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==Career==
Girardot got his start in journalism as a copy boy at the [[Los Angeles Herald-Examiner]].<ref>"Girardot resigns Star-News" http://www.pasadenanow.com/main/frank-girardot-announces-he-is-leaving-the-pasadena-star-news/</ref> Subsequent to the newspaper's closing, he worked for the Ontario Daily Report, the [[San Gabriel Valley Tribune]] and the [[Pasadena Star-News]]. His 1994 story on the unsolved murder of Geneva Hilliker Ellroy, the mother of novelist [[James Ellroy]] resulted in Ellroy's book,"[[My Dark Places (book)|My Dark Places]]".<ref>Mapping Generations of Traumatic Memory in American Narratives" http://www.cambridgescholars.com/mapping-generations-of-traumatic-memory-in-american-narratives</ref> He has won several writing awards including the Southern California Press Association's award for Investigative Journalism 1995, the Los Angeles Press Club's First Place Award for sportswriting in 1998 and was a finalist for the 2015 University of Florida Award for Investigative Data Journalism in 2015.<ref>"Online Finalists Announced" http://journalists.org/2015/08/11/2015-online-journalism-awards-finalists-announced/</ref>
Girardot headed a project for the [[Los Angeles Newspaper Group]] titled "Getting Away with Murder." The effort chronicled 11,242 homicides that occurred in [[Los Angeles County]] between 2000 and 2010. Relying on data supplied by the [[Los Angeles County Department of Coroner]] the project found that less than 50 percent of all homicides that occurred countywide were ever solved.<ref>"Disturbing New Data on LA County's Unsolved Homicides"http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2015/01/30/41327/disturbing-new-data-on-la-county-s-unsolved-homici/</ref>
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