The Shocking True Story Behind Netflix's ‘Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer’ Is Still Ongoing

In a frantic 911 call on May 1, 2010, a terrified woman who was a sex worker, Shannan Gilbert, claimed someone was chasing her down, trying to kill her. But when the police arrived, Gilbert was nowhere to be found. The investigation to follow uncovered the bodies of many more missing women along Long Island's Gilgo Beach, including Gilbert, victims of a serial killer who is alleged to beRex Heuermann. The story is detailed in Netflix's newest true-crime docuseries Gone Girls: The Long Island Killer, directed and produced by Liz Garbus, the director of 2020's Lost Girls, a fictionalized retelling of the search for Gilbert. It's a horrifying true story that hasn't even come to an end in 2025.