Supposedly not but permission wasn't needed anyway.
I understand. But I suspect just about every movie ever made about a real life event with a dead person at the center was made without the surviving family's permission. Families wouldn't own the rights anyway, no one would, but if it's important to have a family on board or there is a desire to get additional information from the family, some sort of payment might be contemplated. But dead people don't have rights to privacy and they can't be defamed. Of course, if a living family member is portrayed in a defamatory way in the movie it might be possible to sue.
I think Lifetime's main concern is ratings, rather than accuracy of events. Just sayin'I think Lifetime jumped the gun a bit. There’s SO much we still don’t know and may never know. It’d be hard for me to fill in so many blanks. JMO
I can’t believe it’s already been a year.
August 27th as the date Brian murdered Gabby was also in the lawyer's released statement, and the August 28th date however was stated as "we believe" when the Laundries became aware. Jmo very different, as it does not say August 27th was the date "we believe" Brian murdered Gabby.
Maybe Brian mentioned it in the journal/notebook found with his remains. Just a possibility.
That is definitely a possibility! Good post.
Wonder why it wasn't part of the FBI's report if the date was so well-known?
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Iirc the FBI report did not release portions of the notebook, Bertolino did, selectively. Perhaps a portion with the murder date was simply not released. More than one note where Brian wrote about murdering Gabby seems very very likely to me. Many notes would not surprise me, I expect that Jmo
Going back over old tweets. Her parents have always been dead set she was killed on the 27th.
The final FBI report detailed what they thought happened. It did include some dates. It mentioned B's claim of responsibility from the notebook. It mentioned all kinds of pieces of information. Any writings "investigators" had the FBI would have had or known about. And the FBI had the notebook for months before releasing their report. If the DoD was definitively known to the FBI, it seems to me that would have been part of their concluding investigative report. And if the P's knowledge came from B's writings, it seems that came to them from the FBI. So it seems a bit odd.
Respectfully, I don't share your opinions. I read the report. The FBI released what they chose to, I am not about to question their experienced professional decisions, including deciding not to release the contents of the actual note from Brian, or any other pages from the notebook. Also the FBI stated
What I find most troubling about the debut of this movie on October 1 is that it will be shown before the civil trial commences. I don't recall when I first read about Lifetime's plan to produce a made-for-TV movie based on the Gabby Petito case, but I'm sure it was a couple of months before the civil suit was filed. I'm sure that Lifetime is eager to air the film that will likely garner huge ratings, but it might have been prudent to wait until after the civil case has concluded. JMOI think Lifetime jumped the gun a bit. There’s SO much we still don’t know and may never know. It’d be hard for me to fill in so many blanks. JMO
I can’t believe it’s already been a year.
We'll just have to disagree then. I am certainly not suggesting the FBI should have released everything BL wrote. But if they knew the DoD for a murder, it seems odd to keep that "secret" especially for such a high profile case. While we all hope investigating a murder will bring comfort to the family, that's not the function of the FBI or even the function of local investigators. The crime is against society as well.
