Take a moment, close your eyes and envision Gabby lying dead and BL rifling through her purse looking for cash and credit cards.
Take a moment, close your eyes and envision Gabby lying dead and BL hitchhiking back to the van, sticking her key in the ignition, taking off and leaving her to decompose out in the open.
THAT is the kind of mind we're dealing with.
All of the media reports are starting to bury the lead. There's a possible murderer out and about. One who can keep it cool, play with little boys and wolf down smores while the autopsied, deteriorated remains of the love of his life lie in a morgue. He's not in the Laundrie homestead's attic, so he's among us. That sobering thought should sharpen the focus of our collective vision.
Dates, times, speculation, lies, truths are for a later time.
This guy is on the road.
It honestly scares me. I’ve said from the beginning he could be armed and dangerous. At that time I was considering a danger of desperation, like harming someone to steal their car or hide in their home or steal supplies while on an uncoordinated and amateur run from the police. I thought at that time (and still have a 50/50 belief) that he would be in a devastated mindset after with a lot of conscious regret and worry and fear and distress for what had happened.
The (now 50/50) thought that he could actually be un-empathetic, with the ability to turn off his emotions (if he has them in the first place), makes me fear he could be dangerous in a more intentional way. Harming someone else because of the high of, thus far, “getting away with it.” I don’t want to imagine this. I’d rather imagine him as having cared for Gabby and having a soul and having a lot of sadness about the situation. I want to believe that. But his actions do show a lack of remorse, in my opinion.
(Otherwise, he also could have fled the scene of the crime out of fear and was able to pull himself together enough to play-pretend in front of his family because he knew the stakes were too high. Pretend nothing happened and maybe it won’t come out. Deal with it later in life just move forward “as normal” and try to forget he did that, because he didn’t want to remember. Playing “all is good” doesn’t necessarily discount the presence of negative emotions.).
Regardless, his driving cross-country by himself, remembering her credit card PIN, and vacationing with family and with children with his sister thinking things were “normal” ALL show a level of mental competency. I think that will play against any mental/insanity defense.
And, as you said, him taking her things and leaving her behind, and then acting good and fine after, shows lack of remorse.
And running shows consciousness of guilt.
If Brian is eventually charged and tried for this crime, his manyyy post-crime actions will be used heavily against him.
If he isn’t found and charged / tried, I worry what he could do next.
We simply don’t know if he is sociopathic or if he handles emotions regularly. I hope the latter…..but I fear for the safety of other women in his path if he continues to escape the law. For some people, there is a high that comes with that, and, grossly and unfortunately, with murder.
IMO
ETA: Even if he did have normal-enough emotions previously, life as he knew it is *over* now. And with that comes the person he knew of himself could be *gone* too. The more you hear about yourself in the media as America’s Most Wanted Fugitive, the more you maybe start to play the role. To identify with it. To wonder what else you can do. To have nothing to lose, if you’re careful enough. To have nothing else to do except think about how to continue getting away, and about getting away with future crimes as well. This type of situation can change a person, night and day. If he already had it in him before, I worry the chase could exacerbate that.