In this Dec. 8, 2011 photo, investigators use a backhoe to dig while searching for Shannan Gilbert's body in different sectors of a marsh area just east of Oak Beach, N.Y. A Long Island architect has

The Victims on Gilgo Beach

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 17, 2023

Now that there has been an arrest in some of the murders, Robert Kolker, journalist and the author of Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery (Harper, 2013) and Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Doubleday, 2020), and Crystal DeBoise, psychotherapist and co-founder and director of strategic partnerships for Decriminalize Sex Work, talk about the lives of the victims found on Gilgo Beach, the vulnerabilities specific to sex workers and what's changed for those workers in the years since the bodies were discovered.

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