What Happened to Shannan?

“Those eight victims’ families now have some semblance of an answer. Shannan Gilbert’s family does not. Despite all talk of resolution and closure for eight families of eight victims, the matter of Shannan Gilbert remains both separate from and essential to the story of the Long Island serial killer. Despite all the twists and turns that brought Mr. Heuermann to justice, Shannan’s case remains persistently, almost defiantly, open — the case’s first and last great unsolved mystery.”

—From The New York Times, following Rex Heuermann’s guilty plea to eight murders