Found Deceased WY - Gabrielle ‘Gabby’ Petito, 22, Grand Teton National Park, 25 Aug 2021 #56

[Cinna]

Or using it as a code word to try to warn her mother that she was in danger.

For what reason? She was having a private conversation with police. If she wanted to tell someone she was in danger, she could easily tell them.

 

[LinasK]

For what reason? She was having a private conversation with police. If she wanted to tell someone she was in danger, she could easily tell them.

Abused women aren't going to report their abuser in front of police. Sometimes not even when you get them alone. Her mother knew that they were having problems.

 

[Fleur-de-lis]

Anyone have opinions about something that struck me strongly, and that is that BL's dad was able to go and point out favorite haunts of BL in the reserve. That surprised me, that he evidently went so often that he had favorite trail and places. It added more weight, IMOO, that BL may have actually gone in there. MOO.

 

[tiara1972]

Dramatic would be throwing into the mix some entirely fictitious creatures who invisibly accompanied Gabby and Brian on the journey..... without a vid clip ever being taken of them, Gabby recording her journey and all that.. that is the definition of dramatic license.

Seems we have differing opinions on what is considered dramatic. We can agree to disagree. MOO!

 

[Okiruy]

This would make Brian the most unluckiest person in the entire USA. Maybe in the Northern Hemisphere. Here he goes, poor Brian, off on a trip with his girlfriend.... at some stage in this adventure, Brian starts to publicly make a rabid, ridiculous fool of himself, slapping Gabby, locking Gabby out of the van, chasing her down the street, so bad a stranger called the cops on him.

Then, you wouldn't believe the bad luck, he loses his temper again in public at a restaurant, screaming and lunging at the women staff, going in and out to scream and screech 6 times... seen by people in the restaurant..

and a matter of hours after that, and we have to imagine this bit. .. this is where his unlucky really ramps up, a casual killer is roaming, right at their campsite, and chooses Gabby, and murders her right there in front of Brian, because it's near where the van was parked, so Brian, silly silly boy, knowing Gabby is dead, nothing he can do about it , decides to give the stranger killer a pass , and steal Gabby's bankcard and van and go home to mumanddad!....

WHO.... now stay with me here, we are nearly done..., WHO LOSE BRIAN!....

I couldn't make this stuff up. Even me.

I’m with you on this one. I don’t understand why people are defending this guy. Every single one of his actions says he’s guilty.

 

[jjonez]

But if the missing person report wasn't issued until the evening of the 11th, why would NPPD have eyes on him before that? Maybe they meant they never actually saw him at all, in person? They have video footage of him before the 11th.

I’m not sure that I believe BL ever came back from fort de Soto. But I do think that LE was at the laundrie house on the 10th.
Moo

 

[ringbearer]

Considering there have seemingly been less than the amount of people who can be counted on two hands (MOO!!!) that knew ANY of these people and families over the course of their entire lives willing or allowed to speak publicly, yeah, I think it is probable we wouldn't find more in the woods coming out publicly. That WOULD be strange. MOO!!!

Idk what's going on with that. They both worked at Publix, and she worked at Del Taco, yet I've only seen (iirc) one former co-worker come forward. Weird. Especially in this case where the rubberneckers are out in droves...myself included.

 

[Angels Advocate]

“Brian Laundrie’s father laughs it up with investigators as he joins FBI’s fruitless search for his fugitive son …”

Brian Laundrie's father and FBI made 'no discoveries' as he joined search for son | Daily Mail Online

 

[WellThen]

Gabby's mother received that text on Aug. 30th. The bank fraud charge was also on Aug. 30th. It's not hard to connect the dots.

I also think cell phone data will show that Gabby's phone was in close proximity to Brian's phone when the fake texts were sent. We know she was already dead at that point. That seals his fate.

 

[borndem]

This is why I don't think this was well-planned or executed. He could have dropped the van off at a small airport and flew off to Latin America or Russia. Send a few postcards saying you two went to Europe and he'd have a month or two head start on the police.

Driving back to your parents house just waiting for everyone to find out what happened? Yikes. Does not sound like someone who thinks two steps ahead.

Not having to think very far ahead may have gotten him, in times past, either where he needed to go, or what he wanted to do. I think he was enabled often by his parents. IMO, he generally is not very smart, and worse, he is lazy. He is, however, out in the wild blue now, as far as we know, and he's getting by, as far as we know. Let's hope he'll give up or be found soon. He doesn't deserve one more day, IMO. Grrrrrr.

 

[Deleted member 158085]

New York Post summing up the day:

Brian Laundrie search: Cops deny claim of campsite found

Florida police on Thursday refuted reports that authorities searching a marshy nature reserve for fugitive Brian Laundrie had come upon remnants of a fresh campsite.

North Port Police Department spokesman Josh Taylor confirmed to The Post in an email that the report from CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Wednesday night was incorrect.

“No campsite has been located,” he wrote.

So there was basically a whole thread about nothing.

What a case.

 

[mlhenn]

Brian Laundrie: Police say he was under surveillance before he disappeared - CNN

To Note:
•Authorities do not have the phone Laundrie had with him on the couple's trip, nor do they have Petito's phone.
•Neither phone was in Petito's van, which Laundrie drove back to Florida, Taylor told CNN.
•authorities never spoke with Laundrie before he went missing even though they had ‘eyes’ on him.
•Taylor also confirmed investigators did not find a campsite during those efforts

 

[putnam6]

No. There is no official time of death or cause of death at this time. It's all speculation.

Thanks I didn't think it had been announced

 

[Cool Cats]

Is Brian Laundrie Alive? One Seasoned Pro Says Yes — and Where He Thinks FBI Should Look Next

At least one seasoned investigator, a retired federal marshal with three decades of experience searching for -- and finding -- people who were on the run, says he doesn't think Laundrie was ever in the Carlton Reserve in the first place.

In an interview for News 4's The Debrief podcast, Craig Caine, who supervised members of the New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force before his retirement from the U.S. Marshals Service, said he believes Laundrie was never in that nature preserve at all.

"I think it was all a ploy. He had plenty of time to calculate those moves," said Caine, who has no involvement in the Petito/Laundrie case but who offered an expert opinion based on 30-plus years working such mysteries in the United States and abroad.

Caine says there is one "critical moment that changed my mind" as far as where he thought the investigation would lead. In his view, it all comes back to that silver Ford Mustang Brian Laundrie's parents told police their son drove to the Carlton Reserve on Sept. 14. He left behind his phone, which the FBI has since confiscated.

Laundrie's parents went to the preserve after their son didn't come home. They found the Mustang. They drove it home. Three days later, they called police to tell them that Brian Laundrie was missing. That, for Caine, was the critical juncture.

"You're gonna leave your son out in the preserve with no form of communication and no way to get home? Does that make sense to anybody?" Caine asked. "I don't even think he was ever in that preserve."

The FBI and local law enforcement briefly seized that Ford Mustang as part of their investigation and have since returned it to the Laundrie family. It's unclear what, if anything, of forensic note they found inside of it to assist in their investigation.

Caine says he isn't surprised they haven't found Laundrie yet, either. But he does think, eventually, he will be located.

"This isn't reality TV. This is a real-life situation, which leads me to believe this was well-orchestrated, well-planned and he had a lot of time and resources," Caine opined. "This guy will be found, maybe not sooner but he will be found later."

 

[Backhoe411]

Retired banker here. You can't share accounts, debit cards, pin numbers, etc. You share your account you will get grief and possibly a jail sentence. Don't do it! I see this posted at least once a day. Why do people think they can make their own rules about property ownership and bank accounts? It is shocking to me how entitled people are. SMH.

Exactly, if she wanted him to have access to her account, she would have added him to her account.

 

[Cinna]

Abused women aren't going to report their abuser in front of police. Sometimes not even when you get them alone. Her mother knew that they were having problems.

I'm not following you. She was talking to her mom on the phone. What is the need for a secret code?

 

[Joe Wilson]

I also think cell phone data will show that Gabby's phone was in close proximity to Brian's phone when the fake texts were sent. We know she was already dead at that point. That seals his fate.

IMO I don’t think BL had a SIM card in his phone.

 

[WizardQuest]

“Brian Laundrie’s father laughs it up with investigators as he joins FBI’s fruitless search for his fugitive son …”

Brian Laundrie's father and FBI made 'no discoveries' as he joined search for son | Daily Mail Online

oh dear me!

Apple didn't fall far from the tree!

 

[JuneRose]

For what reason? She was having a private conversation with police. If she wanted to tell someone she was in danger, she could easily tell them.

exactly, ive heard this discussed so much and it seems so off to me, her grandpa was Stan, thats all it was...no code or anything else! IMO

 

[Jurisprudence]

Why would LE conduct a million dollar manhunt for someone who committed a 1000.00 crime? They would not. This is a manhunt for a killer.

Sometimes the obvious is right in front of us and we don't see it because we're swirling in information overload. This is an EXCELLENT post. Well done! MOO