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Cargando... Lost Girls: The Unsolved American Mystery of the Gilgo Beach Serial Killer Murders (2013 original; edición 2020)por Robert Kolker (Autor)
Información de la obraLost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery por Robert Kolker (2013)
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A very interesting murder mystery, poorly told. Lost Girls is a true crime book focusing on a serial killer who murdered prostitutes and dumped their remains in a small area of Long Island. This book could have been much better, but Kolker did a reasonable job of telling the stories of the victims. He definitely elaborates on how prostitution operates in today's Internet-based world, and the risks that these young women faced as they worked. Ultimately, though, the story is unsatisfying. First, it was quite hard to follow because there are so many characters, and oddly, many, many names starting with the letter "M". Turns out there is a terrific guide to who is who. On the last page of the book. ARGGHHHHHHH! Are you kidding me? I was dying for some kind of family tree or something, and there it is. After I read the whole dang thing. Realize I am being extra sensitive since I just tried to read A Suitable Boy - - a book where the family trees must be referenced like every 6 pages - - so I'm a little family tree'd out, but now realize that lots of family trees are certainly better than no family trees. I almost started drawing them myself. Sigh. Ok, rant over. I didn't think Kolker really did a very good job of helping the reader understand the criminal investigation, and that's what made this read a lot less than it could have been. A much, much better book to read in a similar vein is People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Perry. Once you're able to easily distinguish the narratives of the individual girls, whose soon-to-be-upended lives are unique except for their shared lower income background and their foray into the world of prostitution via the growing popularity of Craigslist, then the whole tragedy of Lost Girls comes into heartbreaking focus. This is a story as old as time itself, but this difference this time is the medium is relatively new. These tragedies happened during a time when the perceived ease of getting paid for sex via online hookups was enticing for young women in difficult circumstances. It was also arguably just as easy for a sociopathic murderer to find his next victims using the same methods. The book is better than the Netflix production, and the Netflix version is captivating. That's how good the book is. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: New York Times Bestseller â?¢ Now a Netflix Film "Rich, tragic...monumental . . . true-crime reporting at its best."â??Washington Post The bestselling account of the lives of five young women whose fates converged in the perplexing case of the Long Island Serial Killer. Now updated, with a new epilogue by the author. One late spring evening in 2010, Shannan Gilbertâ??after running through the oceanfront community of Oak Beach screaming for her lifeâ??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 escort who had been fleeing a sceneâ??of what, no one could be sure. The Suffolk County police, too, seemed to have paid little attentionâ??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 Hauppauge, Long Island, just a month after Shannon'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, in their twenties, and had come from out of town to work as escorts, and they all had advertised on Craigslist and its competitor, Backpage. Lost Girls is a portrait of unsolved murders 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. Long considered "one of the best true-crime books of all time" (Time), this edition includes a new epilogue that speaks to developments in the case, including the shocking fate of Mari Gilbert, Shannan's mother, for whom this case became the crusade o No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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"Lost Girls" is also very much a story about technology, and it provides an invaluable look at the mechanics of how escorting worked in the first decade of the twenty-first century, after what might be called late Web 1.0 made sex workers and johns more available to each other. While I admit that I was surprised that any vestiges of the skin trade still operated in newly redeveloped Times Square, the author seems to communicate his own ambiguity as to whether these new technological innovations have made women working with their bodies safer or more independent. Still, he's very thorough about what sort of protection a pimp is supposed to provide, which calls are considered more or less risky, and how women on the streets check in with friends or family to help keep them out of harm's way. Kolker artfully shows that, for these girls, money that was comparatively easy to make and abundant came with alliances and compromises that were tough to escape and hopes, against all odds, that acceptance a commitment to transparency from all parties involved might keep events from the ones described in this book from happening. While the victims' families obviously did everything they could to keep their relatives' memories alive, his book, which later became a Netflix series, might be the best and most lasting monument to their shortened lives that we'll ever have. ( )