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Shannan Gilbert 911 Call /// Part 1 /// 579

October 24, 2022 / 46:33

This episode covers the Long Island serial killer case, focusing on Shannon Gilbert's 911 call and the investigation surrounding her disappearance and the subsequent discovery of multiple victims.

Hosts Nick and the Captain discuss the timeline of events leading to the 911 call made by Shannon Gilbert on May 1, 2010. They highlight her interactions with her driver, Michael Pack, and client, Joseph Brewer, as she expresses fear for her safety.

The episode details the discovery of other victims linked to the case, including Melissa Bartholomew, Marine Bernard Barnes, Amber Lynn Costello, and Megan Waterman, all of whom were found near Ocean Parkway.

Listeners hear snippets of the 911 call, with the hosts analyzing Shannon's state of mind and the dynamics between her and the men present. The episode emphasizes the importance of the 911 call in uncovering the larger investigation into the Long Island serial killer.

Nick and the Captain reflect on their previous coverage of the case, noting how it has evolved over the years and the ongoing efforts to bring justice to the victims.

TLDR

The episode analyzes Shannon Gilbert's 911 call and its connection to the Long Island serial killer case.

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the Long Island serial killer this killer has a type 10 bodies were found near a remote beach
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[Music] we were dealing with a serial killer all four killed by one killer the Long Island serial killer
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in January of 2020 the Suffolk County New York police and the new police commissioner Geraldine Hart launched the
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website gilgunews.com as a platform for background information and updates on the still unsolved Long Island serial
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killer case the following is a general timeline posted on gilgonnews.com during the early morning hours of May
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1st 2010 Shannon Gilbert a Craigslist sex worker traveled with her driver Michael Pack
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from Manhattan to meet a client Joseph Brewer at his home in the oak Beach Association Gilbert's driver remained in
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his car while she met with the client at some point during the meeting Gilbert reportedly began acting irrational
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prompting her client to contact the driver and have Gilbert leave his home after refusing to leave the location at
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the request of her client Gilbert eventually fled on foot into the oak Beach Community
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Gilbert knocked on several doors and interacted with two homeowners within the community before disappearing both
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Brewer and pack cooperated with police and have been interviewed and fully investigated
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on December 11 2010 eight months after the search for Gilbert began a Suffolk County Police Department canine unit
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continued the search for Gilbert near her last known whereabouts instead of finding Gilbert however they uncovered
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human remains that were later identified as 24 year old Melissa Bartholomew two days after the discovery of Bartholomew
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three additional victims were located along Ocean Parkway The Remains later identified as Marine
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Bernard Barnes age 25 Amber Lynn Costello 27 and Megan Waterman age 22. all worked as Craigslist escorts and
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were last seen between July 2007 and September 2010. the investigation into Shannon Gilbert's
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disappearance continued several months later the remains of another woman who worked as an escort were discovered
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several miles east of where the Gilgo Beach four were found this set of partial skeleton remains
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Unearthed on March 29 2011 known as Jane Doe number five the investigation matched the remains of
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Jane Doe number five to identified partial remains of Jessica Taylor previously discovered in Manorville on
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July 26 2003 she also worked as an escort this is the first connection between the
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Gilgo homicides and Manorville following this connection between Gilgo Beach and Manorville the investigation
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expanded again on April 4 2011 three more sets of remains were found on Ocean Parkway in
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Suffolk County one set was that of a female toddler another was a yet to be identified Asian
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male the third was initially referred to as Jane Doe number six a week later the investigation uncovered
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two additional sets of remains along Ocean Parkway in Nassau County one set through DNA analysis
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was confirmed to be the mother of the female toddler the mother's partial remains were first
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discovered in Hempstead Lake State Park in 1997. she's become known as Peaches due to a tattoo of a peach on her body
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the other set discovered in Nassau County was genetically matched with remains discovered in 1996 and Davis
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Park on Fire Island significantly expanding the timeline and Geographic reach of the Gilgo Beach
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homicide investigation originally known as Manorville Jane Doe Jane Doe number six found on April 4
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2011 was confirmed by the Suffolk County Police Department's homicide unit to match with remains discovered in
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Manorville on November 19 2000 recreational hunters came across these remains a white female with brown hair
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located off a Halsey Manor Road in a wooded area the investigation determined that these
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remains have been in this location since the end of 2000. most significantly in May of 2020 Jane
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Doe number six was identified as Valerie Mack Max remains were identified with the
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assistance of the FBI using Advanced forensic DNA technology Valerie Mack disappeared at the age of
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24 while living in Philadelphia worked as an escort but is confirmed to have worked in Philadelphia not New York
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Mack also used the Alias Melissa Taylor Mac's family members provided additional
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DNA samples and confirmed that they last Saw Mack in the spring and summer of 2000 and Port Republic in New Jersey
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while she was not reported missing this information aligned with the previous determination the max remains were
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dumped in Manorville in 2000. in early December 2011. Suffolk County Police found Shannon Gilbert's purse and
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mobile phone and Oak Beach marshlands two days later a quarter mile east of her belongings Gilbert's remains were
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located in 2020 former Suffolk County Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart released
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previously undisclosed evidence to the public in an effort to advance the investigation
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police released photos of a belt believed to be handled by the suspect not belonging to any of the victims
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found on the Belt where what investigators believe to be someone's initials stamped on one side
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these letters are wh or HM in 2022 current Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney K Harrison
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established a multi-agency task force that includes the FBI New York State Police Suffolk County District
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Attorney's office and the Suffolk County Sheriff's Office to reinvigorate the investigation and bring the person or
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persons responsible for these crimes to Justice anyone with information should contact
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one of these agencies or please call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-tips tips this massive investigation for a
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predator or Predators now known as The Long Island serial killer all started with one phone call
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Shannon Gilbert calling 9-1-1 in May of 2010 led to the discovery of multiple females one male and a toddler who were
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robbed of their lives between 1996 and 2010. Shannon Gilbert's 9-1-1 call led to one
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of the most consequential homicide investigations in the history of Long Island and now 12 years later we are right back
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here where it all started with the newly released Shannon Gilbert 911 this is true crime garage
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the Long Island serial killer this killer has a type 10 bodies were found near a remote beach
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[Music] foreign [Music] all four killed by one killer the Long Island serial killer
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well here we sit 12 years later when we started this gig back in 2015 this was the first case that we covered in more
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than one episode and we stuck with it we stuck with the Long Island serial killer
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investigation and covered the story as much as we could in fact we did back-to-back episodes 4 and 5 in 2015.
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episode 20 in 2016 and then we had our good friend Josh Zieman on the show in episode 61 to cover the Killing Season
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his documentary that covered a portion of the Long Island serial killer case and then in episode 74 we gave you
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another update a Lisk update as we titled it which of course Lisk standing for Long Island serial killer so we
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started this journey in 2015 and on the Big Show here in the garage 2017 was the last time that we have
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taken a look at this case we've Revisited the case from time to time with any new evidence or new information
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that has came out on our other show off the Record and here we are all of these years later sticking with it because
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finally it was called for when Shannon Gilbert went missing it was called for when the bodies were being recovered
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when the remains were being found in the Gilgo Beach area it was called for again
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when Robert coker's book The Lost Girls came out and it was called for again when the Gilbert family disputed the
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medical examiner's findings saying that her death was not a homicide after her body was finally recovered and now it's
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finally released the Shannon Gilbert 9-1-1 call yes Colonel almost seems ridiculous that it took so long to be
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released so let's not take much longer to dive into our breakdown of this call now we've been teased with this
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information that the 9-1-1 call would be coming out for years now and there were several different times
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that the captain and I were convinced hey this call is finally going to be released it's going to happen next week
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or later this week and then it never came about there was always somebody somewhere along the line that was
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shutting it down from getting out to the public but now it's finally here and what we have is we have the Suffolk
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County Sheriff's Office who is telling us that this is the information we we are now ready to
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release this 911 call to you the public we believe that it is important for you to hear it and we encourage you to
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listen to it in its entirety there is some difficult audio along the way so what they have provided us with is they
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had their task force and an audio and visual expert team get together and put together some legit information and
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offer transcripts for the voices and for the words that are being spoken in the recording all of this is available on
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thegilgonews.com website again that's the informational website that was put together to offer concrete factual
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information in the Long Island serial killer investigation the ongoing investigation now for those of you who
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are new to our show or maybe new to True Crime and are unaware of this case that's understandable because this was
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big time Time News 12 years ago 2010 this was huge news you couldn't if you were looking or reading True Crime this
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case was all over the place especially on the internet and as we said we covered it several times here in the
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garage you're welcome to go back and listen to those episodes as well as the trailer for today which
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gives a nice complete background a shortened version of the information that's necessary to be aware of here in
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this case and so important to point out if Shannon didn't make this 9-1-1 call if her family didn't push law
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enforcement to look for her we may never have found these other victims that's exactly right Captain so a little
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background information Shannon Gilbert was a woman who mysteriously disappeared her disappearance led to the discovery
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of 10 other bodies alongside Ocean Parkway it's unclear if her death is connected to these other cases but as
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you said we don't start finding these remains unless they are out looking for Shannon Gilbert over the years we have
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had Mary Gilbert Shannon's mother who filed a lawsuit against Suffolk County Police Department seeking the release of
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these recordings and transcripts the police claimed releasing it may jeopardize the ongoing investigation but
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now here we sit in 2022 they are in fact releasing them and have said that they now believe that this information will
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not impede their investigation also what we are told by the current Police Commissioner Ronnie K Harrison is that
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what we will be hearing is Shannon Gilbert's 9-1-1 call as well as two other calls and straight from their
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website and for the website on information in this case gilgonnews.com where you can find those recordings
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it states that we're going to hear two other calls that were placed by residents of Oak beach now you won't
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have to go to that website because we are going to play those calls for you today as well as offer some analysis as
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to what we believe that we are hearing or insights and as it may work into the Long Island serial killer investigation
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well let's start this off with the intro that law enforcement gives to the 9-1-1
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call I'm detective Lieutenant Kevin byrer the commanding officer of the Suffolk County Police Homicide section
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this video was made to explain the circumstances surrounding the three 9-1-1 calls made on the day Shannon
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Gilbert went missing full unedited 911 calls are available and I encourage people to listen to them
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in their entirety portions of the call taken out of context will sound sensational
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during the early morning hours of May 1st 2010 Shannon Gilbert a Craigslist sex worker and resident of Jersey City
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New Jersey traveled from Manhattan to meet a client Joseph Brewer at his home at eight the Fairway Oak Beach New York
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Shannon was driven to Oak Beach from Manhattan by her driver Michael Pack neither one was familiar with the area
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neither one had been there before and neither one had met Brewer before pack waited in the car while Shannon was
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inside with Brewer pack was her de facto security at 4 51 am while at Brewer's house
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Shannon called 9-1-1 this call lasts for more than 21 minutes at times Shannon is speaking calmly but
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slurring her words at times she is not responsive and at times she is screaming during this call Brewer and Packer heard
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trying to get Shannon to leave the house Shannon eventually does leave the house
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and runs the Gus coletti's house located at 17 the Fairway which causes him to call 9-1-1 at 5 22 am
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this is the start of the Channing Gilbert 911 call number line help hello you dialed in to the 9-1-1 system how
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can I assist you wow hello do you need the police where who's there with you hello
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what's going on what happened somebody is harassing you absolutely these Trace area
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let me talk to him let me talk to him I'm like the Jones Beach you're at Jones Beach
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all right let me connect you to State Police stay on the line okay so we don't hear Shannon Gilbert
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screaming bloody murder obviously at this point in the 9-1-1 call she's calling in she sounds a little
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incoherent to me a little out of it and she's saying in slurred speech and again
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I can only give my opinion as to what I what my ears are telling me that I'm hearing
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but I'm hearing slurred speech of someone's after me and it's clear that it's not clear to
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the operator because the operator continues to ask her what are you saying she's asking for clarification now of
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course we now know what the emergency is we have a woman that's afraid she believes that there's someone after her
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and the 911 operator wants to establish where Shannon is where is she located so
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that we can send help to her and unfortunately Shannon is not really clear about where she is she knows that
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she's on Long Island she's not certain of the county but she's asking the operator if you can trace this call if
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you can trace my location we hear a male voice in the background to which the operator is now saying let
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me speak with him I want to talk to that guy that I'm hearing keep in mind Shannon Gilbert at this point we know
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that it's in the four o'clock hour early in the morning so they've been up all night partying by this point she was
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driven there by her driver Michael Pack late the night before we're now at the 4
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a.m hour she's calling 9-1-1 and she's still at Joseph Brewer's home during the early part of this call right and so
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that is Joseph Brewer according to the Suffolk County Police Department that is Joseph Brewer that we are hearing in the
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background yeah possibly Joseph Brewer possibly another male there could be multiple males in the background it's so
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hard to hear what the background noise is and I don't know if she's technically slurring her words or if she is just
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mumbling because I kind of Wonder the stuff she's asking for when she's saying hey
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somebody's after me and can you trace my call these are things that maybe you wouldn't want the the males in the room
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to hear that you're calling 9-1-1 I do like the fact that 9-1-1 operator is like hey let me talk to him I'm going to
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talk to this individual that's after you yeah she's trying to assess the situation and she's not able to get much
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information or any useful information from Shannon who called 9-1-1 once she figures out that she's in a different
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location this is where she transfers Shannon's call foreign why okay please tripify
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[Applause] hey police yeah somebody asking me I'm sorry where are you there's somebody after me okay where are
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you where are you ma'am I don't know if you're driving right now I'm sorry I'm inside the house what
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house I don't know can you show me where I am I'm sorry I am no I can't what's your callback number you're calling from
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huh what phone number are you calling from Philadelphia are you in Suffolk County or Nassau
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County where on Long Island are you it takes Shannon a little bit of time to reply to the 911 operator once she is
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transferred but she is clearly talking more clearly now but what I don't understand is when she starts asking her
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other questions other than what's wrong she keeps repeating herself somebody's after me yeah again she's not offering
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very good information and so the operator the 911 operator has transferred her to the state police
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because off of very little information the operator believes that this is a police matter that that the caller is
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not requesting the fire department or EMTs that this is a police matter so now she's going to transfer to the state
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police who still are trying to figure out where the caller is in the state of New York
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right so it's it's a large state they're going to try to figure out where she is
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so that we can really hone in on her location and get the proper authorities to her exact location to interview her
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on the scene to take a police report at this home again she's also asking can you trace my call because I don't know
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where I'm at but the the term somebody is after me that is I'm in danger is basically what she's saying in my mind
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yes she believes that she is in danger according to those words yeah so she's not completely responsive to the 9-1-1
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operator but she is talking more clearly there's definitely something wrong with her but
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there's definitely something wrong with this situation because she doesn't feel safe in this situation and we don't know
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how many men are at this house and who is there that is making her feel uncomfortable I mean uncomfortable
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enough to call 9-1-1 thank you [Music] foreign [Music] we are back cheers everybody cheers to
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kernel you read that very well all right let's get back into this Shannon Gilbert
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911 call um no no stop no where in Long Island are you in Suffolk County Nassau County
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huh all right are you calling me by my name okay so what you're hearing here and again
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the background noise is inaudible it's very difficult to tell who is speaking and what they are saying
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but it's interesting to know what's going on in the background right because we are sitting here trying to figure out
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what Shannon is experiencing and why she feels that her life is in danger why she
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feels like somebody is after her and who might be these people that she's with now we know that she's at Joseph
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Brewer's home and again according to the Suffolk County Police Department the male voice that you are hearing in the
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background at this last clip that we've just covered is Joseph Brewer and according to their transcript what he is
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saying is yeah he wants to talk to you the guy wants to talk to you Shannon Gilbert says no and So based off of this
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transcription I would believe or at least believe that the Suffolk County Police
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Department believed that Joseph Brewer is speaking directly to Shannon at this point what's interesting to me though is
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that he says yeah he wants to talk to you the guy wants to talk to you I'm a little I'm not liking that sentence
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there here Captain because he's supposed to be hosting a party from what we've been told it's a small gathering of men
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and then they've hired Shannon to come in and entertain during the course of that night I don't like when I hear
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somebody saying the guy wants to talk to you he should know everybody's name that's in his home and I believe that
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maybe he's purposely not saying this man's name or he does not know the man's name which either way
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I don't like it I think either way it's it's suspicious Behavior I agree and I think it points to the the person that
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is after her now on the flip side of the pendulum I'd say maybe he's saying the guy wants to
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talk to you and he's referring to Michael Pack her driver that's that's a great analysis because he likely does
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not know Michael Pack's name right and he probably doesn't know what title to give the guy you know your driver your
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security your pimp I mean he probably does not know what to call the guy so maybe he is
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referring to Michael Pack here but the reaction from Shannon is that whoever it is that Joseph Brewer is telling her to
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speak with she keeps saying no no she clearly does not want to speak with whoever Joseph Brewer is telling her to
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talk to but interesting enough it doesn't seem like she's afraid of Brewer himself there's no screaming there I
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don't hear any like Terror in her voice again she's in a state that I don't know
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that that we're going to be able to decipher a lot based off of her the her voice and her tone
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but clearly she's feels afraid enough to call 9-1-1 at this point but the other confusing thing too and this might have
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to do with her her mental state at this point or her physical state or both she keeps saying something like why is
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he saying my name or you know and I thought maybe that had to do with some time sometimes if you're you're an
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escort or or exotic dancer you may have a stage name or a name that is used during the course of your business but
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it sounds to me like she is being called Shannon but is also a little confused as
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to why anybody would be calling her that yeah maybe this guy figured out her real
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name and she doesn't want him using her real name one of my biggest issues with this case though is like you said her
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State of Mind what was she doing that day what were what kind of drugs were being taken at
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this party but also was she aware of whatever drugs somebody gave her well and keep in mind
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too that by this point we've been given a timeline from law enforcement years ago and from people that are closer to
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this case what we've been told was that at some point in the course of the night
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they left and went to a CVS to pick up a couple items at a CVS and it's believed
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that a possible drug deal took place during the course of either to and from CVS or at the CVS so as you pointed out
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there are not there are Narcotics at this party it wouldn't be out of question or out of the realm of
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possibility that that Shannon brought with her some narcotics that evening and at the very least we may not know
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exactly what she knows or what kind of substances are available or that they are doing that night but I would believe
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that if she was along for that ride to the CVS which we have been told in the past that she was that she witnessed
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whatever was that was picked up there's also been some thought and speculation over the years that maybe this this
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pickup was at her request yeah a lot of unknowns but I go back to the story and it's a famous story of George Harrison
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and John Lennon they ate dinner with a dentist and he put LST into their tea or coffee
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and so these two individuals are now high on LSD and have no clue that they were drugged by this dentist
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whatever happened to them that day if something bad would have happened to them the onus would be on that dentist
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and so I I really question what was fed to her in drinks whether it was a roofie or it was
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adding uh pills or or something some kind of cocktail to whatever she had stop it please
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please stop [Music] cheers no please please good luck please why yeah why County are you online
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why why are you guys doing this to me what county are you in ma'am doing this why you call me by my name
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again I have a lot of frustration about this call because I want to scream to Shannon why aren't
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you interacting with the 911 operator I also want to scream to her why are you not leaving
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because you hear two male voices in the background at this point before we just had the one which we were being told it
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was Joseph Brewer now we have Michael Pack so you might be right there Captain with the the guy wants to talk to you
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Joseph Brewer may have been referring to Michael Pack at this point we have Michael Pack who is he's come into the
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home or at least the door is open and he is interacting with Shannon Gilbert and
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he says simply you okay you know checking in on her right and he's like hey let's go and Joseph Brewer is is
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actively trying to get Shannon Gilbert to leave he doesn't seem to be bothered that
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she's on the phone with somebody maybe he doesn't know that she's on the phone as you said earlier it's difficult to
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tell if this phone is up to her ear and mouth so that she could talk to the emergency services or if she's got it
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held away from her her face at this point because it sometimes she sounds like she's very distant from the phone
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but what we have here and I'm kind of picturing this as we we go through it we have Michael Pack who's trying to get
00:36:15
Shannon to leave we have Joseph Brewer who's trying to get Shannon to leave right and we've all been in this
00:36:21
situation and not this exact situation but we've been in situations like this and it's very annoying when you're with
00:36:28
a an inebriated friend that you're trying to get them to go home or trying to get them to do something and at some
00:36:36
point you resort to baby steps of well if we can just get he or she to do this one thing maybe it'll have a domino
00:36:45
effect and we can get the end result that we want the end result that that sounds clear to me me is that Michael
00:36:51
Pack wants her to go home and Joseph Brewer wants Shannon Gilbert to go home and so at some point you have Joseph
00:36:57
Brewer going hey let's go outside I'll show you something all three of us are going to go outside meaning him Michael
00:37:03
Pack and Shannon Gilbert let's just go outside and we'll talk about it out there almost like hey let's get the baby
00:37:09
steps going here let's at least get her out of the house and maybe if we get her
00:37:12
out of the house we can convince her to get into Michael Pax suburban and then they can return to Manhattan or wherever
00:37:19
it is that Joseph Brewer believed that they came from yeah and just based off this part of the call it's hard to
00:37:26
believe that there's something really nefarious going on between pack and Brewer because they don't seem to be
00:37:35
at all concerned with hey get off the phone no they don't so it doesn't matter who she's calling she she could be
00:37:43
talking to her mother she could talk be talking to law enforcement it doesn't really matter who she's calling we don't
00:37:51
have a concern with that I think you'd have a way bigger concern with who she's talking to what information she's trying
00:37:58
to give out if there was something very nefarious going on at least between those two individuals the thing that's
00:38:06
shocking to me though Captain is that it appears that Shannon does not want to have
00:38:11
anything to do with Michael Pack she's not leaving with him she doesn't seem to want to talk to him maybe it's unclear
00:38:18
to her who Joseph Brewer is referring to when he said the guy wants to talk to you yeah but now that he's in front of
00:38:24
your face yeah she doesn't she's not cooperating with Michael Pack who should be
00:38:29
her friend in all of this right whatever label you want to give him we know that
00:38:34
he was the driver for her that night it's been stated that he was her driver on previous occasions and also
00:38:41
technically his job is also not just to transport her but to protect her yeah add some element of security but for her
00:38:50
there's some problems with some of this stuff is if I was in her situation I want to go into this house by myself
00:39:01
why didn't pack go in the house with her did something happen during this party maybe it wasn't by Brewer maybe it was
00:39:09
by somebody else what if some sicko whispered something into her ear oh when I get you alone I'm gonna kill you or
00:39:16
something or somebody was too aggressive with her and now she's mad at pack because you put me in this situation
00:39:24
you're supposed to help protect me that's part of your job right but we it would be silly for us to try to figure
00:39:31
out the business Arrangements between Shannon and Michael Pack but it would also be extremely odd for Michael Pack
00:39:40
to enter the premises with Shannon because the client is immediately going to say I paid for you to be here not for
00:39:47
him to be here and he can provide that security on the outside as silly as it sounds
00:39:54
that's typically how these things go down well I disagree with you I I don't know much about this profession I do
00:40:03
know that I've been to two Bachelor parties at somebody's house where they hired a stripper they came in with
00:40:11
security security stayed within the whole time both of my buddies got too drunk started getting handsy with the
00:40:18
strippers the security told them to stop they wouldn't stop so they left and they
00:40:23
still had to pay full price but whatever has happened at this point again she's not in any rush to leave with Michael
00:40:29
Pack who is supposed to be her Lifeline whether he's outside or inside the home yeah and then that makes you wonder if
00:40:35
there was some kind of argument or disagreement with them but it seems pretty clear on the transcript that pack
00:40:41
is asking or hey are you okay and she's just not even being responsive towards that but it definitely seems
00:40:50
like there is now becoming a escalation in this situation no stop it please please stop please
00:41:10
[Applause] [Applause] foreign [Applause] [Music] why huh well I don't know but it was canceled to
00:42:12
me so you hear things are ramping up here rather quickly by this point and again
00:42:23
we still have the two male voices in the background Joseph Brewer and Michael Pack at one point Brewer is saying to
00:42:30
Shannon well actually he's saying this to Michael Pack saying hey you Taker and I'm gonna go upstairs keep
00:42:38
in mind this is 4 a.m in the morning at this point he's probably telling the driver like this is kind of your problem
00:42:44
now buddy I've called you to retrieve her right and you're here I don't know why she doesn't want to leave with you
00:42:51
but I'm going upstairs meaning I'm going to bed and you can handle this take her
00:42:57
out of here and get her home then we have Michael Pack who's interacting with Shannon that's when Shannon starts
00:43:04
saying why what are you going to kill me and and Michael Pack even says no at some point so we know that that question
00:43:12
or at least Michael Pack believed that question was directed to him because he offers a response she says you know I'm
00:43:19
not going outside they want her to go outside they want her to leave and she's pushing back on that saying I'm not
00:43:26
going outside where are we we're out in the middle of nowhere and Michael Pack is actually trying to explain to her as
00:43:33
best he can or as best as he knows where they are right it's such a confusing situation you wonder what happened at
00:43:43
the party did she get paid is she not leaving because she didn't get paid it seems to
00:43:50
me that she's not leaving because she's afraid that once she leaves this location that something bad is
00:43:57
going to happen to her the thing is here Captain it sounds to me if I'm basing off my opinion off of what I've just
00:44:05
heard the short snippet that I've just heard it sounds to me like she's afraid or suspicious of going with Michael Pack
00:44:11
she comes to the party with pack pack and her work as a team that's her safety net she goes to this
00:44:19
party something happens at the party and now she's afraid to leave the safety should be with pack the
00:44:26
safety should be with leaving the party getting away from whoever it's the opposite of what you
00:44:33
think that she would be thinking but it's not every day you hear on a 9-1-1 call hey they're after me or they're
00:44:42
plotting to kill me or are you going to kill me something's not right there and on top of that oh we know what happens
00:44:49
she ends up dead the Long Island serial killer this killer has a type bodies were found near a remote beach
00:45:03
[Music] we were dealing with a serial killer all four killed by one killer [Music]
00:45:13
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Episode Highlights

  • The Long Island Serial Killer
    Ten bodies were found near a remote beach, all linked to one killer.
    “This killer has a type.”
    @ 02m 59s
    October 24, 2022
  • Shannon Gilbert's 9-1-1 Call
    Her call initiated a massive investigation into multiple unsolved homicides.
    “Shannon Gilbert's 9-1-1 call led to one of the most consequential homicide investigations.”
    @ 10m 21s
    October 24, 2022
  • The Release of Evidence
    In 2020, previously undisclosed evidence was released to advance the investigation.
    “It's ridiculous that it took so long to be released.”
    @ 12m 53s
    October 24, 2022
  • Shannon's Distress Call
    Shannon Gilbert's 911 call reveals her fear and confusion about her situation.
    “I'm in danger!”
    @ 24m 52s
    October 24, 2022
  • The Unfolding Tension
    As the night progresses, Shannon's fear escalates, questioning her safety with those around her.
    “Are you going to kill me?”
    @ 43m 04s
    October 24, 2022
  • The Long Island Serial Killer
    The investigation reveals a pattern of murders linked to a serial killer in the area.
    “We were dealing with a serial killer.”
    @ 45m 09s
    October 24, 2022

Episode Quotes

  • Shannon Gilbert's 9-1-1 call led to one of the most consequential homicide investigations.
    Shannan Gilbert 911 Call /// Part 1 /// 579
  • If Shannon didn't make this 9-1-1 call, we may never have found these other victims.
    Shannan Gilbert 911 Call /// Part 1 /// 579
  • I'm in danger!
    Shannan Gilbert 911 Call /// Part 1 /// 579
  • Please stop!
    Shannan Gilbert 911 Call /// Part 1 /// 579
  • Are you going to kill me?
    Shannan Gilbert 911 Call /// Part 1 /// 579

Key Moments

  • Cheers to Supporters02:14
  • True Crime Discussion02:49
  • Long Island Serial Killer02:56
  • Shannon Gilbert's Disappearance05:27
  • 9-1-1 Call Analysis18:21
  • Desperate Plea41:05
  • Escalating Fear43:51
  • Serial Killer Revelation45:09

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