Why is everyone so obsessed with Gabby Petito?

Why is everyone so obsessed with Gabby Petito?

Looks like Lauren Fleshman.

Another what-if but what if she committed suicide? He runs because he's afraid no one will believe him.

blunkered wrote:

25 years ago I was with a camping group. There was another group of a dozen 11-13 year old boys with some parents there. The boys went to hike up a regular trail on a mountain about 2-1/2 miles up. There was a slow kid in the group who the other kids picked on, we found out. Anyway, on the way down the boys decided to run down trail and left the slow kid to hike out on his own. The kid was never found. Most of our group joined the search, as well as some 50 other people. It was no use. The kid had disappeared.

if this story is true, it must've been a really surreal experience.

A friend told me about how she was staying with a group of relatives in the Outer Banks of NC and during the trip her cousin's fiance got pulled out by a rip current into the ocean and I don't think he was ever found. To be on the periphery of a nightmare like this would be so surreal and terrible

Joey Jackson wrote:

Another what-if but what if she committed suicide? He runs because he's afraid no one will believe him.

No, she didn't. It's common knowledge that if she used a gun, there would be residue on her hand and she wouldn't have konked herself in the head with a rock or slit her stomach, samurai-style.

Why post such a baseless and impossible theory? Do you also believe that Nicole and Ron Goldman was a murder/suicide?

Discusss wrote:

Do we finally know why the FBI guy was struggling to hold his composure while announcing her body find? Cause of death?

Her body had undoubtly been partially eaten by wildlife and was horrible to see. Harry Calahan would have been thinking about where to go for lunch but most human beings would be shocked by such a sight.

SDSU Aztec wrote:

Joey Jackson wrote:

Another what-if but what if she committed suicide? He runs because he's afraid no one will believe him.

No, she didn't. It's common knowledge that if she used a gun, there would be residue on her hand and she wouldn't have konked herself in the head with a rock or slit her stomach, samurai-style.

Why post such a baseless and impossible theory? Do you also believe that Nicole and Ron Goldman was a murder/suicide?

You need to chill, my guy. You are far to emotionally invested in this. You are making baseless theories and claims as well since there is zero evidence (available to us) that this guy murdered her, even though he probably did. Brian is probably going to get off, akin to Casey Anthony from the look of things.

AsbelKiprop wrote:

SDSU Aztec wrote:

No, she didn't. It's common knowledge that if she used a gun, there would be residue on her hand and she wouldn't have konked herself in the head with a rock or slit her stomach, samurai-style.

Why post such a baseless and impossible theory? Do you also believe that Nicole and Ron Goldman was a murder/suicide?

You need to chill, my guy. You are far to emotionally invested in this. You are making baseless theories and claims as well since there is zero evidence (available to us) that this guy murdered her, even though he probably did. Brian is probably going to get off, akin to Casey Anthony from the look of things.

Emotionally invested? It's an interesting story and that's why there has been 20+ pages of posts on this thread. I don't know either person, and guilty verdict or not, it's got nothing to do with me.

Do you think it was a suicide?

The story is absolutely true. What was spooky about it that were no signs of the left on his own kid anywhere. Most of the people looking for him the next day were not knowledgable in what to search except the obvious, a piece of clothes, a body, and such. Drones did not exist back then but there was a helicopter that worked on the search. The surreal part for me was what if we find him and he was attacked and killed by a mountain lion? That is something I would have been prepared for. . . . A case like this is probably still listed as missing person because a body was never found, even though it was obvious he didn't hike himself out.

SDSU Aztec wrote:

Discusss wrote:

Do we finally know why the FBI guy was struggling to hold his composure while announcing her body find? Cause of death?

Her body had undoubtly been partially eaten by wildlife and was horrible to see.

Or the body was mutilated to make it appear like an animal killed her. That would horrify an experienced FBI expert.

fada tyme wrote:

ReallybroReally wrote:

It was her van right? Why not charge him with theft? Let him explain where she is and why she gave it to him in Wyoming.

Ok. Vehicle theft. I'll take that over murder. Proof. Crimes require proof to convict.

Bruh, you can be convicted on circumstance evidence. It happens every single day. It's a thing.

Here is what is going to happen. He will either commit suicide or he will eventually be found, tried and convicted on circumstantial evidence, or, more likely, plea to something less than first degree murder that still puts him in jail for a long time.

sad facts wrote:

Tragedy for her family and friends. Why all the attention. Part of it is the mysterious circumstances.

We'll have to ask the national media why they give so much attention to this tragedy when innocent young males and females that are most often Black get gunned down every week in cities like Chicago and those stories are never reported.

What is the racial profile of the people gunning down black people "every week in cities like Chicago"

marginal at best wrote:

fada tyme wrote:

Ok. Vehicle theft. I'll take that over murder. Proof. Crimes require proof to convict.

Bruh, you can be convicted on circumstance evidence. It happens every single day. It's a thing.

Here is what is going to happen. He will either commit suicide or he will eventually be found, tried and convicted on circumstantial evidence, or, more likely, plea to something less than first degree murder that still puts him in jail for a long time.

I don't see anyway he could be convicted of 1st degree murder. It seems likely that it was a fight that got out of hand.

marginal at best wrote:

fada tyme wrote:

Ok. Vehicle theft. I'll take that over murder. Proof. Crimes require proof to convict.

Bruh, you can be convicted on circumstance evidence. It happens every single day. It's a thing.

Here is what is going to happen. He will either commit suicide or he will eventually be found, tried and convicted on circumstantial evidence, or, more likely, plea to something less than first degree murder that still puts him in jail for a long time.

Again, Casey Anthony says hello.

SDSU Aztec wrote:

marginal at best wrote:

Bruh, you can be convicted on circumstance evidence. It happens every single day. It's a thing.

Here is what is going to happen. He will either commit suicide or he will eventually be found, tried and convicted on circumstantial evidence, or, more likely, plea to something less than first degree murder that still puts him in jail for a long time.

I don't see anyway he could be convicted of 1st degree murder. It seems likely that it was a fight that got out of hand.

Probably not first degree murder, agreed. But what you said is the definition of second degree murder, which puts you in jail for 50 years or so.

AsbelKiprop wrote:

marginal at best wrote:

Bruh, you can be convicted on circumstance evidence. It happens every single day. It's a thing.

Here is what is going to happen. He will either commit suicide or he will eventually be found, tried and convicted on circumstantial evidence, or, more likely, plea to something less than first degree murder that still puts him in jail for a long time.

Again, Casey Anthony says hello.

Right, OJ didn't get convicted either. Lots of guilty people are let free for a million reasons. Our courts are set up so that it's heavily weighted in favor on the criminal. We have decided, for some reason, that it's better to err on the side of guilty people being wrongly let free to continue their criminal activities vs. innocent people being wrongly convicted.

Are you saying that people aren't convicted on circumstantial evidence in the USA.

marginal at best wrote:

SDSU Aztec wrote:

I don't see anyway he could be convicted of 1st degree murder. It seems likely that it was a fight that got out of hand.

Probably not first degree murder, agreed. But what you said is the definition of second degree murder, which puts you in jail for 50 years or so.

Yeah, in most states a 2nd murder conviction isn't much than one for 1st degree

As for some of the other posters opining on whether he should be arrested for auto theft or for using her debit card, the purpose is only to take him onto custody until the case for murder is completed.

SDSU Aztec wrote:

marginal at best wrote:

Bruh, you can be convicted on circumstance evidence. It happens every single day. It's a thing.

Here is what is going to happen. He will either commit suicide or he will eventually be found, tried and convicted on circumstantial evidence, or, more likely, plea to something less than first degree murder that still puts him in jail for a long time.

I don't see anyway he could be convicted of 1st degree murder. It seems likely that it was a fight that got out of hand.

He will have a hard time pulling a "stand your ground" defense for killing a woman he easily over powered.

SDSU Aztec wrote:

As for some of the other posters opining on whether he should be arrested for auto theft or for using her debit card, the purpose is only to take him onto custody until the case for murder is completed.

What surprise me about this approach was not only that it was quicker but that a Grand Jury approved it. Grand Juries usually take time to go over things. In this case it only took a few days. It seems unlikely that a typical credit card fraud case would get to a Grand Jury so fast with a verdict reached very fast.

I mentioned this days ago. There is something very unusual about the case and the condition of her remains. Something that caused an FBI crime scene expert to not be able to keep his voice from breaking up. Something that a Grand Jury jumped on right away.

Funny that there were posters adamant that there is already enough evidence known to the public to convict Laundrie of homicide but that the police, who have substantially more evidence than the public, couldn't even get an arrest warrant for homicide so they had to use the debit card/van theft angle.