Review: ‘Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer,’ starring Melissa Cann, Amanda Funderberg, Robert Kolker, Jaclyn Gallucci, Steve Bellone, Ray Tierney and Dave Schaller

April 5, 2025

by Carla Hay

“Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer”

Directed by Liz Garbus

Culture Representation: The three-episode documentary series “Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer” features a predominantly white group of people (with a few African Americans) discussing the case of the Long Island Serial Killer (also known as the Gilgo Beach Killer), whose known victims (all young female sex workers) were murdered in New York state from the 1990s to the 2010s.

Culture Clash: Rex Heuermann—who had his own small architectural company in New York City, and who lived on New York’s Long Island, where the bodies were found—was arrested for several of these murders, and pleaded not guilty.

Culture Audience: “Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer” will appeal primarily to people who are interested in watching true crime documentaries about high-profile murder cases and serial killers.

“Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer” is an efficiently made docuseries about the investigation into these notorious murders. Some information is missing, but the series is a fairly good summary of what happened before Rex Heuermann went on trial. At the time this documentary was released in March 2025, Heuermann had been charged with the murders of seven women. The victims were all female sex workers in their 20s who were murdered from 1993 to 2010. Heuermann (a Long Island native who was born on September 12, 1963) was arrested in July 2023 and pleaded not guilty. A trial date had not yet been set at the time this documentary was released.

Directed by Liz Garbus, “Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer” interviews family members and friends of some of the murder victims; journalists; law enforcement officials; and various people who knew Heuermann. In some scenes, the documentary has typical true crime re-enactments by actors and actresses. Garbus directed the 2020 Netflix drama film “Lost Girls,” which was told from the perspectives of family members of some of the murder victims. At the time “Lost Girls” was filmed and released, Heuermann wasn’t on law enforcement’s radar at all, but other men were believed to be persons of interest.

Because the Long Island Serial Killer murders have gotten a lot of media attention, it’s already a well-known fact that Heuermann was arrested for these murders for a number of reasons. These reasons included his DNA being found on the murdered bodies and crime scenes. When he was being investigated, Heuermann was under secret surveillance by law enforcement. His DNA was obtained when he discarded a pizza box with some unfinished pizza he had been eating. Heuermann had thrown the pizza in a garbage can on a public street, which was why it was legal for law enforcement to get this DNA without Heuermann’s knowledge or permission.

There was also proof that he owned the burner phones that were used by the killer to make contact with some of the murder victims and to harass family members of a few of the murder victims. Police also found computer records from Heuermann that had detailed plans of the murders, which included sadistic torture. These computer records were obtained through computer forensics that were able to uncover many files that were deleted but still stored on a hard drive.

Heuermann and his dark green first-generation Chevrolet Avalanche truck matched the descriptions of the man and the car who reportedly attacked sex worker Amber Costello in her home during a prostitution job in September 2010. Phone records later proved that Heuermann had made contact with Costello the following day, which was the day she disappeared. Costello was later found murdered in the same vicinity as other murder victims of the Long Island Serial Killer.

The three episodes of “Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer” are edited in a cohesive way. The first episode, titled “Part One,” details the cases of the so-called Gilgo Four: the four women whose murdered bodies were found at Gilgo Beach on New York’s Long Island, and which were the first indications that there was a serial killer responsible for all four murders and possibly more. The second episode, titled “Part Two,” examines the corruption in the Suffolk County Police Department and Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office that hindered the investigation and led to the conviction and imprisonment of two high-ranking law enforcement officials on corruption charges. The third episode, titled “Part Three,” chronicles the breakthroughs in the case that led to the arrest of Heuermann.

“Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer” has a very good variety of people who are interviewed, but the documentary filmmakers don’t uncover anything new from their own original reporting. The documentary relies a lot on the reporting of journalist Robert Kolker, who covered these cases extensively for New York magazine. Kolker, who is interviewed in the documentary, provides clips of audio recordings of interviews that he did with some people who are not interviewed for this documentary. Kolker is the author of the 2013 non-fiction book “Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery,” which was updated in 2024 and the title changed to “Lost Girls: An American Mystery.”

Part One begins with audio excepts from 911 calls made by Shannan Gilbert, a sex worker who disappeared from the Long Island city of Oak Beach in the early-morning hours of May 1, 2010. In the calls, she can be heard frantically asking for help because she said that people were trying to kill her, but she couldn’t coherently describe where she was located or who was trying to kill her. She also went to a few houses in Oak Beach and banged on doors and shouted that she needed help because people were trying to kill her.

Gilbert lived in New Jersey and had gone to Oak Beach for a job with a client named Joseph Brewster. For protection, Gilbert employed a driver named Michael Pak, who was waiting for her in his parked car outside of Brewster’s house until Gilbert was ready to leave. According to interviews that Kolker did with Brewster and Pak (snippets of the interviews are heard in the “Gone Girls” documentary), Gilbert had “freaked out” while in Brewster’s home and refused to leave.

Brewster then went out to where Pak was sitting in his car and asked for Pak’s help in getting Gilbert to leave. Gilbert then reportedly burst out of the house and ran away. Pak ran after her and tried to find her, but he lost her in the darkness. She wasn’t answering her phone, so he gave up trying to look for her and left because he assumed she would find another way home.

People in the neighborhood, including Gus Coletti (who is interviewed in the “Gone Girls” documentary), saw or heard Gilbert calling for help but were too afraid to let her into their homes. Some of these neighbors called 911. By the time police arrived, they couldn’t find Gilbert, and Pak had already left. After Gilbert was reported as a missing person, police questioned Pak and Brewster and ruled out Pak and Brewster as suspects.

Shannan Gilbert was reported missing by her mother Mari Gilbert the day after she disappeared because Shannan did not show up as planned for a family get-together. In the movie “Lost Girls,” Mari is portrayed by actress Amy Ryan and is the main character in the movie. In December 2011, Shannan’s skeletal remains were found in an Oak Beach marsh, 19 months after her disappearance. Her death has officially been ruled as accidental, although many people believe that she was a victim of the Long Island Serial Killer, including Mari Gilbert’s attorney John Ray, who is interviewed in the “Gone Girls” documentary. There has been no evidence linking Heuermann to the death of Shannan Gilbert.

What is indisputable is that after Shannan’s disappearance, Mari went on a crusade and media blitz to try to find out what happened. She put pressure on police to look for Shannan, which led to the December 2010 discovery of four murdered women in close proximity to each other near Gilgo Beach. These four women, just like Shannan, were sex workers in their 20s who advertised their services on Craigslist:

• Maureen Brainard-Barnes, who went missing in 2007
• Melissa Barthelemy, who went missing in 2009
• Amber Costello, who went missing in 2010
• Megan Waterman, who went missing in 2010

Heuermann has been charged with murdering these four women, who are often described in the media as the Gilgo Four. Heuermann has also been charged with murdering these three women:

• Sandra Costilla, who went missing in 1993
• Valerie Mack, who went missing in 2000
• Jessica Taylor, who went missing in 2003

Mack and Taylor had both been dismembered, and their body parts were found several miles apart from each other. Several other murdered people have been found in the same stretch of area on Long Island where these women were found, but those murders remained unsolved at the time this documentary was released. Most of the murder victims were women, but the other murder victims were one unidentified baby boy (the son of one of the unidentified victims) and one unidentified man dressed in women’s clothes.

Costello is the only murder victim who was actually seen being attacked by Heuermann, according to Dave Schaller and Bear Brodsky, who were two of Costello’s housemates at the time. The “Gone Girls” documentary has interviews with Schaller and Brodsky, who say that in September 2010, a man whom they identify as Heuermann, was in their house because he hired Costello for sex work.

Schaller says in the documentary he was not at home when Costello frantically called him to say she had locked herself in the bathroom and to come home immediately because she was hiding from a customer who assaulted her. Schaller and Brodsky say when they arrived at the house, Heuermann was there and tried to put up a fight and wouldn’t leave. They eventually got him to leave, but Schaller remembers how intensely the customer looked at Costello, like “a predator.”

Schaller and Brodsky say that they reported this assault incident to police, but this evidence was forgotten or ignored until 2022, when the investigation had new leaders. Costello went missing the day after she was attacked by this customer. Her body was found three months later near Gilgo Beach in December 2010.

Schaller, who describes Costello as being goofy and generous, believes that Heuermann was able to lure Costello into a trap by offering her much more money than she usually charged. Schaller says that Costello usually charged $200 per sex session. According to Schaller, the customer who hired her on the last day that Costello was seen had offered her $2,500 and convinced her not to bring her cell phone with her.

Unfortunately, the “Gone Girls” documentary does not mention that Schaller has changed his story and given different versions of what happened in other interviews. The only thing that has remained consistent in his story is his description of the attacker and his truck in the incident where Costello was allegedly attacked by a customer. If a police report hadn’t been filed about this incident, Schaller’s story wouldn’t hold much weight in this case.

“Gone Girls” is also inconsistent in giving background information on the women whom Heuermann is accused of murdering. There’s quite a bit of personal history about Brainerd-Barnes but not much personal history is given about the other victims. Brainerd-Barnes’ sister Melissa Cann and Brainerd-Barnes’ former sex-worker best friend Sara Karnes are both interviewed. Cann, who is two years younger than Brainerd-Barnes, didn’t find out that her sister was a sex worker until after Brainerd-Barnes disappeared. Brainerd-Barnes had told her family that she went to New York City for modeling jobs when her trips were really for sex work.

Karnes actually gives more incisive details than Cann about what was going on in Brainerd-Barnes’ life that led to her tragic murder. Brainerd-Barnes and Karnes both lived in Connecticut but would go frequently to New York City for sex work. Karnes describes their friendship this way: “We were the escort version of Thelma and Louise, except we ain’t driving no car off a cliff.” Karnes says that they looked out for each other when they were doing sex jobs but admits that the only weapon they might have carried for protection was a pocket knife.

During the weekend that Brainerd-Barnes disappeared, she was desperate for money. According to Karnes, Brainerd-Barnes had an upcoming court hearing that Tuesday because she was in a custody battle with the father of her daughter. Brainerd-Barnes was also close to getting evicted from her apartment, which meant that she would most likely not be awarded custody. Karnes says that Brainerd-Barnes needed about $3,000 to take care of all of these problems. And she believes that the person who murdered Brainerd-Barnes was a customer who enticed Brainerd-Barnes with that amount of money or more.

Karnes gets tearful when she mentions she has only one regret about her experiences as a sex worker: She didn’t stay in New York City with Brainerd-Barnes, who said she had to stay in New York City longer than expected because of a customer who was going to pay her the money that she needed. Karnes says that after Brainerd-Barnes disappeared, an unidentified man called her from a blocked phone number and told her that he saw Brainerd-Barnes at a New York City brothel. She asked the man to call her back with an unblocked number so she could pass the number along to the police. He never called back.

Also interviewed in the documentary is Amanda Funderberg, the younger sister of murder victim Barthelemy. Barthelemy was a cosmetics school graduate. Funderberg says that after Barthelemy disappeared and before she was found murdered, Funderberg got harassing phone calls from the killer, who blocked his phone number during these calls. The caller abruptly stopped because Funderberg thinks he began to suspect that she reported the calls to police.

Waterman was also a single mother. Her daughter Liliana “Lily” Waterman was 3 years old when her mother Megan died. Lily is shown briefly in the documentary in a scene where she is having a get-together at a restaurant with Funderberg, Cann, an unidentified man and Megan Waterman’s aunt Elizabeth Meserve. Lily is not interviewed in the documentary, but Meserve is interviewed.

Megan Waterman’s mother Lorraine Ela, who was a tireless activist for justice for the Long Island murder victims, died in 2022, at the age of 55. Her cause of death has not been made public. Ela’s death is briefly mentioned in the documentary, which has some archival news footage of Ela with other loved ones of the murder victims of the Long Island Serial Killer. Mari Gilbert led a support group for these loved ones. The support group still exists.

The “Gone Girls” girls documentary mentions that Mari Gilbert died in 2016 (she was 52), but doesn’t mention the tragic way that she died. Mari was stabbed to death by one of her daughters, Sarra Gilbert, who has schizophrenia. In 2017, Sarra Gilbert received a prison sentence of 25 years to life for second-degree murder. Even though Shannan Gilbert is not officially considered a murder victim, she will forever be linked to the Long Island Serial Killer case because of how her disappearance led to police discovering the murdered bodies near Gilgo Beach.

The episode that details the corruption in Suffolk County law enforcement mainly focuses on Thomas Spota (who was Suffolk County’s district attorney from 2001 to 2017) and James “Jim” Burke (who was chief of the Suffolk County Police Department from 2012 to 2016). Spota and Burke left their positions in disgrace when they were eventually convicted of corruption crimes in cases unrelated to the Long Island serial killer. Spota was convicted of obstruction, witness tampering and conspiracy charges; he was in prison from 2021 to 2024. Burke was convicted of assault and obstruction of justice; he was in prison from 2017 to 2019.

From the beginning of the Gilgo Beach murder cases in December 2010 and continuing in 2011, Spota clashed with Richard Dormer, who at the time was police commissioner of the Suffolk County Police Department. Dormer told the media that the murders of the Gilgo Four indicated that the murders were done by the same person. Spota vehemently contradicted that theory and told the media that the murders were most likely committed by more than one person. Dormer was police commissioner of the Suffolk County Police Department from 2004 to 2011, the year that he retired. He died from cancer in 2019, when he was 79.

Spota and Burke had a long history together, going back to 1979, when Burke was a key witness for the prosecution in a trial for the murder of a 13-year-old boy named John Pius. Two bothers—Michael Quartararo and Peter Quartararo, who were teenagers at the time—were convicted of the murder. Spota was the lead prosecutor for the case. There has been speculation over whether or not Burke lied and was coached in his witness statements and trial testimony. Burke has maintained that he told the truth and was not coached.

Over the next several years, Spota became Burke’s mentor and helped Burke’s police department career tremendously, even when Burke was the subject of numerous internal investigations and complaints. Steve Bellone, who was Suffolk County executive from 2012 to 2023, is interviewed in the documentary and seems very embarrassed that he gave Burke a huge promotion in 2012, when Burke went from chief inspector to chief of the entire Suffolk County Police Department. Bellone sheepishly says his only excuse is that Spota highly recommended Burke for the job. In hindsight, Bellone knows it was a big mistake.

The documentary mentions that in the early years of the Long Island Serial Killer case, Spota and Burke prevented other law enforcement agencies (including the FBI) on collaborating or helping with the case. The reasons for this exclusion aren’t explicitly stated. But considering that Burke was accused of being a frequent customer of sex workers, it’s easy to speculate that because the Long Island Serial Killer case would require many sex workers to be interviewed, perhaps Burke didn’t want certain information exposed about his own alleged activities with sex workers. Whatever the reasons, Spota went out of his way to protect and elevate Burke, and that corruption would lead to both of their downfalls.

Burke declined to be interviewed for the documentary and denied speculation that he was involved with prostitution and was somehow responsible for committing the Long Island Serial Killer murders. Spota did not respond to requests to be interviewed for the documentary. What the documentary doesn’t mention is that in August 2023, Burke was arrested in Selden, New York, for public lewdness, indecent exposure, offering a sex act and criminal solicitation of an undercover male police officer who was posing as a sex worker. Two of the charges were dropped, and Burke was charged with public lewdness and indecent exposure. In September 2023, he pleaded not guilty.

After the downfalls of Spota and Burke, new people took over the Long Island Serial Killer cases, including Rodney Harrison (who was Suffolk County Police Department’s police commissioner from 2021 to 2023) and Ray Tierney, who became district attorney of Suffolk County in 2022. Tierney is interviewed in the documentary. Harrison is heard giving a brief quote by audio only, but it’s unclear if this was commentary he made for the documentary or for another interview.

Other people interviewed for the documentary are Geraldine Hart, a senior agent of the Long Island FBI from 2018 to 2021; Stuart Cameron, inspector for the Suffolk County Police Department; Kim Overstreet, sister of murder victim Costello; Long Island Press journalist Jaclyn Gallucci; Newsday reporter Gus Garcia-Roberts; former Long Island sex worker Nikkie Brass; John Parisi, a childhood friend of Heuermann’s; Etienne De Villiers, a former neighbor of Heuermann’s; Muriel Henriquez, a former right-hand” co-worker of Heuermann’s; Lisa Marcoccia of the Legal Aid Society; and Suffolk County Police Department detectives Rob Trotta and John Oliva.

A few people interviewed in the documentary are not identified by their full names. For example, a woman named Margaret (whose last name is not revealed in the documentary) says she’s the wife of one of Heuermann’s cousins. She says that Heuermann was the chief organizer of their family reunions, and she was shocked to hear that he’s an accused serial killer.

Margaret says that Heuermann’s father Theodore was very abusive. Childhood friend Parisi says that he witnessed Theodore Heuermann’s raging temper when Theodore would yell and scram at Rex. Heuermann’s mother is briefly mentioned only by Margaret, who says that Rex’s mother “whatever reason couldn’t leave this abusive man that everyone was traumatized by.” Theodore Heuermann died in 1975, when Rex Heuermann was 11 or 12 years old. The cause of death of Rex Heuermann’s father can be made public in 2025, per New York state law.

Heuermann did not have a criminal record prior to his 2023 arrest for these murders. In fact, people say that Heuermann had a reputation for being a “gentle giant” (he’s 6’4″ and about 250 pounds) who was an introverted loner. One of the people in the documentary who describes Heuermann as a very introverted is his childhood friend Parisi, who is two yeras younger than Heuermann. Parisi was Heuermann’s schoolmate for several years, beginning when Parisi was in the second grade.

Parisi describes Heuermann’s personality this way: “He was very, very quiet. Almost too quiet.” Parisi remembers a childhood incident where he saw Heuermann getting beaten up on a playground by about three or four boys. The boys who were attacking Heuermann were much smaller than Heuermann, but Heuermann didn’t fight back.

Another woman identified only as Taylor says she saw another side of Heuermann when she had a harrowing encounter with him in Philadelphia, in October 2010. At the time, she was 18 and working at a strip club, where she sold alcohol shots. She was also a part-time drug dealer who did much of her business through people she met at the strip club. Taylor says that someone she knew at the strip club arranged for her to do a cocaine deal, where she had to go to a house to make the sale to a customer. According to Taylor, Heuermann (whom she says used the first name John) was the customer, but she didn’t know his real name until after he was arrested for the Long Island murders.

Taylor says she met Heuermann at the strip club, and he drove her back to the townhouse where the cocaine deal was going to take place. Taylor says that during this car ride, he immediately made her uncomfortable because he seemed to be interested in having sex with her, and he talked about his pedophilia fantasies of having sex with girls and boys. According to Taylor, this customer asked her about her friends and wanted to know their ages, which gave her the impression that he was trying to see if Taylor could arrange for him to have sex with any of her friends. She remembers consciously avoiding touching him because she didn’t want to have any sexual contact with him.

Taylor says they went to a barely furnished town house that had a small pile of unopened mail on the floor and a TV in the living room that was playing a porn video on repeat. Taylor describes doing cocaine with the customer. At one point, he went upstairs, and she heard strange noises, such as thumping and furniture being moved around. She suspected that he was assaulting someone who was being held captive upstairs.

In the documentary interview, Taylor comments: “It felt like something out of a horror movie. Whatever it was, it freaked me out.” Taylor says she never saw anyone else but Heuermann in the house, but these suspicious noises led her to believe that there was someone else in the house with them. Taylor says hearing these noises was enough for her to want to leave the house as quickly as possible because she felt that her life was in danger.

According to Taylor’s story, Heuermann suddenly came running down the stairs and tried to prevent her from leaving. She says she had to use a taser on Heuermann’s neck to escape. It’s unknown how well the documentary’s filmmakers verified this story. Because she was involved in illegal drug activity, Taylor didn’t report this incident to police or other law enforcement at the time she said this incident happened.

Taylor admits she feels some guilt about not reporting the incident to police because she thinks lives might have been saved if she had come forward sooner. However, at the time, she didn’t know that the man who tried to kidnap her would be accused of being a serial killer. In the documentary, Taylor says she has been researching the cases of missing or murdered women who might have been in contact with Heuermann. She believes Heuermann has many more victims that the public and law enforcement don’t know about yet.

As for Heuermann, the “Gone Girls” documentary does not uncover anything new about him. It’s already been widely reported that he lived in the same home where he was raised as a chiild in Massapequa Park, New York. Heuermann owned a small architectural company called RH Consulting and Associates, which he launched in 1994 and had an office in New York City’s Manhattan borough.

The documentary includes a clip of the only known video interview that Heuermann did before his arrest: In 2022, he did an interview for the YouTube channel Bonjour Realty, where he gave a tour of his small and cluttered office. Heuermann describes himself as an architecht and architecht consultant who is a lifelong resident of Long Island.

According to reports, most of the architechtural work that Heuermann did was consulting rather than designing buildings. In the Bonjour Realty interview, he appears to be friendly and welcoming. But based on the prosecution’s case against him, Heuermann had a very dark side of his personality that he did not show to most people.

The strangest thing that neighbors said they saw about Heuermann was he kept his house very run-down, without any repairs or upgrades for decades. “He just kept it like a capsule of time of his childhood,” his cousin-in-law Margaret comments. Margaret never went to the house. However, she says her husband visited the house and described it as dark and creepy.

Heuermann’s former employee Henriquez says in a documentary interview that she had an interior designer friend who was hired to possibly do an interior design job for the Heuermann house. When this interior designer went to the house to do room measurements, Heuermann wouldn’t allow her to go into the house’s basement and told the interior designer that he had guns in the basement. Henriquez says, “That’s the one room she never got to measure.”

Heuermann lived in the house with three other people: his wife Asa Ellerup, an Iceland native whom he married in 1996; their daughter Victoria Heuermann; and his stepson Christopher Sheridan, who was from Ellerup’s previous marriage. Police found nearly 300 guns at the house when they did a search raid. According to law enforcement and evidence found at the house, it’s believed that an unknown number of victims of the Long Island Serial Killer were tortured and murdered at the house.

Police say that based on phone records and other evidence, Heuermann committed murders while his wife and kids were away on vacations. Heuermann’s family members have not been charged with anything related to the murders. Not long after Heuermann’s arrest, Ellerup released a statement saying that she and her kids had nothing to do with the murders and had a hard time believing that he was guilty. She has since filed for divorce from Heuermann.

A few tidbits of information are missing from the “Gone Girls” documentary about the disappearance and death of Shannan Gilbert. First, her incoherence and paranoia shortly before she disappeared might make people wonder if she had been under the influence of drugs. According to several news reports, an autopsy revealed that she had no drugs in her system. However, what remained of Shannan’s body when she was found were skeletal remains, and you can’t do a full toxicology report from decomposed bone matter only.

During her cries for help, Shannan did not name the people she said were trying to kill her. Was this murder plan in her imagination or was it real? We’ll never know. The people who witnessed Shannan running away said that they didn’t see anyone chasing after her. Did she have some kind of psychotic break with reality? We’ll never know.

“Gone Girls” also doesn’t mention that before Heuermann was accused of being the Long Island Serial Killer, someone else was under a cloud of suspicion: Dr. Charles Peter Hackett, also known as Dr. Peter Hackett. Mari Gilbert reported that before she knew Shannan was missing on May 1, 2010, she received a strange phone call that day from an unnamed man who identified himself only as a doctor who operated a home for wayward women. Mari’s phone apparently did not have caller ID.

This doctor said that he was looking for Shannan because he had been helping her, but Mari said she didn’t know where Shannan was. Hours later, when Mari figured out that Shannan was missing, she remembered the phone call, but had no way of knowing who called her. She later found out that Dr. Hackett’s backyard led to the marsh where Shannan’s body and other murdered women were found. Dr. Hackett denied making the phone call to Mari, but phone records showed that he did. In 2012, Dr. Hackett moved to Florida and has stayed out of the public eye.

Another person who received intense speculation that he was the Long Island Serial Killer is John Bittrolff, who was convicted in 2017 of the murders of sex workers Rita Tangedi and Colleen McNamee, who were both found murdered on Long Island. Bittrolff, who was suspected but never charged with Costilla’s murder, has maintained that he is not guilty of all three murders. After the arrest of Heuerman, who has been charged with Costilla’s murder, the Suffolk County district attorney has declined to reopen or retry Bittrolff’s murder cases.

“Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial” won’t be considered a comprehensive documentary about the case because it was released before Heuermann went on trial. This docuseries could have done a better job at independent research instead of relying so heavily on other people’s reporting. The documentary’s interviews are with many of same people who’ve told their stories in other documentaries and news reports. However, it’s a good-enough documentary that gives an overview of the most important facts, even if there are some interesting details left out and the documentary doesn’t give a full story of the women who are said to be Heuermann’s murder victims.

Netflix premiered “Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer” on March 31, 2025.