Found Deceased WY - Gabrielle ‘Gabby’ Petito, 22, Grand Teton National Park, 25 Aug 2021 #20

[woods]

Was the August 30 text “No service in Yosemite” ever confirmed? Was that “Gabby’s” last text message to her mother?

 

[lilithblue]

Is it possible "Stan" was an autocorrect? The message barely even makes sense without more context. Unless BL was out of his mind (maybe he was), I can't imagine texting about "Stan" as a way to cover my tracks.

I think Stan/Grandpa was probably calling relentlessly, and he wanted it to stop.

 

[KeithF40]

We also have to remember this guy isn't too swift. What's he gonna do anyway, go around in his sailboat for the rest of his life?

 

[PetDetective]

It was likely a traffic camera not a toll booth. Nor was there any money involved.

The closest toll booth to North Port is the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over to St Pete. The other toll cameras are in Tampa. He would have come straight down I-75 south. There isn’t any toll booths. They are a rarity on the west coast of Florida.

It was a license plate reader.

 

[kittythehare]

The whole calling grandpa Stan thing… Are we thinking he was texting pretending to be her? Why would HE say Stan if that was the case?

Her mother made the point that she never referred to her grandfather by his name.
But if Stan had been calling her phone and there were a number of missed calls from him, he couldn't very well return the calls if she was no longer alive because the grandfather would know he was not talking to his grandchild.
He could try texting her mother though, pretending he couldn't get through to Stan or whatever..

 

[whitelilac]

Wait, was this recently? Meaning Brian has actually been in Florida and he and his parents were just going about their lives like nothing happened?

This is real news if this is the case. No words.

MOO.

I know...I'm surprised this only came out today! Wow

 

[sunshineray]

I wonder if someone else flew out to Wyoming, helped BL get to an airport, and then drove van back to Fla. Then his Mustang was staged at the park, throwing his trail off. His parents then brought Mustang back home. Why would they bring it home, if their son might need it to get home in? Did any neighbors mention seeing BL? Surely some of them have cameras.

To me, his parents going to the park ) that they later told LE he said he was going to) and driving the Mustang back to their...all sounds like part of a plan.

1. If they thought he was just going into that reserve area to do some alone time hiking, he'd need the car to get home. Makes no sense to take it.

2. If they thought he'd gone into that reserve area to commit suicide, wouldn't they be a couple of cold-hearted parents. I think they're not and care deeply for their son.

3. If though they knew he was going on the lamb without the Mustang, it makes sense they'd go get it.

4. If they and Brian wanted it to look like he went into the reserve, they 'd have left the car there.

Looking like it's number 3 to me. AJMO
I hope his parents have come clean about all they know. If not...arrest them. Again AJMO

 

[Harry Seaward]

A DV victim is never going to say anything to incriminate her abuser with her abuser sitting a few yards away!

If a victim isn't going to spill the beans on their abuser because they would 'pay for it later', why would that victim, scratch, hit, leap through the window and create a public scene big enough for someone to call 911?

 

[GoldfishMango]

I hope that is what most people will go there for, but I fear its going to end up to be a "must do" Instagram spot like the Chris McCandless bus picture, but much more assessible. (before anyone says it, I know the bus has been moved and there is now a replica somewhere right on the highway where you can get a similar picture taken)

I was going for the camping and scenery. Not for any other reason.

 

[LvsAMystry]

What? During the traffic stop? He didn’t get GPs phone out of the van….she had her phone….didn’t she? He got his phone out for the officer.

The police report specifically states the witness reporting that the altercation he saw was the two of them fighting over a phone. That was prior to police involvement.

 

[Here_I_Am]

Was the August 30 text “No service in Yosemite” ever confirmed? Was that “Gabby’s” last text message to her mother?

I noticed that it was NOT in the affidavit for the search warrant. According to that, the "Stan" text on 8/27 was the last text from her phone.

 

[thebedbug]

<modsnip: Quoted post was removed>All day I've been seeing about how the police didn't know about BL slapping GP... BOLDED BELOW from the police report.

"MCPD officers were dispatched to a report of a domestic problem that had taken place near the Moonflower Co-op. It appeared that a male and female had left the scene traveling north on Main in a white Ford Transit van with a black ladder on the rear after the male and female had engaged in some sort of altercation. It wasn't clear, but I believe it was reported the male had been observed to have assaulted the female"

The police were heading to a domestic disturbance... OBVIOUSLY they are going to have a close eye on the male and look for indications on the female of an assault.

 

[Seabunny]

And he had the monk pattern balding at a very young age. I belong to a family who have, what I have always thought as premature balding, but my families started in the late thirties, not early twenties. Some older men than he are sensitive about that.

I'm not fond of the baldness insults. I think BL was accepting of it to an extent as he joked about it with the police. Also, considering baldness is a distinctively masculine trait, exhibiting dominance, confidence, and masculinity, so I don't think that it would be emasculating. He could be insecure about his attractiveness because of it, though. In contrast, pattern baldness would negatively affect a woman by making her feel less feminine because it's not a common feminine trait.

 

[TommyVee]

Well that confirms he did make it back to Florida on 9/1.

Also, perhaps already mentioned, but the VAN has been confirmed to have entered florida on September 1st as noted in the Search Warrant for the Digital Storage Device and verified via license plate reader.

 

[PixieStix]

I know...I'm surprised this only came out today! Wow

Me too! Usually, everyone comes out of the woodwork to talk about people in these cases. I have been searching for a week for something like this; I can't believe it took this long, especially with all the news people and neighbors that have been around for days and days!

 

[hey-Debbie]

And the timing is disturbing. It suggests that GP was already dead or injured on the 27th.

I think she may have died the evening of the 26th.

 

[jtfolden]

Not to be blunt, but I don't think she was intact when she was found. I don't know how they could get time of death from a body that's been out in the elements for weeks. They might not even be able to determine whether it was a homicide or something else. I guess we wait and see.

My understanding from those that saw the early raw aerial footage of her body indicated there was clothes, hair, etc... so perhaps she was mostly intact.

Also, time of death in cases like this can be determined by insect activity among many other things. That's not to say they could determine it down to the minute but they can surely confirm it was nearer to 21 days ago than it was to 30, for example.

 

[Veronica Sawyer]

The whole calling grandpa Stan thing… Are we thinking he was texting pretending to be her? Why would HE say Stan if that was the case?

Maybe he wanted her mom to question it because he wanted Gabby to be found sooner rather than later... I can’t think of another explanation for it. /JMO

 

[MyBelle]

Arches park ranger warned Gabby Petito her relationship with Brian Laundrie seemed ‘toxic’

The Ranger is engaging in cya. The "facts" didn't support Gabby as the aggressor which is why so many are being critical now. The Red Flags were waving but none of that group seems to have had training to recognize them. JMO

 

[passionflower]

Forgive me if I missed information on this. How or who financed this huge trip by 2 young people?