I Appear in Peacock’s The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets Documentary

I’m honored to share that I appear in and consulted on the Peacock documentary The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets, produced in partnership with Texas Crew Productions and G-Unit Films & Television.

The film revisits one of the most haunting and widely followed investigations in modern American history—the Gilgo Beach murders, also known as the Long Island Serial Killer (LISK) case, in Suffolk County, New York. Through new interviews and reporting, the documentary examines the investigation, the victims, and the broader social forces that shaped how the case unfolded.

For me, this story goes back a decade.

I became deeply immersed in the case while researching, writing, and producing the podcast LISK: Long Island Serial Killer. That project actually began as a documentary television pilot in 2016, when my colleagues and I started filming interviews with investigators, journalists, and people connected to the story. As I worked on the project, I spent months studying the details of the investigation, speaking with sources, victims’ families, and examining the many unanswered questions surrounding the Gilgo Beach murders.

But back around the time we wrapped post-production on the doc in early 2017, television networks weren’t particularly interested in unsolved cold cases. The pilot stalled, and for a while it seemed like the material we had gathered, hours of deeply reported interviews, might never reach an audience.

Then, in the fall of 2019, my colleague and friend Chris Mass, the host of the LISK: Long Island Serial Killer podcast, had a simple but transformative idea: what if we took the audio from our filmed interviews and turned it into a podcast?

What followed exceeded anything we could have imagined.

The series went on to become one of the most respected voices for victim advocacy in the true crime space, helping pioneer a more victim-centered approach to investigative storytelling. Instead of focusing solely on the mystery, we tried to center the lives of the women whose disappearances had too often been overlooked, and the families who had spent years fighting to keep their stories alive.

The podcast garnered recognition from outlets including The New York Times, GQ, Vogue, and many others. More importantly, it helped shift the conversation around ethics in true crime reporting.

Working on the Gilgo Beach case changed the course of my life. It was one of the first moments when I realized that storytelling could be more than entertainment. When done thoughtfully, it can illuminate important issues and restore humanity to people who are too often reduced to headlines.

Years later, especially following the arrest of Rex Heuermann, the suspect charged in connection with several of the Gilgo Beach murders, I’m still receiving calls to consult on the case.

I owe a tremendous amount to the victims of the LISK case and the families who have fought so hard to keep their stories alive. My career in podcasting is just one of the many things that grew out of their courage and persistence.

That experience also shaped the kind of work I continue to pursue today through Moonpie Media. Much of my work focuses on stories that intersect with feminism, class, social justice, and people living on the margins of society—the kinds of narratives that reveal so much about the world we live in.

I’m grateful to have contributed to The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets and to continue participating in conversations about this case with care, nuance, and empathy.

The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets is now streaming on Peacock.