Long Island police release 911 call in human remains mystery

Long Island police release 911 call in human remains mystery

FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2011, file photo, searchers, lower left, dig in a marsh area just east of Oak Beach, N.Y., for the remains of Shannan Gilbert, who went missing after meeting a client of a sexual encounter in May 2010. For years, Mari Gilbert insisted her daughter Shannon's death in a Long Island beach community was the work of a serial killer, perhaps the same one who left 10 other sets of human remains along a remote stretch of beach highway, just miles from where Gilbert's body was found. Now Mari Gilbert herself is dead, and authorities say another of her daughters is the one who violently stabbed the 52-year-old woman to death in upstate New York. (AP Photo/Kevin P. Coughlin, File)

OAK BEACH, N.Y. (AP) — A woman whose disappearance in a Long Island beach community sparked an investigation into a possible serial killer said “there’s somebody after me” in a newly released 911 tape. But police said Friday they still believe Shannan Gilbert’s death near Gilgo Beach in 2010 was a “tragic accident.” They say Gilbert likely drowned and her death was unconnected to the slayings of multiple other women whose remains were found in the same area in 2010 and 2011. On the 911 recording, Gilbert sounds disoriented and struggles to communicate with police dispatchers. She can also be heard running and screaming.

Photo: FILE – In this Dec. 9, 2011, file photo, searchers, lower left, dig in a marsh area just east of Oak Beach, N.Y., for the remains of Shannan Gilbert, who went missing after meeting a client of a sexual encounter in May 2010.(AP Photo/Kevin P. Coughlin, File)