Found Deceased WY - Gabrielle ‘Gabby’ Petito, 22, Grand Teton National Park, 25 Aug 2021 #24

[floridamomma]

What I find strange about this hike is that the news report I read of it said that "late Tuesday," Brian decided to take this hike. It was raining that day, and I think that evening. Who decides to start a hike late in the day? Is that common? If the detail is correct, that is. I've read many different statements about him and the hiking trip, but I wouldn't think anyone would start a hiking trip on a rainy day.

I also didn't think anyone would hike or backpack it with flip-flops, either, but....

We head out to the river barefoot and if storms pop up we head back out. And we're old. With kids. Lol

 

[Jealoushe]

Under the 16 there appears to be a drop of blood

It's likely sap

 

[MLaps]

But would he really leave anything behind there?

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

 

[MysteryMama]

A gun can be heard for miles. Even a 22 echoes all over the place. In a place like where she was found, people in the area would've heard it immediately, but no one reported any noise.

OK thanks for the info! Also, we don't know that nobody reported noise, we just haven't heard that in MSM I don't think. Maybe reports of gunshots are what narrowed it down to that campground (before the youtube video). Obviously that is pure speculation on my part but I just was thinking someone could have reported it and they just didn't release that info. Maybe?

super loud, much louder than a rifle

I have not seen the firearm in her tiktok nor do I claim to be a specialist or even an enthusiast. I have a .380 bodyguard and it is very loud. I definitely use ear protection.

A 380 is loud. The sound is substantial. It would be attention getting in a park. A 380 is about the same loudness as as 9mm which is the civilian / police / military standard. Not as loud as a 45, but certainly not as quiet as a 22.

OK thanks everyone! Seems like it being small doesn't mean it makes less noise! It seems it would be super hard to fire that in a NP and not disturb the others at the camp ground then.

 

[kyraz]

In my respectful and honest opinion and if time allows, please consider visiting all of the threads.
Some really great work has been done, so please go through that with your observation and check back

and with days without new information it tends to go down this road a bit aaaand there are a lot of new members due to the popularity of this case and that can change tone a bit (although the Mods have been superstars).

 

[SovereignSnake]

@DetectiveDraper
"Why do you think he could want to go back to the body? Great post btw."

I didn't get a chance to respond to your comment on my post last night before the thread closed and also thank you, I appreciated you saying so! So I don't think Brian necessarily wanted to get back to Gabby's body as much as he wanted to get back to the van. If he did indeed kill her on on the night of the 25th-26th he seems to have gone into this catatonic state where I don't think he knew what he was doing and lost focus in the days that followed. Like he seems to have had some kind of psychotic break or like he couldn't comprehend what he had just done? It seems he wanted to create some kind of narrative where she left him on the side of the road or in a random parking lot and he was going to attempt to hitchhike and then claim she disappeared only to be found dead, alone, with the van. After he started walking/wandering, Brian appears to have changed his mind and decided that the getting abandoned and hitchhiking plan wasn't going to work and he needs to go back for the van. I'm also guessing he was exhausted, delirious and just wanted to go home. Here's another thing I was thinking last night: If Brian killed Gabby the night of the 25th-26th and appears to have stayed in Spread Creek Campground until the 28th. Did Brian at any point return to her body and "view" her? Or at least within visual distance but not too close to make sure she was still there or it really happened. Like could he not believe she was actually dead so he returned to check on her, on say the 27th and even the 28th before heading out on foot? Did he go see her one last time when he came back for the van? Very creepy to think but I couldn't rule out this Norman Bates kind of behavior from him. I know the neighbor had made those comments about Brian out riding bike with his mom and helping his dad in the garage like he completely disassociated with the murder but I do speculate if there was a period of days where he couldn't function or went into "analysis paralysis" over Gabby's murder.

 

[Alethea]

This was posted and may help:

“Everything was just normal life once he came back,” Charlene Guthrie told Fox News of the time Laundrie, 23, returned to his family’s home without Long Island native Petito on Sept. 1.

“He mowed the lawn. [He] and his mother went for a bicycle ride around the block,” said Guthrie, who lives across the street from the Laundries in North Port.

Brian Laundrie's neighbor reacts to Gabby Petito homicide confirmation | Fox News

Brian Laundrie acted normal after Gabby Petito went missing (nypost.com)

Thank you! It seems like they were really confident they saw him recently. I was trying to figure out if the neighbors could have been wrong and thought of a different time (like when he flew back) but sounds like he really was here a couple of weeks ago.

 

[SAMS]

https://twitter.com/robertshermantv/status/1440703347648983051?s=21

The latest on the #GabbyPetito story and the search for #BrianLaundrie.
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1. FBI confirms remains of Petito
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2. Initial cause of death determination is “homicide” (pending final autopsy)
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3. Investigators putting large amounts of resources into finding Laundrie.

 

[SAMS]

https://twitter.com/jaygraymatters/status/1440701889163583505?s=21

Chasing a #rainbow along the #CarltonReserve Search for #BrianLaundrie #GabbyPetito

 

[SuperTmo]

I think that deer cam footage looks like him too and the backpack is strikingly similar to the one pictured as BLs previously....

Dang, there van looks like a rolling trash van inside. Where did they sleep???

 

[JuneRose]

im gonna speak on this whole crime scene senario that so many are stuck on First of all this was a crime scene, they would not leave ANYTHING of evidentry value at that place, no blood splatter, no supposed bullet holes no nothing, heck ive seen them haul entire beds in while processing a crime scene so NO they just dont do that, those two logs were not that big and if they had blood on them they would be gone, or bullet holes for that matter. !!!!!!

 

[JerseyGirl]

I saw a video of the neighbor but are there any written MSM reports that confirm neighbors saw BL in the neighborhood after 9/1?

this is another neighbor:

“Everything was just normal life once he came back,” Charlene Guthrie said of the time Laundrie, 23, returned to his family’s home without Long Island native Petito on Sept. 1.

“He mowed the lawn. [He] and his mother went for a bicycle ride around the block,” said Guthrie, who lives across the street from the Laundries in North Port.

“I just can’t get over the fact that they — it seemed like nothing bothered him. How can you do that?” she asked.

“Everything was so natural and they remained so normal through the whole thing … ’til he went on the run,” she said.

Brian Laundrie acted normal after Gabby Petito went missing

 

[Mito]

Respectfully, I could not disagree more. More young women fight back these days when they're verbally and physically assaulted though. There's so much shame that goes on with the victim in these circumstances. It's the abusive cycle that's difficult to free yourself from. Wish Gabby had known that she could leave and have a chance for a safer future.

It chilled me to watch that video. I’ve been in that same spot saying similar things. The anguish of the verbally abused person crushed and accepting responsibility (as is always necessary to avoid worse abuse) while the manipulative spirit-crusher yuks it up smiling and doing the aw shucks routine “ you know how women get ” . When the cops spoke to me I told them he just keeps going on and on about housework while I work 12 hours and take care of a 5 month old” I said “ I guess I’m a slob and he can’t take it” you absorb the name calling and insults and rationalize why you must “deserve the abuse”. My now ex stood there laughing and smiling too. They seemed to be siding with him and only made him leave after noticing he’d punched two holes in the wall. He left but texted me I was going to f*ng regret calling the cops and asked if I enjoyed embarrassing him because wait and see what he was going to do. They are experts at fooling everyone but the immediate victim.

 

[penguinface]

Hard for me to consider that the image matched reality... even relative to diet. After all, Petito is/was said to be a vegan... yet there is a photo (from the fateful trip, I believe) depicting her eating chili cheese fries. Sooooo, who knows what a really hungry guy will eat.

She has an instagram post of a breakfast which included turkey bacon too. I think her being vegan/vegetarian is just internet hearsay/assumption, as I haven’t seen or heard either Gabby or her family having mentioned it.

 

[MLaps]

That is my thinking as well.

They have reason to believe something is there - otherwise they wouldn't be using all of these resources. And it's now the third day they're searching the reserve, correct?

 

[FLmom777]

Yes.
It's also possible that he knew it from old and had a hiding place established from prior visits.
I've seen the swampland footage but I'm wondering whether there are any underground caves in the topographical maps?
I'd be very interested in the movements of the mustang when he drove it, stops etc.. It could well have been jam-packed with supplies that he'd been collecting, dropped at my imaginary cave and vehicle left back in parking lot for his parents to collect.

He may well have known it would be a long one.

There wouldn’t be any underground spots. The water table is too high.

 

[Alethea]

I really can't get my head around letting, encouraging, or helping your son run to get hunted by the FBI and possibly killed in a confrontation with LE. I would 1000% rather visit my son in prison then know I played any part in his death. I don't know how any rational person makes the calculation they did.

I understand the not cooperating even if I disagree. But sending your son out to the wolves like this is a movie is just bizarre.

 

[prblythe]

The police in the deer cam jurisdiction said two things basically:

1. "No one - and nothing - of note was located." (i.e. They didn't find anything or anybody.)

2. "The individual referenced in the post below has no known ties to our area." (It's unclear if they are referencing BL or mystery guy.)

Neither of those statements means it wasn't him. It just means they didn't find any humans and nobody in the area recognized the guy in the screenshot.

Edited for clarification...1. Same can be said in the florida swamp.

2. Ties have nothing to do with passing through on escape route. Imagine that explanation for John Wilkes Booth. I'm not clear on that. I've not heard this person was identified. I will presume it must have been a hoax as networks are not covering it.

 

[MKZoo]

Could someone remind me why a few days ago, there were rumors circulating, that he was in Puerto Rico? What was the basis of that?

Someone here suggtested Cuba. That was my immediate thought, when he was declared missing. Someone with little money but a need to avoid LE, someone located in FL no less, would consider Cuba as a destination, though I don't think the government there would be amenable to harboring fugitives from the US. The poster said, some of the coastal areas are populated only by small villages, but I imagine word would travel like wildfire, that a foreigner had appeared in their midst.

Puerto Rico is still the US for LE purposes, so not a solution to someone trying to avoid accountability for a crime. But who knows, maybe he's not bright enough to figure that out. But the Puerto Rico theory seems like it never got any traction, especially not from LE.

I believe the Puerto Rico theory was based on one of GP’s trial/hiking apps showing that as its location. However, other posters indicated that app allows one to choose the location it shows and that it (maybe) defaults to where it was downloaded. GP may have been in PR when she downloaded it. It was a bit confusing.

IMO.

 

[Katerz]

Any live feeds of the search today?