Though law enforcement couldn’t quite decide whether they were after a single perpetrator or multiple fiends-or whether Gilbert had fallen prey to the individual who’d murdered the others-it was clear to most that a serial killer was on the loose. In March and April of 2011, the remains of six additional women were found, and in December 2011, Gilbert was also located a short distance away. Brewer and Gilbert’s driver Michael Pak were cleared of any wrongdoing, and police initiated a comprehensive search of the wealthy enclave, which in December 2010 resulted in the discovery of four bodies alongside Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach. Unraveled’s story begins on May 1, 2010, when 23-year-old sex worker Shannan Gilbert was hired via Craigslist to spend time at the private Oak Beach residence of Joseph Brewer, only to flee the house and call 911, claiming someone was trying to kill her-before disappearing. Nonetheless, as a documentary companion piece to Billy Jensen ( I’ll Be Gone in the Dark) and Alexis Linkletter’s seven-part true crime podcast of the same name, the new two-hour Discovery+ special (premiering March 9) does forward a good deal of intriguing speculation about one possible suspect, who’s all the more notable for being the area’s former chief of police. The Long Island serial killer case has now confounded the Suffolk County Police Department for more than a decade, and it’s disappointing-if not altogether surprising-that Unraveled: The Long Island Serial Killer doesn’t definitively answer who committed the slayings in the ritzy gated community of Oak Bech, Long Island.
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