In an interview for the movie’s premiere
at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020,Garbus said she hoped “Lost Girls” could bring renewed attention to the case. “I’m hopeful it might be solved,” she said. In February 2022, a task force was formed to investigate the murders, which eventually led to the arrest of Heuermann.
Garbus’ company
Story Syndicate, which she founded with her husband, filmmaker Dan Cogan, will produce the docuseries. According to Netflix’s release, “The series will foreground the stories of the victims’ lives, with exclusive access to their families, and examine the history of the police investigation and recent breakthroughs that led to the identification of Rex Heuermann, who had been hiding in suburban Long Island in plain sight.”
“With the arrest of suspect Rex Heuermann on July 13 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,” Garbus says, going on to then list the victims. “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.”
Netflix has ordered a docuseries from director Liz Garbus about the Gilgo Beach serial killings, the subject of her 2020 movie 'Lost Girls.'
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