The sense that the case has gone cold, and of official indifference over the last 11 years, vexes John Ray, the Gilbert family’s lawyer. Other than gosh, who’d have thought that would happen here, all the talk seems to be coming from people who don’t come from here,” noted one man parked in a pick-up. “Bad things happen all over, but some make the headlines. They want to see it solved.”īut Gilgo Beach residents last week professed a striking level of indifference. “It matters to the victims’ families and the people of Suffolk county. We’re going to review and go where it leads us,” Tierney told the Guardian. “I go into it with no expectations, but there is a voluminous amount of evidence that’s been collected. Photograph: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/REX/Shutterstock Rodney Harrison seen in April, before he became the police commissioner of Suffolk county.

Police initially said they believed Gilbert drowned by accident, which few believed, and a medical examiner’s autopsy proved inconclusive. Their dates of death, too, speak to the uncertainty that pervades the case of the Long Island serial killer. Six more bodies were found in the same area at about the same time. The Gilgo Four, as they became known, had been discarded in a similar fashion, 500ft apart, each swathed or covered in burlap sack cloth.

One call was from Gilbert’s client Joseph Brewer and two were from the neighbors.ĭuring the search for Gilbert, police found four more sets of remains later identified as Melissa Barthelemy, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Megan Waterman, and Amber Lynn Costello.

Three other 911 calls were made that night. A year and seven months earlier – – she’d made a frantic 22-minute call to 911 from the area and reportedly said: “They are trying to kill me.” She knocked on two neighbor’s doors, before disappearing back into the night. 13 December is not the date Gilbert went missing.

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