Found Deceased WY - Gabrielle ‘Gabby’ Petito, 22, Grand Teton National Park, 25 Aug 2021 #17

[Tigerlily75]

no. We do not know and will never know for certain. Clearly, the Laundries felt something amiss enough to consult an attorney. They then did what attorney told them to do and not to do.
I think they and BL have successfully evaded the legal consequences. Mental, emotional and public opinion consequences, very much not. It’s forums like this, and social media, and the public in general that will make them pay the consequences, not the law IMO. That’s what’s making their lives miserable now. They can fend off LE and even force them to protect them.

I don’t think they’ll fend off LE. In the beginning it always feels like that, because we can’t see what LE are doing behind the scenes. And often it’s a lot. Forensic analysis of phones, phone pings, location data, computers, banking records, witness interviews. They’ll get him… if he’s alive.

 

[citizen_sleuth]

I’m really starting to wonder if he’s in the house and the parents have been creating diversions etc.

At first I would've thought that would be a very risky and frankly stupid move and discounted it as relatively unlikely, but Brian and his parents have shown themselves to be heartless and manipulative people––I wouldn't be surprised at all if they've been hiding him in the house or at another location.

 

[Shane00]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=591042062258529

Continuing the live from BL parents home guys

 

[Gardenista]

You can see some of the beginning of the raid here

https://twitter.com/CrisMendezTV/status/1439963844915437573

 

[Katerz]

Police officer was just talking to media it looked like. Maybe telling them to move back?

 

[MollyDDD]

I understand anger if they slipped up, but nothing the local cops did would have had any affect on poor GP's actual death.

Removing her from the situation during the pull over incident could have.

 

[kyraz]

I don’t think that’s the backpack only because in the police photo in Moab from the DV encounter we see a large green strapped backpack right at the front of the back of the van. The size of the backpack looked far too big for Gabby’s body to fit comfortably and effectively for backpacking. I think it makes much more sense to have a pillow behind your back while you drive long-distance. I’ve strapped one down before while living in a van, it really helps with back pain

This is great.

He speaks halfway through about something that can be seen in the front and he says he thinks it's a pillow but it looks like a backpack with straps to me.

 

[SuziQ]

If they really, truly, could not get a search warrant before they found her body, they should amend the VAWA to add a clause that says if one member of an intimate partnership goes missing, LE has probable cause to search their last known residence for information related to the missing person.

You can even say any evidence retrieved can only be used for a possible prosecution related to the missing person.

How many times has this happened now? Though based on the responses in other cases (Morphew, Frazee), it seems like this local LE just didn't act aggressively IMO.

I had dinner last night with Detective Step Son. He never discusses crime cases with me. He has been following this case closely. But he was upset that Brian got away. He could not understand why LE, especially the Feds, didn't get tracking warrants for the Laundries vehicles. Said he has written these warrants up himself and that the Feds do not need much probable cause. Also said, unless they had proof early on that Gabby was dead, the urgency to find a live and possibly abandoned and injured person, would have been enough for all the warrants they needed from the beginning.

 

[Alethea]

Agents in the backyard taking pictures.

 

[Yellow Rose]

If the parents were arrested, could it be they found out he's flown the country?

 

[Keyedin]

I haven't been able to go back and look at the body cam footage yet, but did he tell LE during the stop that he didn't have a phone? If so, that's going to hurt his defense considering LE has access to both his and GP's phones now, right? I think I read they have access to the data, but not the physical phones.

 

[JuneRose]

I just got on here. Was BL parents arrested?

 

[Gardenista]

So they must have gone to the judge first thing this morning for the warrants.

 

[oviedo]

LIVE: FBI, police swarm Brian Laundrie’s family home to execute search warrant related to Gabby Petito investigation | WFLA
so they are in that van parked on the grass at an angle to the driveway? anyone see them inside/ I'm watching the helicopter viewpoint

ETA - the agents are also in the back yard near the shed. They are now entering the shed.

If a canopy goes up ....

 

[MCDRAW]

While I understand that nobody wants their kid mixed up in a situation like this, let alone (potentially) responsible for the entire thing, his parents are the most unsympathetic parents on the planet right now. They have had so many choices to make in the last few weeks and they have consistently made the wrong one every single time. They chose to cover for their son and act in self serving ways instead of being decent people. I don’t pity them at all.

I'm having trouble finding some compassion too. I normally give parents a little leeway because parenting is hard and protecting your child is instinctive. I can honestly understand them hiring an attorney for their son but I can't understand that they cared nothing about Gabby and what her family was going through. That is a coldness, I will never understand.

 

[sds71]

@GarnaMejiaKSL

FBI response to further questions about Laundrie’s parents being arrested or in custody. "FBI is executing a court-authorized search warrant at the Laundrie residence."
@KSL5TV
@kslnewsradio

 

[PixieStix]

What could the agents photographing the shed in the backyard possibly be needing to do that for? Curious!

 

[citizen_sleuth]

Agents are in the Laundrie's backyard taking pictures of the shed right now per WFLA's live stream (shoutout to JB once again!)

 

[Waddles]

Moderators. Please consider us Down Under when you close for the 'night'. We would have liked to be able to continue discussion during our day time. Gabby's story has captured our hearts too.

Same for us Europeans but they need to be awake to monitor threads so would need international moderators

 

[Cecelia]

Laundrie's lawyer: 'No comment' on situation involving parents

Good job, dude.