MOO. They are just trying to survive right now. My initial reaction was that they were heinous and cruel. Now that more of the timeline has come out, I can see how parents can get trapped this way. I don’t think they would be any less vilified if they had spoken. What is truly gruesome here is that a lovely , young woman got killed.
As a parent of many young adults, and involved with life and love stories of many others, break ups are very common, and painful. They were in their early 20s so it was no big shock that they broke up. And it would be understandable that BL would not want to talk about it. I certainly do not pry when these things happen, and would never have suspected that Gabby was dead, that she was just left at the campsite I’d have respected BL’s desire to mope, and mourn the break up for a while. I also don’t think that the parents knew the details of whose name was on the van or bank accounts. I’d have certainly said something about just one person named on joint properties and making sure there was a good understanding who owned what but really, they were adults and it’s none of the parents’ or anyone’s business how they arranged those things. I’d have assumed GP went home to one of parents’ and BL took van home and would be waiting for some word on what to do about getting belongings back to her
I think the texts and emails got the Laundries to realize that Gabby was missing snd at that point questions asked snd the answers for them to immediately get an attorney’s advice. They appear to be following it precisely. I don’t think they know what else to do. I think there would be a media uproar regardless of what they did.
