Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer - Everything we know about Netflix's upcoming true crime docuseries 

Netflix's upcoming true-crime documentary Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer will re-examine the infamous Long Island serial killings between 1993 and 2011. Directed by Liz Garbus, the three-part docuseries will be a companion to her 2020 American film Lost Girls, which was based on the same harrowing incident.

Releasing on March 31, the docu-series will re-visit the Long Island serial killings on Giglo beach, where dead remains of many women were found, who all worked as s*x workers.

The upcoming documentary series will feature interviews and dramatizations of the victim's life and the alleged perpetrator, who was finally caught in July 2023.

More about Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer in our story.

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Details about the serial killings in Netflix's Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer

Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer will re-examine the string of female murders between 1993 and 2011 in the town of Gilgo on Long Island in Suffolk County, New York.

After a Gilgo resident, Shannan Gilbert, who worked as an escort, disappeared, an investigation found the first four remains of women and started the search for the Long Island serial killer.

Termed the "The Gilgo Four," the police found the dead remains of four women in Gilgo Beach in December 2010. They were all linked to the disappearance of Gilbert because all four women were also s*x workers. Till April 2011, the police found six more sets of dead female remains in the same area, prompting a search for the Long Island Serial Killer.

In 2023, a Long Island architect, Rex Andrew Heuermann, was finally linked with seven of these murders, including the initial Giglo Four. Police are yet to uncover the full scope of his crimes and link him to other killings on the beach.

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Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer will feature the victims in a new light

Netflix's latest three-part docu-series, Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer, will not only feature interviews with journalists, law enforcement, and victim's families but also uncover the scandal involving these killings.

In an interview with Netflix's Tudum, Liz Garbus talks about how these women were denied justice for a long time because of their line of work. But through Gone Girl: The Long Island Serial Killer, she intends to unmask the truth behind these killings and the biased police investigation that followed.

Along with interviews, the docu-series will also feature actors re-enacting victims' lives to portray them in a different light, as Garbus notes (via Netflix Tudum):

“I wanted to … bring these women to life and make them relatable. These are people’s daughters, sisters, mothers, and they worked in the sex industry,”

She added:

“[You’re] going to see stories of young women who were coming of age and trying to make it in a tough economy. But they were moms, and they were showing up for their sister’s birthday parties, and they were living a full other life. Your morality may make you believe you would never do that, but you don’t know what someone is facing. Hopefully we can all understand and not judge and certainly not believe that they deserved anything that they got.”

She is hopeful that the alleged perpetrator will finally serve for his crimes one day and the women who lost their lives in the Giglo serial murders will finally see peace and rest in the end.

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