Serial Killer Documentary Review Critiques Police Response

A new documentary on the ongoing Gilgo Beach serial killer investigation gives an indication that police investigators do not "project urgency" when it comes to solving the 10 murder cases which include the killing of five prostitutes, according to a New York Times television critic.

In a review published Sunday, Neil Genzlinger writes that Monday's A&E program, called “The Long Island Serial Killer,” offers up comment from family members and a man who most likely was one of the last people to see the missing Shannan Gilbert, whom police resumed a search for Monday along Ocean Parkway.

It was an ongoing search for Gilbert a year ago that led to the first of 10 sets of human remains discovered between December 2010 and April 2011 along Ocean Parkway, between Suffolk and Nassau counties.

Genzlinger states Suffolk Police Commissioner Richard Dormer, who is interviewed in the documentary, is one of the law enforcement authorities who "come off looking somewhat lackadaisical. Mr. Dormer does not exactly project urgency."

As of press time, Suffolk Police had not returned a request by Patch for comment on statements in the Times review.