WY GABBY PETITO: Missing from Grand Teton National Park, WY - 25 August 2021 - Age 22 *Found Deceased*

• Gabby Petito was reported missing after she didn't return from a road trip with her fiancé.
• The police opened an investigation after her mother filed a missing-person report on Saturday.
• A news report said Petito's fiancé was not cooperating with authorities and had hired a lawyer.

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Gabby Petito's family last heard from her when she arrived at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming on August 25, her mother said. littleting/Shutterstock

• Gabby Petito was reported missing after she didn't return from a road trip with her fiancé.
• The police opened an investigation after her mother filed a missing-person report on Saturday.
• A news report said Petito's fiancé was not cooperating with authorities and had hired a lawyer.
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A 22-year-old New York woman who documented her cross-country van road trip on social media was reported missing by her mother on Saturday after her fiancé returned to their home in Florida without her, reports said.

Gabby Petito and her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, embarked on their road trip on July 2 from Blue Point, New York, Newsday reported.
The two were living in a 2012 Ford Transit van and documenting their travels on Instagram and YouTube, often using the hashtag #vanlife.
Petito was last seen checking out of a hotel with Laundrie on August 24. She last spoke to her family on the phone the next day, telling them she had arrived at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, her mother, Nicole Schmidt, said.

Her mother told reporters on Monday that she FaceTimed with Petito around August 23 or 24.
Petito's most recent Instagram post was shared on August 25.

Schmidt told Fox News on Sunday that she was unsure whether her daughter had left Grand Teton. She said she exchanged texts with Petito's number twice after August 25.
"I did receive a text from her on the 27th and the 30th, but I don't know if it was technically her or not, because it was just a text," Schmidt said. "I didn't verbally speak to her."
Laundrie eventually returned to the couple's home in North Port, Florida, without Petito, though it was not clear when he arrived, the Daily Mail reported.
The police in New York's Suffolk County said Schmidt filed a missing-person report on Saturday.

"Petito, 22, of Blue Point, is described as a white female, approximately 5 feet 5 inches tall and 110 pounds," the press release said. "She has blonde hair and blue eyes, and several tattoos, including one on her finger and one on her forearm that reads 'let it be.'"

The press release said authorities had recovered the couple's van during their investigation.
Petito and Laundrie had been living in North Port together for two years before they set out on their road trip, the Daily Mail said. Petito announced their engagement on Instagram in July 2020.

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A 22-year-old woman who documented her cross-country road trip on YouTube has been reported missing after her fiancé returned without her

Gabby Petito was last seen checking out of a hotel on August 24. The next day, she told her family she had arrived in Wyoming, her mother said.

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She could be anywhere as they were traveling cross-country. I put the location as the last place her family could verify that she was still in communication.


MEDIA - GABBY PETITO: Missing from Grand Teton National Park, WY since 25 August 2021 - Age 22

 

[daisy7]

Really? LMBO. I don't watch much news or politics but now that you told me who it is, I can see it clearly I figured it was "created" just wasn't sure who it was! Thanks for filling me in!

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[Kimster]

"Following some of these questions pouring in, Bertolino sent further communications to Entin Friday. They read as follows:

“Cassie saw her brother Brian on September 01 when he stopped by her home and again on September 6 at Fort De Soto Park. Law enforcement agencies are well aware of these dates. Any prior communication by Cassie that does not reflect these dates is simply a difference of relating an answer to a question misinterpreted by Cassie or poorly posed by the inquirer.” "

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Maybe she just misunderstood the question......

That’s really stretching it as far as giving her the benefit of the doubt. I love giving the benefit of the doubt, but I’m pretty sure in this case she was lying. I didn’t really believe her when she said it.

 

[Kimster]

Gabby Petito bodycam footage: Who is Utah police officer Eric Pratt?​

Police department faces criticism as more footage emerges and Brian Laundrie remains missing​

Utah’s domestic violence laws and the actions of the Moab Police Department are facing fresh scrutiny Friday as newly obtained bodycam footage is revealing more about the violent fight between Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie in Utah on Aug. 12.

A nearly hourlong video obtained by Fox News on Thursday night shows Gabby Petito telling Moab Police Officer Eric Pratt that Laundrie hit her before she seemingly backtracked and claimed she struck first.

The response ended without an arrest, and Laundrie stayed at a hotel that night, according to a police report. The couple continued on their van trip until Petito was found dead in Wyoming on Sept. 19, while Laundrie – a person of interest in her homicide and subject of a federal arrest warrant alleging debit card fraud – remains on the run.

Brett Tolman, a former U.S. attorney for Utah – and other critics on social media -- are questioning whether police should have done more while responding to the incident on Aug. 12.

"Now they have an objective eyewitness, dispatch and Gabby herself saying that Brian hit her," Tolman told Fox News after the new bodycam footage surfaced. "Why they didn’t take him into custody is mind-boggling. I understand that hindsight is 20/20, but this is an absolute failure to properly assess the moment and make a proper decision based upon the facts and the law."

Moab Assistant Chief of Police Braydon Palmer, when asked by Fox News on Friday to respond to the way Pratt handled the incident, said, "We are unable to comment further at this point in time."

He cited an ongoing investigation the city has initiated into the department’s handling of the Petito-Laundrie fight, adding that "it is important to us to ensure that the integrity of that investigation is maintained and due process for those involved is protected."

In Utah, the "primary duty of law enforcement officers responding to a domestic violence call is to protect the victim and enforce the law," its state legislature says.

"When a peace officer responds to a domestic violence call and has probable cause to believe that an act of domestic violence has been committed, the peace officer shall arrest without a warrant or shall issue a citation to any person that the peace officer has probable cause to believe has committed an act of domestic violence," it continues.

The law also says that "if a law enforcement officer receives complaints of domestic violence from two or more opposing persons, the officer shall evaluate each complaint separately to determine who the predominant aggressor was. If the officer determines that one person was the predominant physical aggressor, the officer need not arrest the other person alleged to have committed domestic violence."

In Pratt’s bodycam footage obtained by Fox News, he is heard asking fellow responding officer Daniel Robbins, "How far do you want to go with this? "

"You know why the domestic assault code is there. It's there to protect people," Pratt continued. "The reason why they don't give us discretion on these things is because too many times women at risk want to go back to their abuser, they just wanted him to stop, they don't want to have to be separated, they don't want him to be charged, they don't want him to go to jail and then they end up getting worse and worse treatment and end up getting killed."

"The reason why they don't give us discretion on these things is because too many times women at risk want to go back to their abuser, they just wanted him to stop, they don't want to have to be separated, they don't want him to be charged, they don't want him to go to jail and then they end up getting worse and worse treatment and end up getting killed."

— Moab Police Officer Eric Pratt


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Gabby Petito bodycam footage: Who is Utah police officer Eric Pratt?

Utah’s domestic violence laws and the actions of the Moab Police Department are facing fresh scrutiny Friday as newly obtained bodycam footage is revealing more about the violent fight between Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie in Utah on Aug. 12.

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I had a man hit me back in the 1980s. This wasn’t long after domestic violence had come out as something that was extremely undesirable in our society. The cops came and arrested him right away. I didn’t want him arrested because we were in the middle of the drama and they said it was California state law, he had to go to jail. He ended up going to anger management and never harmed me again.

After he got out of jail, he said he deserved it and I was always glad that the friend I had called the cops. I wasn’t the one that called them. This is how it should be. Take them to jail and then sort it out from there.

 

[Kimster]

I can't believe that she thought of Gabby as her "sister". That was such a self-serving statement. Right now, IMO, no one in the Laundrie family gave a flip about Gabby.
I don't know about Anthonys to the extreme...they were so dramatic and in-your-face vocal and circus-like and this family is more like a silent movie.

Good word picture!

 

[Kimster]

I sure hope not. I don't agree with the people with bullhorns and sending flowers to their home addressed to Gabby. I understand the upset but I don't see such activities as likely to help and may even hinder.

Brian is a worm. He should be coming forward but instead he lets his parents and sister take the heat for him while he is too chicken sh*t. Not that they might not deserve it too but HE IS THE ONE who has put them in this situation. How he can think he is any man or "something" is beyond me. He is the epitome of a weak soul as are most domestic abusers and controlling "little boys".

This case maddens me.

I’m still not convinced that he didn’t commit suicide. I sure wish they would find him one way or the other! As the old western posters used to say, “dead or alive.”

 

[GrandmaBear]

I’m still not convinced that he didn’t commit suicide. I sure wish they would find him one way or the other! As the old western posters used to say, “dead or alive.”

I truly think he is alive for several reasons but I do have to say the longer it goes on, I do occasionally have doubts... I think it's the frustration that I truly believed the feds would pretty quickly find him but then I have to remember his head start and time to plan and likely assistance, cash and more...

 

[GrandmaBear]

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[GrandmaBear]

Libraries have meeting rooms for the public to use. It's logical to meet their attorney there so he didn't have to make the drive to meet with them. I read where the FBI went in the library and browsed the library's materials while the meeting was going on. Followed them in and out.

I agree and the library too could have been to get out of the car with possible media around, etc. to kill some time before meeting the atty or it could be something else, hard to say. I do think though if the agents had not been around it could have been even simply for husband and wife to talk privately or write notes but they had to ditch the plan. It could have been to use computers. And it also could be nothing at all as well.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Hmm. I don't know what to say or what I think of this. Not really a fan of it BUT she makes some good points and truthful ones. If she wants attention (which some do), she got it but perhaps her intent is ALL GOOD. I don't know about the way of going about it though...

 

[GrandmaBear]

Much in this case without new developments is nothing new but this news story had a retired inspector with the US Marshals on and was pretty good. Not really new but I agree with his opinion on the Laundries and the events like retrieving the Mustang and more. Very similar to my thoughts on it. He just had a lot of info and talked of other cases and fugitives, etc.

 

[owutatangledweb]

I believe the lawyer knows he did not leave her there alive because in his statement about the arrest warrant he says "It is my understanding that the arrest warrant for Brian Laundrie is related to activities occurring after the death of Gabby Petito and not related to her actual demise." I could be wrong but I don't think there has been an actual and fixed time of death released to the public so just how would he know the debit card used on the 30th was after her death if someone who knew didn't tell him.

Thinking like a lawyer, for the credit card to be unauthorized use, she would have had to been dead already. Otherwise, he argues he had permission. That's why it is surmised that it is related to after her death.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Thinking like a lawyer, for the credit card to be unauthorized use, she would have had to been dead already. Otherwise, he argues he had permission. That's why it is surmised that it is related to after her death.

Makes sense. It's too bad they can't do that with the van as well. Guessing that one may have been too close to call with dates or something... To have a solid charge/case.

 

[owutatangledweb]

Hmm. I don't know what to say or what I think of this. Not really a fan of it BUT she makes some good points and truthful ones. If she wants attention (which some do), she got it but perhaps her intent is ALL GOOD. I don't know about the way of going about it though...

Did she say her name was Karen? Lol. Just kidding. I don't blame her for being upset and you're right, she does make some good points. Her time is probably better spent going to Utah though and picketing for better police domestic violence training.

 

[owutatangledweb]

So if this new AT&T phone is the one he left at home on the 14th, where is his "old" phone? Carlton Reserve maybe? What happened to it; did this boy not have a phone when he left on the trip? Why wait until the 14th to get a new phone for him....why not get it on the 1st or 2nd when he returned?

I could be way wrong on this but I thought he did not have a phone when he was on the trip with Gabby. Thought I heard that from one of them in the traffic stop video.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Did she say her name was Karen? Lol. Just kidding. I don't blame her for being upset and you're right, she does make some good points. Her time is probably better spent going to Utah though and picketing for better police domestic violence training.

Agreed. I don't know that what she is doing is really worthwhile but I have to say that a few things she said did resonate with me... Yes, Utah. That video...

Well, the case is certainly causing conversations and upset, I will say that...

 

[GrandmaBear]

I could be way wrong on this but I thought he did not have a phone when he was on the trip with Gabby. Thought I heard that from one of them in the traffic stop video.

He told the police they only had hers and he had none without her. Recently though I saw and it was pointed out that later with the police, he reached into his pants and pulled out a cell phone after having claimed an hour or whatever before to not have one to police...

 

[owutatangledweb]

He told the police they only had hers and he had none without her. Recently though I saw and it was pointed out that later with the police, he reached into his pants and pulled out a cell phone after having claimed an hour or whatever before to not have one to police...

They were fighting over the phone, it may have been Gabby's.

 

[GrandmaBear]

They were fighting over the phone, it may have been Gabby's.

I would have to rewatch but I don't think so. They were separated and she used hers in the cop car. He pulled one out later. I don't think they were ever put together in between... It was noted in news that he claimed to not have one to cops and later produced one... (I think once he realized things were by then going "his" way with LE and did they not realize the lie...?)... I could be wrong though...

 

[GrandmaBear]

Not too long ago (minutes) I came across a live on this case on YT. Didn't know the creator. Clicked in to see. They are running drone footage of drones watching and flying over the parents' home, zooming in, etc. and going on about the parents being outside, what they are doing, when the father notices and points at the drone, etc.

I know it is legal in most states at a certain height, etc. and no one should expect total privacy outside their home but about five minutes of it and I was disgusted at the glee in comments and remarks of the YTer etc.

I am no fan of these parents but talk about invasion. Again, it is legal and I am not entirely anti-drone. I have watched it like when LE is at a scene and someone puts up a drone when the area is cordoned off, etc.

Really torn on my opinion of this. It seemed really salacious and gleeful. On the other hand, the parents have somewhat put themselves in the limelight with their actions...

I quit watching pretty quickly. I felt "dirty" in there with the joy others were taking with it...

 

[kdg411]

Not too long ago (minutes) I came across a live on this case on YT. Didn't know the creator. Clicked in to see. They are running drone footage of drones watching and flying over the parents' home, zooming in, etc. and going on about the parents being outside, what they are doing, when the father notices and points at the drone, etc.

I know it is legal in most states at a certain height, etc. and no one should expect total privacy outside their home but about five minutes of it and I was disgusted at the glee in comments and remarks of the YTer etc.

I am no fan of these parents but talk about invasion. Again, it is legal and I am not entirely anti-drone. I have watched it like when LE is at a scene and someone puts up a drone when the area is cordoned off, etc.

Really torn on my opinion of this. It seemed really salacious and gleeful. On the other hand, the parents have somewhat put themselves in the limelight with their actions...

I quit watching pretty quickly. I felt "dirty" in there with the joy others were taking with it...

It is illegal!

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