Gabby Petito

[Dentam]

Credit cards are different than debit cards. If the card is a credit card you may have access to money but still not actually have money.

Has it been found out whose card it belonged to?

I'm aware of that - lol. It was stated that the card was a debit card.

 

[JimMIA]

Credit cards are different than debit cards. If the card is a credit card you may have access to money but still not actually have money.

Doesn't matter, although it was specified as a debit card, I believe. But he could withdraw cash from an ATM with a credit card as well.

Has it been found out whose card it belonged to?

Yes, the FBI would have to know whose card it was. Otherwise how would they know the use was unauthorized. But they have not released that info.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I was speaking generally to the thread not to any one person as the discussion of what money they did and didn't have was mentioned by more than one poster.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Doesn't matter, although it was specified as a debit card, I believe. But he could withdraw cash from an ATM with a credit card as well.

I meant in the context of telling other people "I don't have money"

I don't have cash in the amount of what is my credit limit. That doesn't mean I can't make charges up to my credit limit that's what I was referring to. I did read just a minute ago a CNN article (I was basing off the original article the poster posted which just said card) that stated it was a debit card.

Yes, the FBI would have to know whose card it was, but they have not released that info.

Yes I assumed this, was meaning in the news. Some people mentioned here about it possibly being Gabby's card. Didn't know if had been mentioned if they said who it was.

 

[Sinder]

Correct. When the police asked if he could afford a hotel for the night, he said no, that they had very little money. The police discussed whether they could send him to the women’s shelter since he was considered the victim, but he’s also a man. (They couldn’t send Gabby to the shelter because they wouldn’t take her since she was deemed the aggressor.) In the end, the women’s shelter paid to put him up in a hotel for the night. By August 29th, he was offering strangers hundreds of dollars to get him a few minutes down the road.

They could have had a strict budget for their trip. By Aug 29 he probably didn't need to worry about the budget for "their" trip anymore.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I'm discussing on this thread just like everyone else is no need for disrespect here

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

They could have had a strict budget for their trip. By Aug 29 he probably didn't need to worry about the budget for "their" trip anymore.

That's a possibility too and could totally make sense for their trip. It would have been a good idea to make a budget and hopefully stick with it. The question over the amount it's curious for sure. A $1,000 over a course of time isn't unrealistic but that short of time?? Yeah makes one very curious just what was being purchased.

 

[TipsyTraveler]

A second person to have given him a ride on Aug 29th has come forward.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/second-laundrie-witness-hitchhiking-wyoming
Just to remind people of the order of events…

The first woman who gave him a ride picked him up around 5:30pm and said he was trying to go to Jackson. During the drive he “freaked out” and insisted to be let out of the car. She dropped him off at a dam. This second woman says she picked him up about 45 minutes later a little more than a mile from the dam. He asked to go to the Spread Creek camping area which is where their van had been caught on that dash cam two days earlier and where Gabby’s body was eventually found. She offered to drive him into the campground but he insisted he be let out at the entrance gate and tried to get out of the moving car.

 

[DLgal]

He charged over $1,000 on that card between Aug 30 and Sept 1. That seems ~excessive~ if he was just buying gas to get home.

Remember though, convenience stores sell all kinds of things. Gift cards, prepaid phones, etc. Its not hard to spend that much money in a couple trips to stores along the way home. He also likely filled up that van a couple times and that's a few hundred dollars right there.

 

[TipsyTraveler]

Yes I assumed this, was meaning in the news. Some people mentioned here about it possibly being Gabby's card. Didn't know if had been mentioned if they said who it was.

They haven’t named the cardholder but, apparently, it was a Capital One card and Gabby had a Capital One account.

“Charging documents for Laundrie did not say to whom the unauthorized account belonged, but Suffolk County Police Department records obtained by Insider show Petito banked with Capital One.”

https://www.insider.com/brian-laundrie-spent-1000-on-unauthorized-debit-card-warrant-2021-9

 

[DLgal]

I meant in the context of telling other people "I don't have money"

I don't have cash in the amount of what is my credit limit. That doesn't mean I can't make charges up to my credit limit that's what I was referring to. I did read just a minute ago a CNN article (I was basing off the original article the poster posted which just said card) that stated it was a debit card.


Yes I assumed this, was meaning in the news. Some people mentioned here about it possibly being Gabby's card. Didn't know if had been mentioned if they said who it was.

I'm gonna guess these two didn't have credit cards.

 

[DLgal]

They haven’t named the cardholder but, apparently, it was a Capital One card and Gabby had a Capital One account.

“Charging documents for Laundrie did not say to whom the unauthorized account belonged, but Suffolk County Police Department records obtained by Insider show Petito banked with Capital One.”

https://www.insider.com/brian-laundrie-spent-1000-on-unauthorized-debit-card-warrant-2021-9

I mean, we all know it was Gabby's card.

 

[TipsyTraveler]

Remember though, convenience stores sell all kinds of things. Gift cards, prepaid phones, etc. Its not hard to spend that much money in a couple trips to stores along the way home. He also likely filled up that van a couple times and that's a few hundred dollars right there.

Right, although I would think if he were stocking up on gift cards and phone cards that would indicate he was already planning to flee, not that he was just innocently purchasing gas to get home. If I was trying to maintain the appearance of innocence, I would try to fly under the radar with what all I was charging to a missing girl’s stolen check card. I also considered hotel charges along his route home as a possibility, but he strikes me as the kind to pull off the road and sleep in his van after committing murder because, #VanLife.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I'm gonna guess these two didn't have credit cards.

Maybe maybe not. There's also being an authorized user of an account. My first initial though was maybe it wasn't a card belonging to either one of them but someone else. Was just my comment based on the first article posted. As we know information has been updated quickly and there's many articles that seemingly get written with different information.

 

[DLgal]

Right, although I would think if he were stocking up on gift cards and phone cards that would indicate he was already planning to flee, not that he was just innocently purchasing gas to get home. If I was trying to maintain the appearance of innocence, I would try to fly under the radar with what all I was charging to a missing girl’s stolen check card. I also considered hotel charges along his route home as a possibility, but he strikes me as the kind to pull off the road and sleep in his van after committing murder because, #VanLife.

Well, he also drove nearly 3000 miles. I don't know the gas mileage or tank capacity for that van, but I imagine it could easily approach $1,000 in gas to drive that far that quickly.

 

[LSUmiss]

Same with mine.



Yep, same here, although my parents are in their mid-60's.



Interesting pattern developing here where those of us whose own parents wouldn't likely help us out in this hypothetical situation are also the ones saying we wouldn't help a child in that situation. Just an observation and I think it has to do with what another poster said about how much you are taught about right vs. wrong, morality, etc as a kid and how much importance your own parents place on those things.

I don’t see it as how much your taught about right or wrong as much as your devotion/connection (for lack of a better word) to your children (not necessarily better or healthier either). But my dad would have sacrifed everything & anything for us maybe even to a fault. He was a single parent & never did anything without us except go to work. No dating or remarrying or any of that b/c he was too concerned about how it would affect us. My mom, on the other hand, did all that. There were definitely consequences for my actions as a child & plenty opportunities to be taught right & wrong. Integrity & honesty were probably the most important values to my father. I would probably even describe him as strict when I was a child. And, of course, We never had a conversation or anything about how he would help me if murdered someone lol. It’s just something I’m confident he would have done. DH’s dad died when he was a child & his single mom was very similar to my dad with these type things. And, so not surprisingly, DH & I are similar with DS. No “date nights” or vacations without him like some ppl do. We all 3 go everywhere together. We would both miss him too much & know he would have enjoyed whatever it is we are doing. Thankfully DH & I are on the same page with this so it doesn’t cause a strain. But, neither DH nor I could stand it if he had to suffer some dire consequence or pain even if he might have “deserved” it. I know we would both rather “take the fall”, if you will. But, I’m also not talking to about some kind of sociopath, serial killer, but rather if he made a huge costly mistake like most likely Brian’s parent believe. Both DH’s mom & my dad are/were rule-followers & very moral ppl (almost over-the-top). But, the connection with their children supersedes all of that. I also suspect more ppl have that than they realize & might find their actions surprising if faced with such circumstances.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Well, he also drove nearly 3000 miles. I don't know the gas mileage or tank capacity for that van, but I imagine it could easily approach $1,000 in gas to drive that far that quickly.

I guess it's an average of 22 city (although I saw a place where it said 21) and 27 highway combined 23 with a 15.4 tank capacity for a 2012 Ford Transit. I don't know how realistic it is for the $1,000 amount but it could depend on what octane level (sister-in-law puts in premium for her car and yipes it's pretty high in cost) as well as how much weight all that stuff was in the van could have also cost on the mpg side.

 

[FQLover]

So what would that entail? Never seeing your child again because he is on the run from the law, maybe living anonymously in a foreign country, always on the move, changing his looks, his name, his location?

I truly don't know anyone in my life who would cover up a child's murder and then assist that child in living a life on the lam for 50 years. Truly. Not a single person, even though many of them, like me, are utterly devoted to their kid.

But the DIS board is composed of a much wider array of people with varied backgrounds, so the fact that I don't know anyone who would do that doesn't mean that they don't exist.

 

[TipsyTraveler]

Well, he also drove nearly 3000 miles. I don't know the gas mileage or tank capacity for that van, but I imagine it could easily approach $1,000 in gas to drive that far that quickly.

Challenge accepted!

Ford Transit van tank capacity: 25 gallons.
MPG: 24/city, 28/hwy
Distance from Jackson, Wy to North Port, Fl: 2395.7 miles
Fuel type: Premium Unleaded recommended

That’s about four fill ups. Premium gas is running roughly $3.40 to $4.00 per gallon right now throughout the states on his route according to AAA. At the high end, that’s $100 per tank, total $400.

(This proves nothing, I was just curious how the math worked out.)

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Restaurants are budget busters, too. Maybe that’s why Brian was arguing/stressed about the bill.