Shannan Gilbert disappeared after fleeing from a client’s home and making an emergency 911 call saying that someone was trying to kill her. Her remains were located 19 months after her disappearance, the cause of her death is contested.
On March 13, 2020, Netflix released the movie Lost Girls, based on Shannan’s disappearance and death, the movie focuses on Shannon Gilbert’s mother, who is struggling to find out what happened to her daughter? While continuing to raise her other children as a single mother.
During the course of the investigation into Shannan’s abduction and subsequent death in 2010, authorities ignored her and the plethora of other missing sex workers in the area, at least in part because of their profession.