DURING THE POLICE’S INVESTIGATING OF THE DEATH OF THE LATE Shannan Gilbert, a number of questions remained unanswered.
Police have recently declared that Shannan is not the victim of the enigmatic Gilgo Beach killer, despite prior speculation to the contrary.
Who was Shannan Gilbert?
A 23-year-old escort from Jersey City, New Jersey, her name was Shannan Gilbert.
One of the ladies allegedly killed by the unnamed Gilgo Beach serial killer was she.
Authorities have now stated that they don’t think the other women on the list of victims discovered on Gilgo Beach are connected to her homicide.
The public was given access to previously unseen recordings of Shannan’s 911 call on May 13, 2022.
Sheree Gilbert, the deceased woman’s sister, told NBC4 that she did not accept the investigation conducted by police authorities into the deceased woman’s death. They merely seem to be confirming what they’ve always claimed, and I get the impression that they have never cared.
“It’s disgusting. What’s the motive, what’s the agenda behind this?
“It doesn’t matter if people think that she’s a victim of the Long Island serial killer. Something happened to her that night.”
She added: “She was in fear for her life. She called 911. She was coherent enough to stay on a phone call for over 20 minutes.
“She was coherent enough to knock on people’s doors. So that leads me to believe – why would she then go into the marsh? That to me just doesn’t make any sense.”
The Netflix film Lost Girls, which will be released in March 2020, was inspired by Shannan’s memoir.
Sarah Wisser plays Shannan in the real crime film Lost Girls, which explores the circumstances surrounding her case.
Her late mother Mari Gilbert, played by Only Murders in the Building alum Amy Ryan, is the film’s major protagonist in her daughter’s research, mirroring real-life tragedy.
Shannan Gilbert made three disturbing 911 calls before going missing on May 1, 2010.
She called the police on that Saturday morning between 4 and 5 a.m. while she was meeting with Joseph Brewer, a client from Long Island.
She continually said, “There’s someone after me,” to the 911 operator as she ran away from Brewer’s Oak Beach home.
She pleaded with several of the nearby people to assist her as she fled on foot.
The woman can be heard claiming she “feared for her life” in the audio of her 911 calls that were made public.
Investigators claim that after calling 911, Shannan fled into the night. Shannan is thought to have died in the Gilgo Beach wetlands.
Was Shannan’s body?
Authorities in the area discovered Shannan’s lifeless body in the Gilgo Beach wetlands on December 13, 2011.
After her body was found, numerous other bodies were found and identified.
Other young women who were reported missing have bodies that were discovered.
The Suffolk County Police Department in New York reported a drowning accident as Shannan’s cause of death.
