Prepare for a gripping true crime event with ABC’s 20/20 presenting “The Long Island Serial Killer,” unveiling the shocking arrest that has become the biggest true crime story of the season.
In an all-new two-hour program, exclusive interviews are featured with the boyfriend of a missing woman, a close friend of one of the victims, and the investigators who identified Rex Heuermann as the lead suspect in three cases. The program delves into the complex investigation surrounding a series of murders on Long Island.
A Chilling Discovery in Gilgo Beach
In May 2010, the disappearance of 23-year-old Shannan Gilbert led the police to Gilgo Beach, Long Island. Instead of finding Gilbert, they discovered the remains of four other missing women who had worked as escorts: Melissa Barthelemy, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello. Subsequently, six more bodies were found along Ocean Parkway.
In a bone-chilling discovery, skeletal remains were unearthed at Gilgo Beach,...
In an all-new two-hour program, exclusive interviews are featured with the boyfriend of a missing woman, a close friend of one of the victims, and the investigators who identified Rex Heuermann as the lead suspect in three cases. The program delves into the complex investigation surrounding a series of murders on Long Island.
A Chilling Discovery in Gilgo Beach
In May 2010, the disappearance of 23-year-old Shannan Gilbert led the police to Gilgo Beach, Long Island. Instead of finding Gilbert, they discovered the remains of four other missing women who had worked as escorts: Melissa Barthelemy, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello. Subsequently, six more bodies were found along Ocean Parkway.
In a bone-chilling discovery, skeletal remains were unearthed at Gilgo Beach,...
- 9/7/2023
- by Alex Matthews
- TV Regular
The Suffolk County Police Department has identified a former Jane Doe, believed to be a victim of the so-called Long Island Serial Killer, as Valerie Mack.
In a Facebook post Thursday, the Scpd said Mack also went by the name Melissa Taylor, and she disappeared in the spring or summer of 2000 at the age of 24. At the time, she was working as an escort in Philadelphia and she was last seen in the area of Port Republic, New Jersey.
Per Gilgo News, a website created by the Scpd to track updates in the case,...
In a Facebook post Thursday, the Scpd said Mack also went by the name Melissa Taylor, and she disappeared in the spring or summer of 2000 at the age of 24. At the time, she was working as an escort in Philadelphia and she was last seen in the area of Port Republic, New Jersey.
Per Gilgo News, a website created by the Scpd to track updates in the case,...
- 5/28/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Police in Suffolk County, New York unveiled a “significant piece of evidence” in the still-unsolved case of the Gilgo Beach, Long Island serial killer.
At a press conference Thursday, Suffolk Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart released photos of a portion of a belt found at the crime scene that investigators believe belonged to the suspect. The belt is embossed with two letters that, depending on the vantage point, resemble either “Wh” or “Hm.”
“The Gilgo Beach investigation is perhaps the most well-known and complex case this department has ever undertaken,” Hart said,...
At a press conference Thursday, Suffolk Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart released photos of a portion of a belt found at the crime scene that investigators believe belonged to the suspect. The belt is embossed with two letters that, depending on the vantage point, resemble either “Wh” or “Hm.”
“The Gilgo Beach investigation is perhaps the most well-known and complex case this department has ever undertaken,” Hart said,...
- 1/17/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Amy Ryan stars in the upcoming Netflix film Lost Girls, which premiered its first trailer on Thursday. The crime drama, based on the real-life unsolved case of the Long Island serial killer, will premiere on the platform March 13th.
Ryan portrays Mari Gilbert, whose search for her daughter Shannan was explored in a 2011 New York Magazine story and later adapted into the non-fiction book Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery. Shannan went missing shortly before the bodies of four women were found scattered along Ocean Parkway. (The killer targeted mostly sex workers,...
Ryan portrays Mari Gilbert, whose search for her daughter Shannan was explored in a 2011 New York Magazine story and later adapted into the non-fiction book Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery. Shannan went missing shortly before the bodies of four women were found scattered along Ocean Parkway. (The killer targeted mostly sex workers,...
- 1/16/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
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