FILE - In this Friday Feb. 12, 2016 photo, Sarra Elizabeth Gilbert, center, is shown standing between her sisters Stevie Smith, left, and Sherre Gilbert, right, as her mother Mari Gilbert, seated left, and attorney John Ray, seated right, hold a press conference about Shannan Gilbert, a Jersey City, N.J., prostitute whose remains led to the discovery of 10 sets of human remains strewn along Long Island’s Gilgo Beach. Police say Mari Gilbert was found dead in her apartment Saturday, July 23, 2016, and Sarra Gilbert has been charged in the death of her mother. (AP Photo/Frank Eltman, File) (The Associated Press)
ELLENVILLE, N.Y. – Police say the mother of a woman whose remains led to the discovery of 10 sets of human remains strewn along Long Island's Gilgo Beach has been found dead in her apartment.
Police say Mari Gilbert's 27-year-old daughter has been charged in her death. Her body was found around 2:15 p.m. Saturday inside her Ellenville apartment in the Catskills.
Mari Gilbert's attorney, John Ray, confirmed her death and the arrest of 27-year-old Sarra Elizabeth Gilbert.
Ellenville police said in a release on Facebook that the daughter was arraigned on murder and weapons possession charges.
The 52-year-old woman's other daughter Shannan Gilbert vanished along Ocean Parkway in 2010. Her disappearance led to the discovery of the other bodies that police believe may have been the work of a serial killer.
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