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008 130912s2014 xxub 000 0 eng d
020 0062183656
020 9780062183651
041 0 eng
082 04 364.152/30974721|223
092 0 364|bengelska
100 1 Kolker, Robert,|eauthor
245 10 Lost girls :|ban unsolved American mystery /|cRobert
Kolker
250 First Harper Perennial edition
264 1 New York :|bHarper Perennial,|c[2014]
300 xiv, 399 pages :|bmaps ;|c21 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
505 0 Maureen -- Melissa -- Shannan -- Megan -- Amber -- Marie -
- Chloe -- Angelina -- Lexi -- Carolina -- Interlude : Oak
Beach, 2010 -- Bodies -- Families -- Conspiracies --
Alliances -- The doctor -- The marsh -- The john -- The
remains
520 "Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Kolker
delivers a haunting and humanizing account of the true-
life search for a serial killer still at large on Long
Island, in a compelling tale of unsolved murder and
Internet prostitution. 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 twenty-four-year-old:
she was a Craigslist prostitute 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 Hauppage,
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 and in their twenties,
they all came from out of town to work as escorts, and
they all advertised on Craigslist and its competitor,
Backpage. In a triumph of reporting--and in a riveting
narrative--Robert Kolker presents the first detailed look
at the shadow world of escorts in the Internet age, where
making a living is easier than ever and the dangers remain
all too real. He has talked exhaustively with the friends
and family of each woman to reveal the three-dimensional
truths about their lives, the struggling towns they came
from, and the dreams they chased. And he has gained unique
access to the Oak Beach neighborhood that has found itself
the focus of national media scrutiny--where the police
have flailed, the body count has risen, and the neighbors
have begun pointing fingers at one another. There, in a
remote community, out of sight of the beaches and marinas
scattered along the South Shore barrier islands, the
women's stories come together in death and dark mystery.
Lost Girls is a portrait not just of five women, but of
unsolved murder 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"--
|cProvided by publisher
520 "A literary account of the lives and presumed serial
killings of five "Craigslist" prostitutes, whose bodies
were found on the same Long Island beach in 2010. Based on
the New York Magazine cover story"--|cProvided by
publisher
650 0 Serial murders|zNew York (State)|zLong Island
650 0 Computer crimes|zNew York (State)|zLong Island
650 0 Prostitution|zNew York (State)|zLong Island
650 0 Young women|zNew York (State)|zLong Island
650 7 Seriemördare|2sao
650 7 Prostitution|2sao
650 7 Databrott|2sao
650 7 Unga kvinnor|2sao
651 7 New York (State)|zLong Island
907 00 150730
