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The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother's Hunt for Justice

The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother's Hunt for Justice

20215.81h 27m

Overview

Mari Gilbert searches for the truth behind what happened to her daughter Shannan, a sometime escort who disappeared after a ‘date’ on Long Island. After Shannan fails to come home, her mother Mari knows something is terribly wrong. Pleading to police to take her concerns seriously, she keeps pushing the police for answers. Mari’s insistence that her daughter not be overlooked eventually leads to a horror hidden on Long Island for more than a decade – 19 bodies of young women discovered buried in shallow graves along Ocean Parkway in the area of Jones Beach State Park.

Directed by Stanley M. Brooks
Written by John Pielmeier
Produced by Kevin Leeson, Shawn Williamson, Jamie Goehring
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Top Cast

Katharine Isabelle

Katharine Isabelle

Shannan Gilbert

Kim Delaney

Kim Delaney

Mari Gilbert

Jason Gray-Stanford

Jason Gray-Stanford

Steven Rubin

Patrick Sabongui

Patrick Sabongui

Detective James Burke

John Cassini

John Cassini

Chief Detective Dominick Varrone

Lucia Walters

Lucia Walters

Cecile

Eugene Clark

Eugene Clark

Herc Zinneman

Jess McLeod

Jess McLeod

Sara Gilbert

Zak Santiago

Zak Santiago

Arresting Officer

V.G. Winter

V.G. Winter

James Bissett

Themes & Keywords

based on true storylong island, new yorkserial killersex worker

About The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother's Hunt for Justice

The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother's Hunt for Justice is a drama, crime, tv movie film released in 2021 exploring themes of based on true story, long island, new york, serial killer, sex worker. Directed by Stanley M. Brooks, it stars Katharine Isabelle, Kim Delaney, Jason Gray-Stanford. Mari Gilbert searches for the truth behind what happened to her daughter Shannan, a sometime escort who disappeared after a ‘date’ on Long Island. After Shannan fails to come home, her mother Mari knows something is terribly wrong. Pleading to police to take her concerns seriously, she keeps pushing the police for answers. Mari’s insistence that her daughter not be overlooked eventually leads to a horror hidden on Long Island for more than a decade – 19 bodies of young women discovered buried in shallow graves along Ocean Parkway in the area of Jones Beach State Park.

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