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.

news.yahoo.com

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

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Autopsy inconclusive and Brian will be cremated means we will never know cause nor manner of death?

Their attorney will eventually let it slip.

 

[Wildflower]

Well I got my answer...Bertolino said in another interview on Banfield that he started (on this situation) with the Laundries on 9-11. So they could have talked before 9-11 because he hadn't told them yet to say nothing. He also said he had never met with them face to face (on this situation) which makes me wonder why the Laundries went to Orlando to meet with their attorney..who was that attorney?

I think by the time Bertolino is finished making statements and giving interviews, everything he said and when he said it will reveal a lot of discrepancies and the truth will be in there somewhere.

 

[RoundPeg]

Autopsy inconclusive and Brian will be cremated means we will never know cause nor manner of death?

Were you able to open the link? His remains have been sent to an anthropologist for further study.

 

[RoundPeg]

Well I got my answer...Bertolino said in another interview on Banfield that he started (on this situation) with the Laundries on 9-11. So they could have talked before 9-11 because he hadn't told them yet to say nothing. He also said he had never met with them face to face (on this situation) which makes me wonder why the Laundries went to Orlando to meet with their attorney..who was that attorney?

I think by the time Bertolino is finished making statements and giving interviews, everything he said and when he said it will reveal a lot of discrepancies and the truth will be in there somewhere.

He's not a very good witness is he?

 

[GrandmaBear]

Well I got my answer...Bertolino said in another interview on Banfield that he started (on this situation) with the Laundries on 9-11. So they could have talked before 9-11 because he hadn't told them yet to say nothing. He also said he had never met with them face to face (on this situation) which makes me wonder why the Laundries went to Orlando to meet with their attorney..who was that attorney?

I think by the time Bertolino is finished making statements and giving interviews, everything he said and when he said it will reveal a lot of discrepancies and the truth will be in there somewhere.

Maybe they just went somewhere, like a partner law office or something similar, to be able to teleconference with Bertolino. I figure they worried their home was bugged. Of course, that's even assuming news media or whoever was right about them going to Orlando to meet with their attorney.

 

[Cousin Dupree]

Were you able to open the link? His remains have been sent to an anthropologist for further study.

I'm betting he was part Cromagnon.

 

[GrandmaBear]

So what did everyone think of all the hoopla this weekend on this? Claims that protesters found feces, a water bottle, a rope, etc. that cops missed. People yelling online at the incompetency of the NPPD to miss this stuff, etc...

I did not jump on the band wagon--I have serious doubts about it considering who claimed to find these things... The feces I figure is animal scat so don't get the excitement over that at all. The rope well there are rope swings out there so not real sure I think that means much either... The water bottle supposedly matches Gabby's seen in a video on their van trip but there ago, hmmm, not sure I buy it... I mean people talk about planting things, well...

Thoughts?

 

[Whatsnext]

So what did everyone think of all the hoopla this weekend on this? Claims that protesters found feces, a water bottle, a rope, etc. that cops missed. People yelling online at the incompetency of the NPPD to miss this stuff, etc...

I did not jump on the band wagon--I have serious doubts about it considering who claimed to find these things... The feces I figure is animal scat so don't get the excitement over that at all. The rope well there are rope swings out there so not real sure I think that means much either... The water bottle supposedly matches Gabby's seen in a video on their van trip but there ago, hmmm, not sure I buy it... I mean people talk about planting things, well...

Thoughts?

I think those were random things left by random people. And even if not, the worst NPPD blunder for me remains that BL was able to get away from that house in the first place. He comes home with his fiancees car and credit cards but without the girl, who is nowhere to be found. I just can't get over that. They left a bad impression for sure.
And during the Carlton Reserve search saga they destroyed lots of flora and fauna with their huge swamp vehicles.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I think those were random things left by random people. And even if not, the worst NPPD blunder for me remains that BL was able to get away from that house in the first place. He comes home with his fiancees car and credit cards but without the girl, who is nowhere to be found. I just can't get over that. They left a bad impression for sure.
And during the Carlton Reserve search saga they destroyed lots of flora and fauna with their huge swamp vehicles.

I have to agree. That was one big "made for TV" show they put on imo with all their fancy equipment and efforts, never finding ONE thing and then after all of that and the search finally ending, the parents go there and voila... NPPD has a LOT of egg on their faces. And yes, the way he slipped from them to begin with...

 

[Wildflower]

So what did everyone think of all the hoopla this weekend on this? Claims that protesters found feces, a water bottle, a rope, etc. that cops missed. People yelling online at the incompetency of the NPPD to miss this stuff, etc...

I did not jump on the band wagon--I have serious doubts about it considering who claimed to find these things... The feces I figure is animal scat so don't get the excitement over that at all. The rope well there are rope swings out there so not real sure I think that means much either... The water bottle supposedly matches Gabby's seen in a video on their van trip but there ago, hmmm, not sure I buy it... I mean people talk about planting things, well...

Thoughts?

I missed the hoopla but for certain there would be people who absolutely had to go out there and look just as soon as LE reopened the park. It gets stranger and stranger as time goes by. Hopefully whatever they found they handled with care and preserved it as evidence before turning it over to LE. My mental picture of someone taking LE a bag of feces claiming they found it and it's possible evidence is way more than comical. I did think that LE was pretty quick with the looking for everything but then I don't know what all they found. It's more than possible there are more bones out there to be located but I guess LE thought they had enough.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I missed the hoopla but for certain there would be people who absolutely had to go out there and look just as soon as LE reopened the park. It gets stranger and stranger as time goes by. Hopefully whatever they found they handled with care and preserved it as evidence before turning it over to LE. My mental picture of someone taking LE a bag of feces claiming they found it and it's possible evidence is way more than comical. I did think that LE was pretty quick with the looking for everything but then I don't know what all they found. It's more than possible there are more bones out there to be located but I guess LE thought they had enough.

Even though he is hardly the most well liked person, I would still think LE would try to recover all remains they could for a family for burial AND for evidence.

Yeah, the feces seemed a bit ridiculous for the people to go on about LE missing it... It could be poop from any animal, who knows lol.

"Allegedly" the protesters knew not to touch the water bottle or felt they shouldn't but LE was unimpressed and told them to bring it in I guess in which case they had to touch it... This is no way to handle evidence yet again but then I do have to wonder if it was not "planted" by protesters OR LE already knew it was "nothing"... Hard to say I guess...

 

[Kimster]

Even though he is hardly the most well liked person, I would still think LE would try to recover all remains they could for a family for burial AND for evidence.

Yeah, the feces seemed a bit ridiculous for the people to go on about LE missing it... It could be poop from any animal, who knows lol.

"Allegedly" the protesters knew not to touch the water bottle or felt they shouldn't but LE was unimpressed and told them to bring it in I guess in which case they had to touch it... This is no way to handle evidence yet again but then I do have to wonder if it was not "planted" by protesters OR LE already knew it was "nothing"... Hard to say I guess...

Water Bottle Matching Gabby Petito’s Found in Reserve Near Brian Laundrie’s Remains: Report

A TikTok user and her mother visited a Florida reserve over the weekend and reportedly discovered a water bottle that appeared identical to the one slain vlogger Gabby Petito was seen with. According to the Independent, Olivia Vitale, who filmed while she searched the reserve with her mother...

www.crimeonline.com

The case of the found water bottle made it to CrimeOnline.

 

[Guess Who]

Even though he is hardly the most well liked person, I would still think LE would try to recover all remains they could for a family for burial AND for evidence.

Yeah, the feces seemed a bit ridiculous for the people to go on about LE missing it... It could be poop from any animal, who knows lol.

"Allegedly" the protesters knew not to touch the water bottle or felt they shouldn't but LE was unimpressed and told them to bring it in I guess in which case they had to touch it... This is no way to handle evidence yet again but then I do have to wonder if it was not "planted" by protesters OR LE already knew it was "nothing"... Hard to say I guess...

but did the people tell LE about it possibly being the one in her posts or was this in hindsight and they saw it on one of her posts afterwards? Either way, LE should have at least gathered it. IF it was that one, they could have ran a tox screen on it to find a possible COD of him at the least.

 

[RoundPeg]

Water Bottle Matching Gabby Petito’s Found in Reserve Near Brian Laundrie’s Remains: Report

A TikTok user and her mother visited a Florida reserve over the weekend and reportedly discovered a water bottle that appeared identical to the one slain vlogger Gabby Petito was seen with. According to the Independent, Olivia Vitale, who filmed while she searched the reserve with her mother...

www.crimeonline.com

The case of the found water bottle made it to CrimeOnline.

So they decided to go out searching and just stumbled upon this? Color me jaded by life.

 

[Guess Who]

So they decided to go out searching and just stumbled upon this? Color me jaded by life.

exactly

 

[GrandmaBear]

but did the people tell LE about it possibly being the one in her posts or was this in hindsight and they saw it on one of her posts afterwards? Either way, LE should have at least gathered it. IF it was that one, they could have ran a tox screen on it to find a possible COD of him at the least.

The way I understood it as it was coming out, who found it and the public knew it looked like Gabby's and they informed NPPD of that...

 

[GrandmaBear]

So they decided to go out searching and just stumbled upon this? Color me jaded by life.

Yeah, I don't know whether to jump on the band wagon and quite believe it myself... This could have been planted even by who found it... Hard to say.

 

[daisy7]

TAMPA (WFLA) – North Port Police Department officials have told WINK that investigators made mistakes in Brian Laundrie’s case. The North Port Police Department says they thought they were keeping a close eye on Laundrie before he went missing but actually confused him for his mother.

According to North Port Police Department, while police watched the house they believed they had seen Brian Laundrie leave in his grey Mustang. They then thought they saw him return days later. But, they mixed up Brian and his mom. (snip)

North Port PD admits to mistaking Roberta Laundrie for Brian Laundrie the week he disappeared

North Port Police believed Laundrie looks very much like his mother, Roberta. North Port Police Public Infomation Office Josh Taylor told WFLA that the department said the two are “kind of built si…

www.wfla.com

 

[GrandmaBear]

I must be missing something. So they were I guess okay with who they thought was Brian leaving not coming back until four days later? I suppose they were just relieved he was back having no idea where he was? Of course it was not Brian coming back, it was Roberta. I don't know about this claim they look alike...

I do understand that he wasn't wanted at that time nor charged with murder so I doubt surveillance was probably as serious as it could have been, but hard to say.

 

[Wildflower]

TAMPA (WFLA) – North Port Police Department officials have told WINK that investigators made mistakes in Brian Laundrie’s case. The North Port Police Department says they thought they were keeping a close eye on Laundrie before he went missing but actually confused him for his mother.

According to North Port Police Department, while police watched the house they believed they had seen Brian Laundrie leave in his grey Mustang. They then thought they saw him return days later. But, they mixed up Brian and his mom. (snip)

North Port PD admits to mistaking Roberta Laundrie for Brian Laundrie the week he disappeared

North Port Police believed Laundrie looks very much like his mother, Roberta. North Port Police Public Infomation Office Josh Taylor told WFLA that the department said the two are “kind of built si…

www.wfla.com

Boy, ya just can't make this stuff up, period.

If I understand this correctly, LE saw him (the real BL) leave in the Mustang on Monday the 13th and then saw Roberta bring the car back on Wednesday the 15th so NPPD thinks that it really wasn't the real BL that they saw leaving it was Roberta (because she's driving the car back). Evidently no one bothered with the fact that he was gone for 3 days. The NPPD get in touch with the FBI about BL leaving on the 13th and not returning? If they did, did the FBI not tell them Bertolino had called them about BL not returning from the hike? Seeing Roberta return the car is what prompted the NPPD chief to say on the 16th that they knew where he was...they thought he was in the house. If that's the case, were the cameras up then? If yes, did they never see Roberta in the house or outside on their cameras during the time the car was gone? Roberta has hair on her head; BL does not. BL has hair on his face; Roberta does not. I could go on but what's the point. It would be hard to mistake them if one was really looking.

Now when the Police Chief said they knew where Brian was, that should have come as a shock to his parents who had no clue where is was. If he was upset and distraught when he left home and they were worried, one would think they would have immediately spoke up and said "where, where is he...is he alright...take us to him since you know where he is...we looked for him at the park but couldn't find him. What did his parents say? nada. Bertolino says he notified the FBI either Monday night or Tuesday morning (13,14) that BL didn't come home from the hike. Is that the same thing as reporting someone missing? Must not have been because NPPD says they didn't know he was gone until the 17th. and they did a missing person report. There's something about the timing and actions and lack of actions that makes me think there's a lot of dust under the furniture.

JMO