Found Deceased WY - Gabrielle ‘Gabby’ Petito, 22, Grand Teton National Park, 25 Aug 2021 #9

[NuttMegg]

Two irresponsible wanderers putting their families through all of this misery. I expect all kinds of parent health issues from all this.

Surely they were advised this was a dangerous situation they were putting themselves in. How was all of this travel being funded?

<modsnip> I'm at a loss for words at all the wrongs here.

I don't see that Gabby did anything irresponsible. Parks are full of campers doing the same thing. How were they putting themselves in a dangerous situation? How could she know what he was going to (IMO) do to her?

 

[borndem]

One thing that stood out on Gabby's Instagram posts was that BL liked EVERY post she made. Maybe thats not a huge surprise to some people because this generation of millennials is like that, but just saying.

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[PixieStix]

This is infuriating. His parents gave no info about Gabby, their only concern was Brian.

Hearing that BL's family are concerned about their son and gave no information about Gabby makes me see red!

 

[vanlifelady]

I’ve said it before, but I think it’s really important to remember that Brian is just some 23-24 year old young adult who wanted to go on a long roadtrip with his girlfriend and not a criminal mastermind.

I see so many people here and other places suggesting that he was plotting or planning stuff like disappearing from the beginning and I think so of us have read too many crime novels.

More than likely, the news of being a POI scared the dickens out of him because he’s guilty as all heck and he ran. I would also guess that his plan this entire time hasn’t really been a plan- just a serious of actions and reactions as he is running scared from LE, even before they knew anything was wrong.

His comments to the TikTokker that allegedly picked him up speak volumes here. He had no trouble speaking to LE in Moab so we know he does talk to the police. I believe the ones who encouraged Brian to invoke his 5th amendment rights were his parents. They seem to be the secretive ones who are trying to protect their son.

This all means that Brian is very very very likely to have made major mistakes in all of this. He probably believed, as so many people do, that they’d never find her body or never look too hard into her disappearance and just take his word for what happened. But when he realized that the hikes they were taking were all carefully recorded on The Dyrt and their phones had other valuable stored information that can be retrieved through their network carrier, he panicked and ran.

I just want to reiterate- I think we are giving Brian way too much credit to assume he has some great plan here. I think he’s a 20-something baby adult who is way in over his head.

 

[Curiousobserver]

Except afaik, he was not a fugitive, only a person of interest.

Except if I know you murdered someone, and I help you get to somewhere police can't find you, I am an accomplice. If I know only that you're a POI then I am guilty of nothing. You would have to believe that at no point did he tell his parents anything that implicates him in a crime.

 

[JC40]

Re "Van" locations.

Do LE have "ANPR" (Automatic number-plate recognition) in the US?

ANPR devices work by scanning vehicle registrations and checking them against information stored in databases, including the Police National Computer to identify vehicles of interest to the police, such as stolen cars, those involved in crimes or vulnerable missing persons.
All police forces have real-time access to ANPR camera data through direct links to the National ANPR Data Centre.[3] Effectively, the police (and the security services) can track any car (technically any number plate) around the country in close to real time.[6]

Automatic number-plate recognition in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

Fundamentally. Police can enter a registration into the data base and if it has been picked up by ANPR camera anywhere in the country they can track it's movements from the first to it's last capture, in real time or subsequently. If a subjects vehicle travels from point A to point B and the suspect says they were not there the data will prove otherwise, the time and date, unless the subject reports the car stolen (In person) before the capture and on or around the capture and they can not geographically (distance) possibly be in two places at once. Which may suggest cooperation, especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose.

Moo

 

[Skigirl]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=988299695355579

Who is this? Is it the spokesperson or the chief? Sounds a lot more calm and appropriate than the spokesperson did last night.

 

[candisp]

cross, cross, apple sauce? what the....

My daughter is 20 and says criss, cross, apple sauce. Im not sure where she picked it up from because I never say it.

 

[Periwinkl3]

Wow, I didn't realize there was a gun missing from the home. Have LE confirmed the parents told them that?

Or is that just part of your scenario and you are assuming they own a gun?

Yes, OP, please clarify.

 

[MsBetsy]

I don't understand all of this talk of water bottle DNA. Are you all expecting that the cops would have asked Brian for the bottle back when he was done?

He's probably just diligent about not drinking out of plastic water bottles.

 

[PommyMommy]

FBI Searching for Brian Laundrie as Gabby Petito case continues to gain national attention - NBC2 News (nbc-2.com)
[...]

As of Saturday morning, the North Port Police Department is searching the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park and Carlton Reserve on foot.

Officers said Laundrie was known to frequent this park.

According to his family, Laundrie entered the park earlier this week.

North Port police originally believed Brian was inside the family’s North Port home until Friday evening. Investigators said there is still no official crime here, and these are still being considered multiple missing person cases.

[...]

 

[Mikeysmom]

what if both Brian and his parents decided it was time for him to turn himself in but he didn't want to get the parents involved more. So he goes "missing" but goes somewhere he can be easily found. Then he is brought in and its not like the parents were hiding him. He "ran away" MOO

 

[MysteryMama]

Who is this? Is it the spokesperson or the chief? Sounds a lot more calm and appropriate than the spokesperson did last night.

It's Josh Taylor, the same person who spoke last night I believe.

 

[Gardenista]

Who is this? Is it the spokesperson or the chief? Sounds a lot more calm and appropriate than the spokesperson did last night.

Same guy as last night.

 

[NuttMegg]

I live in a van with my partner full-time, have for 7 months. The cost of doing van life is definitely less expensive than you’d think. Sounded like she saved up for it. They also stayed for free a lot at BLM spots, according to them.

I think we have to be careful not to victim-blame here. Gabby had a dream and she went for it and I think that’s a beautiful thing. Her father said that she was a grown adult and she had to make her own decisions. I don’t think I’m putting my parents through misery because I’m an “irresponsible wanderer” because I live in my converted van.

Ditto that X1000 Anyone read the book Nomadland? I did far more dangerous things when I was young, I can only wonder how I made it to old age when poor Gabby worked so hard on her dreams to lose it all to a jealous bloodsucker (IMO).

 

[borndem]

BL's parents must be very worried about him.....

Unless they know where he is...

 

[MsBetsy]

My daughter is 20 and says criss, cross, apple sauce. Im not sure where she picked it up from because I never say it.

Yes, they have been using that phrase for a long time. "Indian style" is no longer appropriate.

 

[Cardinal47]

I get the impression that both sets of parents weren't too thrilled about the relationship in the first place, and that this may be the root of a certain animosity between them that was already there way before GP went missing.

I get the same feeling. Not a good healthy relationship to be traveling and living in a van.

 

[dyannaON]

What a waste of time and money and resources. Such a great turnout for his “search party”

I hope they do find him and he just starts talking. <modsnip - stating opinion as fact> Just like I fear Gabby won’t return to her family.

 

[Dutcher]

@vanlifelady I couldn't agree more!