Hi everyone, first time lurker, first time poster here. I got hooked on this case last night and I just got caught up right before this thread was closed, so forgive me if there’s anything I forgot/missed! Ever since finding out Gabby and Brian were in the same area as Kylen and Crystal my first instinct was that the cases were related, and I’ve gone back and forth on it but I’m coming back around to it now. I’m gonna divide the timeline into weeks just for clarity but so far we have:
Week 1
Monday Aug 9- hike at Arches.
Aug 10-11- still in Moab, presumably staying at same reservation-only campsite
Friday Aug 12th- Gabby spends the day working on blog stuff at moonflower, where Kylen is working; her shift ends an hour or two before G&B have the argument that results in the stop/possible DV incident. Brian is taken to a hotel room in Moab with Gabby left to drive the van north back to the campsite at Arches
Friday, Aug 13th- Crystal and Kylen last seen at Woody’s in Moab, after which they drive south, park at the McDonalds and go to their campsite, intending to camp for the weekend of the 14-15. At some point, texted friends about the creepy guy.
Week 2
Monday Aug 16- K&C don’t show up at work. Presumably, Monday night is also the latest G&B arrived in SLC, depending on when the flight the next day was
Tuesday Aug 17th- BL flies to Florida (or at least bought a ticket to do so), leaving Gabby and the van at a hotel in SLC.
Aug 18th- Kylen and Crystal are found.
Aug 19th- an unusually boring post is made on GP’s Instagram showing BL in the van at an undisclosed location.
Saturday Aug 21- GP’s dad orders DoorDash to her hotel in SLC for her
Week 3
Monday Aug 23- BL’s return flight
Aug 24- BL and GP check out of the hotel in SLC, presumably heading for Grand Teton
Wednesday Aug 25- Gabby and her mother talk on FaceTime. Those adorable pictures of GP taken at that mural in Moab, almost two weeks prior, are posted on Instagram. [Correction: the mural is in Ogden, not Moab]
Friday, Aug 27- texts sent from Gabby’s phone
Week 4
Monday, Aug 30th- Gabby’s phone texts her mom that there’s “no service in [Yellowstone].”
Tuesday, September 1- Bryan and the van return to Florida
I’m noticing that we don’t know where Gabby spent Thursday (8/12) night after the incident, or where they spent the following several days/nights of Aug 13th-16th. Did Gabby drive the van to the campsite and back at all, or did she meet Brian later that night? Did they spend the rest of their time in Moab camping at Arches, or did they move campsites over the course of the Aug 14th weekend?
When did they leave Moab? Realistically, no earlier than the 13th or later than the 16th, right? We know Kylen and Crystal were murdered at the absolute latest on Monday (16th) morning, Brian flew out on the 17th, and they were found the 18th. I do genuinely believe this could be a coincidence, but then there’s a second suspect involved which is a whole other issue.
Let’s look at that alternative, that they’re unrelated cases. What explains GP and BL’s actions? Based on my own experiences of mental health problems and taking road trips with my boyfriend, it’s reasonable they could have fought, broke up, and had him fly home anyway. (I once flew home early from a road trip with some friends because of anxiety— which sucked but was the rational thing to do at the time.) Over the next few days, they decide to have him fly back and either drive the car home, since she can’t, or continue the trip they planned. Whether or not G&B saw or knew anything about K&C, I think BL must have wanted to go back to SLC as much as GP needed him back, and wanted to tie up loose ends of whatever kind himself, even if only to keep GP from making him look bad post-breakup.
But that’s all just my $0.02