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There will be a Netflix movie soon One of Slate's Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years A literary account of the lives and presumed serial murders of five Craigslist prostitutes whose bodies were found on the same Long Island beach in 2010. Based on the New York Magazine cover story. Shannan wanted acceptance. Maureen wanted a solution. Megan wanted love. Melissa wanted adventure. Amber wanted to be saved. Over the course of three years, each of these young women disappeared without a trace: Maureen in 2007, Melissa and Megan in 2009, and Amber and Shannan in 2010. All but one of their bodies were discovered on Gilgo Beach, Long Island, a restless, overgrown seven-mile stretch of shoreline in a string of barrier islands along South Oyster Bay. Sharing the same profile—all were in their twenties, all but one under five feet tall, and all were prostitutes who advertised on Craigslist—police concluded that they were all victims of a killer, the Long Island serial killer. New York’s most talented and successful serial killer, Son of Sam, David Berkowitz. But as intrepid young reporter Robert Kolker discovered, the truth about these women went much deeper than popular assumptions. The victims were not outcasts; they were not kidnapped or enslaved. They all came from a part of America overlooked by politicians and the media: poor, often rural, white parts of the country hard-hit by economic hardship, where limited opportunities forced people to make tough choices—choices that led them to places like Gilgo Beach. Working closely with the women's families, Lost Girls tells the stories of their deaths and lives, offering a searing portrait of the crime and condition that go to the heart of modern American.

There will be a Netflix movie soon One of Slate's Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years A literary account of the lives and presumed serial murders of five Craigslist prostitutes whose bodies were found on the same Long Island beach in 2010. Based on the New York Magazine cover story. Shannan wanted acceptance. Maureen wanted a solution. Megan wanted love. Melissa wanted adventure. Amber wanted to be saved. Over the course of three years, each of these young women disappeared without a trace: Maureen in 2007, Melissa and Megan in 2009, and Amber and Shannan in 2010. All but one of their bodies were discovered on Gilgo Beach, Long Island, a restless, overgrown seven-mile stretch of shoreline in a string of barrier islands along South Oyster Bay. Sharing the same profile—all were in their twenties, all but one under five feet tall, and all were prostitutes who advertised on Craigslist—police concluded that they were all victims of a killer, the Long Island serial killer. New York’s most talented and successful serial killer, Son of Sam, David Berkowitz. But as intrepid young reporter Robert Kolker discovered, the truth about these women went much deeper than popular assumptions. The victims were not outcasts; they were not kidnapped or enslaved. They all came from a part of America overlooked by politicians and the media: poor, often rural, white parts of the country hard-hit by economic hardship, where limited opportunities forced people to make tough choices—choices that led them to places like Gilgo Beach. Working closely with the women's families, Lost Girls tells the stories of their deaths and lives, offering a searing portrait of the crime and condition that go to the heart of modern American.