Just before sunrise on May 1, 2010, a young woman on Long Island, New York, made a frantic call to the emergency services. ‘Someone is after me, they’re going to kill me,’ Shannan Gilbert, a 23-year-old prostitute, told the operator.
Crying and panting in fear, she explained how she’d travelled from New Jersey to see a man in a house on the island’s South Shore.
It was in a gated community called Oak Beach and it was
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