Netflix has ordered a three-part documentary series from Story Syndicate (Harry and Meghan, Take Care of Maya, Unknown) that will explore the multi-decade quest to bring justice to the families and multiple victims of the enigmatic Gilgo Beach serial killer.
The case had been cold for 13 years until a suspect was apprehended in July 2023, and it is still being played out in real-time.
The series will focus on the victims’ personal stories, with exclusive access to their families, as well as the history of the police investigation and recent breakthroughs that led to the identification of Rex Heuermann, who had been hiding in plain sight in suburban Long Island.
The executive producers are Liz Garbus, Dan Cogan, Jon Bardin, and Mala Chapple of Story Syndicate, and Anne Carey (Lost Girls, Dead Ringers, Can You Ever Forgive Me?) of Archer Gray. Elizabeth Wolff and Kate Barry produced the show.
“With the arrest of suspect Rex Heuermann on July 13th of this year, a new chapter began in the decades-old investigation of the missing and murdered women found in Gilgo Beach and beyond. And yet, just as some questions start being answered, new ones emerge,” Liz Garbus said. “I am incredibly passionate about this story and am grateful to Netflix for supporting the continuation of my work in remembering Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, Amber Costello, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, and also Shannan Gilbert, whose disappearance led to the discovery of the Gilgo Beach victims, and the other potentially connected cases.”
The documentary is directed by Liz Garbus, a two-time Academy Award nominee and multiple Emmy Award winner (What Happened, Miss Simone?, I’ll Be Gone In The Dark). Garbus directed the Netflix narrative film Lost Girls in 2020, which shed light on the case and the stories of the missing women.
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