Netflix’s Gut-Wrenching True Crime Docuseries Will Leave You Reeling, Viewers Call It One Of The Most Haunting Yet!
Netflix’s Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer is a gripping true crime docuseries exposing the chilling murders of 11 women and the systemic failures that allowed them to continue.
Netflix has dropped a true crime series that’s sending shivers down viewers’ spines but not in a cheap-thrill kind of way. ‘Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer,’ a three-part documentary that quietly premiered on March 31, has already made a thunderous impact. With just a week in, it’s already being hailed as one of the most harrowing entries in the platform’s true crime catalog.
Inside the 30 year hunt for a serial killer who targeted sex workers.
From Academy Award®-nominated and Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus comes Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer, premiering March 31 pic.twitter.com/BfWPNmxeh0
A Decades-Long Nightmare Finally Gets the Spotlight
The series, set against the haunting backdrop of New York state between 1993 and 2011, dives deep into a chilling string of 11 murders, most of them being female sex workers. Their disappearances were largely ignored until 2010, when the grim discovery of female remains on Gilgo Beach shattered years of silence. Only then did authorities start connecting the dots.
The emotional weight of the documentary hits hard, with devastated family members and frustrated investigators recounting their years of heartbreak, helplessness, and the agonizing delays in justice.
The viewers also haven’t held back online as some are stunned while others left infuriated and many urging anyone within earshot to start watching immediately.
Many can’t believe the negligence that allowed these crimes to go on for so long. For sex workers, who are already marginalized in life, the documentary highlights how that disregard extended beyond death.
A Netflix subscriber penned, “Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer on Netflix is just heartbreaking.”
Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer on Netflix is just heartbreaking. Sex workers are treated so horribly already but it’s sad how it reflects even in death and danger. These women were murdered and their families had to wait years for it to be truly treated as such. Awful!
Another viewer penned, “Watching Gone Girls on @Netflix. People, especially police, need to understand sex workers are HUMAN. Sex workers are the FIRST victims, NEVER the last, of serial killers. Investigate the FIRST deaths, give THEM justice AND you can also stop more deaths. WIN/WIN.”
Watching Gone Girls on @Netflix. People, especially police, need to understand sex workers are HUMAN. Sex workers are the FIRST victims, NEVER the last, of serial killers. Investigate the FIRST deaths, give THEM justice AND you can also stop more deaths. WIN/WIN.
The documentary also received recommendations, with one user suggesting, “If you’re in for a dark documentary but real life stuff that pertains to this job the new gone girls Long Island series on Netflix is worth the watch legit made me cry.”
Though difficult to watch, Gone Girls isn’t just another sensational true crime tale, it’s a searing reminder of how easily some lives are forgotten. And if early reactions are anything to go by, it might just become one of the year’s most talked-about docuseries.
