It seems strange that this house sold for just $120,000 in 2015. The market was still staggering at that point, but it's a really lowball price for a three-bedroom house with a lanai and swimming pool in that area. I wonder if it needed major renovations and listing it for sale in 2017 was an attempt to flip it.
It's also a relatively small house. I keep thinking about that. The Laundries lived with Gabby in that small house for two years. Two years of making breakfasts together, of sitting and watching television together, of holidays and birthdays together, of going about the little household daily duties and chores together with a young woman they were already thinking of as a potential daughter-in-law and mother of their grandchildren. Two whole years of getting to know Gabby and presumably love her, as she seemed quite lovable (those postcards to BL's sister's children had me in tears.)
And yet when something happened to her, she meant nothing to them. They showed no sign of caring about Gabby in the least. Even if they disliked her parents, the inhuman callousness of their behavior toward Gabby's parents and toward Gabby herself is shocking, Whatever thin and ridiculous lie BL might have come up with doesn't excuse it or even explain it.