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. The case of the Long Island Serial Killer remained unsolved for 13 years — until July 2023 when the police arrested a suspect. From Academy Award®-nominated and Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus (Lost Girls) comes the definitive look at the twists and turns in a case that dominated headlines and is still developing in real time.
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00:00Now I'm on one system.
00:02These people are trying to kill me.
00:04Do you need the police?
00:06Why are you following me?
00:10Shannon Gilbert disappeared in May 2010.
00:12I will continue to fight
00:14until I bring my girl home.
00:16Months after Shannon disappeared,
00:18police were searching the side of Ocean Parkway
00:20and they learned that this was a bigger case
00:22than they imagined.
00:24Police on Long Island are searching
00:26for a serial killer.
00:28Anybody who's targeting sex workers.
00:30Basically with impunity right under everyone's nose.
00:32We found three sets of human remains
00:34in one day.
00:36It's unbelievable, a fifth person,
00:38six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
00:40none of them Shannon Gilbert.
00:42It's been 16 years.
00:44I was so tired of being sad
00:46that I was just angry.
00:48There's very little coverage
00:50when a sex worker
00:52falls off the grid.
00:54There were red flags one after the other
00:56as to what was not looked into
00:58by the police.
01:00I need people to realize
01:02that justice hasn't been served.
01:04It was corruption here.
01:06What if it was someone that you love?
01:08How would you feel if nobody came
01:10looking for you?
01:12After 13 years
01:14of investigation, there's a changing of the guard.
01:16We knew
01:18the killer used burner phones around
01:20Massapequa Park.
01:22They started looking at clues and evidence
01:24and interviews.
01:26I told the cops weeks before she went missing.
01:28There was this giant who had come to the house.
01:30I truly believe
01:32we're going to get down to the bottom of
01:34who committed these crimes.
01:36My sister
01:38deserves justice.
01:40I have been waiting for this
01:42for a long time.
01:44This case
01:46is not over.
01:48How many more victims could there be?
01:54How many more victims could there be?