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The guilt-ridden mother of missing call girl Shannan Gilbert — whose disappearance sparked the investigation into a Long Island serial killer — fears she contributed to her daughter’s disappearance, a report out today reveals.
Gilbert vanished after she fled screaming from a john’s house in Gilgo Beach last summer.
And the resulting search for her in the nearby area revealed a trove of corpses — likely the work of one or more killers dumping bodies on the beachfront.
Mari Gilbert, Shannan’s mother, said she spoke to her daughter six hours before her mysterious disappearance and believes the call girl argued with her driver over money, she told New York magazine.
She theorizes that Gilbert refused to hand over a percentage of her earnings to her driver — who was sitting outside while Gilbert was with her john — because she needed cash to buy her mom a present.
“I’m assuming that when she went back to the driver and the driver said, ‘Give me the money,’ she said, ‘No, I need the money for my mom’s birthday,’ ” Mari said about the horrifying scenario.
“Because she told me, ‘I’m doing a job so I’ll have some money to buy you something for your birthday,’ ” she added.
Gilbert’s driver was also supposed to provide security for the Craigslist hooker, the magazine reported.
“She just told me she wanted to get me something nice for Mother’s Day” and her upcoming birthday, Gilbert told The Post yesterday. “That’s what I think happened, she didn’t want to give the money up.”
Gilbert and other relatives of the four prostitutes whose bodies were found in burlap sacks also blasted the general lack of concern for the women because of their lifestyles.
Melissa Cann, sister to slain Maureen Brainard-Barnes, said area residents were more concerned with their property values than the victims.
“I may never get closure,” Cann told New York. “But that’s still a place where my sister was. And I just feel like that community has to see the families. All they care about is the values of their houses and how their community looks.”