Netflix documentaries details long island serial killer

spoiler ALERT, This story includes details about the Gillgo Beach Murders case and “Details about”Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer“Doctor, now streaming on Netflix.

Liz Garbus Remember in the same way where it was the day when she learned that Marri Gilbert was killed.

In 2016, the Oscar-nominated documentary was in a dinner with some journalist friends, when he got a lesson from writer Robert Kolker that Gilbert was killed by his daughter Sarra during Sarara’s chaos. Garbas Kolkar’s book “Lost Girls” was in the midst of adopting a film, and met Gilbert once a year ago. The mother and worker of Bal-Ki-Prakriti left a lot of impression-and at the center of the story, Garbas was telling about a viral serial killer on the long island of New York, who was not yet caught.

Garbus said, “When I mentioned it, the whole dinner just stopped, because everyone was suddenly talking about what happened and the effects of all layers and waves of the case,” Garbus tells Diversity,

However, the case was not only found from the tragic end of Mari, but did not have a series of events set in 2010 from the disappearance of her eldest daughter Shannan’s disappearance. At that time, Shannan was working as an escort, and went missing after meeting a person near Gillgo Beach on Long Island. His disappearance met the authorities with little concern, which brushed the case as another missing sex worker – until Mari’s firmness investigated. Initially, he did not find Shannan’s body, although search – when it finally began – changed about a dozen other bodies in various states of decomposition and mutation scattered throughout the region. The first four victims found and identified and identified-megon Waterman, Melissa Bartalemy, Amber Costelo and Morin Brainard-Barness, depicted above, which became the face of the case, known as the Gillgo beach murders.

Shock and Awesome, as expressed by Garbus dinner peers, most people usually react to the twist and turn of the case, which they touched through Mari’s lens in their 2020 film “Lost Girls” and her fight to find her daughter (whose remains were discovered in December 2011). After the start of the film’s silence on Netflix during the initial Kovid shutdown – the film was misfortune to fall on streamer on March 13, 2020 – Garbus Gillgo remained in touch with the families of the victims. And, in 2023, his lesson groups burnt with a hurry of new messages: an arrest was made at the end.

“This was a different kind of feeling compared to the text of Mari, but I felt that I have to bring this full cycle,” Garbus. “A lot of questions were unanswered. I felt that the matter had been invested in this matter.”

The suspected Rex Hourman was an architect who worked in Manhattan (where most of his alleged victims worked as escorts) and lived on long islands. His huge physical details and even his unique car was given to the police, but in 2023, a task force was never investigated by the new leadership in the Safolk County Police Department. The task force took less than six weeks to find Heuermann, some previous investigations did not do in 12 years.

While “Lost Girls” mainly focused on Mari’s discovery for Shannan, Garbus felt the responsibility of telling the story of all the victims, who left the loved ones behind – and committed the wrong investigation. It was not just a piece of police – there was corruption at the highest level of local law enforcement, which eventually exposed. “I was looking at the arrest of Jimmy Burke, the police chief of Safok County, just looking at the changes in the separate innings and the case as it was almost Shakespeareian,” says Garbus. So she brought a fresh commitment to Netflix as the document “Gon Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer”, all three episodes of which are now streaming.

The series begins with the events of Shannan’s last night, as it leads to severe discoveries, but Garbus then focused on the support networks formed by mothers, sisters, daughters and friends of other victims who advocated justice, when most presses and police rejected the deaths of these women for their causes. “She became a truly skilled media activist for her daughters and mothers,” she says about women.

Talking about the network of support, she points to a dinner shared by women in the end of the episode 3, when Missy, Brainard-Barnes’s sister, Liliana, daughter of Waterman, “You look like that.”

“It is as if Missy knew Megan, but she never met him,” says Garbus. “This is something when you know someone.

Garbus called the construction of “Gon Girls” as a “attractive journey for me”, as it put it in these weak places with families, with which she had to build a relationship. “Such a true crime focuses on the culprit there, and so I think there is some tiredness about being involved in that thing that may be about him or his wife, or can participate in a show that senses these crimes. We must have a lot of conversations, and build faith.”

A part of the journey for Garbus was also talking to people from whom he never met during “Lost Girls”, especially a friend of Sara Carnes, Brainard-Barness’ who worked with him as an escort. In the documentary, Carnes gave details of the detailed security traps when they met with the customers, including codewords, text messages, and even an hour after an hour, threatened to threaten that his boyfriends were coming home to intimidate aggressive men. That education, Garbus says, helped him understand the flexibility of these women, and how the crime of the remaining people is a real thing.

“They had all these different ways to intimidate anyone that could be out of control, and the fact that the whole was to go home that night, something that is still so raw and it eats it, and it is 15 years,” says Garbus. “This is the wave effect of these crimes you see. It is not just the life of the victim that has been destroyed, it is a lot.”

She incorporates the Silos Hourmen to be included in the series in the final episode, giving the stories of the victims more time to live and breathe. This deliberate strategy is something that he learned about Michelle McMannamara’s book, “I Will Be Gon in the Dark” about the Golden State Killer for HBO a few years ago. She remembers something that McAnamara wrote about how serial killers are the least interesting parts of these stories. “They are just damaged,” says Garbus. “At the end of the day, stories of people who used to harm them, who loved them and what takes justice is more viscous and more interesting and more human. So I am in Mitchell McAnamara School on him.”

But Garbus admitted that she was surprised at Hemman’s connection to her team’s network of contacts in New York. In a wild twist, Garbus says that Amy Ryan, who played the role of Mari in “Lost Girls”, really knew Heumen and recognized him after his arrest.

“He was an architect working on his building,” says Garbus. “He called me that morning and said,” Liz, he was in my house. ” She was on email with her. ,

She says: “As it turns out, we know the tons of those for whom this case was, because in the area of ​​Brooklyn, he did a lot of work in the buildings. He was actually well known to get permits through the system. But that too was a mixed reputation. We heard that he was also working.

One thing will not see the audience in the final episode of “Gone Girls” or “Lost Girls”, a detailed description of Marri’s death. As Court documentHis daughter Sarara, who was suffering from schizophrenia, stabbed her mother 227 times and eventually encouraged her with a fire extinguishing. Sarra was convicted of killing a second degree and sentenced to 25 years. But Garbus was clear that the crime “Gon Girls” did not have a part of the Gillgo story as Shannan is still not considered a victim of serial murders, with whom heumen are accused. Despite the belief of Mari, Mari’s adamant is that it is huge for Shannan that he died so close to other victims who shares the same profile, the law enforcement still maintains his death which was a different mo. For example, Mari’s murder is mentioned only in the series, Waterman’s late mother, Loren Ila.

She says, “Gon Girls” actually focuses on the case made against Rex Hourman and as you know, Shannan is not part of that case, so it was not really appropriate. In “” Lost Girls “, I think we had a story about the most powerful and transformative event of Mari’s life … felt like a different story between Mari and Sarra, and an incredibly complicated.”

At a moment when sensational true-prodigned documentaries are often at the top in the trending chart, Garbus knowing where to pull the line, which determines the quality different from the volume in the streaming era. With her husband Dan Cagon, Garbus co-established the story syndicate in 2019, which was a place to build top-level documentaries for an industry than ever for stories. The age of Netflix’s documentaries “What happened, Miss Simone?” In 2015, Garbus is an expert in a rapidly unpredictable region.

“When I started in this business, there was no promise of a streamer revolution,” she says. “But then, it happened and the distribution occurred an explosion on the way. In fact there was a real hunger for quality films and filmmaking. ‘What happened, Miss Simone?” The first was the documentary that Netflix had ever commissioned, so it was a real creator of a moment of a moment.

But in the interim, the unquenchable requirement for more documentaries, especially in the true crime style, has led a oversatation with several streamers producing a competitive series on the same subject, which reduces their effects; And other shodier documentaries made the fly to stay on time with news cycles. Meanwhile, Story Syndicate has continued to focus on many people, “Last Call: Win A Serial Killer has Quir New York” (HBO), “Stolen Youth: Inside the Sara Lawrence Cult” (Hulu), “Number one on call sheet” (number one ” Have continued to find.

“There is a contraction in our industry, and on all,” she says. “There is a race for safety for people, away from things that are experimental or less commercial. Each time, in some time, through some extraordinary platforms. But the tastes are much more conservative and it is not as fun.

With the future possibilities of the documentary business uncertainty, will Garbus ever consider returning to the story of “Gon Girls”, should Netflix call? The test of Heuermann, a date for which has not yet been set, will probably answer the question.

“If there is a lot that we learn in the test that keeps the pieces together, we have not been able to put together, yes, I think it may be worth taking another look,” she says. “If it is just terrible, not. But if there is something that we can take away from it that is socially useful, then perhaps yes.”

Follow up or not, Garbus plans to remain a resource for families in any way, especially during the final test. She says, “I hope to be able to participate in the trial, and bend to help the families or a person, if I can, explain her approach to it for the press,” she says. “This is going to happen with which I am sticking, and yes, these people mean a lot to me, and their faith is not something I have taken.”