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What Makes Gone Girls Stand Out in the True-Crime-Doc Genre
“At the end of the day, when it comes to serial killers, there’s only so much you’re ever going to be able to understand.”
I wanted to, you know, be the person with those loved ones as they navigated this new phase of the case.” In the years since Lost Girls ’s release, however, there have been a whole new wave of updates: a changing of the guard in the Suffolk County Police Department, a new task force, and an arrest of a suspect, Rex Heuermann. A title card toward the end of Lost Girls reads: “Ten to 16 victims were ultimately attributed to the ‘Long Island Serial Killer.’ No suspects have been charged in the case.” But rather than close out on the ominous notion that the killer who was, in fact, still out there, Garbus shifts the focus back to Shannan Gilbert’s mother, Mari (played by Amy Ryan in the film), and how her dogged search kept the case in the news before her untimely death. Despite many of the victims sharing a background in sex work (as well as a general physicality), then–District Attorney Thomas Spota argued against the theory that this was one single perpetrator, booted the FBI out of the investigation, and prolonged inaction for years.
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