Netflix has shared the first trailer for Gone Girls, the upcoming docuseries about the Long Island Serial Killer.
First announced back in August 2023, just a month after the arrest of LISK suspect Rex Heuermann, Gone Girls finds filmmaker Liz Garbus — who directed the 2020 dramatized film Lost Girls about the murders — returning to Gilgo Beach to revisit LISK’s decades-long reign of terror and the missteps by police that could have ended his killing spree of sex workers earlier.
“Young women who worked in the sex industry were disappearing from New York City and Long Island, and no one was looking for them. Then in 2010, female remains were found in the Gilgo Beach area of Long Island, leading to a string of additional discoveries, all of which seemed to be connected,” Netflix said in a synopsis. “The case of the Long Island Serial Killer remained unsolved for 13 years — until July 2023 when the police arrested a suspect.”
“With the arrest of suspect Rex Heuermann, 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 in 2023.
“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.”
The three-episode docuseries, a “definitive” look at the case, arrives on Netflix on March 31. Since Heuermann’s arrest for the killings of the “Gilgo Four” — the initial four sex workers whose bodies were found along the south shore of Long Island — the suspect has been charged with three more murders, bringing his death toll to seven.
Garbus added in a Tudum interview, “Now we know who the alleged perpetrator is. In the course of the documentary, we got to examine what was going on in the police department and uncover a corruption scandal that made it clear why so little was being done for these women. I think it’s a really interesting companion piece to the scripted film.”
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