I don't know whether this constitutes proof, but the NJ missing persons report is quoted as saying, "the 5-foot, 7-inch woman was last seen wearing a brown leather jacket, blue jeans, a black low-cut blouse, and strappy sandals, the missing persons report states. She had tattoo of cherries on her left wrist and scorpion tattooed on her back. "Ms. Gilbert is bipolar and is known to use cocaine and marijuana as well as prescription drugs,'' the report adds."
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http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2010/12/missing_jersey_city_woman_shan.html
thank you for this, if shannon was known to use cocaine, then it's no secret. she had a tolerance for it, she couldn't be drugged by it.
they had to have drugged her with a sedative of some sort. she appeared drugged according to witnesses. cocaine would have made her not look dopey, she'd be speedy and awake.
delirious could mean several things, she could have been drugged with ambien, or some other type drug, definitely not speed though.
you don't want your hostage bouncing off the walls.
she was also known to use or be on other prescription drugs. depending on what she was drugged with, if she's taken it before enough she may have had a tolerance up to a point. the sk wouldn't have predicted this. this is why shannon would be able to get away and attempt to get help from the neighbors.
sedatives don't make people panic. she looked dopey, drugged out, spaced out. if the sk(s) attempted to drug her for control, and it didn't work, shannon started calling 911; yet her panic was real, that's not something brought on by a sedative. she knew her life was in danger and despite being drugged, took logical steps to help herself.
fight or flight. she's outnumbered at jb's; doesn't know who to trust, so she runs to neighbor's houses (the woman's and gc's house and they both in turn call 911). now we have sk & company on the move trying to find her.
she was probably feeling even more helpless with lack of le response. so she keeps running. she might feel trapped in, if inside someone's house with a psycho killer after her.
(in this theory anyway...)