Caroline Polisi

Thanks for having me, Erin.

I've been watching your coverage of this case for many years now, and it's a real honor to be here today.

I mean, you could feel that emotion in the courtroom.

I found it so interesting.

I mean, you could literally hear the judge's voice quivering as he delivered this colloquy, which was escalating to the end.

He was yelling.

He even wiped away tears at one point.

I mean, I've never seen a judge really get so worked up at sentencing.

Shannon's remains were eventually found about a year and a half after her disappearance.

The police believe her death was not a murder and not connected to the other victims that Shannon had instead died from an accidental drowning.

But given that police described the Gilgo Four as all petite in their 20s and working as online escorts, investigators believed that they were dealing with a serial killer who soon became known as the Long Island serial killer.

They got a description of him and the car he drove from a roommate of Amber Costello.

The roommate had told police about the client she'd left with the night she disappeared, describing him as looking like a, quote, ogre and having a first-generation Chevrolet Avalanche.

Yeah, and kudos to them and that task force.

It was so gut-wrenching for those families when this case had turned cold for so many years.

But they turned it around, and really once that task force was formed—

They figured it out pretty quickly.

It turns out that in the original case files, there were a number of critical clues that this new task force was finally able to connect, like the pieces of a puzzle.

It was all really there, like that information we just talked about from the roommate of Amber Costello, who told police about this.

This big ogre like man who drove a Chevy Avalanche.