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Autopsy finds no drugs in dead hooker's system, suggests she was frantically running from Long Island serial killer
By Thomas Tracy
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, December 11, 2014, 10:41 AM

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The post-mortem examination raises the possibility that Shannan Gilbert, 24, was fleeing the killer on May 1, 2010, when she began wildly banging on doors in Oak Beach, L.I.

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The autopsy also revealed that Gilbert’s fingers and toes were missing and that a bone was removed from her neck. While that could be significant, the autopsy noted “possible post-mortem animal activity.”

Forensic expert Mitch Holland told Newsday that the absence of drugs in the autopsy could reflect the exposure of Gilbert’s body to the elements across the 18 months before she was found.
Was she running from the Long Island serial killer? Autopsy shows NO drugs in dead hooker's body meaning she could have been the butcher's 11th victim
By James Nye for MailOnline
Published: 15:09 EST, 11 December 2014 | Updated: 15:51 EST, 11 December 2014

A long awaited autopsy on the body of a hooker whose 2010 disappearance and death exposed the Long Island serial killers victims has revealed she had no drugs in her system when she died, a report claimed on Thursday.

This raises the terrifying possibility that Shannan Gilbert, 24, might not have died in a drug fueled haze in Oak Beach as previously assumed, but may have been fleeing the serial killer as she furiously banged on doors in the neighborhood.

Indeed, if Gilbert is the 11th victim, it would mean that she wasn't running away from a client while high and didn't die in the local marshes in a stupor.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ning-butcher-s-11th-victim.html#ixzz3Ldrk72P9

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http://www.longislandpress.com/2014...mily-seeks-donations-for-funeral-2nd-autopsy/

Famous coroner Dr. Michael Baden will perform a second autopsy on a New Jersey woman whose remains were found in Oak Beach three years ago Saturday in the case that led police to the Long Island Serial Killer’s dumping ground.

The family of Shannan Gilbert, who police were searching for when they discovered 10 sets of human remains along Ocean Parkway, is seeking donations to pay for her funeral, so the second autopsy can be conducted at the funeral home. Attorneys for the family made that announcement on the same week that they released the results of Gilbert’s first autopsy and toxicology tests—which found no trace of drugs in her system.

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Prostitute found dead near NY serial killer’s dumping ground possibly murdered, says famed coroner
By Cristina Corbin
Published March 12, 2015 FoxNews.com

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After the discovery of Gilbert's remains, the medical examiner ruled her cause of death "undetermined," and police theorized she drowned while running through a marsh in a drug-induced state -- calling her death unrelated to the four victims of a suspected serial killer.

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That finding was called into question Monday, when Dr. Michael Baden, former chief medical examiner of New York City, and a Fox News contributor, examined Gilbert's skeletonized remains inside a Nassau County funeral home at the request of her family.

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"The hyoid shows some breakage," Baden told FoxNews.com. "If it is a fracture, that would be strong evidence Ms. Gilbert was strangled to death by neck compression."

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Baden is also ordering a "diatom test," which may determine whether Gilbert drowned.

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"The body is almost always face down -- not face up -- in drowning situations," Baden said. "There's enough evidence here to warrant a second look."

"It's extremely rare for a young woman to die of drowning yards away from where four young women have clearly been murdered," he noted. "The statistics don't go along with that."

[much more at the link]
 
Gilgo Beach: FBI to aid investigation, Suffolk police say
Updated December 10, 2015 10:02 PM
Newsday
By Tania Lopez


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Suffolk County Police Chief Stuart Cameron listens as Police Commissioner Tim Sini speaks during a news conference at Yaphank Police Headquarters on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015, as he announces that the FBI will join the investigation. Photo Credit: James Carbone


Suffolk police top brass assured families of victims of the Gilgo Beach murders Thursday that, even after five years, the investigation remains active and the department has asked the FBI to assist in the probe.

“As we approach the [five-year] anniversary, on behalf of the Suffolk Police Department, I want to convey to the loved ones and the families of all the victims that we are dedicated to do everything we can to solve this case,” Deputy Police Commissioner Tim Sini said. “Rest assured, this case remains active.”

“Anniversaries create opportunities,” Sini said. “We’re here today because we think it’s important to let the public know we are doing everything we can to solve these murders.”

Sini, a former federal prosecutor nominated last month to replace retiring Police Commissioner Edward Webber, said that in his experience, cooperating with federal authorities can speed up an investigation.

He declined to comment on specific details of the case or disclose any recent developments.
 
New Suffolk Police Department Leadership Asks FBI to Take Prominent Role in Fresh Look at Gilgo Beach Bodies Investigation

Published at 2:51 PM EST on Dec 10, 2015
NBC New York

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A top-to-bottom assessment followed the introduction of new police department leadership, Suffolk authorities said, and that included evaluating the unsolved Gilgo murders. Police said Thursday they believed it was time to take a fresh look at the complex investigation, and they asked the FBI to take a more prominent role.

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Police Commissioner Edward Webber has announced his retirement effective Jan. 23, and Chief of Detectives William Madigan also announced he'll be retiring.

At a news briefing Thursday, Suffolk authorities said they were committed to solving the Gilgo case and pledged to the victims' families they were doing everything possible to solve the murders.
 
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/...he-crime-scene-on-anniversary-1.11218489?qr=1

Five years after the first of the remains of 10 bodies were discovered on Gilgo Beach, Suffolk’s Deputy Police Commissioner Tim Sini, Chief of Department Stuart Cameron, a former K-9 unit commander and homicide detectives conducted a “review” of the scene.

Suffolk police officials on Friday toured the site where the first four sets of human remains were discovered along Ocean Parkway in Gilgo Beach.

“Anniversaries create opportunities,” Sini said. “We think it’s important to let the public know we are doing everything we can to solve these murders.”
 
&#8220;FBI to have enhanced role in long-unsolved Gilgo Beach murders; some ask what took so long&#8221;.


Possibly of interest from the article, BBM (other than the already-known Burke saga):

"Among the critics is a Craigslist sex worker, like many of the Gilgo victims. She told PIX11 News that evidence she has might point to the killers had been ignored by law enforcement in the past, and that she&#8217;s cautiously optimistic about the new changes.&#8221;
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The woman tried to convince local police to hear evidence she&#8217;d gathered that might point to a killer. She said she also tried to get federal agents to consider her information. When she did, she said, &#8220;I just felt like I was shut down in every direction."
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http://pix11.com/2015/12/10/fbi-to-have-enhanced-role-in-long-unsolved-gilgo-murders-potential-witness-asks-what-took-so-long/

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Escort Linked to NY Serial Killer Case May Have Been Strangled
NBC-10
February 12, 2016

The New Jersey escort whose 2010 disappearance led to the discovery of 11 butchered bodies on a Long Island beach may have been strangled, a newly released autopsy report found.

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"Michael Baden comes to disturbing conclusions," family attorney John Ray said.

Family members said the findings &#8212; which showed no evidence Gilbert died of natural causes, a drug overdose or by drowning &#8212; should spur authorities to open a murder investigation into Gilbert's death, which has never been ruled a homicide.

"We're demanding they activate a homicide investigation for Shannan Gilbert," Ray said.
 
Pathologist offers new theory on Shannan Gilbert's death
By Terrence T. McDonald | The Jersey Journal
on February 12, 2016 at 1:20 PM, updated February 12, 2016 at 5:36 PM

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Baden says he reviewed a medical examiners' reports and photographs sent to him by John Ray, the Gilbert family attorney. He said he also examined skeletal remains, finding Gilbert's larynx and parts of the hyoid bone in the neck missing.

"These structures, the larynx and the hyoid bone, are often fractured during homicidal manual strangulation," he wrote.

There is insufficient information to determine a definite cause of death, he added.

Autopsy: Slain New Jersey sex worker possibly strangled
FRANK ELTMAN, The Associated Press
Posted: Friday, February 12, 2016, 5:04 PM

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Although detectives have long maintained that Gilbert's death is unrelated to the killings of 10 others along Ocean Parkway in suburban New York, John Ray, an attorney for the Gilbert family, said Friday that an independent autopsy suggests the 24-year-old Jersey City, New Jersey, woman may have been strangled.

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Ray subsequently asked noted forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden to conduct an independent review.

Baden found that while "there is insufficient information to determine a definite cause of death," the autopsy findings "are consistent with homicidal strangulation." Baden's letter to Ray also said there is no evidence "that she died of natural disease, of a drug overdose or of drowning."

Ray said at a press conference with Gilbert's mother and sisters that he has requested the Suffolk County homicide squad re-activate the investigation into the woman's death.

Police Commissioner Timothy Sini said in a statement Friday that detectives are waiting to review Baden's findings. Sini announced in December that the department has brought in FBI investigators to assist local detectives with the probe.
 
Craigslist escort Shannan Gilbert may have been tortured before death: autopsy
Posted 2:29 PM, February 12, 2016, by Mary Murphy, Updated at 05:52pm, February 12, 2016
PIX 11

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"Almost all of the skeletal bones were recovered and appeared normal. There was no evidence of trauma. However, the larynx was missing and only the body of the hyoid bone was found; the two greater horns of that neck bone were missing. These structures, the larynx and the hyoid bone, are often fractured during homicidal manual strangulation. My examination of the recovered body of the hyoid bone, after it had been anthropologically de-fleshed, showed a roughness at the margins where the separated bones had been attached."

Baden found no evidence to support the theory that drugs might have caused her to fall into the water.

Baden concluded, "There is insufficient information to determine a definite cause of death, but the autopsy findings are consistent with strangulation."

New Shannan Gilbert autopsy reveals &#8216;disturbing&#8217; findings in Gilgo Beach case, medical examiner says
Posted 11:59 AM, February 12, 2016, by Jeremy Tanner, Updated at 02:39pm, February 12, 2016
PIX 11

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&#8220;There is no evidence whatsoever that Shannan Gilbert died a natural death,&#8221; former New York City medical examiner Michael Baden wrote in the report. &#8220;There is no evidence whatsoever that Shannan Gilbert died from a drug overdose, and there is no evidence whatsoever that Shannan Gilbert died from drowning.&#8221;

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&#8220;I know there&#8217;s a lot of coverups I don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s involved . . . I believe it&#8217;s all connected,&#8221; said Stevie Smith, one of Gilbert&#8217;s sisters. &#8220;I&#8217;m angry at the cop who took so long to get to the scene, I&#8217;m angry at the residents of the gated community, I&#8217;m angry at the driver who was hired to protect her and I&#8217;m angry at anyone who knows the truth and isn&#8217;t saying anything.&#8221;
 
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