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New Movie On Long Island Serial Murders Features Hudson Valley Mom's Perspective New Movie On Long Island Serial Murders Features Hudson Valley Mom's Perspective
New Movie On Long Island Serial Murders Features Hudson Valley Mom's Perspective A new Lifetime movie focuses on the Gilgo Beach murders. The movie, "The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother's Hunt for Justice" tells the story from the point of view of Hudson Valley resident Mari Gilbert's search for what happened to her daughter Shannan, one of the 11 victims found.  The movie airs at 8 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 20 on Lifetime.  In the movie, after Shannan fails to come home in May of 2010, her mother knows something is terribly wrong. Pleading with police to take her concerns seriously, she keeps pushing the police for answers.  Gilbert's insistence that he…

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by Kathy Reakes
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'Lost Girls': Netflix Spotlights Disappearances, Deaths Of Hudson Valley Woman, 10 Others 'Lost Girls': Netflix Spotlights Disappearances, Deaths Of Hudson Valley Woman, 10 Others
'Lost Girls': Netflix Spotlights Disappearances, Deaths Of Hudson Valley Woman, 10 Others A movie telling the story of the ongoing search for a serial killer that murdered 11 people, including a Hudson Valley woman, is soon coming to Netflix. "Lost Girls," which is set to debut on Friday, March 13, is based on the true story of Mari Gilbert, an Ulster County mother's search for her missing daughter, Shannan, that led to the discovery of her body, along with 10 others, on Long Island Filmed not far from where the bodies were found on Gilgo Beach, the movie focuses on Gilbert's search for her daughter, an Ellenville High School grad, who worked as a prostitute when she disappeared…

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by Kathy Reakes