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New York police revealed new details about Long Island's cold case Gilgo
Beach serial slayings Friday, going public with three previously withheld
911 calls. They include a call from the woman whose disappearance led investigators to a gruesome trove of bodies scattered near a scenic,
oceanfront highway.

The murders remain unsolved more than a decade after the search for
missing escort Shannan Gilbert, 24, led police to the bodies of multiple
sex workers and other victims alongside an oceanfront highway east of New
York City.

"There’s somebody after me," Gilbert repeatedly told dispatchers in a call placed at 4:51 a.m. on May 1, 2010. But she did not provide a location
more specific than in a house on Long Island, somewhere near Jones Beach.

"Can you trace where I am?" she asked.

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"No, I can’t," the dispatcher replied.

Gilbert was calling from a home in Oak Beach, a gated community on the
Atlantic Ocean.

In the background, a man identified as Joseph Brewer can be heard telling
her it’s "time to go."

Another man, Michael Pak, was waiting outside. Police said he was her
driver. But she refused to go with him and ran down the road, according to authorities, knocking on neighbors’ doors and claiming someone was chasing
her.

As the call goes on, she sounds increasingly distressed.

"What’s the matter, are you OK?" Pak is heard asking after Brewer says
he’s going upstairs.

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"What are you gonna do to me?" Gilbert replies.

The recording is muffled, but it sounds like he offers to drive her home.

"Are you gonna kill me?" she says moments later.

"Are you crazy?" he replies.

At many points in the call, she appears to ignore the dispatcher,
seemingly distracted. She repeatedly tells Pak, "Mike, stop it," prompting
the dispatcher to ask for his last name. Gilbert does not provide it.

In another portion of the 23-minute recording, she identifies herself and
tells the dispatcher, "These people are trying to kill me."

After an unresponsive portion of the call — around 17 minutes in — she
begins screaming. She vanished that night, and the ensuing search for her uncovered numerous other bodies in the area. But while some of them may be linked to one or more killers, police said her relation to the
investigation may end there.

"Releasing the Shannan Gilbert 911 calls will not hinder this
investigation," Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney K. Harrison told reporters during a news conference announcing the release of the
recordings. "I encourage the public to listen to the entire call."

Two other calls, from neighbors Gus Coletti and Barbara Brennan, helped
police hone in on Gilbert's location, although it would be months before
they found her remains.

During the briefing, police revealed that they believed Gilbert’s death
was an accident. They reiterated previous reports that she suffered from
mental illness and was known to use drugs and said the side effects
sometimes left her disoriented and irrational.

Since Harrison took the commissioner’s job New Year’s Eve, he has
refocused the cold case investigation, forming a multi-agency task force
and vowing to release more information and dispel myths and rumors
surrounding the 12-year-old investigation.

Just last week, he revealed additional information about the "Gilgo Four,"
the first victims found after the search for Gilbert began.

"I would have taken the same path. Those were the four newest homicides,
based on how they were left in close proximity and the fact that they were wrapped in burlap," Joseph Giacalone, an adjunct professor at New York
City’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice, told Fox News Digital Friday. "This is the case that [Harrison] is looking at hard. This is the one he
wants to solve first, and then we’ll see where the other ones go."

Those four victims, like Gilbert, worked as Craigslist escorts.

"I think [Suffolk Police] made the right step in that direction where
they're trying to put certain speculation to bed," Giacalone said.

Harrison, a former NYPD chief, is the latest in a line of Suffolk police commissioners to handle the case over the years. He kicked off his tenure
with a vow to bring a fresh approach to the stalled investigation.

"I like what Harrison is doing, and I think he’s got a method to his
madness," Giacalone said. "This guy is an experienced investigator."

However, Giacalone did question the department’s decision to take a stance
on Gilbert’s cause of death when the county medical examiner’s official
autopsy was found it to be "undetermined."

"When you’re dealing with an undetermined death, it’s not up to the police department to come up with an opinion on what they think," he said. "When
the ME kicks it back to you, it’s up to the police department to either
prove or disprove whatever they think."

The department’s conclusion that Gilbert did not die by homicide appears
to contradict the findings of a 2016 private autopsy commissioned by
Gilbert’s family.

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Dr. Michael Baden, the famed forensic pathologist and former chief medical examiner of New York City, was hired by the family. He found "insufficient information to determine a definite cause of death, but the autopsy
findings are consistent with homicidal strangulation."

Key bones in her throat were missing, but the adjacent ones had "a
roughness at the margins." He also found no drugs in her system.

"It is my opinion, based on the circumstances of Shannon's death and on
the materials that I have reviewed, that there is no evidence that she
died of natural disease, of a drug overdose or of drowning," he concluded. "There is insufficient information to determine a definite cause of death,
but the autopsy findings are consistent with homicidal strangulation."

John Ray, the attorney representing Gilbert’s estate who has already had
access to the recordings, did not immediately respond to Fox News
Digital’s requests for comment.

In a morning interview with Long Island News Radio, before the calls were released to the broader public, he disputed the idea that Gilbert’s death
was not the result of foul play.

"The police department put out a false narrative, a very strongly false narrative about what occurred that early morning of May 1, 2010, and they
based it … upon the misrepresentation that nothing really significant
occurred and that Shannan was really kind of irrational," Ray said. "Those things are decidedly not true. And the tape certainly will show you that."

Suffolk police said they based their findings on a review from the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit as well as other evidence.

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Police found Gilbert's body south of the parkway. The other victims were
on the north side. She had her identification and was carrying money. And
she had a history of mental illness and substance abuse that detectives
said could explain her apparent confusion and irrationality.

"The prevailing opinion is that Shannan's death, while tragic, is not a murder," said Suffolk County Police Lt. Kevin Beyrer.

Tragedy struck her family again a few years later, when her sister, Sarra Gilbert, was accused of killing her mother, Mari Gilbert.

Fox News' Emmett Jones and Sarah Rumpf contributed to this report.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-police-release-911-long-island-serial- killer

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