The book is Ellroy's account of his attempt to solve the mystery by hiring a retired Los Angeles County homicide detective to investigate the crime.

Officers from the El Monte police department handed over the investigation to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau.

Retired L.A. investigator Bill Stoner assisted Ellroy in his search for the killer.

After fifteen months of investigation, the crime remained unsolved, and any potential suspects are believed to be dead.

Information on the case can be forwarded to Detective Stoner either through the toll-free number, 1-800-717-6517, or his e-mail address, detstoner@earthlink.net.

"Both a harrowing autobiography and a disturbingly fixed love story...blunt, graphic, and oddly exhilarating."

It is also a profoundly pessimistic meditation on the ubiquity of evil.... A candid chronicle of growing up weird under the sentence of unexpressed grief."