Gabby Petito

[JimMIA]

This is looking more and more like a miniseries in the making.

Or a never-ending Netflix drama!

 

[MomOfDisneyPrincess]

Knock off ur partner? Imho….
here’s my ….guess/opinion
They pulled off, likely where the van was seen parked.
he took her phone and left her.. to cool off, decompress to just get away from her /punish her, whatever.
she was in no state to handle any of that

I can totally see this happening, but she panicked and tried to stop him from driving off. Maybe she tried to get into the van while it was moving and was struck or run over by the van and killed. He then panicked and hid/buried her body and fled, trying to create a false alibi and slinking home without saying a word.

This reminds me of a true story that happened between two teenagers, where the two had an argument and she drove off and he tried to stop her by stepping in front of the car, but was hit by the car. She drove home, moved a fallen branch over the car to disguise the damage and crawled back into bed, pretending to have been asleep all night when the police came knocking on the door.

 

[RedAngie]

So, since everyone is speculating, I'll have a go.
I think they pulled off on the side of the road. One of them got out and the other followed in an attempt to keep the other from walking away. It doesn't matter who did what. There was pushing and shoving. She tripped and fell, or was pushed away or down. As a result she was fatally injured. He panicked and fled.
He doesn't seem the type to be a stone cold killer. I think if he was involved whatever happened was an accident. A very unfortunate one to be sure.
I don't know how much the parents knew, if anything. Why did they lawyer up. Pretty easy to figure evidenced by the overwhelming response I've read here claiming that the kid is completely and unquestionably guilty of gruesome and premeditated murder.
My guess is he fled from his home and is possibly gator chow by now. I think he truly cared for her and might simply have gone off and taken his own life.
Will we ever know what happened? Unless my guess is correct and he left a note explaining what happened, we just may never know. Don't expect a CSI type wrap up from the autopsy either. There might not be enough left of her to come up with a finding.
Time will tell.
One thing I do know for sure from experience, things are frequently not as they seem to be and news reports a lot of times can be way off from reality.
I haven't been following events as closely as the rest of you, and won't be. I've had enough in real life to last me. I'll wait till the official reports are out.

I like the part about him being gator chow by now.

Although it’s been shown in the other thread that gators rarely attack humans.

 

[Stratman50th]

I like the part about him being gator chow by now.

Although it’s been shown in the other thread that gators rarely attack humans.

Gator chow because he was no longer alive. Gators don't care what you used to be once you no longer fight back and smell really bad.

 

[Moliphino]

It could be either one, or it could actually be a suicide situation as the family seems to believe, but the business of leaving the car and having the family retrieve it by means of leaving a note on it, looks an awful lot like an attempt to redirect attention long enough to buy time to get far away.

He didn't leave a note on his car, the police did.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Supposedly Brian was spotted on a deer cam walking in the woods there in FL.

Was trying to find a legit news org to post an article, but instead I’ll post a pic.

 

[EMom]

This is looking more and more like a miniseries in the making.

Lifetime will be all over this.

 

[jlmarr]

Supposedly Brian was spotted on a deer cam walking in the woods there in FL.

Suicide by alligator.

 

[NotUrsula]

Does anyone else find it a really interesting coincidence that almost everyone who claims to have seen him in or near Florida since his disappearance (deer cam guy excepted, perhaps) seems to be some kind of vlogger?

 

[LSUmiss]

Finally had the time to watch most of the boy cam video. I don’t see him as this charismatic sociopath. And having worked in mental health in a max security men’s prison, I sure have seen my fair share of them. He does joke with the officers, but after they joke with him first. IMO, he seems more nervous. I think they both had/have personality disorders (IMO hers is more obvious than his) & had a volatile relationship. She doesn’t seem like a gaslighted abuse victim to me either. I think he accidentally killed her in one of their usual physical fights. I think it explains why he acted like did. I think that explains his bizarre behavior afterwards. He probably freaked out & didn’t know what to do so he went home. Now he probably freaked out again & ran away. IMO, if he were a gaslighting, abusive socciopath, he would have reported her missing & pretended to help find her etc. Putting on a good show.

 

[LSUmiss]

Does anyone else find it a really interesting coincidence that almost everyone who claims to have seen him in or near Florida since his disappearance (deer cam guy excepted, perhaps) seems to be some kind of vlogger?

I do now! The whole vlogger/fame culture is also part of the problem is this situation IMO. Everyone wants to be famous these days & I think it’s reached an epidemic level. Ppl seem even more willing to do things against their best interest, if it gets them attention. Well, They’re famous now for sure!

 

[MamaMermaid]

Would you mind sharing what you feel makes him “a monster even if he didn’t kill her”? I really want to know.

He came home without her in her van, didn't inform anyone if it was an accident she got hurt (but now it's a homicide sooo), refuses to speak with the police - what does he have to hide if he's guilty?... he clearly knows something about her whereabouts even if it's just "she decided to stay out West and I came home." Pretty awful to not share any info you have about your missing fiancé. Even if he knew nothing ("she ran away and didn't tell him"), why not share that? Why disappear? It's vile.

 

[Judique]

He came home without her in her van, didn't inform anyone if it was an accident she got hurt (but now it's a homicide sooo), refuses to speak with the police - what does he have to hide if he's guilty?... he clearly knows something about her whereabouts even if it's just "she decided to stay out West and I came home." Pretty awful to not share any info you have about your missing fiancé. Even if he knew nothing ("she ran away and didn't tell him"), why not share that? Why disappear? It's vile.

Fear?

 

[MamaMermaid]

Fear?

I get that. But, come on... when is enough enough?

 

[NannyBeBe]

Gabby did not have a horrible accident and bury herself in a shallow grave. Laundrie played a part in her death and tried to get away with it. He needs to be put away where he can't hurt himself or anyone else.

 

[luvsvacation]

I have no idea what happened between them out in the wilderness. Did he plan to murder her all along, did he snap and kill her, did they fight and she fell and hit her head on a rock, did she run away and someone else killed her, did she get so emotionally distraught she killed herself in front of him? I don’t know what happened to her…but I want to give his parents a bit of the benefit of the doubt. My guess is he didn’t come home saying hey I killed gabby and they said oh you can hide here, we’ll protect you. After the first incident in Moab I’m sure he told his parents how she was almost charged with battery. Maybe they were encouraging him to leave her? Who knows? I know if my son told me his girlfriend was hitting him and he had scratches and the police were putting him up for the night to “protect” him from her I’d be telling him to get out of the relationship. I’m NOT saying their relationship was one sided and she was the aggressor…I’m saying thats probably how he portrayed it to his parents and I can see them wanting to protect their son. He could have come home and told them that they broke up, that she left him. From the 1st till the 10th when her parents showed up asking questions they could have believed any story their son told, that he was battered and that she left him. Considering he most likely saw her die and most likely was the cause of it I’m sure he was very emotional. They could have spent those 10 days being angry at her for breaking their sons heart. Then all of a sudden her parents are there at their door saying she’s missing and it’s all over the news and people are on their lawn. It would not be a stretch for them to think she had just run off and left him if that’s what he told them. I could totally see them protecting him at that point. Now that her body has been found I’d imagine they know he was involved, but now he is missing and I’m sure they fear he is dead. I lean more to thinking he’s killed himself. I just can’t imagine parents who would KNOW their child killed someone and protect them and help them escape. I’m holding out some hope that the parents were lied to by Brian and they are actually decent people. If so I feel for them for all of this.

 

[JimMIA]

Supposedly Brian was spotted on a deer cam walking in the woods there in FL.

Was trying to find a legit news org to post an article, but instead I’ll post a pic.

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That's a legit picture from a wildlife camera in a rural area of Okaloosa County the Florida panhandle, near the Alabama border. Whether it's Brian Laundrie or not is anyone's guess. The sheriff's department searched the area and found nothing.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Gabby did not have a horrible accident and bury herself in a shallow grave. Laundrie played a part in her death and tried to get away with it. He needs to be put away where he can't hurt himself or anyone else.

We actually don't know that she didn't have a horrible accident that's not something that has been figured out yet. We actually don't know that he played a role in her death and tried to get away with it. The shallow grave part the only thing that more points to is an act to cover up the death but does not point to an active role in her death. That's still unknown at this time. Still lots of unknowns and that may stay that way depending on the coming weeks of investigation.

 

[Kae]

I agree with John Walsh he was gone before he was reported gone, and the lawyer never saw him. So he had around a 5 day jump before they started looking for him.

 

[AndreaA]

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We actually don't know that she didn't have a horrible accident that's not something that has been figured out yet. We actually don't know that he played a role in her death and tried to get away with it. The shallow grave part the only thing that more points to is an act to cover up the death but does not point to an active role in her death. That's still unknown at this time. Still lots of unknowns and that may stay that way depending on the coming weeks of investigation.

Gotta disagree here. No, we don’t know if it was an accident (although the coroner is saying homicide, which is NOT consistent with an accidental death) and we don’t know precisely what role he played in her death. However, to suggest that it’s all a big question mark? No. We have pretty good evidence that he tried to cover it up and get away with it. He returned home with HER VAN. If it was an accident, he didn’t try to get help. If she ran off, he didn’t try to get help/tell authorities his fiancee was lost in the park. If she hurt herself, he didn’t try to get help/tell authorities so that her parents and hundreds of other people wouldn’t have had to search for her. Virtually everything he did screams “suspicious”. Now was he in his right mind? No clue, and no excuse. He’s not so crazy that he didn’t know to retreat to his home and then plan another escape...

As for his parents and whether or not they should have suspected something or asked more questions, I would again point to the fact that HE HAD HER VAN. Did they not wonder how she got home? Did they not call her parents to ask after her? Really?? I mean granted, my kids are only 12, but if they came home with something I know I didn’t buy them, then I’d ASK where they got it, and if the story wasn’t a good one, I’d contact the school/other parents to make sure everything was on the up and up. If they were mid-twenties and came home with a CAR? Yeah, I’d have more than a few questions, and I’d be seeking proof, not just their word for it.