Welcome to You Can't Make This Up, a companion podcast from Netflix.

I'm Erica Kiroz and I'll be introducing this week's episode.

Here on You Can't Make This Up, we go behind the scenes of Netflix's original true crime stories with special guests.

This week we don't have our regular host Rebecca Lervoy.

Instead we have her fellow crime writer and real life husband, Kevin Flynn. He'll be interviewing director Liz Garbus

about her film Lost Girls. Liz Garbus is known for directing award-winning

documentaries like what happened Miss Simone, but Lost Girls is her first venture into scripted narrative film.

The story is based on the Long Island serial killer and adapted from the book Lost Girls,

An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kulker.

Amy Ryan stars as Mary Gilbert, a working class mother whose daughter Shannon goes

missing. As Mary tries to find out what happened, she finds support and

unexpected places and the police find the bodies of other victims. In this

conversation, Kevin and Liz will discuss the difference between making a documentary and a narrative feature,

how Mary had to fight to get Shannon's disappearance taken seriously,

and why this case remains unsolved.

Now here's Kevin Flynn and Liz Garbus. What was

What was she doing in a gated community a hundred miles away from home in the middle of the night? My daughter didn't run away. She's missing.

Her last contact with anyone was to 911. What happened?

I'm just a driver. I wait in my car and it's all I do.

Honestly, who spends this much time looking for a missing hook?

Wild sir. I'm looking for a missing hook.

While searching for a missing girl, one of our officers located four bodies. What's over there? Tell me right now, damn it, what did you find?

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