The photos shown of the victims, are of the real-life victims.
Amy Ryan also plays the mother of a missing girl in Gone Baby Gone (2007), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Coincidentally, Amy Ryan (Mari Gilbert) played co-star Gabriel Byrne (Richard Dormer)'s therapist in the acclaimed series In Treatment (2008).
On June 6, 2024, Rex Heuermann, a resident of Massapequa Park on Long Island, was charged in the murders of six women: each of "the Gilgo Four" victims, Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Costello, and Maureen Brainard-Barnes, as well as Jessica Taylor and Sandra Costilla. According to his indictment, Heuermann is under investigation for the 2000 death of Valerie Mack.