
She was then bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher, according to a court document. Mari Gilbert was 52 when she was stabbed hundreds of times with a 15-inch kitchen knife by another daughter, Sarra. On July 23, 2016, tragedy again befell the family. She was previously known as 'Fire Island Jane Doe' New York authorities identify another Gilgo Beach murder victim. “Mari saw Shannan as an unintended hero because it was Shannan’s disappearance that ironically caused all the others to have been found and, now, to have at least one arrest,” said John Ray, an attorney for the Gilbert family. She fought tirelessly to ensure that Shannan and the other victims would not be forgotten. Mari Gilbert, in the final years of her life, pressured police to take her daughter’s disappearance seriously. Authorities have said her death may have been accidental and not related to the other killings – a long dormant multiple homicide case known as the “Gilgo Four.” Her remains were found in December 2011 in another beach community just down the road. Shannan Gilbert was 23 when she vanished. Mari Gilbert did not live to witness the arrest of an architect from Long Island suspected of killing four young women whose remains were discovered in Gilgo Beach more than a decade ago.īut the search for her daughter Shannan Gilbert, who went missing in May 2010, ultimately led Suffolk County police to the bodies of those women, wrapped in camouflaged burlap and discarded along a desolate beachfront parkway.
