow up to that book. "I'll Be Gone In The Dark" goes into great detail about the history of Golden State Killer (AKA East Area Rapist or Original Night Stalker) but never concludes who it is as the author passed away shortly before the killer was revealed. This audio book basically covers some of the history but focuses on how advances in DNA and genealogy converged to find the killer. Definitely worth listening to if you enjoy true crime or DNA sciencey stuff.
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This was an incredible listen. It is more of a podcast than audiobook so if you don't like that format I would skip.
Provided great insight to how the investigation worked.
Provided great insight to how the investigation worked.
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder
I was surprised at how much I liked this! I've read and listened to a lot of GSK related content, so I wasn't sure there was going to much that was new to me. I was also skeptical when I started, this seemed to me that it was originally designed to be a podcast and then turned into an audio "book". There were also a number of interviews, especially in the beginning, that I've heard before. There was enough new content to keep me interested and the story structure ended up being extremely effective, I got chills at several points in the book. This is a great follow-up to Michelle McNamara's book, I would suggest reading that prior to this book, it will make it that much better.
A thoroughly interesting follow up to “I’ll be gone in the dark” by Michelle McNamara, around the GSK case. I was highly anticipating this release ever since reading Michelle’s book. It was amazing to have the opportunity to listen to the own victims voices tell their own stories, and hear all of the detectives voices as well. Things that didn’t work so much: it was a little repetitive, and I already knew much about the cases from reading Michelle’s book, which took up the first basically 5 hours. Only the last hour did we get details about DeAngelo, which is what I really wanted. And they did bang on about genetics quite a bit. Also loved Paul’s stories about Michelle. This case is fascinating and I can’t wait to follow the trials.
dark
informative
fast-paced