Amateur Sleuth Identifies Golden State Killer—and Now He's Behind Bars

Origin Story

In a 2012 blog post titled "Origin Story," McNamara describes the day she visited the Lombardo crime scene. McNamara was 14, living just west of Chicago; she picked up a piece of Lombardo's broken yellow Walkman and thought, "Never again would I tune out when the words 'homicide' or 'missing' or 'mystery' came on the news."

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The More You Know

  • Roughly 600 Parisians work at the Eiffel Tower each day.
  • The speed of a computer mouse is measured in "Mickeys."
  • Mount Rushmore cost less than $1 million.
  • The horse on the Wyoming license plate is named Steamboat.
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