Shannon McGarvey

victims' families.

Mary Gilbert emerged as, you know, the sort of champion of all of that after her daughter, Shannon Gilbert, went missing in the Oak Beach community.

But what's interesting about her is that her daughter was never linked to the Gilgo Beach murders, but it was her disappearance that led to the discovery of the victims of the Gilgo Beach murders.

Does the fact that these women were engaged in sex work have anything to do with the fact that these cases have gone cold and unsolved?

And, you know, mind you, this case was cold for years and years and years.

I started working.

I came onto this case in 2016.

which was six years after Shannon Gilbert had gone missing.

And by this point, the police chief in Suffolk County had gone to jail, you know, and that was like a big deal.

This very, very solvable case...

had languished for so many years as unsolved.

To your point, they were all loved and cared for and they had families and lives.

And through the arbitrary circumstances of life found themselves in these horrible situations that for whatever reason they could not escape.

And unfortunately, it ended up...

you know, killing them.

Oh, God.

So, yeah, Amanda, Amanda Funderburg is her name.

And she she actually she sat down with us on the Lisk podcast.

But, yeah, she was 15 years old at the time.

She was very close to Melissa and had a trip planned from Buffalo down to the Bronx where Melissa lived.