I think that is common in the type of relationship they had. BL never showed his true character in public or only when he thought no one was watching. He saved the darker parts of his personality for private with GP. Just like when he spoke to LE. That's the side he showed to everyone but GP.
That is why, even though he had been slapping her (IMO) earlier, I doubt he made a scene in public at a restaurant. He would have saved it for shortly after they left the MP and were alone.
In those type of relationships, the aggressor makes their victim look crazy because he appears to be a nice guy. He even stated as much during his interaction with LE. IMO.
Yup, the 2 sides of BL, well put.
Petito was last seen alive on Aug. 27 at a Wyoming restaurant, when witnesses said
a visibly irate Laundrie launched into a verbal attack on the staff.
"We drove by and
the gentleman was slapping the girl," the caller said. "Then we stopped.
They ran up and down the sidewalk.
He proceeded to hit her, hopped in the car and they drove off."
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Gabby Petito’s parents said they were fooled by a “
quiet and polite” Brian Laundrie, thinking he would “
take care of her” and
keep her safe during the young couple’s trip out west.
“He just seemed like a
nice guy,” Petito’s mother, Nichole Schmidt,
told Australia’s “60 Minutes” in an interview posted online Sunday. “I worried. I told her to be careful, be safe. To be aware of your surroundings. Don’t trust anybody.”
“But I felt
safe because she was with Brian and I felt like she would be OK,” she said. “I thought he would
take care of her.”
“She did look happy,” said the young woman’s father, Joe Petito. “But as we look more and more into this, it might not have been as great as people online perceived.”
Schmidt said the family had
misjudged their daughter’s beau.
“He was
very polite and quiet,” she said. “He’d draw them pictures and stuff. He would read books to my little one at night before bed. So, he just seemed like a
nice guy.”
Petito’s stepfather, Jim Schmidt, agreed.
“Every time he would come over, he was
polite,” he added. “He’d talk with our other children as well. They got to know him and they
liked him.”