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

[jtfolden]

Jeremy Harris on Twitter
NOW: we located this cross in the area of Spread Creek where investigators indicated they found the body believed to be #GabbyPetito . There are obvious signs that this area was extensively surveyed by crime scene techs. @KUTV2News

9:01 PM · Sep 20, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

Jeremy Harris on Twitter
While not confirmed with police, I do believe this was likely the spot where she was found. Investigators had this area locked down until approximately an hour and a half ago, and there are paint marks all around this spot, likely for measurements from a CSI team. @KUTV2News

9:09 PM · Sep 20, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

Those rocks have plainly been there more than a a few hours. I could see BL placing them in the area but not LEO's - especially those that may need to come back to the crime scene for something later. I think the poster is stretching the imagination.

 

[Shellinaya]

This is the part I'm struggling with. By the time she's talking to LE, she's already done all of the other things (hit him, scratched him, made a scene to the point that someone called 911) that, in your scenario, should have made him plenty angry. What's so much more egregious about telling LE what "really" happened?

I think she really wanted to go see her friend who was having a birthday on the 29th and they were going to meet up with her at Yellowstone (or they had some kind of plans)... if this was the type of relationship where she didn't have much power, she may have felt that if she told LE the truth she would not be "allowed" by BL to go see her friend, or even contact her on her birthday. Turns out that happened anyway.

This was the same friend that said in an interview that BL would not "allow" Gabby to go out dancing with her. She also said he was controlling, but she didn't go into detail.

This is just so sad. I can only imagine what Gabby was trying to deal with in her personal life at the same time trying to make a go of her brand new business idea and van life blog. I rewatched a portion of the LE traffic stop where they were talking to BL, he actually told the police officer she was "working on her little blog" that morning. He even diminished it to the cops.

 

[Amster]

I’ve thought of the possibility he was controlling her phone also. The change in posting style as of July 30, the fact that the Aug 12 incident appeared somewhat related to her trying to grab her phone, and finally his belittling her efforts at the social media success they were striving for. I can totally picture him taking control because she was doing it wrong and he’d do better, and also just simply as a control tool too.

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.

 

[Puzzles8]

Does BL strike you as the type of guy who has ever wanted to work? I think someone is arranging for cash for him to lay low just to buy him time. I'm not sure anyone expects his life on the run to last forever. It's a way to let the public outrage die down. Find a great lawyer and get a legal strategy arranged. I'm sure there are lawyers right now hoping to take on his case, just for the publicity and I think his family thinks he'll be set free and be more famous than ever. Then he can do a book deal, maybe a movie. Despicable, but the wheels for all this could already be turning. He's the victim, after all, in his own story.

JMO

If don't know whether he is the type of guy that avoided work or not. That is an interesting question though, whether he has always been supported by his parents or by Gabby's travel blog. Has he ever had a full time job since high school graduation?

IMO, his current lawyer is not a specialist in criminal cases. Seems he is better know as a RE lawyer in NY. Any attorney (particularly of a guilty client) will rightful advise his client to remain silent.

If someone is arranging cash for him, there will be some type of trail.

JMO

 

[borndem]

It's possible. It will be interesting if they disclose the time when she died.

Indeed it will interesting, but I wonder how narrowed-down the TOD will be. Her little body was been out there for several days, IMO. Low heat and low humidity would help preserve it. I do think TOD is going to be important, so I feel sure the M.E. will try to narrow it down as much as possible.
I'm hopeful they will release at least some details from the autopsy -- and soon -- but we'll have to wait and see on that one, too.

 

[Vegasgrl]

Tha

Jeremy Harris on Twitter
NOW: we located this cross in the area of Spread Creek where investigators indicated they found the body believed to be #GabbyPetito . There are obvious signs that this area was extensively surveyed by crime scene techs. @KUTV2News

9:01 PM · Sep 20, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

Jeremy Harris on Twitter
While not confirmed with police, I do believe this was likely the spot where she was found. Investigators had this area locked down until approximately an hour and a half ago, and there are paint marks all around this spot, likely for measurements from a CSI team. @KUTV2News

9:09 PM · Sep 20, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

That first photo is especially beautiful.

 

[thor124]

Just IMO, but that sounds more like a driving plan with two drivers switching off. Hopefully someone used credit cards to buy all that gas and there is still security footage from the gas stations.

My best guess is 400ml a tank, so 6 or 7 stops minimum, if starting with a full tank. I'm guessing at least 8 stops. I hope the FBI has as much video evidence as I suspect.

 

[GoldfishMango]

While that may be so, the spot doesn't look like what we've seen in the aerial videos of the coroner's tent, which appeared to be in an area under trees near a gravel road. So even if this area was marked off by LE, I'm not sure it's the exact location where she was found. (I also thought the entire area was going to be closed for a longer time, but maybe it has been opened up again.)

JMO

I doubt very much it’s where she was actually found. She was found across the creek and up a wash on the flats, so to speak. I stated the cross may have been put there by a camper. A memorial some kind soul made because they knew what happened. It’s hard to ignore choppers, news, ME vans when camping. They closed the area off but I doubt they made everyone already there leave since the area is dispersed and the sites are large. I think the campers with the red truck were closest and they were probably 1/4 mile from the van. Which BTW was not parked in a camping site. It was just in a pull off area.

 

[Blef]

This case is unfathomable to me. The ferociousness with which I am following it is surprising to me and reminds me uniquely of those crazy first few weeks of the Jennifer Dulos case.

I think it’s going to take a completely crazy turn at some point soon.

I can’t agree with you more. I’ve not been gripped by a case like this for so long.

 

[mlhenn]

Wasn't the interview before she was found? h.

Correct. His interview was done before the discovery of her body.

 

[catchingdelivery]

You're blending parts of what happened.

You stated that Gabby wasn't given a safe place to speak, she was, as clearly evidenced on the bodycam footage. She was led to the safety of the police vehicle first, which was a suitable distance away from her van and out of earshot of BL. That LEO wanted to hear from her first and encouraged her to be honest and tell him what happened. She could have at any time said she was scared and needed to get away from him.
LEO did give her the opportunity to disclose this safely.

Separately, I am very aware of how DV/ DA victims are beaten down and fearful, that they will minimise, take the blame and not speak up.
This is separate to your initial comment claiming Gabby wasn't given the chance to safely speak however.

Yes I watched it all, over and over its a great teaching tool for many. Although they were separated, the abuser was still around at one point they even sat BL on a curb, Gabby could still see him from the vehicle she was placed in. Victims will do everything possible to be cautious of their actions around the abuser. BL's first question was "so did you talk to Gabby" fishing for anything she may have told them. They even had a female Officer talk to Gabby, although it may have looked like a safe spot to the regular citizen, it was not for a victim of domestic abuse.

Because BL had the physical scratches on his face, he was sent to the "Safe Hotel" for the evening - listen to the words of the 911 caller and look at the police interaction with BL smiling and laughing. If Brian slapped Gabby in public on a Main Street imagine what he was capable of doing when no one was looking. How safe do you think Gabby felt at that moment? Teaching Moments for all!

 

[PetDetective]

That is not correct. They were discussing charging her and instead of taking her to jail they asked BL if they had money to put her in a motel? He said no. maybe they didn't or maybe being the jerk he is he didn't want to waste money on a motel if she could sleep in a jail cell. So then they decided not to charge her with domestic violence. But since she was the aggressor according to both their statements and Christopher's, she couldn't go to the womens's shelter, but the group that managed the shelter could pay for a room for BL since he was technically the victim of DV. They weren't doing him a favor, especially since he said he would rather camp in the Arches, but instead trying to fix away for them to be separate for the night and not take her to jail.

He also asked if he could go to jail instead of Gabby.

 

[Bsc87bsc]

My thought in regards to hitchhiking: after he killed gabby he went on his “hike”, got picked up by the Tiktok girl and told his story about his fiancée being back at the van because he thought someone would have found her by then. When he returned from his “days hike”, he’d be coming back to the police and crime scene and there was his alibi. Maybe he figured the people who picked him up would tell him about the dead body found? When he got back to the van and she hadn’t been found he came up with a new plan, though driving the van to florida alone was probably the last thing I could think of to give the impression of innocence

 

[jtfolden]

While that may be so, the spot doesn't look like what we've seen in the aerial videos of the coroner's tent, which appeared to be in an area under trees near a gravel road. So even if this area was marked off by LE, I'm not sure it's the exact location where she was found. (I also thought the entire area was going to be closed for a longer time, but maybe it has been opened up again.)

JMO

I don't believe the cross is exactly where she was found, either. They've plainly been laying there for longer than a few hours. However, the gravel you saw in the aerial videos was part of the river bank *I think*. Also, where they set up the canopy was not directly over the body. He remains were off screen.

 

[Blef]

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

This is the case that’s never going to leave her. I really hope she’s getting some support.

 

[MsArk]

They did not search the preserve today. I'm sure technically they are "looking" for him just not in any specific place, more of a BOLO.
MY PERSONAL OPINION?
NPPD Didn't think he was there but they all had a lot of fun playing with all their toys in the swamp for the weekend. They called it off before it was actually dark on Saturday, saying it was too dark. No thermal scans at night. They barely showed up by 10 on Sunday and were done by 4. And today, Myakkahatchee Creek Park and Carlton Reserve are wide open to the public again.

I am so not impressed with with NPPD. Thankful the FBI has taken over the lead.

 

[milkshakedonkey]

Those rocks have plainly been there more than a a few hours. I could see BL placing them in the area but not LEO's - especially those that may need to come back to the crime scene for something later. I think the poster is stretching the imagination.

there was paint around the area. I doubt BL would’ve bothered and if he did, I don’t imagine LE would leave it intact. I would suspect it was done by her uncle or LEO.

 

[Veronica Sawyer]

Brian Laundrie seen on video reading novel about missing women

Omg

We read about them everyday.

 

[Hyway]

I took a break late this afternoon as the DV issue was creating distress for myself. I'm heartbroken for this Ranger. She knew, she knew and told her. And in the meantime LE is yucking it up w BL about the "Crazy woman" SMH

I don't know if you read the article, but Hulls said it was more of a mental health crisis than a case of domestic violence. So even though she lacked the Yuck it Up methodology, she came to the same result the Yuck It Uppers did.

From the article...
After consoling Petito, Hulls discusses what to do with her colleagues.

They had several options. With the facts suggesting Petito was the aggressor, they could’ve taken her to jail. But Hulls said the situation appeared to be more of a mental health crisis than a case of domestic violence.

What Petito did to Laundrie “was emotional,” Hulls said. “She shouldn't have done it, but it wasn’t done maliciously.”

“I wouldn't have called (the relationship) unsafe. If we had any reason to think any one of them was in danger, we would’ve separated them,” she said.

 

[annpats]

From watching that bodycam footage it shows she was given the opportunity to speak to the LEO and tell exactly what had been happening.

Ha, as if that would do any good!

It doesn't matter that she was "given the opportunity to speak with LE and tell them what happened" ....thats NOT how it works!

Let me explain:

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

It would make the situation 100 times worse afterwards when everyone has gone. The abuse would be worse for daring to tell the truth and expose him!

Plus, when LE pulled them over SHE was seen as the abuser, despite the 911 caller telling police HE who was hitting HER.