HBO Acquires Rights to "I'll Be Gone in the Dark"
Jun 30, 2020 21:42:28 GMT
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Post by relish on Jun 30, 2020 21:42:28 GMT
The degree of terrible, terrible writing + hyperbole + conjecture + ass-kissing of a handful of people connected to the case + assertion of ‘honorific Association’ with LE wears any reader down. It’s easy to miss the part where she steals 30+ boxes of evidence from the Orange County Sheriff’s HQ and plants them in her small child’s bedroom.
But you know who never missed it? The defense for JJD. They didn’t miss her email correspondence with Paul Holes, either.
once again, the victims / survivors of EARONS are destroyed by the callousness and ineptitude of California LE. It’s almost unbelievable
Most people agree she’s a very talented writer but while taste is subjective, hypocrisy isn’t. Don’t accuse her of hyperbole and then write that she ‘stole evidence’. Come that’s so ridiculous. She was straight given evidence by LE. She didn’t hold people hostage with demands for banker boxes or break in like Tom cruise and steal it. She was just straight given it.
The level of hate, jealousy and misogyny towards this woman who simply wanted to solve the case and happened to be a talented writer is astonishing (and pretty worrisome).
Talk about being stuck in your own world to the point you're totally oblivious to the real world. Over the past two years I have mentioned the antagonistic reaction to that book and Michelle McNamara on many other sites, non-true crime sites. The reaction is always the same: Immediate disbelief and bewilderment. The typical summary is always the same, "Why would they hate a woman who did so much to try to solve such an important case?"
The disbelief is so strong and voiced by so many that I have actually had to link to the specific ridiculing threads to verify. I did that just the other day, when the plea hearing was mentioned and someone positively cited Michelle McNamara and her book. I wrote I agree with you but many case devotees can't stand her or her husband. That launched the typical flood of posts in disbelief. But when I linked a Reddit thread and they saw so many references to Hollywood atop the comments, several posted that now they understand, that they see that mindset increasingly attaching to every topic.
Michelle became a terrible, terrible thieving writer because of the belief system of herself and her husband. She needed to be writing a book about birtherism.
Many will deny that's the reason for the distaste. Meanwhile the deniers do nothing but verify...post to post.
Regarding the boxes supplied to Michelle, that question was asked at the end of the press conference yesterday. The prosecutor was clearly frustrated and annoyed that this had somehow become a topic. He described the material as copies of police reports and "non-evidence related documents." His body language and everything else hinted strongly that this was rightfully going nowhere. He said (paraphrased), "Now I have to go down there and argue this..."
Michelle's book was indeed snapped up because it was from a major publishing company and exactly the type of thing that documentarians look for. Sorry, but the Case #1-50 books are geared toward audiences like this but will never inspire mainstream interest. I think those authors acknowledge as much. Heck, they understand it upon the undertaking itself. Somehow the lenses are perpetually cloudy only from others.
I also believe that Michelle planned a series of true crime books. She had no idea she would drop dead at age 46 basically at the outset of this new career. Naturally a first book will include tons of bio material, as a means for the growing audience to care about you as well as your material. That's what the knockers are predictably missing. If the book is strictly about EAR then nobody is going to remember who wrote it. When the well received book is largely about Michelle McNamara then everyone will remember that, and be drawn to her subsequent books.
Most likely there would have been a follow up book from Michelle regarding the identification and leading to plea. Now others have that task. I think there will be familiar names.
Winters had the bad break of that jackass Minivan hanging around the EAR case while she was most prominent on the forums, and known to be writing the book. I'm sure there were others but Minivan holds a lowlife level all to his own. He couldn't stand that he was stuck in cheap motel rooms while others were writing books or being paid to CrimeCon. It was hardly misogynistic alone with Minivan because he took it out on Nerdfather also.
Now Minivan is tormenting the Delphi case. I've often wondered what if Delphi happened a few years earlier, when the EAR case was mostly dormant. We might have had Minivan and Dexter spreading their slime elsewhere but not here.
