Found Deceased WY - Gabrielle ‘Gabby’ Petito, 22, Grand Teton National Park, 25 Aug 2021 #26

[derpderpy]

Sorry that I'm chiming in with something other than speculation, but I just wanted to say that I'm really glad they were able to recover GP's body. The Elvis family didn't receive that kind of closure, they'll never truly know a manner of death, a cause of death, or where their poor daughter's bones are today. If I'm GP's family, guaranteed I'm in a seething rage and looking for as much legal vengeance as I can enact. Justice is a funny thing, and so difficult to obtain, but closure may be possible even if BL never turns up again. I sincerely hope GP's family is able to find closure from the Coroner's final report, and that the ability to continue their lives without that persistent wonder is not hinged upon whether or not BL ever emerges.

 

[Bravo]

I would tune in to John Walsh tonight as he will cover it.

 

[SuziQ]

Against BL ? What are they going to get? He’s got nothing.

Ah, but if it can be proven his parents lied helped him evade authorities.....

 

[ArmChairDet]

I just wanted to pop in to say that GP’s dad is the classiest act we’ve seen in a while. Her entire family has shown tremendous grace and courage throughout this ordeal. My heart goes out to them.

Yes. Hopefully JW and the press leave them some space, and don't use them for ratings.

MOO

 

[LvsAMystry]

Did the neighbors see him after the three day trip with his parents?

help me, I haven’t been able to read here all day and too much to catch up on! What is the 3 day trip, readers digest version pls!

 

[Boxer]

I think this is why the FBI is not giving updates or holding pressers. The more that gets out, the more the public will know - which would make finding a fair jury (for both sides) very difficult.

MOO people know they get an incomplete version of events of a crime in the press.

 

[nhmemorymaker]

I was just thinking.. that a potentially smart move (moreso than helping him try to hide IMO) if the parents knew anything at all during the alleged camping trip, would be to stash him away in a mental health facility or something for "treatment". So when/if he becomes a suspect, he is already being treated for "insanity" and they can blame everything on that. Thoughts? Am I just totally ignorant about how an insanity plea might work? And would a facility have to disclose that he is there? Sorry if this has been brought up before! I know the potential of Gabby secretly going to one was floated in the earliest threads but if it were my kid and I was callous enough to act how they have been, that's what I'd think of doing.

ha ha ha!! Not really trying to be funny....but this very same issue of "protection if institutionalized" is all part of two other outlandish cases many of us follow---the Daybell/Vallow Case, and the South Carolina mother/son murders....

sorry... not trying to make light, but it did trigger a laugh.

 

[Bravo]

And yet, I've read today that John Walsh said that he personally doesn't think that Brian Laundrie is suicidal. He think that the parents helped him escape somewhere.

Exactly what he said moments ago on CNN. Good to see you Linas it's been awhile.

 

[LinasK]

Joe Murray, former cop and now an attorney, answered a question wanting to know if Laundrie could be picked up on some other charge (besides the murder of GP), purportedly to get him into custody. A proposed scenario included his driving GP's van. Murray said it would not be enough because the two of them (Gabby and Brian) were engaged, living together, and may have had an agreement to share the van, regardless of who the van was titled to. End of van discussion -- from me, anyway.

I have to disagree with this talking head. That "agreement" ends the minute it's proved that he harmed her. Many a murderer has fled in their victim's vehicle. Being engaged doesn't confer any special rights on him.

 

[Fleur-de-lis]

I think a LOT of information is coming in behind the scenes.

Cams that caught his drive to Florida.

Cams that caught the Labor Day Weekend "camping."

I bet many many LE are combing through this, and a lot of evidence is being gotten.

Prayers for peace and soothing of broken hearts for Gabby's family and friends. Prayers for justice for Gabby. I think her sweetness and her gumption in being so young and yet trying to do vanlife has captured America's hearts.

Good night sleuthing friends. May you also all be safe.

 

[Shellinaya]

I know police are permitted to lie to suspects during an interrogation if they think it will help their case, so to speak. But when police (or was it lawyers?) definitely stated that the guy who resembled Brian was not Brian, could they have been lying in order to trick Brian n

Joe Murray, former cop and now attorney, is one of three law enforcement professionals who host a podcast called, "Police off the Cuff." Murray said you cannot hold him/arrest him for being in possession of her van since he and Gabby lived together, were boyfriend and girlfriend (or "engaged," as some news outlets are still referring to them, although it is not true, per Nichole Schmidt, Gabby's mother). Murray also said that Laundrie can't be arrested for having the van because Gabby is not here to say whether she gave him express permission to drive the vehicle and that she and Brian might have had an informal or formal agreement that it was their van to share.

Well they would know (maybe). Good points. So you can have a verbal agreement to share something like a van/car. Even so, his driving it off to FL and leaving her there (in whatever condition) is massively suspect and indicates he didn't care about her welfare.
IMO

 

[JuneRose]

And yet, I've read today that John Walsh said that he personally doesn't think that Brian Laundrie is suicidal. He think that the parents helped him escape somewhere.

I believe the same thing. He is saying the whole left a note thing was a set up after they helped him escape

 

[lonetraveler]

What I find amazing is, for several days reporters have been crawling all over and camping out in that neighborhood, neighbors allowing reporters to be on their lawn, apparently speaking with them (at least enough to allow them to stay on their property).

And it wasn't until yesterday that one neighbor finally said BL had been seen since he got back on the 1st, and now we have this report saying not only was he seen doing 'normal' things since the 1st, he and his parents actually went camping for a 3 day weekend!

I just heard that the parents of BL and he went on a camping trip for three days. REALLY? It's very obvious to me, at least, that the parents know exactly where they dropped him off. They need to be arrested. They, IMO, staged the Mustang in the park to look like BL went for a little hike. Maybe if they are arrested and BL finds out, he will turn himself in. JMO

 

[BUF]

help me, I haven’t been able to read here all day and too much to catch up on! What is the 3 day trip, readers digest version pls!

Here you go, watch…

Brian Laundrie's neighbors speak out amid investigation

 

[halfpintny]

A post upthread states our Victim GP would stay at her friend Rose's home when BL was "hearing voices" and having an "episode". So, he may very well have some legit mental illness. However, *if* he does, and chose to stop taking his meds, that will not bode well. He may end up in some county facility for the criminally insane. Either way, *if* he is guilty and convicted, he will likely spend at least 10 or more years incarcerated in one form or another. Given what we know about his volatility and that we have a dead young woman, I'd say the sooner he is apprehended, the better.

I have personally sat as a juror in a murder trial where the defendant had a well documented mental illness (he was not much older than BL). Even with that information we still found him guilty of murder (while my heart would have wanted to see him go to a hospital rather than jail). btw it was the worst experience of my life

 

[whirrledpeas]

I would tune in to John Walsh tonight as he will cover it.

Is it on investigation discovery? I have it set to record but it’s showing a different episode.

 

[MyJoey]

Ah, but if it can be proven his parents lied helped him evade authorities.....

I don’t think that will work in civil court, they aren’t guilty of a wrongful death.

 

[bellyup]

Does anyone know if the camper in the Laundrie’s driveway is equipped with A/C? I can’t imagine 3 people packed into a camper in this miserable Florida heat & humidity with no A/C. When I heard those neighbors say they went camping in that camper a few weeks ago, I immediately was suspicious. I know there are some unbothered by hot, humid and rainy conditions, but locals typically don’t do a lot of extended outdoor activities (voluntarily) this time of year in SWFL. MOO

I tried to look at photos to find the exact model and couldn't. However, I would say that yes most of them have some sort of a/c powered by the vehicle. The camper attachments aren't exactly as horrifically small as they appear. I hope posting a photo is allowed. This is the closest I could find to the actual one that is in the driveway. The table area converts into another bed. Cozy for sure but adequate (especially if you're trying to hide a murderer for a bit and just get them out of town)

 

[sandypaws]

IMO, the van ownership is important in that BL well knew who owned that van. Not him. And he took the van and drove back to Florida in HER van leaving her in Wyoming. Hard to believe that she’d give him permission to take that van and take it back to his parents’ place without her. That, to me, is an important piece of evidence, though circumstantial that BL knew that GP was NOT going to go after him about taking the van. She was dead.

THIS is the important thing about the van. Not that he stole it, but that driving it to FL before her body was located could be used to support the proposition that he knew she was dead before anyone else did.

 

[dkryder]

biggest puzzle for me so far is the family dynamics. one plausible explanation for the rather cold hearted treatment from brian's mom and dad to gabby's mom and dad is brian's mom and/or dad disliked gabby prior to this trip. and because of the dislike maybe brians mom & dad told brian that he and gabby had to find their own place whenever the trip ended, but brian never told gabby until maybe that last day. . perhaps that's why brian flew home and moved stuff into storage. could be when brian got home he told his mother and father that gabby was gonna fly back to new york. then when all the reports of gabby's missing status he says she was alive when he left her but she had made friends with a bunch of hippie gypsies. seems like brians mom and dad might buy that. maybe alot of parents would. it's all speculation and MOO but my main point is i have to think there was a strong dislike of gabby by one or both of brian's parents before these two even started their travel. MOO.