In the missing person report for GP, her current address is listed as Blue Point, NY and previous address is North Port. They didn't say this in interviews, to my knowledge, but it is what NS reported to LE. The report was posted on one of the many threads but not sure which one.
True.
But I believe the whole "they moved to NY" thing is made up. And there's evidence to suggest that's the case.
NS initially tried to file a missing person report in FL. NPPD supposedly told her that according to FL law, reports should be filed where the person went missing and that obviously was not anywhere in FL. But NS didn't know exactly where GP went missing from. She knew she was in WY on Aug 25 but there was reason (apparently) to think they were on the move after that.
Eventually someone in NY agreed to take the report & it appears suddenly GP had a NY address (mom's house) so the report could be filed.
IF GP & BL really "moved back to NY" you think that would have been mentioned by the family early on. You'd think G&B wouldn't have left stuff in a storage locker/unit in FL if they didn't intend to live there again. Why not take the stuff with them when they went to NY and rent storage there or store it at NS's house? If they were going to actually live with NS, you'd think she would have had room to store their junk. Why not cram it in the van and go?
If they'd really moved to NY you'd think NS would have tried to file the missing person report in NY to begin with. If they no longer lived in Florida AND they left for their trip from NY (which they did after GP's brother's graduation) AND they had moved to NY, why call Florida? That makes no sense. So all 3 of those things can't be true and NS must not have thought they were all true. The only one of the three anyone said was true early on is that they left for the trip from NY in early July after attending the graduation festivities in June. No one ever said they had moved back to NY early on. Never mentioned that in any press conference or in the lengthy Dr. Phil stuff.
State laws differ. The law in NC where I live allows missing person reports to be filed for residents (including temporary residents to cover college students and the military) and for people thought to have gone missing in NC. Unless they went missing from here, reports can't be filed for people who used to live here but moved away. And really, why would we use our state's scarce resources looking for someone who isn't thought to be here now and, at any rate, doesn't live here? Florida law was stricter-- the person needed to be last seen in Florida-- residency didn't matter apparently. But IMO NPPD is now trying to say "but they didn't live here either" to make themselves look better.
When we talked about this before on WS I said G&B hadn't done anything to establish NY residency and they hadn't. No NY drivers licenses, no NY van plates, no NY address (only mom's house,
maybe), no NY voter registration, nothing. They were in NY for weeks before they went on their trip so they had time to do at least some of that stuff. They did none of it. WSers acted like all that was very minor paperwork. Maybe. But it's how residency is established. And there are laws about things like car registrations and car insurance. I know G&B were young and weren't necessarily concerned about following the law. But they were traveling. Wouldn't they want to be sure they were covered by insurance in case of an accident? Or if they weren't concerned, wouldn't the grown-ups in the family have been concerned? A van registered in FL when they lived in NY could
potentially give an insurance company an out.
And if they were NY residents, NY has state income tax, FL doesn't in case they got jobs. The cost of living is higher on Long Island compared to North Port for other reasons too like heating. There's just no real time evidence to suggest G&B had moved and plenty (like the FL van registration/plates) that said they hadn't.
I suppose one could hypothesize that no one mentioned the move because if that was known people might not have been so negative towards the Laundries. If B&G no longer lived there and hadn't since early June it does take some of the force away from "this is Gabby's house too" rants. But do we really think LE kept quiet about the move to encourage the protestors? I hope not but I guess that can't be ruled out.
Last, do we really think Rose wouldn't have mentioned a move to NY? She claimed several times BL did the van-life stuff just to get GP away from her because he was jealous. But if GP had really moved to NY with him-- 1200+ miles away-- she'd never mention that? Seems unlikely. I guess though if they had decided to go live with GP's family for awhile it would have been hard to blame BL for that decision. So Rose might have kept quite for that reason, I guess.
JMO