Shannan Gilbert had been missing for more than a year and a half when her remains were found in on Jones Beach Island, N. Police officials in Suffolk County suspected at the time that Ms. Gilbert, 24, had drowned, and an autopsy by the county medical examiner left the cause of death undetermined. Yet on Friday, Ms. While the autopsy review by Dr. Michael M. Baden, a former chief medical examiner of New York City, agreed that the cause of death could not be determined, he noted in his report the absence of her larynx and parts of a bone in her neck.
Baden said in an interview on Friday. Gilbert, a prostitute from Jersey City, vanished on May 1, , last seen after leaving a home in Oak Beach, a seaside community on Long Island. She banged on the door of a nearby home, pleading for help, and ran away after the resident called A search for Ms. The mystery has gripped Long Island and remains unsolved; the local authorities asked the F. Police officials at the time said that her death was not necessarily connected to the others, and that they believed she had drowned as she crossed through the marshland trying to reach Ocean Parkway.
But on Friday, her family cited Dr. Gilbert died at the hands of a serial killer. Sini said. Baden said that he had examined the previous autopsy results, Ms. Baden said he was not paid to do the review and that the lawyer for Ms. Baden said. In their emotional news conference, Ms. Log In.
