Found Deceased WY - Gabrielle ‘Gabby’ Petito, 22, Grand Teton National Park, 25 Aug 2021 #10

[Tiff23fr]

For me, it's the behavioral stuff that makes BL off the charts suspicious. I've followed countless cases over the years, and I have never seen an innocent person behave this way.

Let's say he did leave without her, and when asked when he last saw her, gave a plausible scenario. I'd be way less suspicious.

Here's the reality though. He didn't report any sort of event to local law enforcement when he was out west. He then drives thousands of miles, doesn't respond to text messages, never reports her missing, refuses to offer an explanation, lawyers up, and shuts down.

So this is either an outlier, and he and his family are merely awful people, or it's exactly what it looks like to most observers.

"When and where did you last see her?" Is not a complicated question. A life hangs in the balance, a family is desperately begging for answers, and Brian is now missing.

That says a lot.

One would ask “why does all of this make sense to BL”? I wonder if difficult situations in his past resulted in his behavior to run and hide from the situation. Quit things when it gets hard. There is a clear pattern of dismissive and avoidance tendencies when you look at this small frame of what is likely his overall behavioral style.

Individuals that have these tendencies, do however have key locations or items that they are attached to. This is where they find comfort, and even when leaving all else there is something they take with them. This park may have been his comfort location when he needs an escape. What is his tangible item? Did he take it with him or leave it behind? If he left it behind, that can be an indicator of a plan to separate from all completely.

 

[thebes]

Do we know the timeline of when the parents allegedly drove the car home/it got its way home and when the parents informed LE? Why wouldn't you call LE upon coming across the car in the first place? UGH. I really truly want to believe the best in most people, but this really makes NO sense.

I don't understand why LE would believe anything BL's parents say at this point. Their only interest seems to be protecting Brian. He could be anywhere. Just like Gabby.

 

[Elhe]

I doubt a bus. Pretty sure you need to show ID.

If it's public transportation you just need to pay, you're not usually required to show ID for something like that.

 

[Kristyp1024]

I doubt a bus. Pretty sure you need to show ID.

Not in Detroit... We just pay cash and jump on...mask and all

 

[oviedo]

@kittythehare bringing your post over here from the media only no discussion thread

The tracking should provide significant findings. I hope.

 

[JuneRose]

well, now aint this some bologna......so your son drivs your car to a reserve to go hiking, he doesnt come home so you decide to go check, you find the car right where he said he would be at the reserve hiking, so you say, well lets just take the car back home. a day or two later you call LE and say, he never came home!! well that could be because we took his way home away and brought it back here....with parents like this who needs enemies!!! this whole thing stinks to high heaven!!!

 

[Hope4More]

Yep. My brother is 24 and not living at home... my dad has keys to his car, apartment and storage unit. Not super uncommon these days.

Did your dad bring along those extra sets of keys every time he went out for a drive?

 

[LavenderLotus]

I don't understand why LE would believe anything BL's parents say at this point. Their only interest seems to be protecting Brian. He could be anywhere. Just like Gabby.

That's why I think they have some more info than just what the parents gave them to launch a massive search in the swamps.

 

[Veronica Sawyer]

Does anyone know which day it was that the crowds and media started congregating at the Laundrie's house?

I'm thinking their presence there would have really hindered any plans by BL to slip away unnoticed, and it would've made comings and goings by the family (especially if they drove BL's car back home from the reserve) difficult to do covertly.

I’m thinking their presence there has done the exact opposite. Too many comings and goings amongst the crowd made it easier for someone to slip right out.

 

[Gardenkeep]

Thank you, first of all!

Second: Not answering questions or invoking the 5th article wouldn't automatically turn you into a suspect? And could you be held in contempt or something similar if you refused to answer any questions (e.g. obstruction of justice).

I don't mean to derail the thread, but I find this course of events terribly fascinating!

No, it does not. Particularly in this case since it is not a criminal investigation. At the present, it is simply a missing persons investigation, and not criminal.

 

[SunsetsInParadise]

The parents just happened to see BL's Mustang at the Reserve and so decided to drive it back to the house? Were the keys magically left in the ignition and the car unlocked? It sounds like they were instructed to do this. Was there a note?

What game are these people playing? <modsnip>

MOO.

Yes, I am not understanding this. If they thought he was going to return to the car, why take it? You just dont take someone's ride home unless you knew they didnt need it

 

[Shiningstar]

I cannot fathom the parents statement? Just wow. In disbelief.

Not the brightest crayons in the box. I do not believe for a second he is in that reserve. I believe it is a diversion tactic.

Please god wrap your arms around Gabby's loved ones, I cannot imagine how this makes them feel. Give them all the love and comfort possible.

This case makes me sad, frustrated, angry and I'm in disbelief and how heartless people can be from their lack of actions, remaining silent, how could they do this? They should think of how they would feel if the shoe was on the other foot. Horrendous. Come home Gabby

 

[PayrollNerd]

I wonder how far that drop off spot at the park is from a greyhound station. Maybe they took him there first, briefly leaving his car at the alligator park. Sorry, reserve, whatever. To actually draw attention to the car, and his supposed where abouts, opposite of my first thoughts.

30 miles north on I-75 is the greyhound bus station. Exit 207. But if he went by bus to anywhere, he’d be recognized and his ticket would tell the story, along with the cameras.

 

[LavenderLotus]

Did your dad bring along those extra sets of keys every time he went out for a drive?

Sometimes people who are holding the spare key for someone else, they just put it on their keychain so they don't lose it. I have the keys to both of my cars on one keychain, even though I only drive one at a time, because my dumb*** will lose it otherwise. Idk one way or the other but I thought maybe they have the keys on their regular keys anyway.

 

[Midori_Azul]

I may have missed this statement as it’s hard to keep up. But this reporter says that Brian’s family called police this morning and says he was last seen at the reserve by them and they came here on Tuesday and saw his mustang and drove it home?

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=569281537551452

—— my questions… were the keys in it? How’d they know to bring them if not?

Why did they not say that last night? They had to have, right? Since it was reported the took articles of clothing to search with?

So BL's parents spotted his car at the swampland, didn't call the cops, moved the car THEMSELVES, and they want this to be treated like a run-of-the-mill missing persons case? That's not suspicious at all

 

[sandypaws]

The parents just happened to see BL's Mustang at the Reserve and so decided to drive it back to the house? Were the keys magically left in the ignition and the car unlocked? It sounds like they were instructed to do this. Was there a note?

What game are these people playing? <modsnip>

MOO.

I've actually seen parents do similar things and its not crazy. In my experience it was family arguments between parents and teenage/young adult children. Children run off with their cars, parents find the car and bring it back home so the child has to call them or at least it makes it difficult for the child to totally disappear and do something rash.

 

[MassGuy]

One would ask “why does all of this make sense to BL”? I wonder if difficult situations in his past resulted in his behavior to be run and hide from the situation. There is a clear pattern of dismissive and avoidance tendencies when you look at this small frame of what is likely his overall behavioral style.

Individuals that have these tendencies, do however have key locations or items that they are attached to. This is where they find comfort, and even when leaving all else there is something they take with them. This park may have been his comfort location when he needs an escape. What is his tangible item? Did he take it with him or leave it behind. If he left it behind, that can be an indicator of a plan to separate from all completely.

Great point, what he took with him may point to his intent. Is there something he always has on him, that he no longer has with him now?

My hope is that he does have his phone (if that's an item he always has), which would perhaps point away from what we are concerned about. It would obviously also help in tracking his location.

Yeah, he's gotta be at a place of significance, likely one he has been to many times before. These guys tend to flee towards familiarity, which is also what he did when he left Gabby.

 

[Satchie]

Upthread is a link - police confirmed it was true

It was only confirmed they have spoken with her and her story is credible. That means 'might be true', not 'true'.

 

[Alethea]

Brian and his family are being very foolish. There are only about a thousand lawyers willing to take on this case, concoct everything from she left with other campers after a fight, or mountain men kidnapped her or she was eaten by a bear - you name it.
All this kid has to do is say "I don't know" about a thousand times and he's scott free unless LE has a ton of damning evidence. At this point, they don't even have their prime suspect anywhere near in custody.

I agree and I do think this is one of the problems with having a family friend in another state serve as your criminal defense lawyer rather than someone local, on the ground, with experience/a relationship with the local PD and prosecutors. I always get my clients a local lawyer if state/local LE are involved outside of the area where I practice. It just doesn't make sense to try to drive the bus from NY with people you have never worked with/opposed before.

All he had to do was sit in the living room and play solitaire. We may not like it but that's his right until LE has enough to arrest him. Running, moving cars, involving his parents - all really problematic. Particularly when it's possible any eventual charges would only be manslaughter or an accident. JMO

 

[aim4thestars]

Did your dad bring along those extra sets of keys every time he went out for a drive?

I mean, they might all just be on one keyring... Growing up everyone had a copy of extra car keys on their keychains.