Police Say Michelle McNamara Had No Role in the Golden State Killer Suspect's Arrest, Patton Oswalt Disagrees
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When Patton Oswalt was booked to appear on Late Night with Seth Meyers Wednesday night, he assumed he’d be talking about his new show AP Bio. But when a suspect was arrested in the Golden State Killer/East Area Rapist case—aka one of the most notorious unsolved crimes in this country’s history and the subject of his late wife Michelle McNamara’s bestselling book—the lead topic quickly changed.
Oswalt, who said he was running on almost no sleep, was quickly asked about McNamara’s work. “Not to discredit the work that the police and the lab technicians did, but it was her dream,” Oswalt told Meyers. “She always said, ‘I don’t care about credit. I want to know that’s he in jail.’ And now he’s caught. The bracelets are on, and it feels like this thing that she wanted so badly is now done.”
But not everyone thinks McNamara should receive any credit. Like, for example, Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones. When asked by reporters whether her work played any role in Wednesday’s arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo, Jones said, “That’s a question we’ve gotten from all over the world in the last 24 hours, and the answer is no.”