'Gone Girls' series explores Long Island killings as suspect goes to court

Netflix's new #1 show revisits the hunt for a Long Island serial killer

Netflix’s new #1 docuseries from director Liz Garbus, Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer, revisits the chilling Gilgo Beach murders.

For some time now, there has been a great tendency on the part of Netflix users to lean towards series based on real events, especially those involving crimes that, to date, left several unresolved questions.This is the case of Missing Girls: Long Island's serial killer, the new production that premiered on the Red N streaming platform and which has already become raging internationally.The documentary program tells a real case that, over the co…

Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer – Where is suspect Rex Heuermann now?

Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer is a haunting new documentary on Netflix from director Liz Garbus. In the three-part series, the unsolved mystery of the Long Island Serial Killer is at the forefront, told through the perspective of the killer’s victims, those close to them and the police, offering a “definitive look at the twists and turns in a case that dominated headlines”. The documentary has risen to the number one spot in Netflix’…

New Netflix docuseries explores Rex Heuermann and Gilgo Beach murders

Rex Heuermann and the shocking headline-grabbing Gilgo Beach murders take center stage in Netflix’s new docuseries “Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer,” which debuted Monday. The docuseries directed by Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus examines the horrific murders that haunted the small Long Island beach town of Gilgo Beach, and the unsuspecting man who is thought to...

The Scientist and the Serial Killer: Cracking the Case of Houston’s ‘Lost Boys’

Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted from The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston’s Lost Boys (Random House, April 2025) by Texas Observer Investigations Editor Lise Olsen. The book traces a forensic anthropologist’s decades-long attempt to restore the identities of the victims of one of Texas’ most prolific serial killers—and explores the shocking reasons why so many boys who were kidnapped, tortured, and killed by a mu…

What Makes Gone Girls Stand Out in the True-Crime-Doc Genre

Director Liz Garbus talks about adapting the ‘Long Island Serial Killer’ case as a narrative feature to a new docuseries on Netflix and why it was important to give the women a voice.