Rex: The Gilgo Beach Architect | The Rex Heuermann Investigation
Rex Heuermann murdered eight women on Long Island between 1993 and 2010 while working as a Manhattan architect for companies like American Airlines, Target, and Nike. The investigation that should have caught him was obstructed by the very officials running it, with three Suffolk County law enforcement officials eventually going to federal prison for corruption that kept the FBI locked out of the case for years.
This series reconstructs the entire Gilgo Beach case from court filings, cell tower records, DNA evidence, witness testimony, and the public record. Every claim is sourced and cited on NBN.fm.
A 25-episode investigative series from the Neural Broadcast Network.
Rex: The Gilgo Beach Architect | The Rex Heuermann Investigation
Mari Gilbert Forced the Search, Then Her Daughter Killed Her
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Mari Gilbert forced the search that found the Gilgo Beach bodies. She called police, called the press, and stood on Ocean Parkway with signs until they looked. On July 23, 2016, her daughter Sarra stabbed her 227 times. She never lived to see the arrest.
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Maury Gilbert forced the broader search along Ocean Parkway. She called police, she called the press, she showed up. Without her, the Gilgo 4 might never have been found. On July 23, 2016, she was murdered in her own home. Her daughter Sarah stabbed her 227 times. The woman who would not let the system forget her missing child was killed by another one of her children. This is Rex, the Gilgo Beach architect. Every document and source we reference is available on the Neural Broadcast Network website.
SPEAKER_00Aaron Ross Powell We need to begin our forensic timeline on May 1st, 2010. Shannon Gilbert is a 24-year-old escort, originally from Jersey City, New Jersey. She disappears right after a late-night appointment in Oak Beach. Right. And you know, when you actually look at the geographic profile of Oak Beach, you immediately realize it is well, it's not a typical residential neighborhood by any stretch.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's incredibly isolated.
SPEAKER_00Aaron Powell Exactly. It's this gated enclave situated directly on the barrier island south of Long Island. The isolation is just a massive critical factor in this case. You've got the Atlantic Ocean to the south, the Great South Bay to the north, and then these vast expanses of state parkland on either side.
SPEAKER_01Aaron Powell Which means your movement is super restricted.
SPEAKER_00Aaron Powell Oh, severely. There's only one main artery running the length of the sandbar, and that's Ocean Parkway. So if you're inside Oak Beach and uh and you need to escape on foot, your options are essentially cut off by water on two sides and just dense, impassable vegetation everywhere else.
SPEAKER_01Aaron Powell I have the exact timeline based on the all that's interesting source document right here. So Shannon calls 911 at 451 AM from a client's house.
SPEAKER_00And this isn't a quick hangup call either.
SPEAKER_01No, not at all. It's an extensive call that lasts 21 minutes. And during this exact same window, multiple independent witnesses report seeing her running through the streets of this gated community actively seeking help.
SPEAKER_00Pounding on doors, trying to get someone's attention. Exactly. But I'm looking at the document here, and it specifically says police took nearly an hour to arrive.
SPEAKER_01Which is, I mean, it's staggering.
SPEAKER_00Right. You really have to ask yourself how a priority emergency call happening in such a confined geographic area results in a one-hour response time.
SPEAKER_01Aaron Powell Well, a 21-minute open line with dispatch, it provides an immense amount of audio evidence, right? The dispatches are picking up ambient noise, physical movement, clear signs of distress. But you have to factor in the jurisdictional layout of that specific barrier island because it creates a serious logistical bottleneck. Trevor Burrus, Jr.
SPEAKER_00Because of the cell tower.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, exactly. Because Oak Beach is so remote, the emergency routing gets incredibly complicated. Cell phone towers on that barrier island, they frequently ping signals straight across the water to the mainland.
SPEAKER_00So the dispatchers answering aren't even local.
SPEAKER_01Right. A 911 call from Oak Beach might route directly to a state police barracks miles and miles away, rather than hitting the local Suffolk County precinct that actually has jurisdiction.
SPEAKER_00So by the time they establish the correct coordinates, figure out who should be responding, and a patrol unit physically crosses the Robert Moses causeway to reach the location, a full hour has elapsed. The physical presence of the caller is just gone.
SPEAKER_01And that's exactly when Mary Gilbert, Shannon's mother, steps in. She begins calling the Suffolk County police the very moment she realizes Shannon is unreachable.
SPEAKER_00She knew right away something was wrong.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and the police response here is extensively documented across these files. The department basically tells her that her adult daughter probably just left the area on her own.
SPEAKER_00They completely brush her off.
SPEAKER_01Totally dismissed at the local precinct level. But you know, you cannot view this purely as some logistical failure of dispatch routing. We have to examine the institutional apathy at play here.
SPEAKER_00The less dead framework.
SPEAKER_01Exactly. Shannon was a sex worker. We really have to question if the delayed police response and then this immediate dismissal of a frantic mother's report stems from that framework being utilized by law enforcement.
SPEAKER_00Because the assumptions they make dictate their response.
SPEAKER_01Right. If you substitute a 24-year-old teacher into that exact same scenario, a 21-minute distress call, neighbors seeing her running in a sheer panic, you see a completely different mobilization of resources, don't you?
SPEAKER_00You see helicopters, you see search grids, absolutely. And the forensic and investigative record across multiple jurisdictions completely validates your point. It is. Individuals engaged in sex work are routinely classified by initial investigators as transient or voluntarily missing. The less dead concept is a recognized sociological term used in criminology. It describes how law enforcement and really society at large allocate far fewer resources to victims from marginalized groups.
SPEAKER_01And the predators know this.
SPEAKER_00They bank on it. Predators understand this framework intimately. They specifically target these populations because they rely on the police operating assumption that a sex worker simply left a client's house and moved on to another location.
SPEAKER_01Which is exactly what the precinct told Mari.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. And because of that baseline assumption, Suffolk County police did not secure the perimeter of Oak Beach on May 1st. They did not immediately initiate a grid search of the surrounding marshland. All they did was file a report.
SPEAKER_01But Mari Gilbert recognized this institutional apathy immediately. She knew her daughter's habits, she knew the silence was unnatural, and she wasn't going to just accept it.
SPEAKER_00She called it out from day one.
SPEAKER_01She really did. In her interview with the New York Times, she articulated exactly how the system viewed her child. I'm looking at the document here, and it specifically says, I think they look at them like they're throwaway, they don't care.
SPEAKER_00And she refused to let that be the end of the story. She refused to accept the precinct narrative. For the next 18 months, Mari Gilbert basically organizes her own relentless pressure campaign.
SPEAKER_01She physically stands out there.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, she stands right on Ocean Parkway holding signs. She coordinates all these media interviews. She continuously calls the department, refusing to let the case go dormant.
SPEAKER_01Constantly forcing their hand.
SPEAKER_00Right. Her persistence is genuinely the singular catalyst that forces the department to expand their investigative radius outside the secure gates of Oak Beach and onto the highway itself.
SPEAKER_01Which brings our timeline to December 2010. So it's a full 18 months after Shannon vanished, and the police finally conduct a targeted search along Ocean Parkway.
SPEAKER_00And they deploy a police canine unit to comb the dense brush right along the shoulder of the highway. Now, search dogs are specifically trained to detect particular chemical compounds, namely putresene and cadaverine.
SPEAKER_01Those are the compounds released during human decomposition, right?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, exactly. But navigating the underbrush of Ocean Parkway in the middle of December is highly difficult. You have the salt spray blowing in off the ocean and these harsh winter winds that disperse the scent plumes.
SPEAKER_01Which makes detection a massive challenge.
SPEAKER_00It does. It throws off the grid entirely. However, despite those conditions, the canine unit alerts authority as to human remains. But the subsequent forensic recovery reveals a totally different reality.
SPEAKER_01Right. It was not Chennan Gilbert.
SPEAKER_00No, it wasn't.
SPEAKER_01The search uncovers what the investigative records now designate as the Gilgo Four. Melissa Barthelme, Megan Waterman, Maureen Brainard Barnes, and Amber Lynn Costello.
SPEAKER_00Four distinct victims.
SPEAKER_01Four. And I have the CBS 48 hours timeline document in front of me. The victimology here is highly specific, which immediately suggests a single offender.
SPEAKER_00The profile is incredibly narrow.
SPEAKER_01Right. All four women were petite, five foot or under, weighing approximately a hundred pounds, and all four worked as online escorts. You do not find four individuals with matching physical profiles and identical occupations dumped in the same stretch of wilderness by sheer coincidence.
SPEAKER_00You really don't. The behavioral signature is identical across all four recoveries. The offender systematically wrapped the remains in camouflaged burlap, and he placed them precisely at equal intervals along the parkway.
SPEAKER_01Like markers almost.
SPEAKER_00Very deliberate. We also possess some critical witness testimony regarding Amber Lynn Costello that points directly to the suspect's vehicle and his physical profile.
SPEAKER_01This is the roommate's report.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. Her roommate reported that a client who was described as this massive man resembling an ogre drove a first-generation Chevrolet Avalanche and offered $1,500 for her services.
SPEAKER_01$1,500.
SPEAKER_00Right, and she left her residence without her purse or her cell phone and just never returned.
SPEAKER_01To really understand how these remains sat completely undiscovered for years, you have to look at the physical terrain out there. I'm looking at the document here, and it specifically says the north side consists of dense, tick-infested underbrush, poison ivy, and evergreens, virtually impenetrable on foot. No security cameras, no streetlights.
SPEAKER_00And that topography is essential to the forensic timeline because Ocean Parkway is this very straight, high-speed road, but the shoulder is flanked entirely by this aggressive vegetation. It functions as a natural wall. It completely obscures any activity occurring just ten feet off the pavement. Picture driving down this highway at night, right? Your headlights illuminate the asphalt, but they cannot penetrate that solid wall of pitch black evergreens.
SPEAKER_01So no one driving by is going to see a thing.
SPEAKER_00Nothing. An offender could easily pull a vehicle onto the shoulder in the darkness, step just a few yards into the brush, and deposit evidence entirely out of sight from passing patrols. The environment was basically an active participant in concealing the crimes.
SPEAKER_01And this terrain presents a really severe analytical question regarding the timeline. The police were searching that area exclusively because Mari Gilbert demanded they look for Shannon.
SPEAKER_00Only because of her.
SPEAKER_01Right. So the discovery of the Gilgo 4 was entirely accidental, which means if Mari Gilbert had just accepted the initial police dismissal back in May 2010, those four women would still be lying undiscovered behind that natural wall of vegetation.
SPEAKER_00The forensic reality completely supports that conclusion. Without the canine deployment initiated by Mari Gilbert's relentless pressure, those remains would have stayed concealed indefinitely.
SPEAKER_01It's hidden away.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, the burlap wrapping utilized by the offender, it blended perfectly into the soil and the detrigus. The dense underbrush prevented any sort of accidental discovery by civilians. I mean, pedestrians do not voluntarily walk through thickets of coisin ivy on the shoulder of a high-speed parkway.
SPEAKER_01No, of course not.
SPEAKER_00The geography protected the offender entirely right up until the search parameters changed.
SPEAKER_01And the subsequent expansion of that search perimeter proves exactly how effective that natural wall was. Because once investigators realized the scope of the dumping ground, they expanded the grid. By May 2011, six additional sets of remains are found along their exact same stretch of barrier island.
SPEAKER_00Numbers just keep climbing.
SPEAKER_01Which brings the total to ten victims along Ocean Parkway. It wasn't just a recent cluster.
SPEAKER_00Not at all. Investigators recovered Jessica Taylor, who vanished way back in 2003. Valerie Mack, missing since 2000, an unidentified female toddler.
SPEAKER_01And the toddler's mother, too.
SPEAKER_00Right. The mother, identified via DNA testing and known in the files by a distinctive tattoo as Peaches, also an Asian male found in women's clothing. And Karen Vergata, missing since 1996. The sheer volume of remains in that specific area indicates a serial predator who basically viewed Ocean Parkway as a secure personal disposal site. She pivots her approach entirely.
SPEAKER_01She does. She appears on CBS 48 Hours and Metro Focus on PBS. I'm looking at the document here, and it specifically says, quoting attorney John Ray, Mari saw Shannon as an unintended hero because it was Shannon's disappearance that ironically caused all the others to have been found.
SPEAKER_00She realized the weight of what she uncovered.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you can really see her transforming her own personal grief into this broader mechanism for public accountability.
SPEAKER_00She banded together with the other families, forming an organized advocacy coalition. Lynn Bartholomew, Melissa's mother, and Lorraine Ela, Megan Waterman's aunt, joined her efforts. They unified their message across all these media platforms.
SPEAKER_01A united front.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. They were no longer just asking for a localized search, they were aggressively demanding systemic accountability from the Suffolk County Police Department.
SPEAKER_01Because the department had failed all of them.
SPEAKER_00They recognized that the same institutional apathy that dismissed Shannon's disappearance, it had allowed an active serial killer to operate in Suffolk County for over a decade.
SPEAKER_01And she accused the authorities directly.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Utilizing the media to maintain that intense pressure. In Robert Colker's book Lost Girls, Murray is documented accusing the authorities of conducting a clownish investigation.
SPEAKER_00She didn't hold back.
SPEAKER_01She really didn't. She was described by those involved as the most provocative personality in the room, the one who made noise when things got quiet. She understood that silence was the absolute enemy of the investigation.
SPEAKER_00So that brings us to December 13th, 2011. The forensic recovery teams finally locate Shenan Gilbert. Her remains are recovered in this harsh, unforgiving marsh near Oak Beach, roughly half a mile from where she was last seen running by those witnesses in the gated community.
SPEAKER_01But this recovery introduces a major, glaring discrepancy in the forensic record that requires intense scrutiny. I'm looking at the document here, and it specifically says authorities concluded she likely drowned accidentally based on the 21-minute 911 call. However, an independent autopsy in 2014 found damage to her hyoid bone, suggesting possible strangulation.
SPEAKER_00It's a fundamental contradiction.
SPEAKER_01It is. You really have to question how two separate medical evaluations arrive at diametrically opposed conclusions regarding the exact mechanism of death.
SPEAKER_00Well, we really must look at the anatomy of the hyoid bone to understand this discrepancy. The hyoid is this small, U-shaped bone situated right in the anterior midline of the neck. It's anchored by ligaments and muscles.
SPEAKER_01It's not just floating there exposed.
SPEAKER_00No, it is highly protected by surrounding tissue and the mandible, the jawbone. Fracture of the hyoid bone is a primary forensic indicator of manual strangulation, period.
SPEAKER_01Because it takes a lot of targeted force.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. It requires a specific targeted application of pressure, which is measured in substantial pounds per square inch to actually break it. It does not fracture from a simple fall into a soft marsh.
SPEAKER_01Or from just thrashing around in the water.
SPEAKER_00And it certainly does not fracture during an accidental drowning. The physical mechanics of drowning involve water entering the lungs. There is no blunt force trauma to the deeply protected structures of the anterior neck during a drowning event. So the official ruling of undetermined or accidental drowning, it directly conflicts with the physical evidence recovered during the independent autopsy.
SPEAKER_01When you look at that contradiction, you have to ask a difficult question.
SPEAKER_00It's hard to ignore the timeline.
SPEAKER_01Right. The rush to label Shinan's death a simple accident. It feels like an attempt to close a problematic file.
SPEAKER_00The documentation points heavily toward political discomfort driving their timeline. The initial 18 months were marked by deliberate, documented inaction. The mobilization of sophisticated resources, we're talking helicopters, dive teams, expansive canine grids. That mobilization only correlated with national media broadcasts and the organized protests led by Mari.
SPEAKER_01They were reacting to the PR nightmare.
SPEAKER_00The department was essentially forced to act to mitigate immense public relations damage. Think about it. If Shenan is officially classified as an accidental drowning, the department avoids the liability of having ignored the murder of a woman who is actively on the phone with their dispatchers for 21 minutes.
SPEAKER_01It completely shifts the blame away from their slow response.
SPEAKER_00Precisely.
SPEAKER_01We must move the timeline forward now to July 23, 2016. Mari Gilbert is now 52 years old. She is living in Ellenville, a small town in Ulster County, New York.
SPEAKER_00A completely different environment.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, this is a rural working-class area. It's far removed from the geography of Ocean Parkway and all the politics of Long Island.
SPEAKER_00But the trauma followed them. We are looking at the severe mental health decline of her other daughter, Sarah Gilbert. Sarah is 27 years old at this time, and she has been formally diagnosed with schizophrenia.
SPEAKER_01And that's a heavily documented decline.
SPEAKER_00It is. Schizophrenia typically presents in late adolescence or early adulthood, and its progression is often violently exacerbated by extreme environmental stressors.
SPEAKER_01Like losing your sister.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. The stress diathesis model in psychology explains how underlying genetic vulnerabilities are triggered by profound trauma. In Sarah's case, the psychological deterioration accelerated sharply following her sister Shannon's disappearance, and then obviously the subsequent gruesome discovery of the mass grave.
SPEAKER_01That level of trauma just fractured the family's foundation. The TV Insider document contains a public statement from the third sister, Cher Gilbert. I'm looking at the document here, and it specifically says Sarah was battling a mental illness for two and a half years, and Maury was the backbone of the family.
SPEAKER_00Mari was holding it all together.
SPEAKER_01She was. The records indicate Maury had actually gained custody of Sarah's son in February 2016, just months prior. Maury was constantly absorbing the impact of the trauma, trying to hold the surviving pieces of her family together.
SPEAKER_00And then we reach July 23, 2016. Sara places a call to Mara asking for help. Right. Upon Murray's arrival, Sarah attacks her. We will present the forensic facts methodically here. Sarah inflicts 227 stab wounds using a 15-inch kitchen knife.
SPEAKER_01It's an immense level of violence.
SPEAKER_00It is. She then bludgeons her mother with a fire extinguisher and sprays the chemical foam directly into her mouth.
SPEAKER_01During the subsequent police interrogation, Sarah states she heard voices calling her mother the devil and a bad god.
SPEAKER_00And the crime scene analysis aligns completely with a severe psychotic break. The sheer number of wounds, the mid-attack variation in weapons, switching from a blade to a heavy blunt object, and the post-mortem degradation of the body using the chemical foam, all of this reflects profound psychological disorganization.
SPEAKER_01It's not a calculated crime.
SPEAKER_00No, not at all. This level of overkill, coupled with the auditory hallucinations reported during interrogation, is highly consistent with unmedicated or severely symptomatic schizophrenia experiencing an acute delusional episode.
SPEAKER_01The violence in Ellenville connects directly back to the violence on Long Island. Shannon's disappearance fractured the family infrastructure. Sarah's severe deterioration accelerated right after her sister vanished. When you examine a case like this, you really have to ask how a forensic investigation quantifies the collateral damage of a serial killer.
SPEAKER_00It's a massive ripple effect.
SPEAKER_01It is. The violence didn't just stop on the shoulder of Ocean Parkway, it reverberated into an apartment in Ulster County six full years later. The initial crime sets off a shockwave that slowly dismantles the lives of the survivors.
SPEAKER_00But the legal system strictly quantifies homicide through physical proximity and direct causality, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, they only look at who held the weapon.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. The suspect on Long Island did not physically hold the weapon in Ellenville. But the investigative reality is that unresolved, prolonged trauma acts as a highly destructive catalyst.
SPEAKER_01It destroys everything it touches.
SPEAKER_00It does. The 18 months of simply not knowing where Shannon was, followed by the agonizing recovery of the skeletal remains, followed by the adversarial multi-year fight with the Suffolk County Police Department, all of that completely consumed the Gilbert family's emotional and financial resources.
SPEAKER_01She was fighting a war on multiple fronts.
SPEAKER_00Mari was acting as a private investigator, a media advocate, and a full-time psychiatric caregiver simultaneously. The serial killer's actions created a localized collapse of this entire family unit. The environment of chronic stress undeniably exacerbated Sarah's psychiatric condition far beyond the point of management.
SPEAKER_01The legal outcome for Sarah Gilbert is detailed heavily in the court filings. She is convicted of second-degree murder and fourth degree possession of a weapon. She is sentenced to 25 years to life and is incarcerated at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women.
SPEAKER_00And this creates a vast delay in the timeline of justice.
SPEAKER_01A tragic delay. And a full decade before he actually admitted guilt in a courtroom. She never saw the resolution she sacrificed her entire life pursuing.
SPEAKER_00So we advance the timeline to July 13th, 2023. Rex Heurman, a 59-year-old architectural consultant, is formally arrested in Midtown Manhattan. Right. And the forensic link rests on three really robust pillars of evidence that took over a decade to compile. First, the vehicle. The avalanche, yes. Investigators utilized DMV databases to narrow down registered owners of first-generation Chevrolet avalanches, matching the precise physical description provided years earlier by Amberlynn Costello's roommate.
SPEAKER_01That detail stuck.
SPEAKER_00It was crucial. Second, cellular analysis. Investigators map burner phone calls used to contact the victims. They pull massive tower dumps and cross reference millions of individual pings, isolating a very specific cluster of activity off cell towers in Massapeko Park.
SPEAKER_01They called it the box, right?
SPEAKER_00They designate this residential geographic zone the box. So by overlapping the vehicle registration data with the cellular triangulation around Originating within the box, Huerman emerges as a prime suspect.
SPEAKER_01And then comes the DNA.
SPEAKER_00Third, the biological evidence. Investigators physically surveil Huerman and recover mitochondrial DNA from a discarded pizza crust right outside his Manhattan office.
SPEAKER_01Aaron Powell Now you have to examine how mitochondrial DNA actually differs from the standard DNA profiling used back in the early 2000s when these crimes occurred.
SPEAKER_00It's a huge leap in forensic science. Traditional nuclear DNA is found in the root of a hair, which is very often absent in degraded crime scene evidence, especially evidence left out in a harsh marsh environment.
SPEAKER_01If the root is gone, the old tests couldn't do much.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. But mitochondrial DNA, which is inherited strictly from the maternal line, is present in the hair shaft itself. It is far more resilient to environmental degradation.
SPEAKER_01It survives the elements.
SPEAKER_00It does. The laboratory extracts the mitochondrial DNA from that pizza crest and matches it directly to a degraded male hair found right on the burlap used to wrap the victims along Ocean Parkway.
SPEAKER_01I have the Suffolk County DA press release regarding the April 8, 2026 guilty plea. I'm looking at the document here, and it specifically says Hoyerman, now 62, pleads guilty to seven murders and admits to an eighth care in Vergata.
SPEAKER_00The DA document also highlights the absolute oldest known case in this sequence, which beautifully demonstrates the full scope of what Mari's initial search ultimately unraveled. The victim is Sandra Castilla, a 28-year-old mother from Trinidad and Tobago.
SPEAKER_01The forensic timeline for Sandra Castilla states she was strangled between November 19 and November 20, 1993, in North Sea. The autopsy report notes she suffered 25 post-mortem sharp force injuries.
SPEAKER_00And her case is pivotal to understanding the broader timeline because advanced DNA testing, specifically utilizing single nucleotide polymorphisms and investigative genetic genealogy, actually cleared the initial suspect.
SPEAKER_01Right. There was a completely different guy suspected.
SPEAKER_00John Bitrelf, a convicted killer. He was cleared. The laboratory retested a male hair sample recovered from Costella's remains all the way back in 1993. That sample definitively matched Heuerman.
SPEAKER_01Which pushes the timeline way back.
SPEAKER_00This definitive match places his operational timeline beginning in 1993, which is a full 17 years before Shannon Gilbert disappeared into the marsh at Oak Beach.
SPEAKER_0117 years of operating undetected. And the planning document recovered from his digital devices labeled HK 200204 crystallizes his exact methodology.
SPEAKER_00It shows how his mind worked.
SPEAKER_01Exactly. He categorized his actions under specific columns, problems, supplies, dump sites, and targets. He operated systematically, applying an architect's precision to the sheer logistics of concealing human remains.
SPEAKER_00It was a project to him.
SPEAKER_01He evaluated the terrain, measured distances, and procured camouflage materials. The system ignored his actions entirely, until a mother from New Jersey forced them to look at the brush along Ocean Parkway. The cost of that revelation was three lives in one family. Shannon loft, Mari murdered, Sara imprisoned.
SPEAKER_00The toll is just immense.
SPEAKER_01Mari Gilbert's advocacy saved the investigation. The brutal irony is that the woman who fought so relentlessly against violence inflicted upon her family was ultimately ended by violence from within her own family. Next time a new DA takes office, Ray Tierney makes Gilgo Beach his first priority. Sixteen months later, they have their man. Everything we cited is sourced on the Neural Broadcast Network website.