Very interesting post. I also have wondered if GP did call "her parents" during the incident as the notice of claim states, why the incident later turned into just an ordinary "road trip argument" in NS's eyes. (The claim says GP called "her parents" but maybe it was just NS she called & NS talked to JP & the others? I doubt there was any conference calling during the police stop.)
Further, NS has said when she couldn't reach GP in late Aug/early Sept, the family initially thought both GP and BL were missing.
‘We Thought They Were Both Missing’: Gabby Petito’s Parents Say They Were Also Concerned About Brian Laundrie as His Family Ignored Their Calls
If the family knew about the Moab incident that had happened a bit more 2 weeks earlier as their latest legal filing now says, I'm not sure why both G&B being missing would have been the family's first thought. I'm not sure it would have been mine. But if they thought that, I'm not sure why they wouldn't have wondered if they were both in jail somewhere. (Maybe they did wonder that but I have never seen that possibility mentioned. I'd wonder too if the Moab incident was mentioned to LE when the missing person report was initially filed. It's not been reported if it was.)
My point is that if her family wasn't thinking intimate partner violence in the multi-year live-in relationship
even after they knew about Moab,
is it reasonable to expect the Moab LE to be able to spot a realistic likelihood of that in such a brief time without any historical knowledge? I guess one could argue it's always best to put people in jail "just in case," but that can't really work in the US. (I'm also not so sure what the P's reaction would have been if GP had been jailed.)
The couple spent nearly 3 weeks in NY at the Schmidt house in June/early July. Rose D. did mention an incident in FL the year before when GP got mad and "slapped" BL and BL "shoved" GP in response but the P's have said, repeatedly, they never had a hint of anything wrong. And they said that
when they already knew about Moab from GP's call before the LE tape of the stop surfaced. And before the tape came to light, nothing was ever mentioned about the incident in the multiple interviews the family gave. Tara P said she was once in an abusive relationship but said she saw no red flags with G&B. So whatever GP told them during the police stop must not have been a red flag to Tara either even though supposedly the initial reaction of GP's parents was to make GP fly home. It almost sounds like the P's initially viewed the incident the way Moab LE did-- a mental health crisis, not a DV red flag.
JMO