*Signed Bookplate* Women have been disappearing on Long Island for decades. The violence was so persistent it became part of the landscape, an undercurrent running beneath suburban neighborhoods, beach towns, and childhood memories. Then, in December 2010, the search for a missing woman revealed that a serial killer had been using Ocean Parkway to conceal the remains of his victims. Alexis Linkletter grew up on Long Island. By the time the Gilgo Beach murders captured national attention, she was living in Los Angeles and building a career as an investigative journalist and producer. But when a former high school friend became entangled in a corruption scandal involving Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke, she found herself at the center of a story that would consume the next decade of her life.