I Know Who You Are

Release Date:- 2023-02-07

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EDGAR AWARD FINALIST ā€¢ ā€œA true-crime masterpiece written by a cold-case-cracking master.ā€ā€”John Douglas, New York Times bestselling co-author of Mindhunter

ā€œBarbara Rae-Venter isnā€™t just the genealogy expert who helped capture the Golden State Killerā€”sheā€™s an unsung hero who has given murdered women and children their faces and names back.ā€ā€”Maureen Callahan, New York Times bestselling author of American Predator

ā€œEchoes the dedication displayed by such fictional police detectives as California novelist Michael Connellyā€™s Harry Bosch.ā€ā€”The Wall Street Journal
 
For twelve years the Golden State Killer terrorized California, stalking victims and killing without remorse. Then he simply disappeared, for the next forty-four years, until an amateur DNA sleuth opened her laptop. In I Know Who You Are, Barbara Rae-Venter reveals how she went from researching her family history as a retiree to hunting for a notorious serial killerā€”and how she became the nationā€™s leading authority on investigative genetic genealogy, the most dazzling new crime-fighting weapon to appear in decades.
 
Rae-Venter shares haunting, often thrilling accounts of how she helped solve some of Americaā€™s most chilling cold cases in the span of just three years, frequently starting with little more than a DNA sample. She brings readers inside her unique ā€œgrasshopper mindā€ as she pores through obituaries, marriage records, and old newspaper articles. Readers join in on urgent calls with sheriļ¬€s, FBI agents, and district attorneys as she details the struggle to obtain usable crime scene DNA samples, until, ļ¬nally, a critical piece of the puzzle clicks into place.

I Know Who You Are captures both the exhilaration of these discoveries and the deep-rooted emotions that linger around cold cases. It is a story of relentless curiosity and reinvention, and of human beings striving to answer the most elemental questions about themselves: What deļ¬nes identity? Where do we belong? And are we truly who we think we are?

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