Ill Be Gone in the Dark
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It took time for the East Area Rapist to become the Golden State Killer.
And that makes the series suddenly feel much more purposeful.
Its never the rapists fault.
and instinctually saying, Im sorry after he tells her to shut up.
This is how women were in the 70s, says Williams.
As EAR/ONS started to terrorize couples rather than women alone, the men experienced their own form of shame.
The men dont know how to deal with it, says the detective Carol Daly.
Hardwicks solution, too, has been to block it out.
With this second episode, the series is starting to justify its existence.
But sometimes theres just no elegant solution, and old interviews unfold like the opening credits ofMindhunter.
EAR/ONS wasnt the only active rapist in the area, according to former Contra Costa investigator Larry Crompton.
And again, no criminal statute for sexual assault at the time and no therapeutic recourse, either.
I leave the room hoping that what I promised, but have no control over, will be true.
Thats what we do, all of us.
We make well-intentioned promises of protection we cant always keep.
