Found Deceased WY - Gabrielle ‘Gabby’ Petito, 22, Grand Teton National Park, 25 Aug 2021 #18

[Mom24]

I know mistakes are made but I see zero way how did LE get the DV completely backwards? Was it the dispatcher's fault? I can't recall something being that incorrect

YES LE can get a DV completely backward. It happens, I've witnessed it.

 

[merrymary]

In the D.M. link, it looks like BL's parents pause when being brought out of the house and the LEO behind the dad gives him a forceful 'nudge' as if to say "We're not joking around. MOVE."
Scrolling video running on the DM front page right now.
Circled in red.

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I wonder if LE discovered something already, like Brian was never hiking at the swamp ?
Or that Brian was never at the house at all ?
That can't make LE too happy.
MOO.

Looks like they sped up the footage..not surprising for DM MOO

 

[Hyway]

It was actually meant to be reassuring to her, but he didn't quite word it correctly. JMO

The phrasing is upsetting when you look at it from the future, but I think in most stops the upset person is usually afraid of teh idea that they are going to jail or their boyfriend will go to jail. He was comforting her in that regard.

 

[bestill]

Here is the 911 call while they were in Moab.
Seems Brian was hitting Gabby. Not the other way around
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1440003531486998528?s=19

She took the responsibility for that event. Poor thing.

 

[Hope4More]

She could see the way the land lay. That male LE was all pally and brotherly with him, laughing with him when he called her crazy. Telling BL that he had had a toxic exwife.
That was extremely unprofessional and more than a bit misogynistic.

I've watched that video 3 times. Please give me a timestamp where BL calls her crazy, because I have not heard him say that, nor LE laughing along as he did.

 

[captdj]

It's just so odd, and the parents seem to be up to their ears in the deceit. I have to wonder about the sister, too. She said she hadn't seen him since he returned, but who knows? Maybe he's bunking in her basement.

The parents (I've heard) run some sort of tech-repair business, so you think they'd be fairly savvy. Plus, they have a decent home, vehicles, and a pool. Yet, their behavior smacks of backwoods Billy-bobs who make up all sorts of tales to protect their "kin." All that blood-is-thicker-than-water stuff.

I just don't know what to think.

It's a question of what they knew and when they knew it... Yet to be determined how " involved"

 

[10ofRods]

Them taking the Mustang confirms a few things for me. He has been in Florida since Sept. 1st and he’s driven the Mustang since his return. I don’t know why else they’d take it. JMO

I think they took it precisely to see if he's ever driven it and whose fingerprints are on the steering wheel/gear lever. How much of Brian's DNA is in it? Should be plenty of touch DNA on the wheel if he drove it recently.

If it's all Dad's (or Mom's) DNA, that's an entire 'nuther issue.

I am beginning to think Brian never came back to FL at all, giving him quite the head start.

OTOH, perhaps he did and the swamp ruse was to give him a chance to run elsewhere.

 

[Skigirl]

There were TWO eyewitnesses. What they reported conflicted. The account of the witness he spoke with matched up with what both Gabby & BL said. He didn't falsify his report, fgs.

Their accounts didn't conflict. Their accounts were consistent in that both pointed toward BL as aggressor. They saw different parts of the incident. One witness didn't see the slapping/chasing part of the encounter.

 

[Waddles]

Was this actually reported somewhere?

By Gabby, verbally

 

[sarahboirin]

Big white truck arriving now at parents house

 

[Alethea]

What's this white van? I guess to bring out those evidence boxes they collected?

 

[Newsjunkiejen]

WFLA is live again, I know some were wanting to know - Live coverage | WFLA

Damn my Britishness, it won't let me watch

Does anyone happen to have a link to somewhere I can watch Live coverage, please? (I'm in the UK).

TIA

 

[Katerz]

Wfla feed.. now what’s going on? Big white box truck being backed into spot where the mustang was.

 

[feralwriter]

LE use this technique to get people to admit things by allowing the subject to feel like what they did isn't so bad.

I think the 'paling-up' can be read several different ways. To me, in this scenario, it came across less trying to gain info. from B, & more like literally two guys sharing a moment about their exp. with women. But Harry brings up a valid point. It's all in the viewer's interpretation, imo. I'd be interested in what that officer says about his motivations for saying the things he did to B.

 

[Hyway]

She admitted hitting his arm and trying to get him to stop for the police that were behind them as he was speeding.

She also admitted to slapping him to get him to stop telling her to calm down.

 

[WizardQuest]

“I have a theory about this that I think may get deleted or the people with pitchforks will come to get me, but I'm going put it out there anyway. Since everyone here thinks Brain is a possible serial killer and murderer, let me counter that with this:

Gabby herself stated she was going through some things (I am not bringing up mental health issues, these were her words), and she also seemed distraught and inconsolable in that traffic stop where it was determined that she was the aggressor in the situation.

Put yourself in Brain's shoes please for this next part: Gabby has an accident, or she harms herself (a general hypothetical) or something other than Brian causes her death. They are alone, there are no witnesses. There is now a history of an altercation at the traffic stop and he is scared. Scared something happened and scared no one will believe him when he tells the truth (remember from Brian's POV). So he leaves her out there, not a great move, drives home, tries to figure out what to do next. He tells his parents what actually happened in his mind, she fell off a high rock and passed away, whatever he would have said. They call a lawyer due to this strange situation and are told to not talk.

Brian feels guilty and is distraught about her being gone and what he did by leaving her. He feels trapped with media camping out his house. He's scared, so he leaves. That's all I have. Anyone think this is possible? Not trying to give him a pass, just a different point of view, since no one, not me, not you, knows what happened.“

Sorry, @xrazer I couldn’t capture your original post to reply, so I will try to here.

I have been thinking that what you’ve laid out would at the very least be a plausible story his parents would want to believe. What gives me pause about this being an actuality is how long this has kept going. At some point, I would think decent counsel would have created a situation where he admits the full story to police and provides evidence to help corroborate an accident.

The other thing that makes this scenario so hard to swallow is he and his family allowing Gabby’s family to anguish days and days while their child was lying in the wilderness alone. That by itself smacks of a selfishness I don’t think many people are willing to forgive, whether he killed her or not.

No matter what happened, BL has made some very poor choices.

He took her car without permission then...if she was knocked out.

Across state lines none-the-less.

 

[Sassafrass]

Even though the dispatcher seemed less than enthused, the caller stated multiple times that he hit her, that he chased her. I am going to give the dispatcher the benefit of the doubt that he reported that exact thing.

The dispatcher was constantly cutting off/talking over the person calling in. It was completely skeptical-sounding.

 

[pizzaman12]

Even though the dispatcher seemed less than enthused, the caller stated multiple times that he hit her, that he chased her. I am going to give the dispatcher the benefit of the doubt that he reported that exact thing.

Yes the LE stated the witness saw her hitting him. She was the aggressor and if someone is arrested, it would be her

 

[Katerz]

WFLA lost feed.

 

[EmmieA]

A number of reasons are plausible. Top two candidates would be either there are other bodies the ME needs to process or (the most likely IMO) is that the ME may need/request additional staff to take notes, help with forensic procedures etc. It will not be a run of the mill autopsy and may want the entire day for processing.

It was reported they’re bringing in a specialist who is 360 miles away & he won’t be there until tomorrow