Long Island Serial Killer and Still-Unsolved Gilgo Beach Murders Focus of Upcoming Netflix Docuseries
The arrest of the Long Island Serial Killer and the slew of still-unsolved murders along the shore of Gilgo Beach will be the focus of an upcoming Netflix docuseries.
Filmmaker Liz Garbus, who directed the 2020 dramatized film Lost Girls about the Gilgo Beach killings, will return to the role of documentarian for the three-part series, which the streaming service announced just six weeks after Rex Heuermann was charged with murder for three of the victims, as well as remains a prime suspect for a fourth.
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However, that arrest accounts for just a handful of the nearly dozen corpses found along Gilgo Beach, something the docuseries will examine.
“With the arrest of suspect Rex Heuermann on July 13 of this year, a new chapter began in the decades-old investigation of the missing and murdered women found in Gilgo Beach and beyond. And yet, just as some questions start being answered, new ones emerge,” Garbus said in a statement.
“I am incredibly passionate about this story and am grateful to Netflix for supporting the continuation of my work in remembering [victims] Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Amber Costello, Maureen Brainard-Barnes and also Shannan Gilbert, whose disappearance led to the discovery of the Gilgo Beach victims, and the other potentially connected cases.”
Garbus, an Oscar-nominated documentarian, has previously helmed serial killer fare like I’ll Be Gone in the Dark in addition to The Fourth Estate, What Happened, Miss Simone?, Bobby Fischer Against the World, and All In: The Fight for Democracy.
Netflix added of the still-untitled docuseries, “The series will foreground the stories of the victims’ lives, with exclusive access to their families, and examine the history of the police investigation and recent breakthroughs that led to the identification of Rex Heuermann, who had been hiding in suburban Long Island in plain sight.”
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