It’s been confirmed by police that the human remains discovered near Ocean Parkway are indeed Shannan Gilbert. Once missing, the search for the woman led investigators to a veritable burial ground of prostitutes in the area. Her case is what revealed the existence of the Long Island Serial Killer. However, police claim that her death isn’t related.
It’s an outrage to hear detectives make this assumption, when it was her disappearance that led to the discovery in the first place. She also fits the type followed by the alleged serial killer. She’s young, petite and a prostitute who sells her services on Craigslist and other online venues. It’s also reported that the last known sighting of Gilbert was a witness who watched her running and screaming from a john’s home. She was never seen again until her skeletal remains were fished out of the marsh.
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Authorities have confirmed that the remains found earlier in the week in a dense thicket in Oak Beach were those of Shannan Gilbert, a 24-year-old prostitute from New Jersey who was last seen in May of 2010. Long Island police are also asserting the theory that Gilbert’s death is unrelated to the other remains found on Gilgo State Beach. “There’s a small sense of peace in that she’s no longer suffering,” Gilbert’s aunt told Newsday. Gilbert’s body was spotted around a quarter mile from where her belongings were found.
Police and witnesses claim that Gilbert was last seen “behaving irrationally” and running from the home of a client. She allegedly “stumbled up to three-fourths of a mile on foot” into the area and “never made it out.” However, her family asserts that Gilbert had a fear of water, and would have turned around had she seen that she was running into it.
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Police have identified the remains found on Monday in a Long Island marsh as those of Shannan Gilbert, a New Jersey woman who went missing in May 2010.
The cause of death has not yet been determined.
The set of skeletal remains were found in the oceanfront marsh where police believed Gilbert, a prostitute, got lost and drowned in the middle of the night after fleeing a client’s home in a nearby gated community.
The remains were discovered about one-fourth of a mile from where several of Gilbert’s belongings were located two weeks ago.
Police believed that the location of her belongings in relation to the remains indicate she may have been trying to run towards the lights on Ocean Parkway, a nearby road, but could not find her way out of the marsh.
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It’s Shannan: Human remains found on Long Island confirmed to be missing prostituteRelatives of other victims to hold candle-lit vigil today to mark a year since first remains were foundMedical examiner will have to positively confirm body belongs to Gilbert By Rachel Quigley and Thomas DuranteLast updated at 8:17 PM on 17th December 2011 Comments (1) Share Police have confirmed that remains found on New York’s Long Island this week are those of missing prostitute Shannan Gilbert, who vanished last December after fleeing a client’s home in a panic.Searchers found the bones on Tuesday morning in a dense wetland, not far from the neighbourhood where the 24-year-old disappeared in May 2010.While the medical examiner has positively identified the remains, police have not yet determined the cause of her death. Scroll down for video Remains: Shannan Gilbert’s remains were found in thick brush earlier this week, about a quarter of a mile away from where her belongings were found Crime Scene: Investigators use …
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The remains found last week Long Island’s Oak Beach marsh were identified Saturday as those of Shannan Gilbert, a woman who went missing over a year ago. Police have discovered the bodies of several other women believed to be sex workers like Gilbert, but while they think a single serial killer is responsible for those other deaths, police argue that Gilbert, on the other hand, drowned. Gilbert’s disappearance sparked the hunt for a potential serial killer targeting prostitutes.
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Gilbert, of New Jersey, worked as a prostitute who disappeared after seeing a client in nearby Oak Beach in May 2010. It was the search for Gilbert that led police to find the remains of the other people.
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Authorities said on December 7, while the 8-year-old was sleeping, the woman asked detectives to “break off some of the heroin” police had purchased so she and her daughter could smoke it.
Police carried out a search warrant at the condo about 3 p.m. Sunday and arrested both women.
Investigators said the daughter admitted that she also performs topless, unlicensed massages at the home.
According to court documents, during an interview with police, the mother said she “has never seen or been part of any drug use” but further stated that her daughter “possibly uses drugs.”
Police said Child Protective Services were notified and took custody of the 8-year-old.
Authorities have recommended child abuse and various felony drug charges against both women.
The daughter is also facing charges of prostitution, officials said.
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Authorities said on December 7, while the 8-year-old was sleeping, the woman asked detectives to “break off some of the heroin” police had purchased so she and her daughter could smoke it.
Police carried out a search warrant at the condo about 3 p.m. Sunday and arrested both women.
Investigators said the daughter admitted that she also performs topless, unlicensed massages at the home.
According to court documents, during an interview with police, the mother said she “has never seen or been part of any drug use” but further stated that her daughter “possibly uses drugs.”
Police said Child Protective Services were notified and took custody of the 8-year-old.
Authorities have recommended child abuse and various felony drug charges against both women.
The daughter is also facing charges of prostitution, officials said.
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Remains of N.J prostitute likely found
OAK BEACH, N.Y. – Police investigators of Suffolk County announced last Tuesday that they have likely found the remains of missing 24-year old prostitute, Shannan Gilbert at 9:15 a.m. Gilbert has been missing since last May. Investigators found the body in a dense thicket close to where Gilbert disappeared. The body is thought to be Gilbert’s because searchers found her belongings nearby.
Gilbert disappeared in May 2010 after fleeing a client’s house. Police started finding bodies seven months after her disappearance, most of which were prostitutes. Gilbert’s body was found in the same area on the beach. This coincidence lead to a theory among the investigators that a common serial killer was responsible, but the Suffolk County Police believe otherwise.
According to the New York Daily News, police proposed a scenario where Gilbert stumbled and drowned while escaping the client’s house. “At least three-fourths of a mile on foot through that thick muck and mud, it would be very easy to get exhausted, fall down, and not be able to move further,” said the Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer.
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Police in Shannan Gilbert case return to Ocean Pkwy.
Originally published: December 14, 2011 11:44 AM
Updated: December 14, 2011 3:57 PM
By TANIA LOPEZ
tania.lopez@newsday.com
Photo credit: James Carbone | Evidence markers at the scene of where the remains believed to be Shannan Gilbert were found at Oak Beach. (Dec. 14, 2011)
Suffolk County investigators briefly returned to an area off Ocean Parkway on Wednesday morning to examine the site where human remains were found Tuesday during a search for a missing New Jersey woman.
Suffolk Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said police believe the remains are those of Shannan Gilbert. Gilbert, 24, of Jersey City, was working as a prostitute when she disappeared May 1, 2010, after she was hired by a man who lived in the nearby gated community of Oak Beach.
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