Frank Girardot: Difference between revisions

| captionname = Frank Girardot

| birth_nameimage = Francis Conway Girardot, Jr. =

| birth_placebirth_name = [[Detroit]],Francis Conway [[Michigan]]Girardot, U.SJr.

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| genre citizenship = [[non-fiction]]

| subjectperiod = [[True crime]] =

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| awards = Southern California Press Association award for investigative journalism, 1995. Finalist for the 2015 University of Florida Award for Investigative Data Journalism

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| website = {{URL|http://www.pegasuscommunications-usa.com}}

'''Frank Girardot''' (born January 1961) is an [[Americans|American]] author, [[journalist]], victim advocate, and [[radio host]]. He is best known for "Name Dropper" <ref>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IVT3AMW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1 "Name Dropper: Investigating the Clark Rockefeller Mystery, published March 2014 by Ebookit.com"] at Amazon.</ref> his biography of serial imposter [[Christian Gerhartsreiter]]. He is communications director for [[BYD Auto]]'s North American operations,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.autoblog.com/2019/04/20/byd-e-seed-gt-ev-shanghai/|title = BYD adds electric supercars to its repertoire}}</ref> CEO of Pegasus Communications, LLC and the former editor and columnist offor the [[San Gabriel Valley News GroupTribune]].<ref>"{{cite news |title=Staff:Frank Girardot Editor and|date=2017-08-03 columnist"|newspaper=[[San Gabriel Valley Tribune]] |url=http://www.sgvtribune.com/Staff/65 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803085330/http://www.sgvtribune.com/Staff/65 |archive-date=2017-08-03}}</ref>

Girardot is the author of [[true crime]] non-fiction books, including ''Name Dropper'', which was cited by author [[Walter Kirn]] in his book ''Blood Will Out''. He is co-author with [[Burl Barer]] of ''A Taste For Murder'', ''Betrayal in Blue'' with Barer and [[Ken Eurell]] and ''Burned'', the biography of serial arsonist [[John Leonard Orr|John Orr]]. ''Burned'' was Coco-written with Orr's daughter Lori Orr Kovach. All, except ''Name Dropper'', are published by Wild Blue Press. In December 2020, Girardot and his wife Sarah Favot began hosting LA 85, an episodic contextual true crime podcast with a focus on the impact of serial killers including the [[Richard Ramirez|Night Stalker]], [[Grim Sleeper]] and [[Southside Slayer]] on Los Angeles in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l-a-85/id1546661472|title=‎LL.A. 85 on Apple Podcasts}}</ref>

Girardot has appeared on several true crime shows on various cable networks including [[Investigation Discovery]].<ref>"Filmography" https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2365792/</ref> He has been a frequent guest on ''Crime Time'' with Allison Hope Weiner on LipTV.<ref>"Crime Time" http://thelip.tv/episode/call-to-my-rapist-porn-industry-vs-measure-b/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305004418/http://thelip.tv/episode/call-to-my-rapist-porn-industry-vs-measure-b/ |date=2016-03-05 }}</ref> He has also appeared on Fox News<ref>[http://www-dev.insidesocal.com/sgvcrime/2008/08/06/sohus-rockefeller-and-the-gret/ "Sohus, Rockefeller and the Greta Wire"]{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, CBS News, ''This Morning'', August 6, 2008.</ref><ref>[http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rockefeller-imposter-capable-of-murder-defense-lawyer-points-to-dead-mans-vanished-wife/ "Rockefeller imposter incapable of murder?"], CBS News, March 20, 2013.</ref> and ''Dateline'' NBC.<ref>[httphttps://www.nbcnews.com/id/26664102/ns/dateline_nbc-crime_reports/t/many-faces-clark-rockefeller/wbna26664102 "The Many Faces of Clark Rockefeller"], ''Dateline'', NBC, June 14, 2009.</ref> His topics of expertise include murder investigation, serial arson, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, [[Richard Ramirez]], [[Christian Gerhartsreiter|Clark Rockefeller]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kirn, |first=Walter, 1962- author.|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/880566268 |title=Blood will out : the true story of a murder, a mystery, and a masquerade |dateyear=302015 March|publisher=[[Boni & Liveright|Liveright Publishing Corporation]] 2015|isbn=978-1-63149-022-4 |oclc=880566268}}</ref> [[John Leonard Orr]] and 20th Century Los Angeles area true crime.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://thelip.tv/episode/revisiting-the-life-and-crimes-of-the-night-stalker-with-journalist-frank-giradot/ |title="Revisiting the life and crimes of Night Stalker Richard Ramirez". |access-date=2016-01-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305003900/http://thelip.tv/episode/revisiting-the-life-and-crimes-of-the-night-stalker-with-journalist-frank-giradot/ |archive-date=2016-03-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2015, Girardot co-hosted the ''Randy Economy Show'' in Los Angeles on radio station [[KRLA]].<ref>[http://mayorsam.blogspot.com/2015/09/join-us-for-live-randy-economy-road.html "Mayor Sam Blog".]</ref>