Mari Gilbert’s life, transformed by the death of one daughter, was ended by another. bobkolker reports
Photo: Seth Wenig/AP/Shutterstock Receiving a scathing email from Mari Gilbert was not entirely unexpected. She was a confrontational person, not just brusque, but antagonistic even with those closest to her.
In the early days of the case, she had come, at my invitation, to New York City from Ellenville to participate in the profile. Mari was unique among those who came because her daughter Shannan technically was still missing. She didn’t want to be a part of this group. She felt superior to them in a way, insisting under her breath, more than once, that Shannan was not like those other girls—that she fought back against her assailant, that she wasn’t a victim.
Of Mari’s four daughters, it was Sarra Gilbert—third in the birth order, after Shannan and Sherre but before the baby, Stevie—whom Mari had always considered the reliable one. She was the rock, the unfussy one, the child who parented the other children when Mari wasn’t around. The Sarra I saw during the reporting of Lost Girls was a quiet presence, uninterested in publicity.
In January 2014, Mari and Sherre visited Sarra at her house. Sarra announced that they both were demons and tried to attack Mari before the police came and hospitalized Sarra at Orange Regional Medical Center. She returned there in February, and again in July after she’d become convinced that her son was a demon. Sarra spent a summer at that hospital before being transferred to Rockland Psychiatric Center, where she stayed until December.
On the morning of July 23, 2016, Sarra, after a sleepless night, texted Sherre to say she was hearing voices again. Sherre told her sister to call 911, or at least to call her mom for help. Unwilling to go back to the hospital, Sarra decided to call Mari, who said she was coming right over. But sometime between the end of that call and Mari’s arrival, Sarra became convinced that Mari wasn’t coming to help her.
Sarra was soaked in blood. She took off her pants and went to her bedroom to lie down. She smoked a cigarette and listened to music before the police arrived at 1:45 p.m.—summoned by Sherre, who had come to the house, pounded on the doors and windows, and tried to look inside. Sherre told the police that her sister had been hearing voices. But Sarra’s first words upon being discovered inside the apartment showed she knew why they were there: “I am under arrest.
The prosecutor, Emmanuel Nneji, wasted no time attacking that notion.
In his summation, Ray made one last plea for Sarra, whom he called “a true psychotic,” let down by a mental-health system that should never have allowed her out without her medication. “None of these poor people in this case deserve this,” Ray said. “Certainly not Mari, certainly not Stevie, not Sherre, certainly not this broken, poor psychotic little girl.”
But its notoriety, its legacy, speaks volumes. Whether she was a victim of the serial killer or not, Shannan Gilbert has accomplished something extraordinary in our society. From the Green River Killer in Washington and Oregon to the Southside Slayer in Los Angeles, the victims in serial-killer cases are often escorts—people overlooked by police. As far as the authorities are concerned, their profession still seals their fate.
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