Found Deceased WY - Gabrielle ‘Gabby’ Petito, 22, Grand Teton National Park, 25 Aug 2021 #66

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This has been asked and answered on a previous thread. He doesn't need to report it, but if asked by LE, he cannot lie. Or if he does lie, SB is breaking the law.
It was answered by Gitana. He is required not to disclose BL’s location if he knows it due to attorney client privilege, and if asked directly he can refuse to comment. Please see this post in answer to my scenario question
Found Deceased - WY - Gabrielle ‘Gabby’ Petito, 22, Grand Teton National Park, 25 Aug 2021 #64
 
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By the time he got to Spread Creek, it was still light out, (this is according to the second woman who dropped him off). I gotta ask though, who else would have personal access and a motive to her password-protected phone to have sent that misleading text to her mother on August 30, reading “No service in Yosemite” when Gabby never even left Spread Creek.. Who else would personally know that Gabby was in frequent communication with her mother and was updating her on their trip, and would need a reason to explain away the silence from her end so her parents don’t start ringing alarm bells… an unknown party wouldn’t go to the lengths or have any real motive or benefit of sending a fake text message to her mom, turning off her phone the next day, and dumping it ..
One thought here: Looking at the Moab video where BL gets her phone from the van; it looks to me like he unlocks it with his face. What if Gabby didn't actually have a way to access her own phone?
 
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Yes! This! Super strange. I’m not in my 20’s anymore, but when I was in my twenties I would have been hesitant to stay alone for a week, either by myself in a van or a hotel room in a strange city. The only thing I can think of is if they got in a fight and he just left to go to Florida and she didn’t want to drive home alone. JMO
Exactly this.
 
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I'm not really sure of this attorney's legal status here. It's been more than 3 weeks since the indictment was filed against his "client" and he (SB) has still not filed a Notice of Attorney Appearance to represent BL. There is no record at all that BL has any attorney period.

Docket for United States v. Laundrie, 0:21-cr-00113 - CourtListener.com
If one isn't listed or recorded or engaged ~ then isn't there a requirement for a public defender to be appointed? Maybe there's another document somewhere?
 
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Yes! This! Super strange. I’m not in my 20’s anymore, but when I was in my twenties I would have been hesitant to stay alone for a week, either by myself in a van or a hotel room in a strange city. The only thing I can think of is if they got in a fight and he just left to go to Florida and she didn’t want to drive home alone. JMO
I have always thought that Gabby was terrified of being left alone in the wilderness. I sure would be. Even if I had the van and my phone. I also think he took her van and phone many times and left her out there alone and helpless, and it filled her with anxiety and maybe even panic attacks. I think this is why she fought him so hard for her van a d phone, to the point of crawling over him to get back on her vehicle. Jmo
 
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I haven’t seen this brought up yet - it could have been & I missed it - so…sorry if it has lol. But I always thought it was strange how Gabby had so much anxiety in that body cam video about being separated from BL. She did not wanna stay by herself. Then BL leaves her alone in a hotel for roughly a week to fly home to Florida. #1 why would he do that when she has severe anxiety about staying alone. #2 maybe her anxiety was that she didn’t wanna take the van & stay alone in the van specifically? Idk but I thought that was kinda odd IMO. Like why would he be okay leaving her alone for that long? Idk…just a thought.

in cassie's first gma interview, she mentioned that she assumed that BL had flown home, "because that's what he did when he is...actually i don't want to say that."

i really wish she had finished that thought

note: i can no longer find the full transcript online, but i copied it when i read it...
 
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As I’ve mentioned before I believe his timeline is 9/7-8 and the preserve was and is a misdirection but possibly her phone and other evidence is in there else why the resources for searching and the danger to the searchers and dogs?
JMO
I agree. I think the preserve is a red herring, with support for it either knowingly, or not knowingly, provided by BL's parents. If he actually went there, he's quite probably no longer alive. Consider that BL could have had as much as 2 weeks to prepare an exit plan before he became a POI. His first thoughts were to run, but he changed his mind, then hitchhiked back to the van, probably realizing hitchhiking anywhere was going to be a bad way to go, and realizing her remains hadn't been found. He worked on concocting a story on why he had the van, but not Gabby, on his way back to FL. My guess is he's far from FL, possibly in a prearranged safe house or a very isolated community getting help from a friend. If he was a lone fugitive on the run in a vehicle, or hiking on the AT, he would have been located by now with all the publicity.
ETA My Opinion Only (MOO)
 
  • #610
IMO, she didn't want to be separated from Brian AND the van. One, she feared driving the van herself, and because of that Brian did most if not all of the driving. She may have also feared sleeping in the van without him, or camping alone if she pulled out the tent. I know I would fear sleeping alone in a van.

I would not be comfortable sleeping in the van by myself, and I am far older than Gabby. In fact, I wouldn’t do it
 
  • #611
Given what is known about DV, BL could have still been in "control" of Gabby. He could have had rules for her to obey for example. MOO Any number of options are usable in this scenario
"Stockholm syndrome" ?

Seems unlikely to me he'd feel comfortable being 2500+ miles away if he was that into control. And so far as Stockholm Syndrome goes, that's truly pretty rare. Somehow I don't think Gabby was "brainwashed" either.

JMO
 
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When he was manic? Jmo
 
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Seems unlikely to me he'd feel comfortable being 2500+ miles away if he was that into control. And so far as Stockholm Syndrome goes, that's truly pretty rare. Somehow I don't think Gabby was "brainwashed" either.

JMO
That's something we can't know now with Gabby dead. We also don't know what else went on that nobody saw. can't say what BL would be comfortable with or not.
 
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BL’s and his parents’ entire defense is based on plausible deniability - and nothing else.

Yes it’s true. That’s why the narrative the lawyer spins keeps changing. It changes each time something new and plausibly deniable comes out. He can spin it ad infinitum also unless BL is captured.

Now I’m thinking this attorney is deeply involved in the muck and mire of the family’s nonsense. Why else would a woefully inexperienced-in-criminal-defense lawyer be a spokesperson for someone who has committed murder ? Or for his parents ? Because he doesn’t think it will ever come down to representing him for murder.

It really makes you think doesn’t it ?
 
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Well, if living at home after graduating from high school = immaturity, in the US most young men are "immature." From ages 18-24 56% of women and 60% of men lived with a parent in 2020. So lots of immature women too.

U.S. Millennials living with parents by gender 2020 | Statista

JMO
I don't think grown children living with parents are "immature." Our children don't have the opportunity to realize the same dreams we had. They are left with massive school debt, low incomes in comparison to level of education, inflation, high medical costs. The cards are stacked against them. Mine were welcome to live at home, if they were saving for a home or in school.
 
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Well, if living at home after graduating from high school = immaturity, in the US most young men are "immature." From ages 18-24 56% of women and 60% of men lived with a parent in 2020. So lots of immature women too.

U.S. Millennials living with parents by gender 2020 | Statista

JMO
I don't think grown children living with parents are "immature." Our children don't have the opportunity to realize the same dreams we had. They are left with massive school debt, low incomes in comparison to level of education, inflation, high medical costs. The cards are stacked against them. Mine were welcome to live at home, if they were saving for a home or in school.
 
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