Police made an arrest in the Gilgo Beach case on Friday, July 14, Read the latest from CBS News. So far, there has been no arrest, but since our last "48 Hours" broadcast, there are new developments in the case. And more questions about a curious character who put himself right in the middle of the mystery.
In the hours after midnight on May 1, , Shannan Gilbert, an escort on her way to a job, drove past the place where the bones of the Long Island Serial Killer's victims lay hidden in the brush.
She didn't know it then, but the mysterious events of the next few hours would forever link her to four young women - whose bodies were found wrapped in burlap -- and spark one of the largest murder investigations in Long Island history. And so it began. She felt like she was in fear for her life that night," Sherre Gilbert told "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty.
It would be two days before Sherre learned her sister was missing It was the call Sherre and her sister, Sarra, had been dreading ever since learning Shannan, diagnosed with a bipolar disorder and struggling with depression and mood swings, had turned to selling her services online as an escort. The Gilberts say they immediately filed a missing persons report, but with no news, they drove miles from their home in upstate New York to Oak Beach, Long Island, to look for Shannan themselves.
By then, she had been missing for eight days. We went everywhere. They spoke to a dozen witnesses and homeowners in the area trying to piece together a timeline. They learned that Shannan and her driver had left New York City shortly after midnight on May 1, , and headed to a gated community in Oak Beach. Shannan's sister believes something awful happened in that house to terrify her because of a call Shannan made from right inside the client's home.
