None of the four bodies found on a Long Island beach is missing prostitute Shannan Gilbert, cops said today.
Her mother, Mari Gilbert, was not relieved: “I’m confused. Where is she?”
“I still miss her and I want her home, and she’s still not here,” she added. “I don’t want her to be forgotten. And I am confident in [the police] to not stop until she is found and the other ones are identified and their families have closure.”
The development came after cops spent the day fanned out across a 10-mile area in a bid to find more victims of a possible serial killer.
Suffolk cops had swarmed an exclusive Long Island neighborhood to search the home of a man who is the last person seen with Gilbert.
The two-story home in Oak Beach, just about three miles from where the skeletal remains of four unidentified women were found on a desolate stretch of beach, was surrounded with at least 18 vehicles from the FBI, Suffolk County Police, K-9 units and forensics investigators.
Investigators spoke to homeowner Joseph Brewer at the ritzy home last night, after which they impounded his white 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Brewer, the man who arranged to meet Gilbert the night she disappeared, told The Post today that he has done nothing wrong and the probe will prove that.
“I’m waiting for someone to knock on my door and say ‘smile! You’re on Candid Camera,'” Brewer, his voice cracking, said in a call from his West Islip home where he is holed up with his elderly mother, young daughter and the mother of his daughter. “This has been a complete nightmare. I didn’t do this. I have a family. I have a young daughter. I’m not capable of something like this.”
Brewer did not go into details about the investigation but said “the police have told me that I’m not a suspect. I’ve cooperated with them in everything that they wanted. All I have on my side is the truth and time.”
Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer said the search area would be stretched by 10 miles.
“I want to assure everybody that we are on top of this investigation,” he told reporters today during a new conference.
“There are no suspects at this time,” he added.
At about midnight, a flatbed tow truck hauled away a white SUV that had been parked in Brewer’s driveway. Within hours, cops said they began looking through the home and property.
None of the victims have been identified.
Dormer said cops would “expand our search in that community over the next several days” — referring to Oak Beach.
Cops used 10 cadaver dogs supplied by New York State police as they look for more victims before calling off the search this afternoon.
County Medical Examiner Dr. Yvonne Milewski said her office is working with fingerprints, DNA and dental records to try and identify the bodies.
He said bone DNA takes 30 days to identify.
Asked how long the four bodies had been decomposing, Milewski said she didn’t know the answer.