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00:04If you want to understand Picasso, you have to study his art.
00:11If you want to understand a serial killer, you study the crime.
00:15Four unidentified bodies.
00:17Long Island police literally stumbled onto the crime scene.
00:21What was going on out in Long Island?
00:24Ten sets of remains have been discovered.
00:26It was this burial ground for all these people.
00:29They were laying out in the open.
00:31Why weren't they noticed?
00:33The killer has apparently targeted prostitutes.
00:36The police didn't investigate because there were sex workers.
00:39That's fucking infuriating.
00:41They kept the FBI out of this investigation.
00:44Was this a cover-up?
00:46What are they hiding?
00:48We realized that we needed to act.
00:51DNA evidence was obtained.
00:54We identified the suspect.
00:56Get him within your sights.
00:58But don't blow the investigation.
01:02He was keeping very close tabs on law enforcement.
01:05His internet searches contained torture porn, rape.
01:09I sized him up totally wrong.
01:12This is the house that police have been swarming.
01:15This guy was hunting victims for sport.
01:18These women were tortured.
01:20This was beyond your worst nightmare.
01:22We're talking about a cold case that extends back 30 years.
01:25How many bodies are we going to see here?
01:28Catch this guy for us.
01:30Please.
01:45Long Island is a true melting pot of people from all walks of life.
01:56A lot of firefighters, teachers, cops.
02:01Upper middle class to working class.
02:03Safe.
02:04Here and there you'd hear something, you know.
02:06But not too bad.
02:08We have the Baldwin brothers, the actors, they're from this town.
02:13So is Jerry Seinfeld.
02:15A lot of people are from Massapequa.
02:18Long Island seems like a place where nothing goes wrong.
02:22But behind closed doors, it's not always as it appears to be.
02:33The Long Island serial killer, one of the most prolific, unsolved serial killer cases in modern U.S. history.
02:45I was in the FBI 11 years.
02:50I've always looked at the victims in this case and thought that could have been my niece.
02:55That could have been my best friend.
02:57That could have been my cousin.
02:58That could have been my sister.
03:01How would I want that murder to be investigated?
03:06During the height of this investigation, certain circles within law enforcement were dismissive.
03:13All victims deserve to have equal protection under law.
03:17And you don't not investigate something because someone is involved with sex work.
03:24They all have names.
03:26They all have families.
03:27They all have people that miss them.
03:31I think a lot of people are inclined to look away.
03:34But this impacts every member of society.
03:37Don't look away from it.
03:40The problems with this case go back to the beginning of it.
03:45And this case really starts with missing women.
03:48The search is on this morning for a missing woman.
03:50A young mother from Scarborough had been missing since last June.
03:53A 23-year-old woman missing since May 2010.
03:57She vanished without a trace.
03:58She visited New York and hasn't been seen since.
04:02Every year, hundreds of women and girls go missing in New York and on Long Island.
04:08It's a desperate search for a missing woman who hasn't been seen now for almost a week.
04:13A lot of reporter Kristen Thorne with the latest.
04:16Sade Marie Kuhnla spent 17 years working as a public defender.
04:21My name is Kristen Thorne.
04:22I was a reporter for 13 years with ABC Channel 7 Eyewitness News in New York.
04:29Police are now in this area of Freeport that they have searched before.
04:32I investigate cold case disappearances.
04:35The female jogger, 30 years old.
04:37Her family called police when she didn't return home.
04:40If you're a juvenile in this country and you disappear, there is a lot to help find you.
04:45If you're 65 and older, we have something called a silver alert.
04:50So there's an alert that goes out.
04:51But if you're in that 18 to 64 range and you disappear, good luck.
04:59Law enforcement is overloaded with cases.
05:03So a missing woman is not always going to make it to the top of the pile.
05:10When Melissa first went missing, my favorite shows were like CSI, Criminal Minds.
05:16What is the chance of this happening to us?
05:19I mean, we're just normal, laid back family, close knit.
05:24I mean, how could this happen to us?
05:29Melissa was pretty shy, but she loved people.
05:32She loved her family.
05:35She would like to put twist ties in grandma's hair, pretend that she was putting rollers in there.
05:43Melissa's plan was to move to New York City and open her own salon.
05:49She always told me, I want to get my career going.
05:52I want to enjoy life a little bit.
05:56She was working hard and she deserved the whole world.
06:00And then she went missing.
06:04Before Megan went missing, I was seeing her every day.
06:08She was a problem child.
06:10If you came onto her face to face, one of you two were going down and it's not going to
06:16be her.
06:18But she was kind.
06:20If you needed anything, she wouldn't hesitate at least to give it to you.
06:24She would give the last penny in her pocket.
06:27Have you ever gone roller skating?
06:29And you wear white and how it changes the color.
06:34She would just get out on that floor and do whatever she wanted.
06:38She was a free girl.
06:41Megan was on temporary aid for needy families.
06:45They were only giving her $400 a month for her and Liliana.
06:51She tried getting jobs, but it didn't work out.
06:56I found out that Megan was placing ads on Craigslist through her brother's ex-girlfriend.
07:02She's like, yeah, on the escort section.
07:05I'm like, what?
07:06I'm like, no way.
07:08I just went to like 300 pages of photos of females and Megan is in there.
07:17We had no clue.
07:20Craigslist was a place for a lot of things in 2010, including personal services as well as sexual services.
07:29And in many ways, it was safer because women could screen their clients and then decide if they wanted to
07:36meet with them.
07:37We all tried talking to Megan, trying to get her out of it, but she needed money so she could
07:43stay where she was living.
07:48The last time anybody saw Megan was 2010.
07:52She took a bus down to New York to work.
07:57She disappeared into thin air.
08:02I called Suffolk County Police Department.
08:04They searched the hotel.
08:06And as far as I know of, that's the only time they looked for her.
08:13We contacted the 43rd Precinct, said, you know, my daughter lives in the Bronx.
08:19We haven't heard from her.
08:21And she's like, ma'am, is she mentally retarded?
08:24Is she on any type of psych meds?
08:27No, no, no.
08:28Well, then she's not missing.
08:30She's where she wants to be.
08:33It was so discouraging.
08:36They're just not doing their job.
08:41For years, these families knew that their loved ones were missing.
08:47And no matter how many times they went to the police department to try to get them to take this
08:52seriously, they didn't.
08:57Melissa was last seen leaving her apartment in the Bronx on July 12th.
09:01Her family is looking for help.
09:03If anybody has seen my daughter, please contact us.
09:07What do you think happened to your daughter?
09:10I don't know if somebody had grabbed her or she was walking to the store or what, but I know
09:14she is definitely missing.
09:17With a lot of missing persons, it's not always clear to the family or friends where exactly their loved one
09:25disappeared.
09:26But with Shannon Gilbert, it's a completely different story.
09:33When I heard my sister was missing, I knew something sinister happened.
09:41Shannon was doing this for a few years to pay her college tuition.
09:47She was so smart and talented.
09:51She was so realistic, so relatable.
09:53I could tell her anything.
09:56Her voice was very beautiful.
10:00We had this thing, Sunday fun day, every weekend, we all got together.
10:06So much fun, so much laughter, food.
10:09It was the best times.
10:13We all thought we were the Spice Girls.
10:16Our favorite girl man was the Spice Girls.
10:21She loved music.
10:22She loved it.
10:27You know how, like, you're so scared to tell your mom things?
10:30With Shannon, it's like having, like, your mom and your sister.
10:35It was great.
10:39One day, her boyfriend notified my mother that she went to see a client and was never seen after that.
10:50I met Shannon Gilbert working for this escort agency.
10:54I got a job as a driver.
10:58May 1st, Shannon texted me.
11:00She said, can you pick me up at 32nd and Broadway?
11:03She would take the PATH train there from New Jersey?
11:06So I said, yeah, sure.
11:09Somebody spoke to her about coming out to Long Island.
11:13It was a long drive.
11:15About an hour from the city.
11:19We got there around, like, 1 a.m.
11:23When they went up to the house, I took a nap.
11:27And around 5 a.m., the guy came out to my car.
11:31And he said that she won't leave.
11:33I said, what?
11:35I went into his house.
11:36I said, what's wrong?
11:38And she said, they're trying to kill me.
11:40So I said, who's trying to kill you?
11:42She just got up right up and ran.
11:45She went across the car and tore the thicket's bushes.
11:54I called her and texted her. She didn't pick up.
12:08Within 24 hours, my mother reported her missing.
12:11She was lying.
12:13We were told that this was just a case of a runaway.
12:19That's not something my sister would do.
12:23This is not like her.
12:25This is not who she is.
12:27This is not her character.
12:29We all knew something happened.
12:34the crazy thing is shannon's driver could pinpoint exactly where she went missing
12:42and yet that area remained largely untouched by law enforcement
12:50then in december of 2010 seven months after shannon disappeared total fluke
13:00an officer for the suffolk county police department decided you know i'm gonna go take my canine to go
13:05practice down at gilgo beach i'm gonna go out to gilgo i'm gonna look for that uh shannon gilbert
13:12woman look what happened we're following some breaking news right now a body has been found
13:21in oak beach authorities made the find as they investigated a missing persons report
13:25looking for a 24 year old woman from jersey city on may 1st of this year shannon gilbert
13:33a 23 year old female went missing we had no leads as to where she went in a continuation of
13:42that
13:42investigation the missing persons unit responded to the area where this young lady went missing
13:49with his dog blue here's blue blue's a cadaver dog we started our search he started sampling the air
14:00and he started indicating to a spot off the shoulder of the parkway at that point i saw the skeletal
14:08remains
14:08of a body bombshell tonight an off-duty cop walking his dog on a beautiful remote isolated beach
14:16stumbles upon a woman's dead body one night we're sitting on the couch watching nancy grace and all of a
14:26sudden they discovered a body in long island they said that they had found a female approximately 24 to 26
14:37years old
14:38four foot nine we just started crying we knew it was her
14:45i mean it's just it's unbelievable it was so close to the road how could nobody see this
15:06they were searching more that day they didn't find anybody two days later suffix county contacted me
15:16to tell me that they found three more bodies
15:22oak beach tonight looking more like a gruesome cemetery the remains of three more people were found
15:28and stuffed in these brushes typically when you have a homicide it's one person with a particular set
15:38of circumstances when we realized the reporters the media that there were four bodies that seemed to be
15:47killed in a consistent way all buried in the same area it was just unbelievable
15:55i had never seen anything like it in all my years of reporting and we knew that we had a
16:03huge story on our
16:05hands the media dubbed them the gilgo four
16:12the gilgo four were found along ocean parkway they were spaced equally apart and three of the four
16:19victims were found to have been wrapped using a specific type of burlap typically used by duck
16:25hunters they were disposed of in a very distinct and similar manner it wasn't a burial site it was where
16:32their bodies were strategically disposed of unless you've been there it's hard to explain ocean parkway
16:43is a desolate highway there's no street lights it's completely dark you can have considerable time if
16:52you're trying to commit a crime like disposing of a body
16:58i've personally pulled over and timed it at night time might not see headlights for 30 seconds
17:05where you could not see headlights for eight minutes there are no housing structures nearby there's no
17:13businesses he walked maybe 25 paces dumped the body got in his vehicle and left
17:22the investigators found hairs that did not belong to the victims and it did not match any profile
17:30within law enforcement dna databases they belong to an unidentified male of caucasian descent
17:39the totality of the evidence linked the gilgo four together very cleanly and clearly
17:46and logically from an investigative standpoint shannon gilbert is the suspected sex worker whose
17:52disappearance police were investigating when they stumbled on four bodies but gilbert was not among
17:58them she remains missing suffolk county police find themselves now on the trail of a possible
18:03serial killer one of the things that stood out to me was that all of the victims were petite in
18:09nature he has this distinct type i think he was picking those victims because they were small in
18:16stature and easier to control because of their size tonight suffolk county sheriffs say they think one of the
18:22bodies could be that of 22 year old megan waterman from scarborough when you're done take it out
18:28we'll just put it back away okay scarborough police asked lorraine helen for a swab sample to see if her
18:33dna
18:34will match one of the bodies probably a month after detective hagan shows up at my house to tell me
18:44that
18:44it was megan i was pretty much like okay what is my next step what do i do and he
18:55was like well i'm
18:56really sorry about your loss he's like here's my card his this gentleman's card and they left
19:03he turned on and walked away
19:16good afternoon we are here today to announce that all four women whose remains were discovered in
19:24gilgo beach last month have been positively identified
19:27the victims are megan waterman of scarborough maine
19:36melissa bartlemy of the bronx maureen brainard barnes of norwich connecticut
19:46and amber lynn costello of north babylon
20:00i still like it out there fishing i've been doing for a long time man it's something different
20:10especially after all that happened
20:14yeah but it was funny she was like ridiculous you know what i mean like four foot ten you know
20:22a hundred pounds just like a little firecracker you know what i mean she was just like any other
20:2820-something year old girl talked about getting married you know talked about you know holding down
20:34a real job she loved animals man it was the thing she wanted to be veterinarian she was looking into
20:43schools and stuff amber would have done something she had a really good moral compass but the second
20:51her sister came around it just you know the compass started spinning
20:58it was her sister that got her into all that
21:01they were doing calls together
21:04these guys that would come for this kind of stuff man
21:07you'd be surprised how many of them are like cops lawyers i'd swear to
21:13shit 90 of the people were married men
21:18the first week of september 2010 she's like i got a call you know the guy wants to to possibly
21:25do 24
21:26hours and then she disappeared
21:31of course you know it fucks you up because you know it's your friend's gone
21:37of course you know it's your friend's gone
21:42all of those women were engaged in prostitution and solicited business over the internet and these
21:49homicides appear to us to be directly related to that business
21:56maureen was fearless
21:59brave is an understatement
22:02she's always like that
22:07i met maureen when we were working as telemarketers
22:10she was in the cubicle across from me and we just clicked
22:15maureen was the most lively person you know she always had something funny to say
22:21she knew when to have fun and she knew when to work her ass off
22:26she's a single mom and she was trying hard
22:31when she was fired i think maybe two or three weeks after me she needed to make that money real
22:37quick and she said hey sarah you like to fuck random people why don't you get paid for it
22:46first we would do is we type in manhattan.craigslist.org
22:50we'd go to erotic services and then it would make you put in the title like hi i'm lacy i'm
22:56100
22:57independent you're a rent-a-girlfriend everybody seems to think that it's going to be like pretty
23:04woman and you have to dress like her okay no you have to dress like her after she meets richard
23:10gear
23:10it's more about companionship than it is about the sex
23:15one of the most important things she always told me she said follow your instincts if it doesn't feel
23:22right don't do it
23:28when maureen went missing we were staying in midtown manhattan but i left i went back to connecticut
23:41later on that night i kept calling her phone calling her phone calling her phone
23:50we would work in pairs to keep us safe but she had eviction court the next day she had less
23:59than 24 hours to get some kind of money up so that they didn't lose their freaking house
24:10that's why she went alone she wouldn't have done it any other time
24:18i have really bad survivor's guilt because i really feel like
24:23she'd be alive had i stayed i know that for a fact
24:30melissa was in new york for probably two and a half years
24:34and i didn't find out what she was doing until they found her body and they found out that they
24:40were sex workers
24:44we were really close with melissa we spoke constantly it's just mind-boggling
24:52i just don't understand how i missed all this stuff how i didn't know what she was doing
25:05here on oak beach they don't seem overly concerned since the killer has apparently targeted prostitutes
25:12i think that it was very comforting when we found out that he was targeting a specific group of women
25:16from a specific website so that it made it something that was removed from us
25:21in the beginning the media wasn't very nice they called our girls prostitutes and whores bodies of
25:27four young prostitutes in december of another craigslist prostitute an online escort prostitutes who
25:33advertised their services on craigslist people would see something on tv and basically they would say
25:40that they deserved it there was some of the attitude that well they put themselves in that position and
25:47was obvious from public statements that some of the most senior people investigating this murder
25:52were saying their deaths are a direct result of their business as prostitutes we're easy targets
26:01because we are considered bottom of the barrel nobody gives a about us we cannot report crimes to cops
26:09because it's not legal today sex work has become more destigmatized with sites like only fans becoming
26:19mainstream it's become a more accepted line of work but in 2010 that wasn't the case
26:30at one point one of the senior investigators made a comment to a reporter about the victims being greedy and
26:37wanting money when i read that i remember getting sick to my stomach because i just thought to myself
26:45what have you done to find this guy and what are you doing telling a reporter that this victim
26:52was greedy and that's why she was involved in that type of work it's utter fucking bullshit
27:01any more questions one more one more please oh no i don't think no i i don't want anybody to
27:09think that
27:10we have a jack the ripper running around suffolk county with blood dripping from a knife it's not
27:15that type of situation and so i would say to people go about your business suffolk county is one of
27:22the
27:22safest counties anywhere in the united states just three months after the gilgo four are discovered
27:30another bombshell drops i get a call more bodies have been found in gilgo we need you guys to go
27:38out there
27:41and so we leave new york city to go out to long island
27:46police vehicle was driving by this ocean parkway highway and something caught his eye last time
27:54they were here was actually back in january just a couple weeks after suffolk police found the remains
28:00of four women the winter weather prevented searching so they came out here again officers discovered what
28:07appeared to be another human remain was discovered also on the north side of ocean parkway
28:23police found a human skull yesterday this time by divers they are being examined tonight by medical
28:31experts over the course of a few weeks police found partial skeletal remains several miles east of where
28:41the gilgo four were found investigators unearthed four more bodies on that same strip of beach one more
28:48body that's right the body count just keeps on rising and the grisly mystery just deepens ocean
28:54parkway is a mass burial ground i mean this is like crazy it's just a little bit unsettling that you
29:04know you never know what could be down the street it's very scary and it makes it much more creepy
29:10to
29:10come here by yourself i keep a cell phone in one pocket and when i have to take a shotgun
29:16i'm out of
29:17here at that time the fever pitch from the public interest the public outcry and the media got really
29:27really high because you have a crime scene with at least 10 bodies and shannon gilbert has not been
29:33found so far police have already discovered the remains of 10 people they made it very clear that
29:40they do not know if these remains are connected to the four other women that you saw there so still
29:46a
29:46lot of mystery around this police are holding this news conference at 11 o'clock this morning we're live at
29:52gilgo beach kristen thorne cbs 2 news uh where's bob looking
29:58you all set
30:05today we're going to discuss some details regarding the remains discovered by the suffolk county police
30:12department and what is now very clear is that the area in and around gilgo beach
30:18has been used to discard human remains for some period of time displayed on the maps are the locations
30:28where the remains were found six other victims five were female one was male and one of them is a
30:40a toddler four of the six were dismembered typically perpetrators dismember victims in order to frustrate and
30:51confuse investigators because presumptively if law enforcement knew who that person was they would be
30:57able to fairly easily link the victim back to the perpetrator so the crime scene itself is two and a
31:04half miles
31:05long it spans two different jurisdictions that's huge so investigating the gilgo four that's where
31:13they honed in because quite frankly that was the easiest and most logical path for investigators to follow
31:21well i will not term it as a serial killer there are no similarities i want to emphasize this there
31:28there are no similarities at all to the four gilgo homicides there is no evidence that all of these
31:36remains are that of a single killer the difference between the way the gilgo four were found and the other
31:44bodies begged the question was this the work of one individual or was there more than one serial killer on
31:54long island
31:58the public should realize that this investigation is not an episode of csi or criminal minds that is
32:06going to be solved in a one hour period the investigation most likely is going to take a very long
32:14period of time
32:18on numerous occasions i asked the police what was going on with the case
32:23and they said just believe me we're really working on it it's the only thing that we're working on we'll
32:30never stop working that's basically all they told us
32:40a few months later the coroner told me that melissa's body wasn't whole
32:46they found another part of her body her arm
32:51i said well how could you have missed that they had told me that maybe a crab or some type
32:57of
32:58animal had dragged off a part of her body and they had missed it
33:04they asked me what i wanted to do with it and i said well what do you mean what do
33:09i want to do with
33:10it i want to put her whole body together i mean it's just it's unbelievable
33:19i really wasn't good with the stress that was going on in my life at that time
33:25i wanted to find the other families
33:31i didn't know about lynn until she started looking for me on facebook
33:36i set up the group so we could contact each other and keep in touch we'd shoot a message
33:44and then we just talked quite a bit
33:47the special bond we know we can talk to each other because we know what each other is feeling
33:56when became my best friend my sister
33:59she wanted me to go spend a week at her house so i took a week's vacation
34:08yeah our friendship will never end
34:12then we were just one big cat somewhat happy family
34:27we want just a little bit of closure not all of us have been to the sites and
34:35it's tough it's taken just about everything i have to be here
34:41this was supposed to be a final goodbye to all the girls but with shannon gilbert still missing
34:46family members say they will continue to return to this site as long as it takes my name is mary
34:52gilbert my daughter is shannon she is out there she is missing and our family and our friends
35:01we're going to find her and we're going to find out who hurt shannon and all the others
35:09in this situation i think you just kind of listen to what your heart tells you and my mother definitely
35:18knew that shannon wasn't with us anymore it was tough but it only made her stronger
35:28there's a part of me that did not want to move forward but we needed answers
35:41i'm hoping that the more the people see this the more the people hear this that they're going to
35:47know we're not going to forget regardless how long it takes if it takes the rest of our lives
35:51we're going to find where my daughter is and we're going to find out who it is to the other
35:54girls
35:58when we went to see the sites we were pulled down the side of the road and the police
36:04basically told us that we had to leave
36:08a detective from suffolk county told us that he did not want us talking to the media
36:15because the media was trouble and they always get everything twisted
36:22are there any occasion investigation that you know nothing homicide detectives will not tell us
36:27anything they should be contacting us not leaving us hanging like they're doing yeah all they tell us
36:35is when we catch him you'll be the first to know early on the families were stonewalled by law
36:43enforcement these cases were not moving as fast as they should have been the families needed to find
36:52a way to get law enforcement to listen to them and for shannon's family that resulted in finding john ray
37:03you can say what you want about john ray but he is a good lawyer do you want to sit
37:09yeah come up
37:11closer tiny bit yeah it's an amazing room i mean i didn't need a set designer babe
37:20i'm a lawyer i've been a lawyer since 1983. i work seven days a week i do everything i litigate
37:30i'm not afraid of the big firms or the government as a renegade against the system
37:39mary gilbert contacted me through steve barcello photographer slash reporter for the new york daily
37:46news he said look can you help me with this lady that's involved in that long island serial killer
37:51case she had no money you know but what was wrong here was that the police didn't do anything
38:01so i was asked to step in and that's what i did
38:08um
38:09step up here next to me so you can be close the media comes when i call a press conference
38:15as a
38:15rule because they know me whenever you're ready tell me we'll get cranky that was my value are we on
38:23okay we're here today at the site of these terrible crimes because the suffolk county police department
38:32is grossly derelict in its duty the commissioner of police in suffolk county has acted like the pink
38:42panther i called him inspector clusa and i brought a big board that we had made up you know some
38:49facts and
38:50figures they may investigate serial killings in violation of the laws of a state i guess i went
38:57you know using my um i don't know irish talents and that highly insulted them we say step up to
39:04the
39:04plate do your job if it doesn't happen we will launch a lawsuit for that to occur
39:10i think the police department got annoyed with him john ray fought the suffolk county police department
39:17and that's when they finally resumed looking for shannon
39:26tonight suffolk county police confirmed that they were again searching for any evidence of missing new
39:30jersey woman shannon gilbert today during the search they found a cell phone which they believe may belong
39:41to shannon gilbert it's looking like the missing new jersey prostitute is buried in the boggy marsh her
39:48jeans and pocketbook discovered yesterday a year and a half after shannon disappeared her body was finally
39:56found less than a mile from where she disappeared and several miles east of where the gilgo four were found
40:05the body was found approximately one quarter mile northeast of where her personal belongings were located
40:16when shannon was found our world just stopped
40:24as much as we tried to pick up the pieces it was impossible it absolutely broke our family
40:38i feel robbed of my youth because i was so stuck on the tragedy i wasn't able to move forward
40:47and focus on a career when i was in a very dark place for a very long time
40:57it's a sick horrible sick world that we live in what's running through your mind it's evil
41:07this place is evil
41:11why weren't the reeds cut down a year ago why didn't you bring in all this equipment a year ago
41:15well it wasn't we didn't think it was necessary and it also that area was full of water investigators
41:22weren't able to go through there to search how could shannon wilbur walk a half mile it was very
41:27tough if when you get a chance to look at that area you will wonder how anybody could walk through
41:32that area
41:37there's no way anybody would have wandered into the marsh that is a lie then you have her clothing
41:44how did her jeans come off a third of a mile away from where her body is found with her
41:49pocketbook
41:49the commissioner of police said well they're bramble bushes running through the marsh they
41:54pulled her jeans off it's absurd investigators believe gilbert got tangled in brush and drowned in
42:01the marshy area that she was not murdered by what cops believe is the serial killer that dumped the 10
42:06other sets of remains at gilgo beach they even claimed she drowned are you serious
42:15shannon was found face up in very shallow water 20 inches deep she couldn't have drowned and so then
42:25when that was discovered the police immediately changed their story and said a different reason
42:30that she died natural causes what natural causes they didn't say i mean it was ridiculous
42:38do you believe it was an accident at this point no no i can't accept that she died of natural
42:46causes
42:47there's no way especially when other women had been found in the same exact spot all of the same age
42:56all in
42:56sex work there's a pattern anybody with a brain can see that there's a pattern going on and then
43:07a few days after shannon was found a new police chief came in james burke it's going to be a
43:14very
43:15good time to be a suffolk county citizen and it's going to be a very bad time to be a
43:19criminal in suffolk
43:19county and the case was shut down you couldn't get anywhere you couldn't talk to the police you
43:25couldn't get anything from them burke with the help of the district attorney at the time told nassau
43:33county police department to step out of the case new york state police were told to step down they
43:39also told the fbi to step down get out of the case it's a local case it's a case that
43:45is led by
43:46suffolk county police department the fbi can assist but the fbi assists at the behest of the local
43:51agency there has to be a federal crime attached to it for the fbi to take over the investigation
43:58when i was told that suffolk county wouldn't let the fbi in on this i thought it's too much for
44:05them
44:05to handle for themselves they need more people in there why won't they let them in to help
44:11you don't tell the fbi no you probably should be bringing in the agencies from anywhere that is
44:21willing to assist suffolk county police department's hierarchy wanted to put to bed the entire saga of
44:31all these dead bodies we know she called 9-1-1 what we heard was someone who seemed disoriented
44:40confused she did not seem rational she didn't act appropriately and she ran off aimlessly into this
44:49marshy area we know for sure that shannon gilbert called 9-1-1 and then she disappears
45:00allegedly never to be seen again by anyone what was on the 911 tape
45:10the police refused to give it to me for me to find out what was on that tape i had
45:17to sue the police
45:18department the detective sergeant who was in charge he said john ray will get that tape over my dead body
45:29no i don't think so after years of litigation i won we got the tape hello you dialed into the
45:38911 system how can i assist you there's somebody after me i'm sorry no stop no how can you hear
45:47that
45:47911 call and not send out your entire police department to look for this person she was being
45:54hunted will this reveal something about the killer
45:59911 call and not send out your car please
46:01no
46:02no
46:03no
46:04no
46:05no
46:05no
46:06no
46:06no
46:07no
46:09no
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