THE COMMISSIONER vs. THE KILLER: Gilgo Beach Serial Killer True Crime, FBI Cold Case Investigation, and the Hunt for Justice

For thirteen years, a serial killer lived among us.

He drove to work every morning. He came home every evening. He waved to his neighbors and maintained the perfect facade of an ordinary man. Underneath it, buried along a Long Island highway that thousands drove daily, were the bodies of eight women who deserved justice and a system that had failed them.

When remains were discovered along Ocean Parkway in December 2010, the nation was shocked. But the investigation stalled, paralyzed by insti...