Fight for justice

Amy Ryan stars as a heartbroken single mum in a compelling true-crime drama

- JUDY EWENS, REBECCA MAHONEY, SEAN MARLAND

One mother’s fight to find her missing daughter turns into a hunt for a serial killer in Netflix’s haunting true-crime drama Lost Girls.

Based on Robert Kolker’s non-fiction bestseller, the drama follows single mother Mari Gilbert (Oscar-nominated Amy Ryan), who reports her eldest daughter, 24-year-old sex worker Shannan, missing when she fails to show up for a family dinner in 2010.

Detectives soon learn that Shannan made a panicked 911 call while running from a client’s house in a gated community on New York’s Long Island the night she went missing. The call lasted more than 20 minutes, but when officers arrived – an hour later – she was gone.