Lost Girls
An Unsolved American Mystery
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Narrated by:
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Sean Pratt
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By:
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Robert Kolker
About this listen
New York Times best seller
Soon to be a Netflix film.
The best-selling account of the lives of five young women whose fates converged in the perplexing case of the Long Island Serial Killer.
“Rich, tragic...monumental...true-crime reporting at its best.” (Washington Post)
One late spring evening in 2010, Shannan Gilbert - after running through the oceanfront community of Oak Beach screaming for her life - went missing. No one who had heard of her disappearance thought much about what had happened to the 24-year-old: She was a Craigslist escort who had been fleeing a scene - of what, no one could be sure. The Suffolk County police, too, seemed to have paid little attention - until seven months later, when an unexpected discovery in a bramble alongside a nearby highway turned up four bodies, all evenly spaced, all wrapped in burlap. But none of them Shannan’s.
There was Maureen Brainard-Barnes, last seen at Penn Station in Manhattan three years earlier, and Melissa Barthelemy, last seen in the Bronx in 2009. There was Megan Waterman, last seen leaving a hotel in Hauppauge, Long Island, just a month after Shannan’s disappearance in 2010, and Amber Lynn Costello, last seen leaving a house in West Babylon a few months later that same year. Like Shannan, all four women were petite, in their 20s, and had come from out of town to work as escorts, and they all had advertised on Craigslist and its competitor, Backpage.
Long considered “one of the best true-crime books of all time” (Time), Lost Girls is a portrait of unsolved murders in an idyllic part of America, of the underside of the Internet, and of the secrets we keep without admitting to ourselves that we keep them.
©2013 Robert Kolker (P)2013 HarperCollins PublishersWhat listeners say about Lost Girls
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- Katie
- 29-04-2020
Lots to take in
Enjoyed listening. Lots of information on each od the victims, liked the way time was taken on the womens backgrounds. Wish there was some outcome for the families
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- Tracy
- 02-11-2020
More story then investigation
The story is disjointed, the investigation is secondary to the characters experience of loss, the intersections of character feels muddled and this detracts from the story.
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