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Gilgo Beach Murders Doc, Movies & Shows About the Long Island Serial Killer

The Long Island serial killer remained a mystery for more than a decade. See all of the films based on the crimes and investigation.

The doc’s director, Liz Garbus, told Netflix, “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. According to Lifetime, the film stars Kim Delaney and Katharine Isabelle, and it explores “Mari Gilbert’s search for the truth behind what happened to her daughter Shannan, a sometime escort who disappeared after a ‘date’ on Long Island.” Mari’s insistence that her daughter not be overlooked eventually leads to a horror hidden on Long Island for more than a decade – 19 bodies of young women discovered buried in shallow graves along Ocean Parkway in the area of Jones Beach State Park.

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