Gabby Petito

A couple on youtube came across the van by chance and sent this footage onto the FBI. The body was found not far from the location

A woman is dead and you are victim blaming? Cop on!

Yeah, made her boyfriend head home and not tell anyone what happened. Probably done the same to his parents.

I didn't watch the whole thing, just snippets of it, but the impression that I got was that they had concerns for him, not about him.

Very strange case nonetheless.

Same here...

Search for boyfriend of Gabby Petito in Florida suspended

A search has been suspended in a Florida nature preserve for a man police say is a person of interest in the death of his girlfriend, Gabriel “Gabby” Petito, whose body authorities believe was discovered at a Wyoming national park the couple visited.

North Port Police Department said in a news release that the agency “has no plans to conduct a major search” for Brian Laundrie, 23, on the 24,000-acre Carlton Reserve in Sarasota County.

The police statement said officers had “exhausted all avenues in searching of the grounds there”.

That's a bit insensitive isn't it? A young girl is probably dead.

And 4 weeks ago they attended an incident where he was the victim and she was the assaulter.

Seems to have been a very fraught relationship on both sides

Could they apprehend his parents/sibling and arrest them on suspicion of them aiding him in evading capture, and publicize that as a strategy to draw him out of his cover?

If they are concealing him or helping to evade the police then they would be within their rights to arrest the family and publicize their rush of prosecution.

Either way, I sense that the net is closing in on him. Like a cornered rat now, need to catch him quickly before he lashes out in desperation.

Looks like there was someone in the back of the van at the time who closed the doors just as that family were driving towards them.

Sounds like the family have begun circling the wagons. They've been helping him spoof his whereabouts so as to throw the police off the scent.

From what we are seeing now could we be in a position where it would be legit for the police to arrest the family and press charges, even if it is only for to cut off his support network but mainly to use as a strategy to draw him out of whatever bolt hole he is holed up in.

Could the police or FBI hack or request data from their their household smart devices or cloud accounts so as to see if there's any overheard voice recordings of their conversions over the past few weeks. There could be voice evidence there somewhere.. Or clues.

Given how publicised this story now is, I predict that he is holed up somewhere. His family support might be neutralised soon by police intervention. Knowing that he is a wanted suspect he will not be able to go out on public. Therefore he won't be able to renew his mental health medications, cos it'll blow his cover.

And so, I predict that his mental status will begin to deteriorate over the coming days to weeks as the medications are absent. Also life on the run will take it's mental tool.

There are two ways things can go from that point. He will either commit suicide if the abbey is internalised, or if the anger is externalised, we could be looking at him lashing out, with the possibility of him killing again.

The family hold the key to this. The feds near to lean on them heavily.

He'll be found. One way, or another.

What are the odds of him having left the state , possibly the country , aided by his parents/family, before the relevant authorities even knew he was "missing" ?

It honestly wouldn't surprise me .

not an agenda as such, just practical and ultimately a pretty middle class white girl going missing is more "entertaining" to read about, all the true crime wine moms can get their thinking caps on so more clicks. The alternative would be to have a constant stream of stories out of places like chicago so would take on the appearance of a predominantly left wing media making minorities look bad.

Twitter is alive with speculation about the missing & the murdered in the same vicinity as Gabby Petito was found, including a young Irish man missing since June. Whether they’re true crime wine moms or not, I don’t know but they use #socialmediadetectives in their posts & are heavily invested in all aspects of these cases, as far as I can see. Not sure what the families must make of it all.

in this case it was a Youtube channel that found the vehicle, so in a particular case more attention is good

I think the whole middle class white girl thing plays a big part as has been said numerous times but I do think another thing that has given this more traction than most other cases is that she was a blogger who had a following and they were keeping up to date with her travels and suddenly it stops and then there's all this footage from police and other people with video footage from their cars etc and everyone loves to play detective and have their own theories as to what happened. In most cases when people disappear you won't have all of that.

all very true. There is actually something to discuss unlike a lot of missing persons cases.