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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Brutally strangled, buried on lonely beach: Was Shannan Gilbert murdered by monster Long Island Serial Killer?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Shannan Gilbert, 24, goes missing after a frantic 23-minute 911 call in 2010. In a search of the area where she is last seen, police find the bodies of nine other bodies along a stretch of highway near Gilgo Beach. A year later, Gilbert's body is found. Are the deaths connected? Joining Nancy Grace today:John Ray - Attorney for family of victim Shannon Gilbert  Shera LaPoint - Genetic Genealogist, "The Gene Hunter" James Shelnutt - 27 years Atlanta Metro Major Case detective, SWAT Officer (RET), Attorney    Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Beverly HillsDr. Michelle Dupre - South Carolina Medical Examiner & Author of “Homicide Investigation Field Guide” Ellen Killoran - Investigative Reporter, CrimeOnline  Dave Mack - Investigative Reporter, CrimeOnline

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0:00.0

Nancy Grace is coming to Fox Nation.

0:02.6

I want justice.

0:04.9

Crime stories with Nancy Grace available now only on Fox Nation.

0:14.8

Shannon Gilbert dead.

0:19.0

But is her murder part of a much more complex series of murders of, of course, young women?

0:29.7

Crime stories with Nancy Grace.

0:36.7

What happened to a 24 year old young girl?

0:44.7

You know, my daughter is about to turn 13.

0:47.7

She's only 11 years older than that.

0:51.7

First of all, I want you to take a listen to our friend Michelle Sigan at Crime Watch Daily.

0:56.7

Not a day goes by that Mary Gilbert doesn't long for an answer to the death of her 23 year old daughter, Shannon.

1:02.7

If you pick up the phone and call investigators or the detectives, it's been assigned to you.

1:07.7

So you get calls back?

1:09.7

No, they won't talk to me.

1:11.7

Shannon had traveled from New Jersey to Oak Beach, Long Island near Gilgobie for a date.

1:16.7

Later that night, she was seen running through the neighborhood and a blind panic.

1:21.7

Gilbert's family attorney, John Ray, has logged over 700 hours on the case, tracing her steps at night.

1:28.7

She runs out of his home.

1:31.7

She calls 911.

1:33.7

She runs through the neighborhood knocking on doors.

1:36.7

And whenever someone comes to the door, who attempts to call the police, but not take her in, she runs.

1:46.7

And that's the last anyone's heard of her.

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