The Hunt for the Long Island Serial Killer | Full Episode | Forensic Files

[Music] Do you remember the last time you spoke with your sister? I do. She called me
Sunday night at 11:30 at a train station in New York [Music] from Penn Station. I could hear the commotion from the
train station. Attention, please. So, you don't think she knew she was in danger at that time that she called you?
No. From the time that she called me, it was poof, she was gone. My sister's missing. Like, this isn't
normal. There was a ping from her phone after she went missing on Long Island. They knew that there was something very,
very wrong here. Young lady was reported missing. Shannon Gilbert. [Music] The missing person's uh unit had been
involved in trying to locate this young lady, find out what happened to her. We found human remains.
It seemed to be wrap and burlap, which didn't make any sense. Everyone assumed it was Shannon Gilbert.
But it wasn't, was it? No. The crime scene gets expanded. I'm I'm called and chief, we found
another set of remains. They find another one and another one. We were dealing with a serial killer, but
they're all 4' 11, very petite, hazel, green eyes. This killer has a type, right? Uh does he want the petite uh
body because he wants to feel more empowered and more in control? Is it easier to dispose of uh a lighter body?
Investigators have found 10 sets of human gruesome discoveries. 10 victims in all.
Things started to click as I was watching that. I have a feeling that this is Marine. One of them Marine. I
just had a feeling. The detectives came to my house and just said that Moren has been positively
identified as one of the victims on Ocean Parkway. I have my sister's death always in the back of my mind.
The killer or killers still are loose. No justice has been done. It's a symbol of the complete failure of the police
department to do its job. My name is Jerry Hart. I'm the commissioner of the Suffach County
Police Department. So, it's again a very complex case, but I can tell you that we
are fully committed to this investigation. We believe that the belt was handled by
the suspect and did not belong to any of the victims. We're working very hard that we're dedicated to this
investigation. What I want most is answers and justice. And I also want that the world to know like my sister
mattered. [Music] [Music] It's really, really hard. I miss her so much. Melissa K will never forget that wintry
day 10 years ago when she got the devastating news. I want answers. I just want answers. The remains of her older
sister, Moren Brainer Barnes, missing for more than 3 years, had been discovered on Long Island. Was there any
relief in at least knowing what happened to your sister? Or was it worse? It's worse. You're waiting. I don't know. I
don't know what I'm waiting on. She'll never come back. Okay. Good morning, everybody. Former
Suffach County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer was stunned to have found the remains of four young women on an
isolated stretch of Long Island's Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach. It looks like a car pulled up and opened the door and
the bodies were dumped into uh the bushes. Eventually, police would find 10 sets of remains in the area. Moren and
three others were found first and dubbed the Gilgo 4, discarded in a similar fashion, roughly 500 feet apart. Each of
them swathed in burlap. I think burlap was selected because its ability to take dampness, moisture, and breathe, which
would promote decay as well as act as camouflage. Dominic Veron was chief of the Suffach County Detectives in 2010.
Everybody knows the chief. He's retired from the police force, but is still haunted by the man who got away, the
Long Island serial killer. It was probably the biggest case we ever had, and we put a tremendous amount of effort
into that case. Moren was the first of the Gilgo for to disappear that summer night in 2007. Her
sister Missy believed Maren had gone to Manhattan for a modeling shoot and when she was on her way home made that call
from Penn Station. I'll see you in the morning. Love you. That was the last time I talked to her.
I don't think it's a coincidence that four bodies ended up uh in this area. Long Island serial killer. 48 Hours has
reported on the Long Island serial killer from the beginning. My sister was a wonderful person. And over the years,
Missy talked to us about Moren. She was very smart, very creative. She liked being a mom. She loved being a mom, but
she faced obstacles as a single mom of two with no driver's license nor college degree. Moren would come and use my
laptop. Um, she would go and look for the help ads. These are all the jobs that she applied for. She was looking
for fast food jobs, grocery store jobs, telemarketer jobs. I mean, over and over
and over again. By early 2007, things seemed to be looking up for Moren. She had got a job
at a telemarketing place and she was doing really well and um she got her own apartment and she was really proud.
She was a very giving person and very loyal and she made a new friend, Sarah KS. We were office besties. You could
never ever ever be bored around her. When Moren went missing in 2007, her sister was filled with dread. I had a
drive in me to be like, "Oh, I'm going to find my sister. Like, I'm not going to stop until I find my sister." Missy
called the police, reported Moren missing in her hometown of Norwich, Connecticut, and also in New York City.
She didn't run away. Someone has her. This isn't normal. My sister is gone. Missy logged into Moren's email accounts
and got a shock. In the days before Moren disappeared, she was under enormous financial pressure. Moren was
about to be evicted from her apartment and was facing an ugly, expensive court battle for custody of one of her young
children. From her emails, I could see how desperate she was to get money to be able to save herself from being evicted
and save her son, save custody of her son. Yeah. She was terrified cuz her baby was going to be taken away from her
forever. But she's working. Yep. It wasn't enough. Working that stupid telemarketing job was not enough.
Moren's emails revealed another secret. She was a sex worker. It wasn't modeling
that brought her to New York. Instead, she and Sarah had gone to earn extra money as sex workers advertising on
Craigslist. It was kind of devastating to to um learn, but my main focus was to find my sister. I didn't care what she
was doing. Sarah helped Missy reconstruct Moren's last weekend. Sarah described how they
learned they had been banned from Craigslist for a few days and they couldn't post ads for clients. So, they
decided to update their photos instead and hired a photographer. She picked old 40s Hollywood glamour. The way her curls
fell that day just looked so 40s with the makeup and everything like that. She was just so beautiful. All dressed up,
the two young women wandered around Time Square like carefree tourists. It was just awesome. We were untouchable.
But the next day, Sarah returned to Norwich and says Moren remained to make more money. You've been flagged by
Craigslist. You're not able to put your ad on Craigslist. So, how would Moren meet anybody on that Sunday? She had
regulars. So, does that mean whoever took her and killed her was someone she had seen before? Most likely.
But Missy had no luck in her search. Months became years. All she knew was that someone had taken her sister. How
old was this person? How did this person look? How did he break through her her her guard?
[Music] Miles away in Maine, a 14-year-old girl struggles with what happened to her
mother. I want them to find out who did it. Who vanished when she was just 3 years old. Part of you is like missing.
It's just like something's always off. She tells her story on television for the very first time.
[Music] Heat. Heat. It's never going to be over. She's always going to be gone. I can't bring
her back. Not a day goes by that 14-year-old Lily Waterman doesn't miss her mom, Megan. I
would do anything to bring her back, but I can't. And it just like frustrates me
so bad. Lily was just 3 years old when Megan vanished. Waterman was last seen in Hopog, New
York on Long Island at a Holiday Express. Megan's family says the 22year-old from
Scarboro, Maine, was a spunky but troubled kid who loved fashion. And in this video, at the time of her
disappearance, the family said she would never have willingly left her daughter.
This little girl was her life. Lily, do you remember when your mom disappeared? Yeah, it's very like blurry
because it was so long ago. I was just very like confused on why she like wasn't around. That's all I can
like remember really. Lily says her memories of her mother's boyfriend, Akeem Cruz, are clear. All things I do
like remember of her are bad times. When Akeem was hitting her, was hitting me, was just being like rude. It was scary.
You were scared for your life. Why did she stay with him? Fear. Megan's aunt, Elizabeth Mazerve, says
the family encouraged Megan to leave Cruz. She was afraid he would hurt her family. He would hurt Liliana.
Cruz began taking Megan to Long Island where he pushed her into prostitution. When she was away, Megan called Lily
every night. And when she didn't call, then I know that was her last day. June 6th, 2010,
Megan was seen exiting this hotel in Hop Hog at 1:30 a.m. There's footage of her
walking down a little side path, I guess, that's along the back or the side of the hotel.
She never returned. [Music] [Applause] Back in Scarboro, the family heard from Cruz that Megan was missing. They
reported her disappearance to the police. Chief Dom Veron says Aake Cruz was already on his radar. We knew his
background and we knew at that time that they had crossed state lines coming from
Maine to Long Island. So, we actually had the FBI unit involved in that case uh in in June of 2010. He set up all her
dates. Wouldn't he know the last person she saw? You would think that was a very, very heavy part of the
investigation. Veron concluded crews did not know who Megan's client was that night and had nothing to do with her
disappearance. Detectives continued their search for her and in December 2010 found her, one
of the Gilgo four. the police found her and so Lily said, "They found my mom, so why didn't they
bring her home?" But when Lily grew older and more techsavvy, she typed her mom's name into
the internet search bar. Was that tough? Yeah, for sure. I couldn't process it because my whole life I thought that she
just got like stolen and she never came back. I didn't realize how like the line
of work she was doing, how like brutal it was. I didn't realize that part of it.
Police say the remains of Melissa Bartholomew and three other victims were found in burlap bags in shallow graves
along this beach in December. How often do you think about Melissa? Every single
minute of the day. Lyn Bartholomew's 24year-old daughter, Melissa, had been missing a year and a half when her
remains turned up on Gilgo Beach. It just didn't happen to the girls. I mean, it destroyed all of our families.
Melissa moved from her home in Buffalo to New York City to work as a hairdresser. At some point, she turned
to sex work. When she stopped calling home in July of 2009, her mother panicked. We get on the internet. We
start calling hospitals. I didn't know what, but I knew something had to be wrong.
About a week later, her then 15-year-old sister got a call from Melissa's phone.
We agreed not to show her face. She was so excited. Oh my god, Melissa's finally calling me. And then there's a
guy on the other end. Suffach County police told 48 Hours that they believe the caller was in fact
Melissa's killer. He called seven times, threatening her younger sister and torturing her with details of Melissa's
murder. The last of the Gilgo four to disappear was Amber Costello, a sex worker who
vanished from her home on Long Island in September of 2010. She was an amazing person. She really was. Amber's friend
and former roommate, Dave Shaller, says she was a drug addict who used sex work to support her habit. As amazing as she
was, was as tormented as she was. Veron says Amber, Megan, Melissa, and Moren were all asphixxiated.
There were other striking similarities. very petite, 5 foot or under, 100 pounds, hazel, green eyes. You believe
this killer has a specific type of woman that he was choosing to kill, right? Veron worked with the FBI to come up
with a profile of the killer. He says the fact that the women posted ads online allowed the killer to scroll
through photos in search of his ideal victim. If he desires a particular height and weight and eye color, um, he
can do that. All right, everybody ready? Yeah. Our Father, who art in heaven, who art in heaven, be thy
name. The Gilgo 4 had another thing in common. Ready? Let's go. Families who love them. Look at them go. They're from
Oh my god, they look so beautiful. They do. Wow. Oh my god. They're beautiful just like all the girls. That's right.
In December of 2011, they gathered at Gilgo Beach. [Music] [Music] On the spot where each woman was found,
they erected a cross. And as the sun went down, they held a vigil in their honor.
Remember Shannon for the loving daughter? It was the search for Shannon Gilbert that led to the discovery of the
Gilgo 4. Remember her also as our girls angels and remember Shannon for Shannon and their families embraced Shannon's
mother Mary as one of their own. But where was Shannon? [Music] When the police found the Gilgo 4,
Sheree Gilbert, 22 at the time, was certain her missing sister Shannon would be among them. What's the first thing
that comes to mind when you think about Shannon? her singing, the jokes that we would tell.
Like Meen Brainer Barnes, Megan Waterman, Melissa Bartholomew, and Amber Costello, Shannon was working as an
escort the night she vanished. She was a talented young woman from a troubled family, dreaming of a singing
and acting career. At the age of 16, she graduated from high school. She skipped
a grade. Smart then. Really smart. Yeah, she had a lot of potential. Shannon was visiting a client in the
gated community of Oak Beach, Long Island, 8 miles from Gilgo Beach, when she vanished on May 1st, 2010. Her
family filed missing person's reports and drove from home in upstate New York to Oak Beach, desperate to find her.
Oak Beach is a very eerie place to me. It seems very desolate, very isolated, cold.
The family learned that Shannon's driver dropped her off here at her client's house at 2:00 a.m.
Nearly 3 hours later, Shannon made a panicked 23minute call to 911. Still on the phone, she fled the
client's home and ran to a neighbor's door and then anothers, begging for help and then she disappeared.
Weeks and then months passed with no word from Shannon. Former Chief of Detectives Don Veron says the police
questioned her client and dismissed him as a suspect, but took her disappearance
seriously. K9 searched the area at Oak Beach exhaustively for Shannon Gilbert. It was while searching for Shannon that
they made that stunning discovery of the Gilgo 4. And in the spring of 2011, six more sets of remains.
Victim number five, Jessica Taylor, an escort missing since 2003. Another set of remains police called
Jane Doe number six. Number seven, to their surprise, a toddler girl. Number eight, an Asian man. Number nine and 10,
a female skull and a bag of another person's bones, both found in nearby Nassau County.
Police weren't sure if these newly discovered bodies were victims of the same killer. They kept looking for
Shannon. And in December of 2011, a year and a half after she disappeared, they found the pocketbook belonging to
Shannon Gilbert. Shannon's purse, shoes, cell phone, even her jeans were found in
the marsh. The items were found a distant apart. A week later, a quarter of a mile from her belongings and yellow
crime scene taken. They finally found Shannon. to get that phone call when I was in
school. It was just devastating. And then to Shereice shock, investigators said they didn't think
Shannon was murdered. Instead, based on her frantic 911 call, they theorized she might have been high
on drugs and had run into the marsh where she died of hypothermia or possible drowning. She's running,
running down the street, pounding on doors. runs into this marsh. The Gilbert family didn't believe her
death was accidental and retained Long Island attorney John Ray. She was put there. He decided to retrace the path
authorities believe Shannon traveled. We're we're going into the marsh now. Veron says her skeletal remains were
found collapsed in thick brush. To say that she drowned, as was theorized, is on its face an absurdity. Ry also
commissioned a second autopsy. A private forensic pathologist determined that a damaged hyoid bone in Shannon's neck,
suggested she may have been strangled. He said that that would be consistent with homicide.
Ray soon turned his attention to one Oak Beach resident, a local physician, Dr. Peter Hackett.
Shannon had last been seen in the area near his home and her belongings were found scattered in the marsh behind his
house. And two days after Shannon disappeared, Sheree says Hackett made a disturbing
phone call to Shannon's mother, Mary Gilbert. He identified himself, told Mary that he was running a home for
Waywood girls and that Shannon wanted to enter the home. A New Jersey detective told us Hackett told him the same story.
But when Mary Gilbert went out to talk to him, Dr. Hackett denied it. I never saw her. I never met her. Despite
Hackett's denials, Ry believes the doctor did encounter Shannon early that morning and gave her improper medical
treatment. Ry filed a civil suit against Peter Hackett in 2012 for wrongful death
and malpractice. The wrongful death claim has been dismissed. Malpractice claims are still pending. It wasn't an
accident. If it were an accident, her belongings wouldn't have been found behind Peter Hackett's home. Her jeans
wouldn't have been removed. Dr. Hackett declined our request for an interview. Previously, he wrote us saying, quote,
"I never treated her. She was never in my home." He says he only called Shannon's family to offer support and we
didn't pay that much attention to him. I don't think we missed anything. Chief Ferrron says he doesn't think Hackett is
a murderer. He says some call him a storyteller. I do not think Suffach County has put any effort into
investigating Peter Hackett to this day. And in 2015, John Ray helped the Gilbert
family bury Shannon. Amen. In a Long Island cemetery not far from Oak Beach. It was sad. You know, my mom was really,
really, really emotional and um we all were and it was just basically like our final goodbye to Shannon.
We come to perpetuate Shannon. Are you surprised that she's chosen for this higher purpose of justice?
Well, I'm not. The murderer will be outed. I have to prove it. And I intend to prove it. Shannon, rest now. We all
have much to do. [Music] Go inside the case at 48 hours.com. [Music] Shannon would still be alive today if
Suffach County police had actually done their job. In early 2012, weeks after the discovery of Shannon Gilbert's
remains, her family's attorney, John Ray, dug in, trying to understand what had happened to her. The Suffach County
Police Department failed to protect the lives of these people who are now gone. Yet with 11 dead and no killer in
custody, the Suffach County Police Department went through an upheaval that would have a lasting impact on the case.
We won't know for certain. First, Chief of Detectives Dominic Veron suddenly found himself out of a job. I get a
phone call that I'm being told to retire within 15 days or I'd be demoted to captain.
I'm yanked off the case. I was pushed out. Veron had been spearheading what would become the
largest unsolved murder case in New York's history. I had a tremendous amount of knowledge in the case and he
says he was not allowed to share what he knew about the serial killer with the new investigators. That had to hurt the
credibility of the investigation. That hurt the investigation and the public's perception. A new regime led by James
Burke took over the department. Don't become a statistic. Burke was named the new Suffach County Police Chief. He was
extremely powerful for police chief. Longtime newspaper reporter Gus Garcia Roberts is writing a book about Burke.
He was charming. It's an individual split-second decision. And then in other situations, intimidating and sort of
brutish, more akin to like a a mob boss than a police chief. Burke had an unlikely rise up the ranks
in part because he had a powerful backer, Suffach County District Attorney Thomas Spoda. They had their own little
thief there. Burke and Spotta met in 1979 when the brutal murder of a boy found behind this school rocked the
peaceful suburb of Smithtown, Long Island. There's a lot of pressure to solve the case. The victim was
13-year-old John Pius Jr. Tom Spot was the young sort of ambitious prosecutor. His specialty was getting that witness
who said exactly what the case needed in order to sort of clinch it. James Burke
was just 14 at the time. Everybody called him Jimmy back then. Burke and others testified against four teenage
boys. Tom Spot by then had taken a shine to the kid and had taken him under his wing to some extent. The ambitious young
Spoda later became district attorney of Suffach County. James Burke became a cop
and by age 27 was already a sergeant in the police department. We're one of the highest paid departments in the country.
Former Suffach County Detective John Oliva, who investigated gang violence, says Burke's background set him apart
from most other cops there. A lot of professional guys, you know, most guys have a college degree or they were in
the military. I heard that James Burke had none of that. Burke's unprofessional behavior
set him apart, too. He's a reckless character driven by sex. In the early 1990s, he had sex with
a prostitute in his police car and also failed to safeguard his weapon. He left his gun behind and she recovered his
weapon. Internal affairs investigated the incident, but Burke kept his job. Oliva suspects Boda may have protected
him. Wouldn't something like that end most cops careers? Something like that should end most cops
careers. I mean, he became police chief, chief of the department, fourstar. And the man tasked with finding the elusive
serial killer. We have 11 dead people and nobody's found anybody connected to them. Something that frustrates attorney
John Ray, the man who patronized sex workers, is in charge of the investigation of murdered sex workers.
Burke ended cooperation with the FBI on the serial killer case. Was it because Burke didn't want to share credit or was
it to keep out prying eyes? It could be a combination of both. Many believe losing FBI technology and expertise
slowed down the investigation. If I'm the chief of department and I've got dead bodies on the side of the road,
I would take any help I could get. But James Burke soon had other problems. Beginning one night in December 2012
when a petty thief named Christopher Low picked the wrong SUV to rob. It happened
to be James Burke's police truck. And Lo didn't know that. Lo stole Burke's duffel bag containing his gun belt,
porn, and sex toys. Lo was arrested, locked into a room, and chained to the floor. According to court testimony,
detectives began to beat him before Burke himself took over. He starts slapping Chris Lobe, choking him,
grabbing him by his ears, yelling at him, threatening him that he's going to give him a hot shot, which is a laced
heroin injection, which would be fatal. Every time I asked for a lawyer, I got hit again. I got hit again. I got
choked. I got choked. I got punched. I got slapped. I got kicked. The rumor mills were running wild. It
was out there that this had occurred. When the FBI investigated, Burke, with the help of his mentor, District
Attorney Tom Spoda, began a cover up. Other investigations, including the serial killer case, languished. His
first priority clearly wasn't this serial killing on his turf. His top priority was staying out of
prison. Prison. Mr. Spott, is there anything that you can say to us, sir? Do you plan to resign, sir? Spotta was
eventually convicted of obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and conspiracy in the Chris Lobe case. A
tumbling fall from grace. Political shock waves on Long Island tonight. And in February 2016, James Burke pleaded
guilty to violating lobe civil rights and conspiracy to obstruct justice. He was sentenced to 46 months in federal
prison. He got what he deserved. Burke declined our request for an interview. There's always been throughout his
career this thin line between being a cop and being a criminal. With the serial killer case seemingly
stalled, graffiti appeared accusing the former chief of being the serial killer.
Investigators don't believe Burke had anything to do with the murders, but that hasn't stopped the gossip. It
speaks to a complete absence of trust in the law enforcement system in Suffach County, which regardless of any veracity
of that graffiti, I think it's completely deserved. [Music] [Applause] Why are these serial killer cases harder
than regular homicides? They're a stranger to the victim, which is unusual in homicide cases. We usually Geraldine
Hart, a career FBI agent, was assigned to the Long Island Bureau when the agency was cut out from the serial
killer investigation. Not having the FBI involved consistently from the beginning
has uh has definitely hindered this investigation. And in 2018, Hart became the Suffach County Police Commissioner.
We are fully committed to this investigation. We are utilizing every technique available, every technology
that we can. Today we are announcing that Jane do number six has been positively
identified as Valerie Mack. Using new genetic genealogy tools, investigators were finally able to
identify one of the victims found on Ocean Parkway. She has a name and she's a person and she has a family. Valerie
Mack, who was 24 years old in 2000 when she went missing, was described as 5t tall and approximately 100 pounds with
brown hair and hazel eyes. Many of these characteristics are shared by the Gilgo
4. Identifying Valerie gave investigators new leads, new associates and friends and family to talk to,
people who can tell us her whereabouts and her connections. The department also released images of evidence. A black
leather belt embossed with the letters HM or WH was recovered during the initial stages of this investigation.
Hart says the belt belonged to a large male. handled by. It's an item that we feel was handled by the suspect, did not
belong to any of the victims, and was found at one of the crime scenes along Ocean Parkway. To attorney John Ray,
it's too little, too late. Why isn't there an explanation of as to why after 9 years, the initials of the belt were
finally for the first time revealed. What's more, Ry says he has offered Shannon's computer, papers, and cell
phones to the department. Hart has declined to look at them, saying there's no way to know if the evidence has been
tampered with, but Hart insists Shannon's case is still open. So, you're saying that they're still investigating
her death? Certainly, as a possible homicide? As a possible homicide, Ray fought for and won access to the 911
calls made that night. He's forbidden by court order from sharing the contents, but insists they shed light on Shannon's
disappearance. [Music] Ray vows he'll never stop fighting for Shannon. John, tell me why you become emotional
even talking about this. It's hard to say. I've put a good part of my life devoted
to this case. It just seems to me that this this young lady, this human being, this woman Shannon Gilbert
deserves justice. That's what keeps Shannon's sister Sheree going, too. Do you think at some
point you're going to know what happened to your sister? I hope. I pray, but I don't know.
It's the same feeling 14-year-old Lily Waterman is grappling with. She thinks about her mom, Megan, every day. If I
could talk to her, I would just want to tell her that like I love her. I never got to really say those words
and like know what love really was, like understand how much I really care about
her. I just want her to know like she has a special place in my heart. No one can ever replace her or come like above
her. Moren Brainer Barnes was the first of the Gilgo four to disappear. Meen's friend Sarah KS can't believe
they haven't found her killer in all these years. It's been 10 since I found her and they haven't found him
and like I don't want to wait for that phone call. Meen's sister Missy K will wait as
long as it takes because this person whoever killed my sister thought that they were taking away my
sister's voice but he didn't know that my sister had a sister like me. So whether he's caught 5 months from now,
10 years from now, I just hope he knows that I'll be sitting in that courtroom and he didn't weaken me or my family. He
just strengthened me. [Music] I'm Eron Morardi, 48 hours, and this is my life of crime. Subscribe on Apple
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Americans a greater understanding. We have to make sure that we're right, that we're fair, but also hopefully bring
Americans closer together.

Police on Long Island, New York, have taken a person into custody in connection with the murders of at least 10 women whose bodies were found on Gilgo Beach over 10 years ago. The body of Shannan Gilbert was first discovered on the beach. Police later ruled her death was not the result of a crime, but while investigators were searching for Gilbert, they found other remains. Erin Moriarty has been covering this story since 2011. This “48 Hours” episode aired on Dec. 12, 2020.

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Brief Summary

The episode details the Long Island serial killer case, focusing on the Gilgo 4 and the ongoing search for justice.

Key points

The Gilgo Four. Four young women were found murdered, all linked to a serial killer.
Moren's Struggles. Moren Brainer Barnes faced financial pressures before her disappearance.
Lily Waterman's Pain. Lily, now 14, reflects on her mother's disappearance and the impact it had on her life.
The Vigil for the Gilgo Four. Families gathered to honor the victims at Gilgo Beach, remembering their loved ones.
The Disappearance of Shannon Gilbert. Shannon Gilbert vanished after a call for help, leading to the discovery of multiple victims.
Justice for Shannon Gilbert. John Ray fights tirelessly for justice for Shannon, believing she deserves it.

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