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

  • Tree seeds were taken into orbit and planted as "Moon Trees."
  • The last movie ever rented at a corporate Blockbuster was "This Is The End" at a store in Hawaii.
  • The richest superhero is actually Black Panther, who has an estimated of $500 billion, whereas Tony Stark is worth $100 billion and Bruce Wayne $80 billion.
  • In the 2011 census for the Czech Republic, over 15 thousand people listed their religion as Jedi.
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