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The CHILLING Murder Of Gabby Petito · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: I don't care if we use the actual letter of
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Speaker 1: the laws to be not starts in the funds. I
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Speaker 1: also don't care because it literally does possibly make perfect
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Speaker 1: sense to go.
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Speaker 2: Full on domestic as.
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Speaker 1: Do the whole thing.
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Speaker 3: It is, this is me now, and this is a
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Speaker 3: dragon all.
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Speaker 2: It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime.
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Speaker 2: In the summer of twenty twenty one, two lovers packed
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Speaker 2: their lives into a white van and set off on
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Speaker 2: a cross country journey through America's national parks, a road
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Speaker 2: trip documented in photographs, vlogs, and Instagram captions that painted
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Speaker 2: the image of freedom, love and wonder lust. But behind
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Speaker 2: the filtered posts and picture perfect views, something else was happening,
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Speaker 2: and by the time the leaves began to fall, only
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Speaker 2: one of them would return home, and what unfolded.
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Speaker 3: Next would grip the nation.
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Speaker 2: It was a missing person's case that played out in
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Speaker 2: real time, fueled by media coverage, internet detectives, and heartbreaking silence.
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Speaker 2: It exposed cracks in our systems, raised urgent questions about
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Speaker 2: domestic violence, and reminded the world just how quickly a
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Speaker 2: dream can turn into a nightmare. This is a story
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Speaker 2: of a young woman whose voice, though silenced, still echoes today.
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Speaker 3: This is the story of Gabby Patito.
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Speaker 2: Crime, conspiracy, cults, serial killers, and murder, all things that
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Speaker 2: I love to consume, and I know you do too,
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Speaker 2: You sick, twisted, intellectually, beautifully minded, frit and I look
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Speaker 2: different right now because I've forgot to film the intro
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Speaker 2: for some reason, So that's why I'm doing this now.
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Speaker 2: But yes, today we are talking about the infamous case
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Speaker 2: of Gabby Petito. So without further ado, let's unbucklow seatbelts,
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Speaker 2: go mock five down the highway, slam on the brakes,
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Speaker 2: and bust through the s windshield into this highly.
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Speaker 3: Controversial case together.
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Speaker 2: Gabriel Nur Patito was born March nineteenth, nineteen ninety nine
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Speaker 2: in Blue Point, a quiet suburb on the southern edge
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Speaker 2: of Long Island, New York, and her arrival marked the
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Speaker 2: beginning of a story that would one day capture the
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Speaker 2: attention of the world, though in those early years her
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Speaker 2: life was filled only with the ordinary beauty of family, community,
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Speaker 2: and creativity, and Gabby also grew up in a very
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Speaker 2: supportive and stable household. She was the eldest of six
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Speaker 2: siblings and half siblings, and her parents, Nicole Schmidt and
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Speaker 2: Joseph Patito separated amicably when Gabby was pretty young, but
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Speaker 2: both remained very active in her life, and Gabby would
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Speaker 2: spend most of her time with her mother, Nicole, who
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Speaker 2: was a teacher's assistant, and her stepfather Jim, in a
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Speaker 2: household where love was quiet but constant. And her father
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Speaker 2: Joe was a warehouse store manager, and he would eventually
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Speaker 2: remarry as well, and Gabby would grow close to his wife, Tara,
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Speaker 2: maintaining strong bonds on both sides of her blended family.
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Speaker 2: So Gabby would grow up in a safe, relatively affluent
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Speaker 2: corner of Long Island, the kind of place where children
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Speaker 2: still rode bikes on tree lined streets and neighbors knew
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Speaker 2: each other's names, and even as a child, Gabby stood
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Speaker 2: out for her compassionate nature and quiet creativity.
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Speaker 3: She had a very.
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Speaker 2: Early sense of empathy that seemed to exceed her years,
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Speaker 2: and at just fourteen years old, Gabby and her younger
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Speaker 2: relatives took part in a music video promoting gun violence
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Speaker 2: awareness after the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. And it
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Speaker 2: wasn't a school requirement or assignment, it was just something
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Speaker 2: she chose to do. Something that really reflected the emotional
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Speaker 2: depth she already carried, So even then, Gabby was really
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Speaker 2: paying attention to the world's pain and trying in her
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Speaker 2: own way to be a light. So as Gabby went
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Speaker 2: into her teens, she would attend the Bayport Blue Point
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Speaker 2: High School in Suffolk County, where she became known for
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Speaker 2: her love for art and nature. And Gabby wasn't really
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Speaker 2: the type to chase popularity. She was more of a
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Speaker 2: free spirit, as her family would later describe her, someone
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Speaker 2: who saw the world in color and tried to paint
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Speaker 2: it that way. And she channeled that spirit into watercolor paintings, photography,
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Speaker 2: and long walks outdoors. So Gabby's path at this point
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Speaker 2: just seemed filled with possibility. The world was her oyster.
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Speaker 2: She was creative and grounded and deeply, deeply kind, And
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Speaker 2: in her time at school, she would cross paths with
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Speaker 2: a man named Brian Laundry, and they were just friends
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Speaker 2: at first. It was a quiet beginning, but soon the
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Speaker 2: connection would deepen into a relationship that would shape the
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Speaker 2: rest of her life. So by the time she graduated
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Speaker 2: high school in June of twenty seventeen, Gabby was already
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Speaker 2: beginning to dream bigger than the borders of Long Island.
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Speaker 2: She had a growing love for travel, a passion for
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Speaker 2: art and storytelling, and a very gentle magnetism that made
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Speaker 2: her unforgettable to those that knew her. And somewhere during
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Speaker 2: those late teens, she would reconnect with a familiar face,
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Speaker 2: a quiet, outdoorsy former classmate named Brian Laundry. So though
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Speaker 2: Gabby and Brian did attend the same high school at
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Speaker 2: Blue Point, their relationship didn't really fully take root until
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Speaker 2: after graduation, but by early twenty nineteen they were officially together.
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Speaker 2: They were a young couple drawn to each other by
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Speaker 2: shared appreciation for art, nature, and what seemed from the
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Speaker 2: outside a desire for something beyond the ordinary, and friends
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Speaker 2: would later describe their relationship in its early stages as
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Speaker 2: intense and very passionate, because they bonded very quickly over
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Speaker 2: similar interests and built routines around being creative together, and
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Speaker 2: Gabby really just found a companion who seemed to reflect
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Speaker 2: her own adventurous energy. And as the relationship began to
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Speaker 2: deepen even more, Gabby made a very big decision, and
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Speaker 2: that was that she would leave New York and move
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Speaker 2: to Northport, Florida. Where Brian lived with his parents, Christopher
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Speaker 2: and roberta laundry, and this move in July of twenty
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Speaker 2: nineteen marked a very pivotal shift in Gabby's life because
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Speaker 2: she was now away from her family and hometown, and
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Speaker 2: she was moving toward a future she was building with Brian.
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Speaker 2: So the couple would move into the Laundry family household
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Speaker 2: and start settling into their new adult life. Gabby would
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Speaker 2: get a job working as a pharmacy technician at publics
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Speaker 2: while Brian worked at a grocery store, and from those
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Speaker 2: watching from the outside, the couple appeared very close happy.
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Speaker 2: Even one friend described them as couple goals because from
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Speaker 2: the outside looking in, especially into social media, people would
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Speaker 2: see them often hiking local trails, they would post nature photos,
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Speaker 2: and they would constantly speak of.
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Speaker 3: Other plans for the future.
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Speaker 2: So there was the sense of momentum for the both
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Speaker 2: of them, of two young people just finding themselves through
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Speaker 2: each other. And Gabby's parents would later say that they
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Speaker 2: were actually very supportive of the move, trusting their daughter's judgment,
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Speaker 2: but they obviously remained attentive because she had a very
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Speaker 2: close knit family, so Gabby would call home very regularly.
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Speaker 2: She even visited New York whenever she could, so while
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Speaker 2: she was far from home, the connection with her family
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Speaker 2: never wavered, especially with her mom, and by the end
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Speaker 2: of twenty nineteen and Gabby and Bryan's relationship had become
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Speaker 2: central to both of their lives. So it began as
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Speaker 2: a high school acquaintance had grown into a full time partnership,
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Speaker 2: one that, over the next two years, would take them
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Speaker 2: across the country, through national parks and dusty highways, and
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Speaker 2: eventually into the center of a national tragedy. But for now,
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Speaker 2: in that window between teenage dreams and adult responsibility, Gabby
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Speaker 2: was in love and she was all in So by
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Speaker 2: mid twenty twenty, the world was beginning to change. As
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Speaker 2: we all remember, the COVID nineteen pandemic had swept across
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Speaker 2: the globe, shutting businesses, stalling routines, basically upending nearly every
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Speaker 2: sense of normalcy. And for Gabby and Brian, the pandemic
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Speaker 2: kind of became a pause, a moment of stillness that
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Speaker 2: offered space for something much bigger. Because it was during
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Speaker 2: this time July twenty twenty, that Brian would propose, and
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Speaker 2: there was no crowd, there was no flashing cameras. There
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Speaker 2: was no elaborate production, just a quiet moment in nature
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Speaker 2: along one of their favorite hiking trails, and, as Gabby
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Speaker 2: would later recount, a firefly even landed on her hand
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Speaker 2: when she said yes, as if the world itself paused
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Speaker 2: an agreement, and she announced the news with joy. She
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Speaker 2: would write on Instagram, Brian asked me to marry him,
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Speaker 2: and I said yes. And she would be beaming in
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Speaker 2: this photo of them sharing sushi on their first date,
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Speaker 2: and she would also go on to say, you make
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Speaker 2: life feel unreal and every day is such a dream
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Speaker 2: with you. It was obviously a massive milestone moment, a
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Speaker 2: formal beginning to the future they were building together. But
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Speaker 2: unlike many couples freshly engaged, they didn't rush towards a
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Speaker 2: wedding date or a venue. Instead, they set their sights
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Speaker 2: on something even more ambitious, a life of full time travel.
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Speaker 2: And Gabby was overjoyed. This is exactly what she had
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Speaker 2: been working toward her whole life, art storytelling, the open road,
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Speaker 2: and someone she believed would share it all with her.
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Speaker 2: So a wedding could wait. The world was waiting first,
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Speaker 2: so the idea of this trip had been taking shape
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Speaker 2: for months, maybe even longer, because they had actually, at
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Speaker 2: this point already taken a cross country road trip together
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Speaker 2: in a Nissan CenTra, camping on the road and falling
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Speaker 2: in love with a rhythm of van life, and that
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Speaker 2: whole experience had left quite a lasting impact on them,
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Speaker 2: so they got to work. The couple purchased a white
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Speaker 2: twenty twelve to four Transit Connect van. It was compact, reliable,
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Speaker 2: and just big enough to become a tiny home on wheels.
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Speaker 2: Together they would customize it. They built out the interior
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Speaker 2: with a handmade bed platform, installed storage units, and painted
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Speaker 2: the walls in soft tones that reflected their love for
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Speaker 2: the natural world, and Gabby added flowers and artwork, and
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Speaker 2: Brian handled much of the carpentry and logistics. So it
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Speaker 2: wasn't anything fancy, but it was theirs, and this was
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Speaker 2: more than just a trip. They envisioned a shared brand,
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Speaker 2: a life lived on the road, documented in photographs and videos,
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Speaker 2: and they would even go on to launch a YouTube
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Speaker 2: channel called Nomadic Static, intending to chronicle their adventure and
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Speaker 2: build an audience.
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Speaker 3: And Gabby would take the.
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Speaker 2: Full lead on the creative side, organizing content, shooting photos,
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Speaker 2: and dreaming of growing the channel into a full on
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Speaker 2: career because she had always wanted to be a travel blogger,
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Speaker 2: so this wasn't just a vacation, it was her vision
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Speaker 2: for her entire future, and by the end of twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty this plan was in motion. Gabby would pick up
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Speaker 2: extra hours at Taco bell And as a nutritionist to
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Speaker 2: save money for the big departure, and Brian helped as
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Speaker 2: well by working extra hours at an organic juice and
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Speaker 2: the relationship, at least in public, appeared pretty solid still,
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Speaker 2: so the couple planned to leave in the early summer,
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Speaker 2: charting a few month loop across the western United States
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Speaker 2: with stops at national parks like Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and Beyond,
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Speaker 2: and Gabby's family later discussed the possibility of extending the
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Speaker 2: trip if things went well, but before their official departure,
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Speaker 2: they made one more meaningful stop. In late June twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty one, Gabby and Brian returned back to Blue Point,
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Speaker 2: New York, where Gabby's younger brother was graduating high school,
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Speaker 2: and it was a brief visit, but it was important
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Speaker 2: because it was a moment for Gabby to reconnect with
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Speaker 2: her roots, hug her siblings, and say goodbye to the
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Speaker 2: town that raised her and her family had no idea
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Speaker 2: this would be the last time they would ever see Gabby,
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Speaker 2: so after that brief trip back home, they were off.
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Speaker 2: The van was packed, the cameras were charged, the maps
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Speaker 2: were marked with pins and possibilities, and on July second,
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, Gabby and Brian hold out of Blue Point,
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Speaker 2: New York in their white Ford Transit and pointed west.
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Speaker 2: And their plan was to explore the American wilderness and
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Speaker 2: document it online and build something together because for Gabby
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Speaker 2: this would be the foundation of her future as a
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Speaker 2: travel blogger, and the journey began with joy. Gabby shared
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Speaker 2: her first post from the road trip on July fourth,
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Speaker 2: a snapshot from Kansas at Monument Rocks, and over the
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Speaker 2: following weeks they zigzagged through Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, stopping
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Speaker 2: at national parks and campgrounds tucked beneath mountain peaks, and
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Speaker 2: they would hike the Great Sand Dunes National Park, pose
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Speaker 2: for photos beneath the towering Canyon Walls and Zion National Park,
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Speaker 2: and smiled from scenic viewpoints in Bryce Canyon National Park.
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Speaker 2: So Gabby's social media was just filled with soft, sunlit
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Speaker 2: images showcasing the beauty of the places they visited as
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Speaker 2: they traveled in their home on wheels, and in one
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Speaker 2: Instagram post, Gabby would write, there's no place like the
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Speaker 2: tiny home we built. So to the outside world it
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Speaker 2: looked like a dream come true, but behind the filtered
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Speaker 2: lens of social media, something else was brewing. So to
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Speaker 2: their followers, Gabby and Brian seemed like the perfect couple,
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Speaker 2: but those who knew them better saw signs of something darker.
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Speaker 2: Gabby's best friend, Rose Davis, later described Brian as controlling
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Speaker 2: and jealous, and according to Rose, Brian had a way
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Speaker 2: of isolating Gabby, discouraging her from doing anything he didn't
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Speaker 2: approve of, and she would go on to say he
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Speaker 2: also wanted what he wanted when he wanted, and he'd
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Speaker 2: find a way to get it, not in a violent manner,
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Speaker 2: but if he didn't want Gabby to do something, he'd
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Speaker 2: find a way to make it so she couldn't do it.
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Speaker 3: And she described a.
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Speaker 2: Pattern of emotional manipulation that Gabby didn't always recognize for
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Speaker 2: what it was. So this relationship was slowly becoming extremely toxic,
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Speaker 2: and another friend of Gabby's from New York remembered the
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Speaker 2: relationship as volatile, and they said very high highs and
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Speaker 2: very low lows.
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Speaker 3: And while on the road, those patterns.
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Speaker 2: Seemed to intensify because the stress of van life, confined space,
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Speaker 2: constant travel, no brakes made everything even more intense. But
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Speaker 2: Gabby felt pressure to keep their content going while managing
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Speaker 2: everything else completely alone. And according to Rose, Gabby confided
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Speaker 2: that Brian didn't want her to pursue her social media
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Speaker 2: and blogs seriously, and Rose believed, quote unquote, that's a
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Speaker 2: sign of domestic And then it midt August, something spilled
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Speaker 2: out into the open, something no amount of Instagram filters
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Speaker 2: could hide. So on the afternoon of August twelfth, in Moab, Utah,
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Speaker 2: a concerned witness called nine to one one, the caller saying,
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Speaker 2: we drove by and the gentleman was slapping the girl.
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Speaker 2: Then we stopped, they ran up and down the sidewalk.
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Speaker 2: He proceeded to hit her, hopped in the car and
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Speaker 2: they drove off and soon after Moab police would pull
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Speaker 2: their white van over outside Arches National Park and what
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Speaker 2: followed was captured on a now infamous body camera footage.
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Speaker 1: The driver is showing some obscure driving, possibly intoxicated about
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Speaker 1: your engine. Go ahead and set your keys on the dashboard.
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Speaker 4: All right, let's go on an find this in fighting
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Speaker 4: this morning.
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Speaker 2: And this was a scene that would later be scrutinized
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Speaker 2: by the world. In the video, Gabby is crying, nearly hyperventilating.
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Speaker 5: Really bad OCD and just I was just cleaning when
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Speaker 5: he's fading up back of him before, and I was
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Speaker 5: apologizing to him and saying I'm sorry that I'm so mean.
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Speaker 2: And she would apologize profusely to the officer over and
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Speaker 2: over again for herself for just existing basically, and she
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Speaker 2: would blame herself for everything. And Brian, by contrast, appeared
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Speaker 2: very calm and composed and even giddy at points.
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Speaker 4: I feel bad it.
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Speaker 1: I think it's so puflic. I would just try to
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Speaker 1: be wowed to listen. Listens, yeah, trying to make your
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Speaker 1: calm down and be like, look, everyone's watching.
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Speaker 3: Whenever the lights flass on, it gets here, cat right up.
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Speaker 1: If I see my trust me, it does me too.
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Speaker 2: And I'm the one that And he said he'd gotten
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Speaker 2: into the van with dirty feet. She got upset and
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Speaker 2: things escalated from there, and he had scratches on his
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Speaker 2: face and his arms, and Gabby admitted to striking him,
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Speaker 2: but only because she thought he might leave her behind
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Speaker 2: when he locked her out of the vehicle, and he
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Speaker 2: claimed he was attempting to give her some space so
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Speaker 2: she would calm down, and after separating them and interviewing
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Speaker 2: them individually, officers concluded that Gabby had been the primary aggressor.
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Speaker 1: I've decided I am not going to cite you before
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Speaker 1: domestic violence battery, Okay, it was only going to be
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Speaker 1: a class being misdemeanor. However, the domestic violence portion of
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Speaker 1: it enhances. It makes like a major pain in the butt,
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Speaker 1: especially at your twenty two right si'n choosing not to
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Speaker 1: cite you today.
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Speaker 2: The report described the event as more of a mental
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Speaker 2: health break than domestic violence, which is exactly what it was.
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Speaker 2: And she was not the aggressor. She was scared, terrified
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Speaker 2: of this very large man who had struck her and
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Speaker 2: threatened her and gas lit her and clearly manipulated her
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Speaker 2: over months and months and months and made her feel
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Speaker 2: very small, and then this moment happened and the police
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Speaker 2: didn't do their job basically, so instead police arranged for
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Speaker 2: Brian to spend the night at a motel.
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Speaker 1: This is Brian Landra all right, so at least then
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Speaker 1: get job set up in.
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Speaker 2: The hotel room paid for through a local domestic violent
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Speaker 2: outreach program, and Gabby took the van and slept at
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Speaker 2: a nearby campground alone, and before parting ways for the night,
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Speaker 2: the couple insisted they were in love, that they didn't
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Speaker 2: want anyone getting in trouble, and that everything would be okay.
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Speaker 3: But in the.
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Speaker 2: Bodycam footage, Gabby's tears tell a very different story, her anxiety,
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Speaker 2: her fear, her attempts to downplay the moment to protect Brian,
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Speaker 2: even in front of police, saying I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 2: She just kept saying I'm sorry, and it's honestly just
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Speaker 2: heartbreaking to see because like knowing people that have been
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Speaker 2: in these situations and being too afraid to get out
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Speaker 2: for the percussions if they actually speak up, it's just
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Speaker 2: heartbreaking to watch in real time. But unbeknownst to the officers,
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Speaker 2: the nine to one one dispatcher hadn't relayed the full
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Speaker 2: details of the original call, including the report that Brian
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Speaker 2: had been seen hitting Gabby, and that information could have
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Speaker 2: changed the outcome completely, but it didn't, and they deemed
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Speaker 2: her the primary aggressor, and in hindsight, that stopped at
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Speaker 2: Moab one night apart after weeks of growing tension was
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Speaker 2: a flashing red flag, a chance to intervene that just
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Speaker 2: passed by. And the next morning Gabby and Brian reunited
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Speaker 2: and got back on the road, and they would tell
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Speaker 2: their friends that they were fine and that everything was
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Speaker 2: under control. But something at this point had shifted drastically
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Speaker 2: and cracks were widening and time was running out. So
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Speaker 2: just five days after the emotional police encounter in Moab,
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Speaker 2: Brian Laundry left Gabby alone and on August seventeenth, he
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Speaker 2: flew from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Florida. According to
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Speaker 2: his family's attorney, and the reason, they said was practical,
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Speaker 2: Ryan needed to retrieve some personal items and close out
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Speaker 2: a shared storage unit to save money. But whatever the truth,
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Speaker 2: he was gone for nearly a week, leaving Gabby completely
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Speaker 2: alone and behind in Utah. So Gabby would check into
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Speaker 2: the Fairfield In hotel in Salt Lake City, where she
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Speaker 2: stayed alone and waiting, And while she waited, she stayed
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Speaker 2: in contact with her family. And as we know, Gabby
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Speaker 2: had long found peace in nature and in movement, so
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Speaker 2: being grounded in a city on her own felt very
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Speaker 2: foreign and scary, and during the solo stretch, on August nineteenth,
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Speaker 2: Gabby posted what would be her first and only video
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Speaker 2: to the couple's YouTube channel, Nomadic Static, and the video
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Speaker 2: was simply titled van Life Beginning Our van Life Journey,
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Speaker 2: and it was a gentle, aesthetically edited look into travels
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Speaker 2: up to the point that she was at, and it
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Speaker 2: features shots of their van built, the Utah landscape, beaches,
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Speaker 2: and moments of quiet joy between the two of them,
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Speaker 2: and at the time it felt like a hopeful start,
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Speaker 2: but in retrospect it became an eerie timestamp the last
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Speaker 2: creative limbs she left behind, and on August twenty third,
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Speaker 2: Brian would return, and on the twenty fourth, the couple
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Speaker 2: was seen checking out of the hotel and loading up
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Speaker 2: the van together and they were heading north towards Grand
19:10
Speaker 2: Tenton National Park in Wyoming, one of the most scenic
19:13
Speaker 2: and one of the most remote stretches on their entire route.
19:16
Speaker 2: And two days later, on August twenty fifth, Gabby called
19:19
Speaker 2: her mother and she told her they had reached Wyoming
19:22
Speaker 2: and they were camping near the Spread Creek dispersed camping area,
19:25
Speaker 2: and she said that cell service was pretty spotty there,
19:28
Speaker 2: but she sounded upbeat and mentioned they'd likely head toward
19:31
Speaker 2: Yellowstone next and that same day, Gabby posted what would
19:34
Speaker 2: be her final Instagram photo, a shot of her smiling
19:37
Speaker 2: in front of a butterfly mural in Ogden, Utah. It
19:40
Speaker 2: was calm and beautiful and haunting in hindsight, and at
19:43
Speaker 2: the time nothing seemed obviously wrong, but it would be
19:47
Speaker 2: the last time Gabby's voice would be seen or heard directly,
19:50
Speaker 2: so on August twenty seventh, something changed. Around three pm,
19:54
Speaker 2: witnesses saw Gabby and Brian at a restaurant in Jackson, Wyoming.
19:57
Speaker 2: It was a very popular tex mech spot called Mary Piglets,
20:01
Speaker 2: and according to witnesses, Brian was very visibly agitated, arguing
20:05
Speaker 2: with the staff over the bill, and his tone was
20:07
Speaker 2: aggressive and his body language was very threatening, and Gabby,
20:10
Speaker 2: by contrast, appeared distress and very apologetic. We've seen this before,
20:14
Speaker 2: and this would be the last known sighting of Gabby
20:17
Speaker 2: Batito alive, and at some point in the day, she
20:20
Speaker 2: allegedly reached out to her ex boyfriend Jackson on Snapchat
20:24
Speaker 2: to say that she was thinking about him, and according
20:26
Speaker 2: to Jackson, she had reached out a few days prior,
20:29
Speaker 2: mentioning that she and Brian were struggling and that she
20:32
Speaker 2: may break up with him, and she would call Jackson
20:34
Speaker 2: later on, but he was unable to answer because he
20:36
Speaker 2: was at work, and that evening, Gabby's mother received an
20:39
Speaker 2: odd text from Gabby's phone saying can you help Stan?
20:43
Speaker 2: I just keep getting his voicemails and missed calls and
20:46
Speaker 2: a Cole would freeze his Stan was Gabby's grandfather, but
20:50
Speaker 2: Gabby never called him by his first name, so the
20:53
Speaker 2: message felt very unnatural, as if someone else had written it,
20:57
Speaker 2: and a Cole would later tell authorities that the text
20:59
Speaker 2: made her feel like something was wrong, and investigators would
21:02
Speaker 2: later include the message in a search warrant Affidavid, noting
21:06
Speaker 2: it was out of character and likely not written by
21:08
Speaker 2: Gabby herself. And then on August thirtieth, one war message
21:12
Speaker 2: came saying plainly, no service in Yosemite, and that text, too,
21:17
Speaker 2: felt off, not just in the tone but in the content,
21:20
Speaker 2: because Gabby had told her mother just days earlier that
21:23
Speaker 2: they were in Wyoming heading toward Yellowstone in Yosemite. In
21:27
Speaker 2: California made no sense for the context of their route
21:30
Speaker 2: because the distance was over eight hundred miles away, so
21:33
Speaker 2: it just wasn't fitting and Nicoll was immediately uneasy and
21:37
Speaker 2: that would be the last time Gabby's phone would be
21:40
Speaker 2: heard from and after that all calls went straight to voicemail.
21:43
Speaker 2: There was no more facetimes, no more texts, no more
21:45
Speaker 2: Instagram posts, and no updates from the road. And for
21:48
Speaker 2: a young woman who checked in regularly, who rarely went
21:51
Speaker 2: today without calling her mom, this was a terrifying silence.
21:55
Speaker 2: And in those final days in August, the world didn't
21:58
Speaker 2: know yet what happened, but Gabby's family felt it. It
22:01
Speaker 2: was a shift in the air, the vacuum left behind
22:04
Speaker 2: by a voice that should have been there. And there
22:06
Speaker 2: was no witnesses to the moment it happened, no videos,
22:10
Speaker 2: no cries for help that made it to the ranger
22:12
Speaker 2: station or nearby campsite. What happened in those final hours
22:16
Speaker 2: only can be pieced together through forensics, scattered clues, and
22:20
Speaker 2: eventually Brian Laundry's written confession, And.
22:23
Speaker 3: As of right now, this is what we know.
22:25
Speaker 2: After being spotted at the Mary Piglet's restaurant, in Jacksonville
22:29
Speaker 2: on August twenty seventh, where Brian was reportedly enraged and
22:32
Speaker 2: Gabby was tearful. The couple returned to their van, driving
22:35
Speaker 2: out toward the Spread Creek area where they.
22:38
Speaker 3: Had been camping.
22:39
Speaker 2: At the same evening, a travel blogger named Red White
22:42
Speaker 2: and Bethune would unknowingly capture footage, and the footage was
22:46
Speaker 2: of Gabby and Brian's white van parked off the side
22:50
Speaker 2: of a dirt road alone in the forest, and this
22:53
Speaker 2: was at approximately six pm on August twenty seventh, and
22:56
Speaker 2: the van in the footage appeared abandoned, quiet still and
23:00
Speaker 2: partially closed off by the brush. But this timestamp would
23:03
Speaker 2: later become crucial, and the world, not yet knowing that
23:06
Speaker 2: she was gone, was about to start asking questions. So
23:10
Speaker 2: August twenty ninth, twenty twenty one, on the surface, it
23:13
Speaker 2: seemed like any other day in the West, and that
23:15
Speaker 2: morning a woman named Miranda Baker was driving along the
23:18
Speaker 2: highway when she saw a hitchhiker holding out a thumb
23:21
Speaker 2: and he introduced himself as Brian.
23:24
Speaker 1: Hi.
23:24
Speaker 4: My name is Miranda Baker, and on August twenty ninth,
23:28
Speaker 4: my boyfriend and I picked up Brian at Grand Teta
23:32
Speaker 4: National Park at five thirty at night at.
23:35
Speaker 2: Calder Bay and said he was camping alone and offered
23:38
Speaker 2: her two hundred dollars for a ten mile ride, and
23:42
Speaker 2: she agreed, and at first the conversation was very polite,
23:45
Speaker 2: but when she mentioned that she and her boyfriend were
23:47
Speaker 2: heading to Jackson Hole, Brian visibly panicked. He freaked out,
23:52
Speaker 2: Miranda said later he asked to get out of the
23:54
Speaker 2: car immediately, and not long after, another woman, Norma Jean Jallovic,
23:59
Speaker 2: also picked up a hit chiker matching Brian's description, and
24:01
Speaker 2: he asked to be dropped off by Spread Creek campsite,
24:05
Speaker 2: right where Gabby and Brian had last stayed, and she
24:07
Speaker 2: asked if he wanted her to go past the gate
24:09
Speaker 2: and into the area where they were staying, but he
24:11
Speaker 2: became agitated when she brought this up and he would
24:14
Speaker 2: not let her get any closer and he just got
24:16
Speaker 2: out of the vehicle immediately, And that same evening, Gabby's
24:19
Speaker 2: phone went silent for good and a final misleading message
24:23
Speaker 2: to her mother would go out the next day, and
24:25
Speaker 2: after that, no contact and no explanation, and Brian, meanwhile
24:29
Speaker 2: was already on the move, so between August thirtieth and
24:32
Speaker 2: September first, he began driving the white Ford Transit van
24:35
Speaker 2: east and Gabby's van was now in his possession, and
24:38
Speaker 2: along the way he used a debit card and withdrew
24:40
Speaker 2: over one thousand dollars, which was actually a federal crime
24:44
Speaker 2: that would later be used to issue a warrant for
24:46
Speaker 2: his arrest, and this included seven hundred dollars he had
24:48
Speaker 2: transferred to himself via Gabby's account, with the note on
24:51
Speaker 2: the transfer saying goodbye, Brian, I'll never ask you for
24:55
Speaker 2: anything again. The guy's insanely stupid message were also set
25:00
Speaker 2: between Brian and Gabby's phone during the time, but the
25:03
Speaker 2: timestamps painted a picture that this was Brian's attempt to
25:07
Speaker 2: establish an alibi, a shitty one at that, because he's
25:10
Speaker 2: fucking stupid.
25:11
Speaker 6: The activity between the two phones was almost instantaneous. Brian
25:16
Speaker 6: was holding both phones and talking directly to himself. It
25:20
Speaker 6: was apparent that he was trying to create an alibi.
25:23
Speaker 2: And then on September first, Brian Laundry pulled into the
25:26
Speaker 2: driveway of his parents' home in Northport, Florida alone, so
25:30
Speaker 2: the white Band was back, but Gabby wasn't and Brian
25:33
Speaker 2: just said nothing, and over the next ten days he
25:36
Speaker 2: offered no explanation to anyone, not to Gabby's parents, not
25:40
Speaker 2: to her friends, not to police, and in fact, Brian
25:42
Speaker 2: refused to speak to authorities at all. And when North
25:45
Speaker 2: Point Police visited the laundry home, they were met not
25:49
Speaker 2: by Brian but by his parents, who handed officers the
25:52
Speaker 2: phone number of their attorney. Got a love parents that
25:55
Speaker 2: protect their fucking murderer, piece of shit son.
25:58
Speaker 1: When was the last time that you saw Brian and
26:00
Speaker 1: Gabriel O'Brian.
26:01
Speaker 4: Is here moving that song?
26:03
Speaker 2: So Gabby's family obviously began to panic at this point,
26:07
Speaker 2: and then, in a strange twist, the Laundry family, Brian included,
26:10
Speaker 2: reportedly went on a camping trip to Fort de Soto
26:14
Speaker 2: Park from September sixth to September.
26:16
Speaker 6: Eighth, when Brian first came home with the van, him,
26:19
Speaker 6: his parents, and his sister Cassie went on a camping trip.
26:23
Speaker 2: And a neighbor later confirmed seeing them load up a
26:25
Speaker 2: small camper and head out as if nothing were wrong,
26:28
Speaker 2: And this was just days after Gabby's family had begun
26:32
Speaker 2: publicly pleading for help to find Gabby. Meanwhile, the white van,
26:36
Speaker 2: the one so often featured in Gabby's Instagram posts, sat
26:39
Speaker 2: in the laundry driveway, and authorities would later seize it
26:42
Speaker 2: for forensic analysis. So on September eleventh, more than ten
26:46
Speaker 2: days of silence and growing desperation, Gabby's parents would file
26:50
Speaker 2: an official missing persons report in Suffolk County, New York,
26:53
Speaker 2: and Northport police would name Brian as a person of
26:56
Speaker 2: interest a few days later, but still no cooperation, no answers.
27:01
Speaker 2: And then another twist happens because on September thirteenth, Brian
27:05
Speaker 2: told his parents he was going for a solo hike
27:08
Speaker 2: nearby the Carlton Reserve, which was a sprawling swampy wilderness
27:12
Speaker 2: stretching over twenty five thousand acres. So he would drive
27:15
Speaker 2: the family's fourth Mustang to the reserve entrance, park it
27:18
Speaker 2: and disappear into the wetlands. And days would pass and
27:22
Speaker 2: Brian would not return. But strangely, his parents didn't report
27:26
Speaker 2: him missing right away, which is so strange, and it
27:29
Speaker 2: wasn't until September seventeenth, four full days later, that they
27:33
Speaker 2: informed police Brian was gone.
27:36
Speaker 3: We now have two missing young people.
27:38
Speaker 2: And they said they had retrieved to the car from
27:40
Speaker 2: the reserve, but hadn't seen him since the thirteenth, And
27:43
Speaker 2: by then Gabby's face was everywhere, her story had gone national,
27:47
Speaker 2: and the case was unfolding in real time across TV
27:50
Speaker 2: screens and social media feeds. Meanwhile, law enforcement was just
27:53
Speaker 2: scrambling to find Brian, who had now just vanished into
27:57
Speaker 2: one of the most difficult terrains in Florida, and who
27:59
Speaker 2: was the only person who could say what had happened
28:02
Speaker 2: to Gabby. But he was gone, and Gabby's body at
28:05
Speaker 2: this point had yet to be found. So by the
28:07
Speaker 2: second week of September twenty twenty one, Gabby's family had
28:11
Speaker 2: gone from worried to frantic, and public interests just exploded
28:15
Speaker 2: and social media detective's true crime podcasters in twenty four
28:19
Speaker 2: to seven cable news networks latched onto the story. The
28:22
Speaker 2: hashtag find Gabby began trending across Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.
28:27
Speaker 2: Her smiling face, framed by blonde hair and golden filter,
28:32
Speaker 2: became one of the most shared images in the country,
28:34
Speaker 2: and protesters gathered outside the laundry home and they would
28:37
Speaker 2: chant into megaphones and they held signs that read Where's
28:41
Speaker 2: Gabby and justice for Gabby, and at the same time,
28:43
Speaker 2: FBI agents, local law enforcements, and search teams were mobilized
28:47
Speaker 2: in Wyoming, and with the help from cell tower pings
28:50
Speaker 2: and digital tracking and eyewitness accounts, the search narrowed into
28:53
Speaker 2: one location, which was Spread Creek Dispersed camping Area east
28:57
Speaker 2: of Grand Teton National Park. And then would come the
29:00
Speaker 2: break because those family bloggers that got that footage of
29:03
Speaker 2: Gabby's truck would submit that footage to the FBI, and
29:07
Speaker 2: it matched the vehicle Gabby and Brian had been traveling
29:10
Speaker 2: in and on September eighteenth, the FBI and local authorities
29:13
Speaker 2: began a ground search in that area, and the very
29:15
Speaker 2: next day, on September nineteenth, twenty twenty one, they made
29:18
Speaker 2: a grim discovery. So somewhere in the wild stillness of
29:22
Speaker 2: Spread Creek Dispersed camping Area, tucked beneath the shadow of
29:26
Speaker 2: Grand Tenton National Park, investigators would find human remains that
29:29
Speaker 2: match Gabby's description, and she would be partially buried, left
29:33
Speaker 2: in a shallow grave surrounded by brush and wild sage.
29:36
Speaker 2: Her body would lay about a nine hundred feet from
29:38
Speaker 2: where the van had last been seen parked. Gabby Petito
29:42
Speaker 2: at the age of twenty two years old, full of
29:44
Speaker 2: light and just months into an adventure of her life,
29:48
Speaker 2: was killed and her remains lay exposed to the elements
29:52
Speaker 2: for three to four weeks before discovery. In the autopsy
29:55
Speaker 2: conducted by Tenton County Coroner, doctor Brent Blue determined that
30:00
Speaker 2: Gabby died by manual strangulation and the.
30:02
Speaker 7: Manner of death of Gabrielle Lenora Petito we find the
30:08
Speaker 7: cause and manner to be caused death by strangulation and
30:11
Speaker 7: manner is homicide.
30:13
Speaker 2: And he added that her body had likely been exposed
30:15
Speaker 2: to the elements for three to four weeks and that
30:18
Speaker 2: the time of death was estimated at around August twenty seventh,
30:21
Speaker 2: the same day she was last seen at the Mary
30:23
Speaker 2: Piglet's Restaurant in Jackson. Just a very brutal and intimate act,
30:27
Speaker 2: requiring sustained force applied by bare hands. A report also
30:32
Speaker 2: noted blunt force trauma to her head and to her neck,
30:35
Speaker 2: just further evidence to a very violent and very personal assault.
30:39
Speaker 2: And this confirmation just sent shockwaves through the country. Gabby Patito,
30:43
Speaker 2: the free spirited twenty two year old that had been
30:45
Speaker 2: documenting her life on the road, was gone, and the
30:48
Speaker 2: man she had trusted with that journey, Brian Laundry, had
30:51
Speaker 2: not only returned without her, but was now missing himself.
30:54
Speaker 2: A news of Gabby's death sparked an outpouring of grief
30:58
Speaker 2: and anger, and a makeshift memorial grew rapidly outside the
31:01
Speaker 2: Laundry home, with mourners leaving flowers, candles, and photos, and
31:05
Speaker 2: in Blue Point, New York, Gabby's hometown, at Candlelight visual
31:08
Speaker 2: lit up the night as hundreds gathered to honor her memory.
31:12
Speaker 2: So Gabby's story had become a cultural flashpoint, not just
31:15
Speaker 2: because of the tragedy, but because of how quickly and
31:18
Speaker 2: widely it spread, and some commentators praised the mobilization of
31:22
Speaker 2: online communities in helping locate her, and others criticized the
31:25
Speaker 2: disparity in media attention compared to the hundreds of missing persons,
31:29
Speaker 2: especially women of color, whose stories remained untold. Still, for
31:33
Speaker 2: her family, the media firestorm was background noise to a singular,
31:37
Speaker 2: searing reality. Gabby was never coming home, and somewhere Brian
31:42
Speaker 2: Laundry was on the run. So the search for Brian
31:45
Speaker 2: Laundry became one of the most watched man hunts in
31:48
Speaker 2: modern American history, and by the time Gabby's body was
31:51
Speaker 2: found in September nineteenth, twenty twenty one, Brian had already
31:54
Speaker 2: been missing for nearly a week, and according to his parents,
31:57
Speaker 2: he had told them on September thirteenth he was going
31:59
Speaker 2: on a hike in the Carlton Reserve, as we know,
32:02
Speaker 2: But that delay in reporting him missing after four whole
32:05
Speaker 2: days raised some questions. Why wait, what did they know?
32:10
Speaker 2: And had Brian really gone hiking or had he used
32:13
Speaker 2: that window to disappear. So authorities could only go off
32:17
Speaker 2: what they knew, and they would launch an extensive search
32:19
Speaker 2: in the Carlton Reserve, deploying divers, canine units, drones, and ATVs,
32:23
Speaker 2: and it was a very unforgiving landscape. It was water
32:26
Speaker 2: logged and snake infested, with terrain that could swallow evidence
32:30
Speaker 2: in hours, and as the days were on, the task
32:32
Speaker 2: seemed increasingly impossible, and at the same time, public pressure
32:36
Speaker 2: was mounting. Protesters continued to camp outside the Laundry home,
32:39
Speaker 2: holding signs up and chanting through bullhorns, and across the
32:43
Speaker 2: country people speculated, theorized, and tracked every development in real time.
32:47
Speaker 2: TikTok videos went viral analyzing every angle and police bodycamp
32:51
Speaker 2: footage was dissected frame by frame, and Brian's face would
32:55
Speaker 2: become as recognizable as Gabby's, and on September twenty third,
32:58
Speaker 2: the FBI issued a federal rest warrant for Brian Laundry,
33:01
Speaker 2: not for homicide, though, but for unauthorized use of Gabby's
33:05
Speaker 2: debit card, a charge that allowed law enforcement to pursue
33:09
Speaker 2: him with federal authority while the homicide investigation continued, which
33:13
Speaker 2: makes sense in hindsight because at this point they don't
33:16
Speaker 2: have much evidence, a lot of circumstantial evidence, but not
33:19
Speaker 2: a lot of physical evidence. Meanwhile, alleged sightings of Brian
33:22
Speaker 2: poured in from across the US, but none were confirmed,
33:25
Speaker 2: and the FBI continued to focus locally, believing Brian may
33:29
Speaker 2: have never left Florida at all. But weeks would pass
33:31
Speaker 2: and the search would just drag on. Tips would dry up,
33:34
Speaker 2: and for a time it seemed that Brian Laundry had
33:36
Speaker 2: just vanished into thin air. But then on October twentieth,
33:40
Speaker 2: something changed, because that morning, Chris and ROBERTA. Laundry told
33:43
Speaker 2: authorities they intended to join the search at the Mayacahatchie
33:47
Speaker 2: Creek Environmental Park, which bordered the Carlton Reserve and had
33:50
Speaker 2: recently been reopened to the public, and just hours into
33:54
Speaker 2: that search, they discovered items belonging to Brian lying near
33:57
Speaker 2: a previously flooded traillaw enforcement would move in and nearby,
34:02
Speaker 2: under a canopy of trees and partially submerged into swamp water,
34:06
Speaker 2: investigators found skeletal human remains, and by October twenty first
34:10
Speaker 2: dental records confirmed that the remains were Brian Laundrys and
34:14
Speaker 2: the autopsy determined that the cause of death was a
34:17
Speaker 2: self inflicted gunshot wound to the head just took the
34:20
Speaker 2: easy way out. And alongside his remains, investigators recovered a backpack,
34:24
Speaker 2: a notebook, and a revolver, and in that notebook Brian
34:27
Speaker 2: wrote a confession. So the manhunt was over and the
34:30
Speaker 2: only person of interest in Gabby Patito's murder was now dead.
34:33
Speaker 2: But the story wasn't finished yet, because there were still
34:36
Speaker 2: questions what had happened on that trail, and what did
34:39
Speaker 2: Brian's parents know and weren't telling, and about how the
34:42
Speaker 2: system had failed a young woman who was crying for
34:46
Speaker 2: help long before the world heard her. So for months
34:49
Speaker 2: after Brian laundry's remains were found. Investigators sifted through every
34:53
Speaker 2: piece of evidence recovered at the scene, most notable among
34:56
Speaker 2: them a weathered spiral notebook pulled from the dry bag
35:00
Speaker 2: found just feet from his skeletal remains, and in January
35:03
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty two, the FBI officially closed the investigation,
35:07
Speaker 2: releasing key details about what was found. And the notebook,
35:10
Speaker 2: stained by water and difficult to read in parts, contained
35:12
Speaker 2: a handwritten confession, and in the note Brian took responsibility
35:16
Speaker 2: for Gabby's death. That Gabby had allegedly suffered an injury
35:19
Speaker 2: during a hike and was in severe pain. I ended
35:22
Speaker 2: her life. I thought it was merciful, that it is
35:25
Speaker 2: what she wanted. But I see now all the mistakes
35:28
Speaker 2: I made. And he went on to describe what he
35:30
Speaker 2: had claimed had happened. That Gabby allegedly sustained a serious
35:34
Speaker 2: injury during a hike, and it was an unspecified incident
35:37
Speaker 2: that left her in severe pain, and he wrote that
35:39
Speaker 2: she was shivering and freezing and injured, and that she
35:42
Speaker 2: had allegedly asked him to relieve her of her suffering.
35:45
Speaker 2: And he claimed that in that moment of desperation, he
35:47
Speaker 2: killed her. Out of mercy, and Brian also wrote his
35:50
Speaker 2: intention was to take his own life, citing guilt and despair, saying,
35:55
Speaker 2: from the moment I decided took away her pain, I
35:57
Speaker 2: knew I couldn't go on without her. Attempted to paint
36:01
Speaker 2: his actions as tragic but compassionate, a final act of love,
36:06
Speaker 2: but investigators in Gabby's family rejected the narrative completely same pause.
36:11
Speaker 3: Of her death was strangulation and nothing remotely or even
36:14
Speaker 3: close to what he said.
36:15
Speaker 2: Because the forensic evidence did not support Brian's version of events,
36:19
Speaker 2: because we know that Gabby suffered manual strangulation and blunt
36:22
Speaker 2: forced trauma to her head and to her neck, and
36:25
Speaker 2: the violent nature of her death and attempt to mislead
36:28
Speaker 2: authorities afterward with false texts and her stolen debit cards
36:32
Speaker 2: stood in stark contrast to the idea of a mercy killing,
36:36
Speaker 2: and Gabby's mother claimed that he was a liar and
36:38
Speaker 2: tried to manipulate the story even after death, just a
36:41
Speaker 2: pathetic piece of shit, and even the setting of confession
36:44
Speaker 2: seemed telling, and the FBI concluded in their final statement
36:47
Speaker 2: issued on January twenty first, twenty twenty two, that Brian
36:50
Speaker 2: Laundry was the only person involved in Gabby's death, and
36:53
Speaker 2: the investigation was officially closed, but the grief wasn't because
36:58
Speaker 2: Gabby's family was left not only with an unbearable loss
37:01
Speaker 2: of their daughter, but with the weight of knowing that
37:03
Speaker 2: her final moments had been violent, terrifying, and lonely, and
37:08
Speaker 2: no explanation from Brian could change that. So, if anything,
37:11
Speaker 2: the note only added to their pain, and for them
37:13
Speaker 2: the truth was not in what Brian wrote, but in
37:16
Speaker 2: what he did. He left Gabby in the wilderness, lied
37:19
Speaker 2: to her family, drove her van home, and then disappeared
37:22
Speaker 2: without a word. So the confession didn't bring any sort
37:25
Speaker 2: of closure. It simply confirmed what they had already feared
37:28
Speaker 2: all along, that the man their daughter had loved had
37:31
Speaker 2: betrayed her in the most permanent way. But even after
37:34
Speaker 2: the deaths of both Gabby and Brian, their story didn't end,
37:37
Speaker 2: and in many ways, it only entered a new chapter,
37:40
Speaker 2: one filled with grief, accountability, and the pursuit of justice
37:43
Speaker 2: and courtrooms, not wilderness trails. And on March tenth, twenty
37:47
Speaker 2: twenty two, Gabby's parents filed a civil lawsuit against Brian's parents,
37:52
Speaker 2: and in the suit. They accused the laundries of intentional
37:54
Speaker 2: infliction of emotional distress, alleging that Brian had informed his
37:58
Speaker 2: parents of Gabby's death shortly after it happened, and that
38:00
Speaker 2: the Laundries then withheld that information while Gabby's family searched
38:04
Speaker 2: for her, and the lawsuit claimed that well the Potito
38:06
Speaker 2: family publicly pleaded for answers, the Laundries remained completely silent,
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Speaker 2: and according to the Potitos, the Laundry's actions and inactions
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Speaker 2: were not just hurtful, but knowingly cruel, which agreed, and
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, a Florida judge denied the Laundry's
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Speaker 2: motion to dismiss, allowing the case to move forward, and
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Speaker 2: in the core proceedings, shocking new details emerged and one
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Speaker 2: entry in Roberta Laundrys recovered burn after reading letter allegedly
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Speaker 2: written to Brian referenced her willingness to help him dispose
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Speaker 2: of the body. Some of the letter reads, we will
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Speaker 2: always love each other. If you're in jail, I will
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Speaker 2: bake a cake with a file in it. If you
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Speaker 2: need to dispose of a body, I will show up
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Speaker 2: with a shovel and a garbage bag. What and though
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Speaker 2: the letter's context and timing were debated, its language raised eyebrows,
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Speaker 2: to say the least, and just fueled the Potito families
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Speaker 2: claims that the Laundries may have been more involved or
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Speaker 2: at least more informed than they admitted, And by March
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, the Potito family reached a three million
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Speaker 2: dollars wrongful death settlement in a separate suit against Brian
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Speaker 2: Laundry's estate, which was a symbolic victory since Brian's estate
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Speaker 2: held few assets, but the money, they stated would go
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Speaker 2: toward the foundation and further effort to support families of
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Speaker 2: missing persons, which I will link down below. And in
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Speaker 2: the wake of unimaginable loss, Gabby's family found a purpose
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Speaker 2: in advocacy, and they launched the Gabby Potito Foundation, which
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Speaker 2: is a nonprofit focused on supporting organizations that help locate
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Speaker 2: missing persons and provide resources to victims of domestic violence.
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Speaker 2: The foundation quickly became a platform for reform, raising awareness
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Speaker 2: about the signs of relationships as well as disparagies in
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Speaker 2: media coverage that often lead missing persons cases involving people
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Speaker 2: of color overlooked.
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Speaker 3: They just didn't want Gabby's death to be in vain.
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Speaker 2: If they could save even just one person, then Gabby's
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Speaker 2: story would live on. And the foundation has since partnered
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Speaker 2: with the National Domestic Violence Hotline, also the Black and
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Speaker 2: Missing Foundation, and other key advocacy groups providing grants, emergency funds,
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Speaker 2: and public outreach programs, which I think is amazing, and
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Speaker 2: I want to add that all the proceeds from this
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Speaker 2: video will be going to that foundation, and again I
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Speaker 2: will link the foundation down below. And Gabby's parents also
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Speaker 2: testify before lawmakers to push the legislation aimed at improving
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Speaker 2: reporting systems, bolstering protections for domestic violence victims, and modernizing
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Speaker 2: law enforcement's abilities to respond to missing persons cases, and
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Speaker 2: several states have proposed and passed bills directly inspired by
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Speaker 2: Gabby's case, including Florida's Gabby Petito's Act, which created a
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Speaker 2: set of twelve questions that are mandatory for law enforcement
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Speaker 2: to ask potential victims during domestic violence calls, which I think,
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Speaker 2: again is so amazing, And despite public outrage, Chris and ROBERTA.
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Speaker 2: Laundry have not been criminally charged in a connection with
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Speaker 2: Gabby's death, and their legal strategy has largely remained one
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Speaker 2: of silence, and in multiple interviews, the Patito family has
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Speaker 2: expressed frustration, saying that the laundry showed no empathy and
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Speaker 2: played a role in prolonging their agony. So this case
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Speaker 2: is just ignited national debate about parental responsibility, legal liability,
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Speaker 2: and how families of suspects navigate tragedies involving their children.
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Speaker 2: And in the years since Gabby's disappearance, the legal battles
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Speaker 2: have continued, but so has her legacy because her name
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Speaker 2: now represents more than just tragedy. It represents a reckoning,
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Speaker 2: a call to pay attention not only to those who vanish,
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Speaker 2: but to the systems, silences, and red flags that often
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Speaker 2: precede them. So Gabby Btito's voice was taken, but her
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Speaker 2: story still speaks. Gabby Patito's story is absolutely tragic, and
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Speaker 2: it's also a reminder for us to pay attention, to
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Speaker 2: check in, to ask again, to love without harm, and
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Speaker 2: to cherish the journey wherever it may lead. And that
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Speaker 2: is the Gabby Petito case. I know this one was
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Speaker 2: very emotional, as are every one of these cases that
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Speaker 2: I cover, but I think the awareness is extremely important.
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Speaker 3: I just know that you are important. You deserve attention.
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Speaker 2: And you have the right to speak out and be heard,
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Speaker 2: so just know that and I hope you all stay very,
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Speaker 2: very safe, and remember I did link those foundations down below.
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Speaker 3: Also, I did put in helplines as well if you
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Speaker 3: need that. But until I see you next time, I
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Speaker 3: will see you beautiful face. Okay, stay safe. Bye.