The long and often shocking journey to finding the alleged killer of young women in Long Island is brought to a wider audience in a damning new Netflix series
‘The hope is that the families get as many answers as they can possibly get’ … a still from Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer.‘The hope is that the families get as many answers as they can possibly get’ … a still from Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer.
Garbus immediately returned to the families of the Gilgo Four, whom she consulted for Lost Girls, to possibly film a series documenting not only the breakthrough in the long-open case but the legal and administrative environment that allowed it to stay cold for so long.
Police never had this information, because law enforcement officers did not reach out to sex workers nor made reporting a safe activity for women who could potentially be charged with a crime. “Their voices had been overlooked and disregarded for so long,” said Garbus. “They couldn’t go to the police because they felt that they would be arrested and also no one listens to them. But they were the people who had the best info.
Burke, it later emerged, had subordinates conduct surveillance on his girlfriend or his girlfriend’s exes; solicited sex workers; allegedly referred to the Gilgo Beach killings as “misdemeanor murders”; and engaged in a cover-up after pornography and sex toys were stolen from his vehicle in 2012, including the police beating of the alleged thief. He was convicted in 2016 for assault and obstructing justice, andto 46 months in federal prison.
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