Patton Oswalt to discuss late wife Michelle McNamara’s true-crime novel

About five years ago, Michelle McNamara became obsessed with the story of the “Original Night Stalker,” a serial killer and rapist who operated throughout California, attacking more than 50 women from 1976 to 1986. Authorities never caught the man — also called the “East Area Rapist” and the “Golden State Killer” — so McNamara, a true-crime writer and journalist, took it upon herself to dig into the case and began to write a book.

Then in 2016, suddenly and tragically, McNamara, wife of comedian Patton Oswalt, died in her sleep. But colleagues and friends helped finish the book, and it’s recently been released posthumously under the title “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark.