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EDGAR AWARD FINALIST A truecrime masterpiece written by a coldcasecracking masterJohn Douglas New York Times bestselling coauthor of Mindhunter

Barbara RaeVenter isnt just the genealogy expert who helped capture the Golden State Killershes an unsung hero who has given murdered women and children their faces and names backMaureen Callahan New York Times bestselling author of American Predator

Echoes the dedication displayed by such fictional police detectives as California novelist Michael Connellys Harry BoschThe 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 fortyfour years until an amateur DNA sleuth opened her laptop In I Know Who You Are Barbara RaeVenter reveals how she went from researching her family history as a retiree to hunting for a notorious serial killerand how she became the nations leading authority on investigative genetic genealogy the most dazzling new crimefighting weapon to appear in decades

RaeVenter shares haunting often thrilling accounts of how she helped solve some of Americas 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 grasshopper mind as she pores through obituaries marriage records and old newspaper articlesReaders join in on urgent calls with sheris FBI agents and district attorneys as she details the struggle to obtain usable crime scene DNA samples until nally a critical piece of the puzzle clicks into place

I Know Who You Are captures both the exhilaration of these discoveries and the deeprooted emotions that linger around cold cases It isa story of relentless curiosity and reinvention and of human beings striving to answer the most elemental questions about themselves What denes identity Where do we belong And are we truly who we think we are