March 31 (UPI) — For more than three decades, a series of homicides and disappearances has plagued Long Island, N.Y., and now, with a suspect making court appearances, Netflix is releasing a docuseries on the mysterious case.
The series, Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer , premieres Monday on the streaming service. It is a follow-up to director Liz Garbus’ 2020 film Lost Girls , which dramatized the effort of one of the missing women’s mother to find justice for the alleged victims, all of whom worked in the sex industry.
Prosecutors are hoping to get that justice after charging Rex Heuermann, an architect from Massapequa Park, Long Island, with murder for the deaths of seven of the women. Police arrested him in 2023 after a witness reported seeing a vehicle that matched one he drove. They were able to match his DNA to a hair found on one of the victim’s bodies.
The Gone Girls series comes just days after Heuermann’s latest court hearing Friday. There, a New York judge heard from defense attorneys, who want to suppress DNA evidence in the case…