Found Deceased WY - Gabby Petito, Grand Teton National Park #88

[housewife]

It is obvious that Mum and Dad were ok with Bri appropriating Gabby's van as if it was his own, to come on home.

RSBM

I didn't realize that until now.
That makes me feel ill.
Did his parents also advise Brian to throw evidence out the window during the drive back to Florida?

 

[Trooper]

RSBM

I didn't realize that until now.
That makes me feel ill.
Did his parents also advise Brian to throw evidence out the window during the drive back to Florida?

Would not surprise me. Something tells me Bri had to be handheld all the way home, coddled and encouraged. Who's idea was it to use Gabby's ( deceased Gabby ) credit card on that journey? 'Hang on to your own money, son...'...

 

[Laura456]

"Brian, we love you, which is why we want you to do the right thing and go to the police right now. Tell them what happened. We'll visit, you'll be ok"

This way he might have gotten out and been alive in 25 years. They indirectly contributed to his death.

 

[ktm44]

Sounds fair to me.

Although, even if, say, even if, and it's a hell of a long stretch to believe it, but just say, even if the Laundries believed Bri's little story about how they went hiking and Gabby fell over a cliff or something, and he couldn't do anything about it, so he picked up a rock ( weaponised himself ) and hit her over the head, to 'spare her more pain'.. let's just say ordinary housewifely folks in suburban Florida believe this, even so, I don't think, even in the USA that one is allowed to go round banging people over the head, killing them , to 'spare them more pain'. I could be wrong, but it just does not sound right. Not even for Florida.

The Laundries must have known, being born and raised in the USA that this scenario did not fit the criteria for absolvement of some police and legal oversight.....there has to be some sort of apprehension of wrong doing admitted to here, and consequences delivered....

I have always wondered how much or little BL told his parents and even if he did come home with a well rehearsed story, think they should have asked questions that would cause them to draw more realistic conclusions.

Having said that, I believe they exercised their legal right to remain silent but I also believe that could have been handled differently.

I have always believed that a specific event caused him to leave the family home and up until recently, I had assumed that his parents were starting to see through his story but perhaps someone in the family was starting to pressure him to do the right thing or turn himself in.

 

[Laura456]

Is there a Samurai-like culture in Florida of dying rather than continuously bringing shame on your family? I wouldn't think so seeing some news stories but....

 

[ch_13]

He rings his mother and father 20 times, during the period he is fleeing from Gabby's dead body, Gabby's battered and dead body, might I add, and no one tells the sister anything...?? am I expected to believe this? Ok then, send me the papers for the Brooklyn Bridge, pronto, now that I own it.

I don't find it so bizarre that the sister would be kept out of the loop. She moved away, got married and had her own family, while Brian continued to live at home. I think Brian was likely Roberta's favorite child. She clearly doted on him. Different families have different dynamics, and not every family member is 'ride or die' as the saying goes. In this case, I think the parents didn't tell the sister because they knew that she couldn't or wouldn't keep any secrets.

There've been other cases where one member is estranged or at least is kept at a distance from the rest of the family. For example, in the Dan Markel case there's one Adelson sibling who was completely uninvolved with the murder that the rest of his family plotted.

 

[Trooper]

I don't find it so bizarre that the sister would be kept out of the loop. She moved away, got married and had her own family, while Brian continued to live at home. I think Brian was likely Roberta's favorite child. She clearly doted on him. Different families have different dynamics, and not every family member is 'ride or die' as the saying goes. In this case, I think the parents didn't tell the sister because they knew that she couldn't or wouldn't keep any secrets.

There've been other cases where one member is estranged or at least is kept at a distance from the rest of the family. For example, in the Dan Markel case there's one Adelson sibling who was completely uninvolved with the murder that the rest of his family plotted.

Fair enough. I know families like this, but by the same token those families I know who don't speak to certain members do not suddenly turn around and go camping with them. ....That's the sticker for me , they all jollied off for a weeks camping. Mum, Dad, Bri, Sis, Son in Law, kids. To follow on with this dynamic, they all sat around FOR A WEEK, never, ever mentioning Bri's fiancee, Never mentioned why Bri is sitting there on his Pat Malone.

No one ever says, in a whole week of cheek by jowl camping, where's Gabby?.. Ya think?... I do not see it, myself. not that it matters, really. Since Gabby's poor body was eventually found, does it matter that the Laundries apparently made a week's worth of sitting for the dead in respectful silence? not really, I suppose. I don't believe it, though.

And I know that there are some people who are stoic and congenitally silent, but Sis wasn't one of those, and neither was the Son in law they showed the had the capacity to speak ok.

 

[DFWNF]

"Brian, we love you, which is why we want you to do the right thing and go to the police right now. Tell them what happened. We'll visit, you'll be ok"

This way he might have gotten out and been alive in 25 years. They indirectly contributed to his death.

That is the only action that I can somewhat understand.

 

[GRT]

Brian Laundrie called parents 20 times after killing Gabby Petito

Panicking killer Brian Laundrie placed a 'flurry' of up to 20 phone calls to his parents in just two days when he admitted he had murdered fiancé Gabby Petito, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Has anyone been able to find where in the court filing it mentioned the "gone" call? I've looked and looked but I can't find it. DailyMail says it's in the November 23 court filing, and links to another DailyMail story that shows the filing against the Moab Police Dept. But I can't find the reference in that filing. It must be a different filing. Or, I'm just blind.

 

[GRT]

I don't find it so bizarre that the sister would be kept out of the loop. She moved away, got married and had her own family, while Brian continued to live at home. I think Brian was likely Roberta's favorite child. She clearly doted on him. Different families have different dynamics, and not every family member is 'ride or die' as the saying goes. In this case, I think the parents didn't tell the sister because they knew that she couldn't or wouldn't keep any secrets.

There've been other cases where one member is estranged or at least is kept at a distance from the rest of the family. For example, in the Dan Markel case there's one Adelson sibling who was completely uninvolved with the murder that the rest of his family plotted.

I feel as though that's probably the case--if they knew. But, I'm not sure they really knew what happened at that point.

 

[Skigirl]

I have always wondered how much or little BL told his parents and even if he did come home with a well rehearsed story, think they should have asked questions that would cause them to draw more realistic conclusions.

Having said that, I believe they exercised their legal right to remain silent but I also believe that could have been handled differently.

I have always believed that a specific event caused him to leave the family home and up until recently, I had assumed that his parents were starting to see through his story but perhaps someone in the family was starting to pressure him to do the right thing or turn himself in.

They didn't remain silent, they obstructed the investigation by issuing a statement that implied that to the best of their knowledge, she was alive.

 

[Skigirl]

He rings his mother and father 20 times, during the period he is fleeing from Gabby's dead body, Gabby's battered and dead body, might I add, and no one tells the sister anything...?? am I expected to believe this? Ok then, send me the papers for the Brooklyn Bridge, pronto, now that I own it.

I don't think it's surprising that they would leave his sister out of it. It was better for her own sake not to get tangled up in that mess and it would have been unfair to ask her to keep that sort of a secret -- from her own family, her kids who loved Gabby, her husband, and from law enforcement. It was actually probably the only thing the Laundries have done that seems loving in a normal way, IMO.

 

[wnk]

I don't think it's surprising that they would leave his sister out of it. It was better for her own sake not to get tangled up in that mess and it would have been unfair to ask her to keep that sort of a secret -- from her own family, her kids who loved Gabby, her husband, and from law enforcement. It was actually probably the only thing the Laundries have done that seems loving in a normal way, IMO.

Agreed. Brian told his parents bc he needed their help to figure out what to do, but there would be absolutely no advantage -- nothing gained -- by telling his sister. In fact, it would be a disadvantage because it'd be one more person (or two, since she might tell her husband) who would be tempted to tell LE or the media what they knew.

 

[Megnut]

Agreed. Brian told his parents bc he needed their help to figure out what to do, but there would be absolutely no advantage -- nothing gained -- by telling his sister. In fact, it would be a disadvantage because it'd be one more person (or two, since she might tell her husband) who would be tempted to tell LE or the media what they knew.

She was probably told not to mention G because it would upset B. As if there was a break up.

B and his parents (mom) probably thought it best to give B a nice vacation with family to get his mind off twenty rapid phone calls.

So.... if G is "gone", why does B have her van? No one offered to go back and "get" G? Just leave her in the wilderness with no way to get back? No version of facts could make that make sense.

Recently a 17 year old escaped jail. His parents turned him in.

It's a thing.

It's the right thing.

Unless protecting someone (from the law, from consequences, from accountability, from punishment) is more important to you.

It was a costly choice IMO.

Gabby's remains could have been recovered quickly. Brian would have missed his family camping trip but he'd be alive. In jail awaiting trial probably but alive. And he, like a million other inmates, would have learned how to adapt to life on the inside. Wouldn't have liked it, would have quelled his barefoot on mother earth spirit but he'd get mail, find religion, have visitors... write, draw.

Allowing Brian to skate on responsibility gave him the freedom to take a gun, go conveniently off grid and take his own life.

It didn't need to end that way.

None of it.

JMO

 

[housewife]

Recently a 17 year old escaped jail. His parents turned him in.

It's a thing.

It's the right thing.

Unless protecting someone (from the law, from consequences, from accountability, from punishment) is more important to you.

RSBM

Well said!

 

[MyBelle]

I don't think it's surprising that they would leave his sister out of it. It was better for her own sake not to get tangled up in that mess and it would have been unfair to ask her to keep that sort of a secret -- from her own family, her kids who loved Gabby, her husband, and from law enforcement. It was actually probably the only thing the Laundries have done that seems loving in a normal way, IMO.

BBM. Leaving his sister out of what? I think the reason the family went camping is because her brother was very depressed that Gabby was "gone." He did commit suicide.

JMO

 

[LinasK]

She was probably told not to mention G because it would upset B. As if there was a break up.

B and his parents (mom) probably thought it best to give B a nice vacation with family to get his mind off twenty rapid phone calls.

So.... if G is "gone", why does B have her van? No one offered to go back and "get" G? Just leave her in the wilderness with no way to get back? No version of facts could make that make sense.

Recently a 17 year old escaped jail. His parents turned him in.

It's a thing.

It's the right thing.

Unless protecting someone (from the law, from consequences, from accountability, from punishment) is more important to you.

It was a costly choice IMO.

Gabby's remains could have been recovered quickly. Brian would have missed his family camping trip but he'd be alive. In jail awaiting trial probably but alive. And he, like a million other inmates, would have learned how to adapt to life on the inside. Wouldn't have liked it, would have quelled his barefoot on mother earth spirit but he'd get mail, find religion, have visitors... write, draw.

Allowing Brian to skate on responsibility gave him the freedom to take a gun, go conveniently off grid and take his own life.

It didn't need to end that way.

None of it.

JMO

I completely agree with everything you said! What happened to personal accountability?

 

[Trooper]

BBM. Leaving his sister out of what? I think the reason the family went camping is because her brother was very depressed that Gabby was "gone." He did commit suicide.

JMO

Would it not be more logical that he was 'depressed'....( self diagnosis, or/and parental diagnosis ) about the unavoidable fact that he had murdered in cold blood the only woman who found him sexually appealing, and had left her decomposing body out in the wild, not buried, not hidden, just discarded, and that he was now wanted in 43 states for absconding from a murder?.. I would think that would be extremely 'depressing'. and anxiety provoking.

He had come to grips with Gabby being 'gone', since he was the person who instigated and performed her 'gone ness'.. .. that is, he was there when the plan to make her gone, and to perform her murder, ... no one else did this, Gabby didn't just 'go'., of her own volition, which is the purpose of constantly repeating the meme of 'GONE". This is done to remove Brian from the actual fact of him murdering her. She was murdered. He murdered her. She didn't 'go' .... he wasn't 'left'. . He killed her with his bare hands. !...

 

[Trooper]

Now we know that Brian rang his mother 20 times. 'in a frenzy'... and then it appears that the Laundries enabled Brian to travel cross country, having murdered a young beautiful woman, his fiancee, and left her body exposed to the four winds, and the Laundries kept quiet about this woman killer, their son, they are not psychoanylysts, psychologists, mental health experts of any sort, they expose every woman on that journey of Brians, the check out chicks at petrol stations, the fast food servers, the waffle house waitresses, most of these people being usually young women.

They thought this was ok.

How on earth did they reach that conclusion? that a savage inexplicable killer, their son, would be ok ? how did they know he would not kill again, did they think that killing Gabby 'cured' him? What was his ailment? What would killing Gabby cure Brian of that made him safe to tootle clear across the country? Was it not an unacceptable risk to allow Brian that unfettered freedom at that point in his criminal career?

 

[housewife]

Did we know about the email Brian got from his mom on 8/29?