One thing I agree with SB on is when he was chastising searchers for not concentrating on the place that Brian entered the MYA park, follow the trailhead ,and even though it was underwater by the time they were searching, the general vicinity of where he would have hiked toward and into Carlton Reserve. (that is where he was found, 5 weeks later!) (Their search was all over the Carlton Reserve!) They had airboats and ATV's to get in there, (MYA Park trail to carlton) and good boy/girl sniffer dogs! jmo
Search and rescue is tough. Even though we pretend different, parks have become dumping grounds of human waste. So when the park floods, all the garbage comes to the top. So searching for one person's leavings from hundreds of other is hard.
If he died when he entered the park, the body would be underwater when they started to look for him. The body would have come up a few days later for maybe 24 hours then would go back down. (animals would not let something like that float for long) 1 week in florida is enough for a body to completely decompose to skeleton. He was found deep in inside a forested area where the boat could not go. ATV's are great until they hit swamp mud.
When a swamp floods hundreds of animals are trapped underground and or killed in the rising water. Hundreds. A good dog would have to filter hundreds of decay signatures for just one. A very well trained dog could do that, as long as the body was above water.
But as you see from above, a body put into the water will sink for about week. It will then raise to the surface, which signals the scavengers to come, they will allow it to float for maybe 24 hours, then it will go back down. In florida.
The problem they faced. They assumed that BL was an average killer.
An average killer does not kill someone drive home, go on vacation and then kill themselves 3 days after, edit, 6 days before the body was found. A body that was 800 feet from the last place they camped. He knew the body would be found. The place was crawling with people. He told people where his girlfriend was. She was 800 feet from the last place he said she was.
He had the long drive home, but nope, left her in wyoming.
If he was going to kill himself, then he would do it after he killed her. Or not at all.
. I saw something that the lawyer said in an interview with the New York Post, that made me think he is giving more away than he meant to:
) as it clearly seems to give away something pretty crucial - that Brian DID tell them what happened, and that Bertolino and the Laundries think that somehow means he is less culpable??? I struggle to see how anyone who does not have completely misogynistic way of thinking would think that strangling a woman to death was somehow explainable when she has to be 1/2 as strong as he was, but there you are. I don't see how Gabby could do anything more than give him a good scratch - which she seemed to have done - I assumed fighting back when he grabbed her head, as she told the Utah police? I could never work out that they never even seemed to question Brian about this 'head grabbing', a strong person could really scare someone by squeezing on their skull by their temples, without leaving any bruises as there is no muscle or blood vessels there, and the person might say no one would believe you as there were no marks. Especially with Gabby having OCD and anxiety issues, I wonder if Brian played on that, and told her people would not believe her because of that? I wondered if that kind of thing had been going on for years maybe, and the Laundries knew Brian could be abusive, but did nothing to stop him
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