Frank C. Girardot

Frank C. Girardot (1961 in Detroit, Michigan) worked during the 1980s and 1990s as a copyboy, reporter and sportswriter for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, The San Gabriel Valley Tribune, The Pasadena Star-News and The Los Angeles Daily News.*

Girardot's 1993 article on unsolved mysteries of the San Gabriel Valley prompted author James Ellroy to investigate the 1958 strangulation murder of Geneva Hilliker Ellroy, the writer's mother, as Ellroy described in his Book "My Dark Places."* The article has also been the subject of a documentaries done by E! True Hollywood Stories and Court TV's Murder by The Book.**

A Pulitzer Prize nominee for a series of stories on deaths in police custody, Girardot resides in Murrieta, Ca.*** His work has appeared in the San Jose Mercury News, the Oklahoma City Journal Record**** and syndicated throughout the country via the New York Times News Service.

A 2008 story by Girardot and co-writer Nathan McIntire linked the 23-year-old missing persons case and the 1994 discovery of bones in a San Marino, Calif., backyard to Clark Rockefeller. The two later broke the news that most of the bones had been cremated by the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner.

References

*"My Dark Places" Publisher: Random House Value Publishing, IncorporatedISBN 0679762051
**http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2365792/
***http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/03/copsandcrime_blogs_spread.php
****http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/mystery