Brian Laundrie flew cross-country to visit his parents' home in Florida during his trip with Gabby Petito, according to the Laundrie family's lawyer, Steven Bertolini. The attorney says Laundrie flew home on August 17 and returned to Utah on August 23, four days before Petito was last seen. Laundrie flew to Florida to get some supplies and close a storage unit to save money, Bertolini told CBS News. He says Laundrie and Petito were thinking about extending their road trip.
The "Van Life" vlogger was reported missing on Sept. 11, 2021. What happened between her and her fiancé Brian Laundrie in the days leading up to her death?
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I have always suspected that, when Brian flew home, he took the keys to the van with him.
I believe that Gabby
was a victim of DV, regardless of whether she herself knew it or the extent of it. Likely she thought she could adjust her behavior enough to placate him, but the life lesson she never got to live long enough to learn was that it wasn't her job to manage Brian's temper. That was his job. (And ultimately he failed.) She could never be compliant enough, cooperative enough, sacrificial enough ---
She didn't know that.
If only she'd had the insight and courage to tell her dad that Brian had bailed on her. Probably took the money, the keys and the food with him. Probably Gabby didn't want to let anyone down -- travel over, relationship over, blog over, dream over.... so she put on the happy face.... and probably begged Brian to come back. There's a cycle to these things and she didn't invent it.
Brian should never have come back. Should've stayed with his mama, and let Gabby figure out how to get home --
He probably got Gabby to apologize for his angry retreat. That's what gaslighters demand. Get you to apologize for what you made them do. Sigh.
If only she'd known the whole cycle of DV, how to recognize it....
But you treat a dog bad enough, you can eave the gate open and it'll stay -- fear? hope? hunger? approval?
I think tensions were high -- scrimpng on food and groceries, volatility spilling into the public domain--
Last straw for Gabby? Did she threaten to break up? Then regret it. For all the reasons --
So he took off...
When he returned, I think he had three things -- the key to the van, a letter from his mom and confidence -- confident that Gabby wasn't going anywhere unless Brian said Gabby could go somewhere.
How many cases of HDV culminate in the abused saying something the abuser doesn't want to hear. Hands to thr throat to make her stop (talking). Followed by blunt force to stop the gurgling.
Tragedy beyond tragedy. Every time.