Why is everyone so obsessed with Gabby Petito?

blunkered wrote:

SDSU Aztec wrote:

He knows he murdered her so he won't have much to say unless he wants to confess.

He'll get convicted by circumstantial evidence. It seems he dragged her some 900 feet from where they parked to where the body was found. There will be evidence along the drag route.

Link? To both the 900 feet claim and that he dragged her? She seemed petite enough to just lift and carry if needed.

Was she vaccinated? I don't see many pictures of her wearing a mask.

Discusss wrote:

Link? To both the 900 feet claim and that he dragged her? She seemed petite enough to just lift and carry if needed.

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You seem to have purposely ignored the two links I provided.

It took less than 24-hours for the FBI to get a search warrant to go into the boyfriend's home to collect evidence. So much for taking the 5th.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/us/gabby-petito-brian-laundrie-update/index.html

The link is correct but embedly has the title wrong. The correct title of the linked story is "FBI searches home of Gabby Petito's fiancé Brian Laundrie after her likely remains were found"

blunkered wrote:

It took less than 24-hours for the FBI to get a search warrant to go into the boyfriend's home to collect evidence. So much for taking the 5th.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/us/gabby-petito-brian-laundrie-update/index.html

What evidence would be in his house?

Over the Hills and Far Away wrote:

ridicula wrote:

Is anything known about the state of the “human remains” found that the cops identified as her? Is that not supposed to be public information? Seems like the condition of her body could help fuel a lot of online chatter about what he might have done to her. This is a public soap opera after all keeping the country hooked.

As somebody else already mentioned, regardless how she died her corpse remained in the Teton area woods/backcountry for 25ish days before discovery. And therefore it is very likely wildlife picked it over - be it coyotes, wolves, bears, cougars, whatever. I don't imagine it was a pretty sight. RIP

Yes, but we want more details. As @ridicula says, they kept everyone hooked on their unreal Insta reality show, and now the whole country is hooked and wants more details. Like was she naked? Broken bones? Strangulation marks? How far from the van? His tissue or someone else’s under her fingernails? Estimated cause of death?

Links are not there.

SDSU Aztec wrote:

blunkered wrote:

It took less than 24-hours for the FBI to get a search warrant to go into the boyfriend's home to collect evidence. So much for taking the 5th.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/us/gabby-petito-brian-laundrie-update/index.html

What evidence would be in his house?

Computer info, the parents have been less than forthcoming and the FBI has declared the home a crime scene itself. So lets just wait and see. Maybe the parents end up involved in some tangential fashion.

SDSU Aztec wrote:

What evidence would be in his house?

You'll have to ask the FBI experts. But maybe DNA, computer/phones, his clothing from the trip, and such. You can buy recovery software for "erased" data for less than $100 which will retrieved almost everything that was "erased" during a reformat. The FBI can do a lot better than that.

fada tyme wrote:

SDSU Aztec wrote:

What evidence would be in his house?

Computer info, the parents have been less than forthcoming and the FBI has declared the home a crime scene itself. So lets just wait and see. Maybe the parents end up involved in some tangential fashion.

Parents involved? Come on. It's likely he just snapped and there's nothing on a computer that would confirm that. Any bloody clothing or a possible murder weapon, would be long gone.

Why are people obsessed? Easy. So many questions that don't make sense:

1) A guy goes on a trip with his fiancé and returns without her, says nothing, and lawyers up before the police become involved. What did he tell the parents? When did Petito's family find out Laundrie was back? What were the discussions like?

2) The police begin to investigate and they seize the van at Laundrie's place. He disappears a few days later. Did he run away? If so, are his parents in on it, and trying to keep the police of his scent? Did someone following the story go vigilante on Laundrie and kill or kidnap him?

3) Obviously, a lot happened between the 8/12 domestic incident and the 8/30 fake text message from Petito's phone about there not being service. What exactly though? That they had a prior incident and there is video of their dispute for everyone to see makes the people more relatable and intriguing.

4) Mental health seems to be at the forefront of this situation. Petito apparently cried for the duration of the police stop (over one hour) and couldn't regain composure. Contrast that with her being a pretty, young, and blond girl and there's a mismatch in most people's minds. Laundrie had this, "Aww shucks" kinda vibe about him the whole time, as if he were the nicest guy in the world. But obviously there's more to his story too. Figuring out the two peoples' characters also creates interest. What were these two young adults really like?

blunkered wrote:

Discusss wrote:

Link? To both the 900 feet claim and that he dragged her? She seemed petite enough to just lift and carry if needed.

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You seem to have purposely ignored the two links I provided.

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/posts/10864374/reply

Not at all. I read and then did a browser Find for “900” and didn’t get any matches. Neither article said anything about his having “dragged” her body.

SDSU Aztec wrote:

fada tyme wrote:

Computer info, the parents have been less than forthcoming and the FBI has declared the home a crime scene itself. So lets just wait and see. Maybe the parents end up involved in some tangential fashion.

Parents involved? Come on. It's likely he just snapped and there's nothing on a computer that would confirm that. Any bloody clothing or a possible murder weapon, would be long gone.

He might have told them something.

SDSU Aztec wrote:

fada tyme wrote:

Computer info, the parents have been less than forthcoming and the FBI has declared the home a crime scene itself. So lets just wait and see. Maybe the parents end up involved in some tangential fashion.

Parents involved? Come on. It's likely he just snapped and there's nothing on a computer that would confirm that. Any bloody clothing or a possible murder weapon, would be long gone.

I'm guessing the FBI might disagree.

fada tyme wrote:

Computer info...

I learned that reformatting a drive are not enough to actually erase data, even on an SSD drive. I made the mistake of reformatting an old storage drive when I intended to reformat a new storage drive to transfer everything over to. I bought an app called Disk Drill which I was able to use to recovery all but a few of 3000 files which were "lost."

Discusss wrote:

blunkered wrote:

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You seem to have purposely ignored the two links I provided.

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/posts/10864374/reply

Not at all. I read and then did a browser Find for “900” and didn’t get any matches. Neither article said anything about his having “dragged” her body.

Your ability to search is not as good as mine. I got those links using plain old Duck Duck Go.

SDSU Aztec wrote:

blunkered wrote:

It took less than 24-hours for the FBI to get a search warrant to go into the boyfriend's home to collect evidence. So much for taking the 5th.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/us/gabby-petito-brian-laundrie-update/index.html

What evidence would be in his house?

Bloody glove, clothes with her blood on them, etc.

blunkered wrote:

It took less than 24-hours for the FBI to get a search warrant to go into the boyfriend's home to collect evidence. So much for taking the 5th.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/us/gabby-petito-brian-laundrie-update/index.html

Getting a search warrant requires probable cause to believe a crime has been committed. There is no requirement that the probably cause include incriminating statements. The history of domestic violence, her disappearance, him not telling anyone and leaving and taking her van, all amount to probable cause.

Now, it’s one thing to say that there is probable cause but it is something else altogether to get a conviction. To get a conviction, his guilt will need to be established beyond a reasonable doubt.

He has no duty to disprove anything, nor does he have any duty to mount any type of defense. This guy seems to have been smart about this. They will box him in with circumstantial evidence, but it could even be tough to get him too boxed in on that front - his DNA would be expected to be all over him so finding DNA won’t add much (maybe not even if it’s under her nails); their cell phones may not have been pinging towers often enough for the authorities to establish a great timeline (I rarely got cell service within Grand Teton National pPark, and often was unable to get even a GPS signal when I was there in mid July.

If he keeps his mouth shut, a conviction here seems tough based on what little we know right now even though common sense tells us that he did it.