Posted on 05/06/2025 9:13:54 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Gilgo Beach serial killer case has haunted New York's Long Island community for more than a decade, ever since the first of multiple bodies were discovered along Ocean Parkway in December 2010.
More than a decade later, in July 2023, Massapequa Park local Rex Heuermann was then dramatically arrested as he left his office in midtown Manhattan.
Now, Daily Mail Senior Crime Reporter Ruth Bashinsky has closely examined the intricate details surrounding the Gilgo Beach Murders in a new crime show - including her own haunting 'encounter' with the suspect.
Heuermann has been charged with the murders of seven women on Long Island between 1993 and 2010. He denies all wrongdoing.
The first episode of Daily Mail's True Crime show details how on May 1st, 2010, 23-year-old escort Shannan Gilbert made a frantic phone call to police after leaving a client’s home on Long Island.
She sprinted into the brush along Ocean Parkway and was never heard from again. In the search for Shannan, investigators discovered the remains of several other missing women along the same stretch of road on Long Island, kicking off a nationwide hunt for a serial killer.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Reminds one of the Dateline stories about women who were approached by Ted Bundy, who gave them one of his stories about having lost a dog, or a broken down car - and yet avoided his trap.
I used to work with a lady that told me her best friends brother was picked up by John Wayne Gacy
I’ve heard serial killers go after prostitutes, because it is far less likely that anyone will report them as being a missing person.
Not so crazy when the police chief and the da refused to investigate but told Shannon’s mother they were doing all they could and were found later to be crooks.
https://apnews.com/article/james-burke-gilgo-beach-police-chief-02f82d31016dacfb851ec2a804d20f79
I keep wondering if Shannon Gilbert who went to that ‘party’ May 1 2010 was caught by a killer, that she never went through the weeds which were stickers and mud, where they claimed she sank in the mud and on December 2011, Gilbert’s jeans, shoes, and purse were found on completely opoosite side of the marsh by Oak Beach, near where she was last seen. A week later, her skeletal remains were located, facedown in the marsh, on the other side by the road out.
https://archive.longislandpress.com/2012/05/01/shannan-gilbert-cause-of-death-inconclusive/
Did you know about her mother’s murder?
Yes. Tragic.
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