Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery Audiobook (Free)

New York Occasions Bestseller

Soon to be always a Netflix film.

The bestselling account of the lives of five young women whose fates converged in the perplexing case of the Long Island Serial Killer.

“Wealthy, tragic…monumental…true-crime reporting at its greatest.”-Washington Post

One late springtime evening this year 2010, Shannan Gilbert-after running right through the oceanfront community of Oak Seaside screaming on her behalf life-went missing. No-one who acquired heard of her disappearance thought much in what experienced about Lost Ladies: An Unsolved American Mystery happened towards the twenty-four-year-old: she was a Craigslist escort who was simply fleeing a scene-of what, no-one could possibly be sure. The Suffolk State police, too, appeared to possess paid little attention-until seven weeks later, when an urgent discovery within a bramble alongside a nearby highway resulted in four bodies, all evenly spaced, all covered in burlap. But none of these Shannan’s.

There was Maureen Brainard-Barnes, last seen at Penn Station in Manhattan three years previously, and Melissa Barthelemy, last seen in the Bronx in 2009 2009. There was Megan Waterman, last seen leaving a resort in Hauppauge, Long Island, just a month after Shannon’s disappearance this year 2010, and Amber Lynn Costello, last seen leaving a residence in West Babylon a couple of months later on that same season. Like Shannan, all women were petite, within their twenties, and had result from out of city to work as escorts, plus they all experienced advertised on Craigslist and its own competitor, Backpage.

Long considered “one of the better true-crime books ever” (Time), Lost Young ladies is a portrait of unsolved murders within an idyllic component of America, of the lower of the web, and of the secrets we maintain without admitting to ourselves that we keep them.