Found Deceased WY - Gabrielle ‘Gabby’ Petito, 22, Grand Teton National Park, 25 Aug 2021 #9

[Vegasgrl]

IMO their address is certainly easy to find but publishing it here seems a bit wrong to me. They have not handled any of this in a way that would indicate their son is innocent.

Just had to write that!

More importantly, yesterday or the day before the NPPD said "don't worry, we know exactly where Mr. Laundrie is". I can't get you the quote because when I look for it about 77 pages of results come up. I know some fellow WSer's could pinpoint it.

This statement aligns with all of the cases i've followed and commented on. emphatic statements are an overcompensation mechanism. When we are very confident we say less definitive statements. When I read the original comment I shuddered a bit, and here we are.

Lastly, can anyone explain something from the bodycam footage? When the LEO asks him to sit down, BL responds 7:52 "can I just sit in the shade, i'm bald?" Then he said "cross cross applesauce". I replayed it a few times and I have found it so odd. It almost appeared to be a puppet-ish behavior. Kind of like "jinx". Anyone have any insight here?

He also said in the beginning that he didn't have a phone. If she left him, he was stranded. Then, at the end he pulled his phone out...

cross, cross, apple sauce? what the....

 

[Lillymac]

Yes, according to witness. Much in the same manner as he was with Officer Robbins on the way to the hotel at the end of the body cam footage. BL talks - a lot. Schmoozer.

Officer Robbins seemed to me to be doing all the talking. To the degree I noticed the personal info he was sharing re his wife and marriage.

 

[Knox]

Re-sharing this from what I believe is an approved source. There are some interesting comments with videos that allegedly capture Brian on foot, barefoot near his residence.

https://twitter.com/brianentin/status/1439051692071342082?s=21

When was that?

 

[asapcapbam]

Hello!! I saw in a comment somewhere in the thread (too far now) about his pinterest. I looked it up (it’s public), and he was active as recent as a month ago! GP also has a public pinterest that hasn’t been active for 3 months. Food for thought?

 

[perception≠reality]

Officer Robbins seemed to me to be doing all the talking. To the degree I noticed the personal info he was sharing re his wife and marriage.

If felt like a few of them put on quite a performance-BL for the police, and bearded officer for his body camera, even to the point of addressing society in his monologue. Smh

 

[Knox]

Well alrighty then!!!! What an odd thing to say!!

Right, what the heck? Not like he has small kids, what kicked that into his brain?

 

[bambibones]

Well alrighty then!!!! What an odd thing to say!!

Was he saying it when they told him to sit on a curb or close to the ground? He would just be being clever at connecting what they told him to do with being told to sit down on the floor in daycare.

 

[bambibones]

Right, what the heck? Not like he has small kids, what kicked that into his brain?

I bet he sang that song as a kid. In a very subtle (perhaps completely personal) way, he was mocking the officers if he said it when he sat down.

 

[Sunset]

Something about the "shoes-off" thing... that has been hard to articulate.

I'm not comfortable with BL's "anti-shoes" stance. I'm even less comfortable with GP's posts about BL's tendencies to go into the "wilderness" without shoes. Something about it feels very phony, and very weird. I don't believe it, and I don't understand why he'd go to such great lengths to perpetuate this. Here is why.

I'm also from NY, and I've also spent considerable time (nearly a decade) in FL and several years in the American West. These are three disparate climates.

I've been an avid outdoors-person for many years, and I spent some time in my past falling into the "no shoes" fad by wearing "barefoot" type shoes designed to minimize the interference a shoe would have with natural foot movement and feel on the actual ground.

All of that is fine and dandy. But gaining callouses from being barefoot in the American Northeast, with a seasonal climate, is different than being barefoot in Florida, where it is extremely humid and there are entirely different bacteria that live and grow in the soil. Then, of course, there is the West, super-dry with also another entirely different biome. It seems strange and unlikely that someone who spent such little time in all these areas would somehow manage to adapt to being barefoot in three entirely different climates, conditions and terrain. If anyone has more information on this, please chime in.

BL's (and purportedly GP's) publicizing of his barefoot-hiking tendencies make me feel uncomfortable. It feels so inauthentic. Even if authentic, it feels very rote. It does not reflect capabilities of a true outdoorsperson, or even of someone who is being upfront and honest. A lot of posturing?

In my opinion, it is a posture thing. Utah is extremely hot, Florida too. It's really hard to walk barefoot when the temperatures are scorching. On roads/sidewalks, practically impossible. I have walked barefoot outside a lot because that what we do in my native village in my native country. True, our feet gets calloused after a while. I have seen my grandpa walk in barefeet in the temples where as I run tip-toed unable to bear the heat. But those temples are usually clean, doesn't have rocks or thorns. If the ground is hot or has thorns or very humid wet land, you are going to practically scorch, prick it, get it soaked too much and then cause some kind of infection. Not advisable when you are hiking in a remote location.

I can see why it is an attractive thing especially when they are into yoga. But I don't think it is possible to hike long miles when you are barefoot.

 

[MoLa]

When was that?

It was in a Facebook live today outside of BL's parents house just before police arrived.

 

[Vegasgrl]

Criss-cross applesauce: a daycare song for children to get them to sit down on the carpet.

So he was being a smartass when the cop asked him to sit? or trying to be funny? Don't get it. Nervous maybe?

 

[bambibones]

So he was being a smartass when the cop asked him to sit? or trying to be funny? Don't get it. Nervous maybe?

Some combination of all of these things . . .

 

[I wonder]

I think there's several reasons why Brian may have disappeared:

He has gone to take his own life, as doing it at home isn't fair to his parents and they may be watching him 24/7.

He has gone to get some space because he was essentially imprisoned in that house.

He is protecting his parents - if he's no longer at home, he figures people will stop hassling them.

He's sick of his parents controlling both the narrative and himself.

He wants to try to find Gabby, either in terms of searching for her...

or

...he knows where she is (and she's dead) and he wants to take his own life there, so 'they're together forever'.

 

[Lillymac]

If felt like a few of them put on quite a performance-BL for the police, and bearded officer for his body camera, even to the point of addressing society in his monologue. Smh

I've been stopped a couple of times by LE and it was tough to get a smile out of them. But, BL got medical advise, and tourist info. May be a new approach. Lol

 

[scandinavian girl]

I am trying to catch up, so my question is, Can LE upgrade the poi to a suspect to have more resources to find him unless they already have when I reach the last page of the last thread.

 

[Vegasgrl]

Right, what the heck? Not like he has small kids, what kicked that into his brain?

It's like something Jesse might say (Breaking Bad)

 

[dtowndetective411]

I think there's several reasons why Brian may have disappeared:

He has gone to take his own life, as doing it at home isn't fair to his parents and they may be watching him 24/7.

He has gone to get some space because he was essentially imprisoned in that house.

He is protecting his parents - if he's no longer at home, he figures people will stop hassling them.

He's sick of his parents controlling both the narrative and himself.

He wants to try to find Gabby, either in terms of searching for her...

or

...he knows where she is (and she's dead) and he wants to take his own life there, so 'they're together forever'.

Whoa. That last part made me shiver. That would be one way to lead them to her….

 

[Hyway]

So he was being a smartass when the cop asked him to sit? or trying to be funny? Don't get it. Nervous maybe?

he was asking if he could move over to the shade behind the van, criss cross applesauce style. Everyone has quirky sayings they use occasionally. Like, after awhile crocodile or my need to call out "cow" or "Horse" every time we pass one in the car or even the awful 'Easy peasy lemon squeezy". Using them doesn't mean you are a psycho. (doesn't mean you're not, either )

 

[abstr]

I apologize I am not caught up…When did the “protesters” show up at his parents home? When did the public or police last see him? If you aren’t talking to police and “hiding out” (my words) do you just go out for a walk? That is a pretty small house. Bizarre!

 

[Vaccine]

Does anybody know if BL has siblings? What ages? Been reading for so long my eyes are blurry. Thanks in advance.

He has a sister Cassie (?) who has been quoted as saying she's not spoken to him since events unfolded. In some of the press coverage but not very revealing.