Lost Girls An Unsolved American Mystery

If you want to know more about Lisk, the Long Island serial killer and the events surrounding the girls' disappearances, you have to read what is considered the Lisk Bible. It's called Lost Girls, an unsolved American mystery by Robert Kolker and you can get it for free with our 30-day free trial of Audible.

I've listened to the book twice, read it once. I find something new every single time.

the main source used in this story today is the writing of journalist Robert Kolker, who has reported extensively on this case. He actually published a book about it called Lost Girls.

Bob Coker who wrote Lost Girls which was a book about the Gilgo case which we dependent on a lot and he's been a great supporter so

And he had an interview with Bob Coker, who wrote Lost Girls, which was a book about the Gilgote case, which we dependent on a lot.

It has been on my list for a while. I got to pick it up.

He'd go off on the weekend and tell me, oh, I just, you know, drove a prostitute around Long Island and took her from, you know, job to job essentially. I interviewed, he would tell me, interviewed the author, Robert Coker, Bob Coker of Lost Girls. Great novel, great book, not a novel, nonfiction.

He has reported on the Gilgo Beach case from the beginning and is author of the 2013 book, Lost Girls, an Unsolved American Mystery. It examines the victims and the ensuing investigation in the years following their murders.

You speak of your book, which was a powerful description of what was an unsolved crime.

But I always thought from the very beginning that Lost Girls was meant to interrogate some of the assumptions that true crime books make, to try to steer away from the monster movie and get to the other mystery of what made these people so vulnerable and who they were as people.

Certainly there's a lot of tragedy in the lives of these five women even before they disappeared in Long Island.

And I did not want to do a sociology book that got to their pathology and their traumas. I wanted to understand them as people and understand why so many people didn't want to do the same.