One thing I’d like to mention about the strange texts and social media posts/captions etc… I think that they could’ve been sent/posted by Brian, even while Gabby was still alive.
I think they could’ve had an argument over the phone and he could have taken her phone from her and been in possession of it. (Not out of the question imho due to the reports that he’d taken her phone previously, and her ID etc).
For example (throwing out random scenarios here but just to show the type of phone related arguments I am referring to):
- Maybe BL thought that GP was spending too much time being performative for social media and not focusing enough on the nature/the reality
- Maybe they were arguing about something unrelated and she kept checking her phone because she was getting texts/calls and he took her phone because she wasn’t paying attention to him
- Maybe BL saw GP texting her friend Rose about planning a call to meet up in Yellowstone, and got angry about that, given their past history
- Or some other type of fight revolving around the phone
Maybe she’s yelling at him “my grandpa keeps calling let me at least tell my mom to get to him!” and brian instead responds for her calling her grandpa Stan.
Think of this, too:
Maybe her Instagram posts on 8/12 were posted during the day from Moonflower, prior to the DV incident. Those captions are edited and people have pointed out the wording is suspicious and seems written by him. Instagram shows they were edited around the same time they were posted, not weeks after. Maybe he was going back and editing her Instagram captions that day because he thought they were bad, he thought he could do the whole social media vanlife thing better than her, and was really putting her down about it. Maybe that spurred the incident where he was being “so mean” and where he said she “couldn't do the social media stuff successfully” (paraphrasing her words from the bodycam footage and witness report).
Just a thought. It’s possible he had possession of her phone or had a big impact on what she was writing on Instagram etc, even when she was alive in the weeks prior. Maybe not all the time, but definitely could be that she did not have personal control over her devices at all times. Maybe things were really ugly in the days leading up to her death and he was isolating her with holding her phone and basically stranding her with him. I would be terrified if that happened and I had no way to reach anyone, and would’ve been super frustrated that I couldn’t control my own narrative on Instagram etc.
(I will say, she also could’ve edited the Instagram captions just to change wording herself. I edit my WS posts to correct my wording at times, or correct a typo. Edits are not necessarily nefarious. But the wording and themes and specific call-outs to him make me think it’s possible he did write those, even though she was alive when they were edited (as shown by insta edit history timestamps) and maybe that type of controlling behavior was happening often).
Even if people aren’t convinced he was regularly physically abusive, it seems from multiple accounts that he was emotionally abusive and did this in a way that was difficult for him or Gabby to perceive as such, that he saw it / explained it away as being protective/helpful/knowing better, hence her being apologetic for being “in a bad mood” and taking the blame for overreacting, when he was actively burning a fire of despair and low self-esteem in her. And trying to gain back one’s independence with a person that is determined to control and undermine you, can get ugly….
