Ladies, Gents, Murderinos everywhere, have I got news for you. This past February, the book I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer was released, chronicling the murders and rapes of the Golden State Killer, as he was coined by the late writer of the book, Michelle McNamara.

McNamara had spent years of her life researching and pouring over the killings and crimes of the GSK, hoping to find him and see him arrested in her lifetime. Although she passed away suddenly in 2016, halfway through writing her book, her research partners and friends Paul Haynes and Billy Jensen, along with her widower Patton Oswalt finished her book by the guidance of her research. Then just two months after the release of the book, the Golden State Killer was found by DNA evidence and was arrested.

As soon as the book was released, HBO bought the rights and their production company HBO Documentary Films will be producing a documentary series based on the true crime story. Academy Award nominee (What Happened, Miss Simone?; The Farm: Angola, USA), and Emmy winner (What Happened, Miss Simone?; Ghosts of Abu Ghraib) Liz Garbus will be directing the mini-series, and Patton Oswalt will be executive producing.

We don't have any information yet on casting, or how many seasons or episodes we will get as this is all very early in the process, but we do know we will get the series next year, and I am so excited! Details to come.

Here's the description of the book:

For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area.

Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true crime journalist who created the popular website TrueCrimeDiary.com, was determined to find the violent psychopath she called "the Golden State Killer." Michelle pored over police reports, interviewed victims, and embedded herself in the online communities that were as obsessed with the case as she was.

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark—the masterpiece McNamara was writing at the time of her sudden death—offers an atmospheric snapshot of a moment in American history and a chilling account of a criminal mastermind and the wreckage he left behind. It is also a portrait of a woman’s obsession and her unflagging pursuit of the truth. Utterly original and compelling, it has been hailed as a modern true crime classic—one which fulfilled Michelle's dream: helping unmask the Golden State Killer.