Spike TV Partners with Joe Berlinger on Missing Women Docuseries

Spike TV has teamed with award-winning documentary maker Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost trilogy) on the eight-hour event series Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio, launching later this summer.

Directed and executive produced by Berlinger, Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio will debut on Saturday, July 22, at 9 p.m. The documentary series delves into the deaths and disappearances of six young women in southern Ohio, an area that is plagued by drug and sex trafficking. The victims’ families feel that justice has not been done, and Berlinger and his crew conducted their own investigation to help solve the crimes and look into the accusations of police mishandling.

Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio is produced by RadicalMedia in association with Third Eye Motion Picture Company for Spike. Jon Kamen, Dave O’Connor and Justin Wilkes are executive producers for RadicalMedia, and Catharine Park also served as executive producer and directed two episodes. Justin Lacob, the VP of original series at Spike TV, is overseeing the project for the network.

“As a father of daughters of my own, I could not help but be drawn to wanting to help solve this mystery and to find out why these families felt that they were not getting the justice they deserved,” said Berlinger. “Allocating eight hours of air time to mount a real-time investigation as it unfolds was a bold decision by Spike, creating a wonderful collaboration between my team and the network.”

“Although the missing women in Ohio initially garnered national media attention, they seem to have been forgotten about without any real justice being served,” added Chachi Senior, the senior VP of alternative programming and development at Spike. “After discussing with Joe, we were compelled to try and give these women a voice. Partnering with Joe has been an extremely humbling experience. He is quite frankly the best at what he does.”