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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Death by throttling, death by strangulation,
- 0:11Speaker 1: manual strangulation. That is the cod cause of death for
- 0:16Speaker 1: twenty two year old Gabby Potito. At this hour, we
- 0:19Speaker 1: are now learning more details about the crime scene itself.
- 0:25Speaker 1: What are the clues left behind? What does an eye
- 0:29Speaker 1: witness have to say about what he saw at the
- 0:32Speaker 1: Gabby Petito homicide scene? Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. First
- 0:47Speaker 1: of all, take a listen to our friends at KSLTV.
- 0:50Speaker 1: Well KSL has elected not to make that video public.
- 0:53Speaker 1: We did show it to someone who had worked numerous homicides.
- 0:57Speaker 1: Oh dozen't rutually every murdered that I prosecuted. I went
- 1:01Speaker 1: to the crime scene. Longtime Saltway County prosecutor Kent Morgan
- 1:04Speaker 1: came away with distinct impressions from this scene. This is quick,
- 1:08Speaker 1: This is not sitting here for five or six hours
- 1:11Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to conceal the crime. He
- 1:15Speaker 1: also didn't notice any obvious signs of a struggle on
- 1:18Speaker 1: the ground. One of the things I've been seeing in
- 1:20Speaker 1: this story is a history of these individuals getting into fights,
- 1:26Speaker 1: and that she attacked him. I don't see that here. Also,
- 1:29Speaker 1: I see is one individual who suffered the damage and
- 1:35Speaker 1: no evidence of injury created by her. Everything that you
- 1:41Speaker 1: are hearing, this veteran a prosecutor Ken Morgan say, is important.
- 1:50Speaker 1: No detail is too small to consider. In this case,
- 1:56Speaker 1: I recall prosecuting a serial killer and we could never
- 2:00Speaker 1: catch him. We finally got a woman's body. She was
- 2:06Speaker 1: always a Jane Doe. We never knew who she was,
- 2:09Speaker 1: but we could link her body to the previous killings.
- 2:15Speaker 1: The location and condition of the one earring of hers
- 2:22Speaker 1: changed the entire scenario of how her murder occurred. One earring.
- 2:29Speaker 1: You have to take each piece of evidence, even if
- 2:32Speaker 1: it's just an ear ring, even if it's just a
- 2:35Speaker 1: pair of boots, and you have to analyze where is it,
- 2:40Speaker 1: why is it there, Why are they undisturbed, sitting up
- 2:45Speaker 1: or are they Every single piece of evidence tells you something,
- 2:53Speaker 1: and this crime scene must be analyzed very very careful.
- 3:01Speaker 1: Take a listen now to our cut three twenty two
- 3:03Speaker 1: also KSL TV listen. More than three weeks after her
- 3:08Speaker 1: body was discovered in Titon County, Wyoming, new answers finally
- 3:12Speaker 1: came today over what happened to Gabby Petito. Here By
- 3:15Speaker 1: fine the cause of manner of death to be caused
- 3:18Speaker 1: death by strangulation in a manner of his homicide the
- 3:22Speaker 1: corners four weeks when Chopper five flew over the crime scene,
- 3:26Speaker 1: a photographer spotted the remains above ground but covered possibly
- 3:30Speaker 1: by a blanket. Hiking shoes were on the ground next
- 3:33Speaker 1: to the body, covered by a blanket. That means the
- 3:36Speaker 1: scene was staged. Hiking boots next to the body. Were
- 3:40Speaker 1: they sitting up? Were they knocked over? If they were
- 3:43Speaker 1: not knocked over, what does that tell me? We also
- 3:47Speaker 1: know that Gabby's body was found just five minutes and
- 3:51Speaker 1: that's walking from where Gabby's four transit had been spotted
- 3:59Speaker 1: by Red Blue Bethune. All of these facts are telling
- 4:03Speaker 1: me something. They are telling me who the killer is. Again,
- 4:09Speaker 1: thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation
- 4:12Speaker 1: series XM one eleven, where crime still matters, where we
- 4:18Speaker 1: want justice. With me an all star panel to try
- 4:23Speaker 1: and make sense of what we are learning and help
- 4:26Speaker 1: us digest it and interpret it and analyze it with me.
- 4:30Speaker 1: Del Carson, high profile lawyer out of Jacksonville, former FBI
- 4:35Speaker 1: agent at del Carson Law dot com. Renowned psychoanalysts, joining
- 4:39Speaker 1: us from the La Jurisdiction, doctor Bethany Marshall, starving new
- 4:43Speaker 1: Netflix series Bling Empire. Cheryl McCollum, Founder director of the
- 4:48Speaker 1: Coldcase Research Institute. You can find her at Coldcase Crimes
- 4:51Speaker 1: dot org. I've been in the trenches with her for
- 4:55Speaker 1: well over a decade, and I can tell you she
- 4:59Speaker 1: feels the same way I do about each individual piece
- 5:02Speaker 1: of evidence. Joseph Scott Morgan, Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University,
- 5:07Speaker 1: author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon, and star
- 5:10Speaker 1: of a brand new hit series, Bodybags with Joe Scott
- 5:14Speaker 1: Morgan on iHeart Podcast. But first straight out to Massa's
- 5:18Speaker 1: said our special guests, joining US investigative reporter with WFLA TV. Massa,
- 5:25Speaker 1: I mean, it never ends. It's like drinking out of
- 5:28Speaker 1: a fire hydrant. Every day. I think, well, okay, that's
- 5:32Speaker 1: all we know for now, and within an hour we're
- 5:37Speaker 1: slammed with more information. The searches back on for Brian Laundry.
- 5:43Speaker 1: You tell me now at a different entrance to Carlton Reserve.
- 5:47Speaker 1: I think it's what you were telling mean, twenty five
- 5:48Speaker 1: thousand acres of swamp. Then you got to think about
- 5:52Speaker 1: this too, Massa you gotta also think about Maya Cache Reserve,
- 5:56Speaker 1: which is adjoining Carlton Reserve. Also, so much happening right
- 6:03Speaker 1: there in Florida. Let's go straight to my society joining
- 6:06Speaker 1: me WFLA TV. You know, I hardly even know where
- 6:09Speaker 1: to start, but Massa, what can you tell me? What
- 6:12Speaker 1: have you learned about the actual crime scene that we're discussing. Okay,
- 6:17Speaker 1: so the actual crime scene, and that is a great
- 6:19Speaker 1: place to start. The most significant new information that we
- 6:22Speaker 1: are learning right now. You heard it up right at
- 6:24Speaker 1: the top. A chopper over the scene, a photojournalists, you know,
- 6:29Speaker 1: before the scene was put on lockdown. You know, first
- 6:32Speaker 1: on scene was able to see that Jabby Petito's remains
- 6:36Speaker 1: were above ground. So that's significant. It's significant that she
- 6:41Speaker 1: was not buried. So there's photos and video of this,
- 6:46Speaker 1: and it has not been released to the public. Mass
- 6:48Speaker 1: SOCIETI knows all about it, and we are learning her
- 6:52Speaker 1: body was in open sight, as we have long conjectured,
- 6:58Speaker 1: body out in the open. Think about it in our
- 7:01Speaker 1: front yard. I go out at night and I pick
- 7:04Speaker 1: up the basketballs and the soccer balls and what do
- 7:09Speaker 1: you say, badminton birdies. Everything that's been left out there
- 7:14Speaker 1: for the day. I don't leave it out in the
- 7:16Speaker 1: open every night. I don't want it to get wet
- 7:19Speaker 1: or destroyed or the dog get it. Her body is
- 7:23Speaker 1: out in the open, left there. I can't even think
- 7:30Speaker 1: about it. You know. I took my mother at Massa
- 7:33Speaker 1: home to make and the other day she wanted to
- 7:36Speaker 1: see where my father is buried and see how it looked.
- 7:41Speaker 1: And I could hardly stand it. I could hardly stand
- 7:45Speaker 1: looking at that cemetery plot. It just broke my heart,
- 7:50Speaker 1: just leaving her body out and out in the open. Okay,
- 7:56Speaker 1: I'm going down a rabbit hole. Photos and videos body
- 7:59Speaker 1: out in the open? What more do we Naamossa? So
- 8:01Speaker 1: we know her body was out in the open. There
- 8:03Speaker 1: was a pair of hiking shoes, apparently there were spotted
- 8:06Speaker 1: on scene. We don't know if they were right next
- 8:08Speaker 1: to her, how far away from her, if they were
- 8:10Speaker 1: upright or not upright. It's unclear if she was covered
- 8:14Speaker 1: by a blanket, initially by the perpetrator or by law enforcement.
- 8:19Speaker 1: I'm unclear as to that fact. But you talk about
- 8:22Speaker 1: how brutal it is to just leave her body out
- 8:25Speaker 1: in the open like that, But this crime, this manual strangulation,
- 8:29Speaker 1: this throttling that was also very up closed and personal.
- 8:46Speaker 1: Cheryl McCollum very quickly to you, I don't think that
- 8:52Speaker 1: I would want to cover the body, but I don't
- 8:54Speaker 1: think a trained crime scene take I wouldn't cover the body.
- 8:58Speaker 1: I would want to cover the body out of respect
- 9:01Speaker 1: for the victim. But I don't think a trained criminal
- 9:05Speaker 1: technician such as you, or really any of us on
- 9:08Speaker 1: the panel would go up to a body which is
- 9:11Speaker 1: evidence and cover it with a blanket. I don't think
- 9:15Speaker 1: that they covered that body with the blanket. I think
- 9:17Speaker 1: the killer covered that body with the blanket, because nobody
- 9:20Speaker 1: in their right mind, that's the criminal justice system, would
- 9:24Speaker 1: destroy evidence by putting a blanket on top of it,
- 9:27Speaker 1: potentially destroying evidence. And another thing, words matter, words matter, Cheryl.
- 9:33Speaker 1: This says hiking shes were on the ground next to
- 9:37Speaker 1: the body, so we do know where they are. They
- 9:40Speaker 1: are right next to the body, and that is significant
- 9:45Speaker 1: because if they were notched over and they were not askew,
- 9:48Speaker 1: that tells me more about her death. Cheryl jump in,
- 9:52Speaker 1: words do matter. If it was somebody from a chromo scene,
- 9:56Speaker 1: they would have used a sheet, not a blanket. The
- 10:00Speaker 1: word blanket to me means it came from that van,
- 10:04Speaker 1: which indicates the killer knew her, they had a connection.
- 10:08Speaker 1: The fact that that person would cover her all the
- 10:11Speaker 1: way or part way means he's telling on himself. He
- 10:15Speaker 1: took extra time. I don't think to try to conceal her.
- 10:19Speaker 1: I think it was almost I'm leaving her, but I
- 10:23Speaker 1: do still love her, and somewhat took care. We see
- 10:26Speaker 1: it a lot, I know Joe Scott has I know
- 10:29Speaker 1: you have Nancy. Where a killer will cover the victim's
- 10:31Speaker 1: faith because he doesn't want them to look at them,
- 10:35Speaker 1: because he cares about them. The fact that he would
- 10:37Speaker 1: take boots off and place them, The fact that he
- 10:40Speaker 1: would drag her five minutes from the van. Herbis could
- 10:44Speaker 1: have already been off. She could have been killed when
- 10:47Speaker 1: she was getting ready for bad and she didn't have
- 10:50Speaker 1: her They were next to her, which is nowhere near
- 10:53Speaker 1: the van. So that again takes extra time. A stranger
- 10:58Speaker 1: doesn't do that. A stranger kills you, drops you, gets ghost.
- 11:03Speaker 1: This person took time to get this person out of
- 11:06Speaker 1: the van, put him on the blanket. Well, you're assuming
- 11:09Speaker 1: she was killed in the van. I am, I'm not
- 11:12Speaker 1: I'm not assuming a darn thing. I don't know where
- 11:16Speaker 1: she was killed, but I want to follow up on
- 11:17Speaker 1: what you said straight out to doctor Bethany Marshall. We
- 11:19Speaker 1: discussed this many times, as have you and I Joe
- 11:22Speaker 1: Scott Morgan. Bethany, I've had one case where a daughter
- 11:26Speaker 1: killed her mother and then the mother was naked by
- 11:31Speaker 1: the way I guess she got out of the shower
- 11:32Speaker 1: she was sleeping without her clothes on, and put a
- 11:35Speaker 1: wicker trash basket from the bathroom over her head post
- 11:40Speaker 1: mortem after the death, covered her face. I've had several
- 11:45Speaker 1: cases where the victim was killed out doors and the
- 11:49Speaker 1: face was covered with leaves or twigs and branches, and
- 11:55Speaker 1: sometimes the whole body. There are many ways to cover
- 11:58Speaker 1: a body, and it is actually not unusual when and
- 12:03Speaker 1: only when the killer knows the victim. What is that
- 12:07Speaker 1: instinctual desire to cover up the body, doctor Bethany, you
- 12:11Speaker 1: just took my word instinctual. I think that's what it is.
- 12:14Speaker 1: If you had caught me ten years ago asked me
- 12:16Speaker 1: this question, I would have said it was love and
- 12:19Speaker 1: care towards the victim, some final act of decency. But
- 12:23Speaker 1: you didn't say that. Today. Well, have you ever noticed
- 12:27Speaker 1: that anybody who picks up a baby will jiggle it?
- 12:30Speaker 1: Even a teenager, even somebody who's never been taught how
- 12:34Speaker 1: to care for a baby, will instinctually jiggle the baby,
- 12:37Speaker 1: comfort the baby, kind of know what to do. It's
- 12:40Speaker 1: in our DNA to provide certain types of care towards
- 12:44Speaker 1: other beings. And I think that the covering of the
- 12:48Speaker 1: body with a blanket, with leaves, the wick or basket,
- 12:52Speaker 1: it's somewhat instinctual. It's out of their own selfishness that
- 12:56Speaker 1: they're not doing it for the victims at all. They're
- 12:59Speaker 1: doing it for themselves. It's like locking the door before
- 13:03Speaker 1: you leave your house. You think, did I lock the door?
- 13:05Speaker 1: Did I not? It's a final act before you leave.
- 13:09Speaker 1: Aside and Nancy, one more thing about I just want
- 13:12Speaker 1: to say something about the hiking boots. We don't know
- 13:15Speaker 1: that they're hers. You said worth your details matter too.
- 13:20Speaker 1: Whose boots are they? Guys? I want to take a
- 13:23Speaker 1: listen to that sound one more time, Todder, if you
- 13:26Speaker 1: could play cut three twenty three. Well, Cassel is elected
- 13:31Speaker 1: not to make that video public. We did show it
- 13:33Speaker 1: to someone who had worked numerous homicides. Oh, dozens virtually
- 13:37Speaker 1: everard murdered that I prosecuted. I went to the crime scene.
- 13:41Speaker 1: Longtime Saltwake County prosecutor Kent Morgan came away with distinct
- 13:45Speaker 1: impressions from this scene. This is quick, This is not
- 13:49Speaker 1: sitting here for five or six hours trying to figure
- 13:51Speaker 1: out how to conceal the crime. He also didn't notice
- 13:55Speaker 1: any obvious signs of a struggle on the ground. One
- 13:58Speaker 1: are the things I've been seeing in this story is
- 14:01Speaker 1: a history of these individuals getting into fights, and that
- 14:06Speaker 1: she attacked him. I don't see that here. As they
- 14:09Speaker 1: see is one individual who suffered the damage and no
- 14:14Speaker 1: evidence of injury created by her. You know, it's interesting
- 14:19Speaker 1: that he is still this is a Federman trial lawyer.
- 14:23Speaker 1: He's still remembering what those cops and Moad Moab said
- 14:29Speaker 1: August twelve. There is evidence, prior evidence that he's heard
- 14:33Speaker 1: about where she was the attacker, but he says he's
- 14:37Speaker 1: very careful to say that's not what it looks like here. Okay,
- 14:41Speaker 1: straight out to you, Joseph Scott Morgan, I know you're
- 14:44Speaker 1: dying to jump in hit me. Yeah, I gotta tell you,
- 14:47Speaker 1: I'm happy this guy was a prosecutor and everything. But
- 14:51Speaker 1: he's viewing these from a helicopter. I didn't know this.
- 14:55Speaker 1: We no longer have to go to crime scenes. We
- 14:57Speaker 1: can assess this from a great altitude. I did not
- 15:00Speaker 1: ask you for sarcasm, because you know what, Joe Scott,
- 15:03Speaker 1: this is where we're learning about the crime scene, all right.
- 15:07Speaker 1: He can see drag marks from the sky. Is that
- 15:09Speaker 1: I don't believe it, Scott straight out to Dale Carson.
- 15:14Speaker 1: I don't believe that the witness said anything about seeing
- 15:18Speaker 1: drag marks. But what we do know is that he
- 15:21Speaker 1: sees the body. It's on the ground, it's out in
- 15:25Speaker 1: the open, maybe under a tree at best. There are
- 15:29Speaker 1: it's covered by a blanket, and there are boots beside it.
- 15:33Speaker 1: And I believe Dale Carson when he says it happened
- 15:36Speaker 1: quickly and there's no sign of a struggle. To me,
- 15:39Speaker 1: that means the boots are still sitting up. Now. Was
- 15:42Speaker 1: she killed there? Was she killed in the van? I
- 15:44Speaker 1: don't know that, but I do know these facts, and
- 15:47Speaker 1: I am making the most of them. Would you join me? Yes, absolutely,
- 15:52Speaker 1: and let me just see this. The covering with a
- 15:55Speaker 1: blanket serves an additional purpose that we're not thinking about
- 15:59Speaker 1: people walking down that creek would look over, they would
- 16:03Speaker 1: see those boots off, and they would see somebody covered
- 16:07Speaker 1: by a blanket. Well, they're napping, so you'd be very quiet.
- 16:11Speaker 1: You wouldn't go over there and inspect them because you
- 16:13Speaker 1: think it's a camp or just chilling out. So that's
- 16:17Speaker 1: what caused the delay. Probably many people walked that area
- 16:21Speaker 1: and saw the blanket covered person and just didn't think
- 16:24Speaker 1: anything about it. I don't know about that, because this
- 16:27Speaker 1: is dispersed camping, Massa said, I hear what Jail Carson's saying.
- 16:30Speaker 1: I'm not discounting it. I'm disagreeing with it. This is
- 16:34Speaker 1: dispersed camping, which means you're not near a porta potty,
- 16:38Speaker 1: you're not by an electricolored water hook up the way.
- 16:41Speaker 1: Very often I take our family goes r ving. We've
- 16:45Speaker 1: also gone dispersed camping. You're out in the middle of nowhere,
- 16:48Speaker 1: and I don't think there's going to be high christious
- 16:52Speaker 1: happening by the tent or the camper. Massa, Yeah, this
- 16:56Speaker 1: was dispersed camping, Like you said a lot of times,
- 16:59Speaker 1: from my understanding, the campers are going to try to
- 17:02Speaker 1: get their own space, get away from other tamp sites,
- 17:06Speaker 1: so it would be I think unlikely to assume that
- 17:10Speaker 1: there was high foot traffic in the area. But I
- 17:15Speaker 1: will say that her body was discovered very close to
- 17:20Speaker 1: where this scene is, just a very short walk away.
- 17:25Speaker 1: So we know there have been other campers in the area.
- 17:28Speaker 1: But were they at a place where they would see
- 17:31Speaker 1: the blanket? I think that that would be an assumption
- 17:35Speaker 1: to make. Well. I mean, let's take at three Massa.
- 17:37Speaker 1: We know that Red White and Bethan, who are nature enthusiasts,
- 17:44Speaker 1: they saw Gabby's van and it was closed up. I think, Jackie,
- 17:49Speaker 1: weren't they the ones Massa. Weren't they the ones that
- 17:51Speaker 1: also said the van that door closed quickly or not? Yeah? Yeah,
- 17:55Speaker 1: because one one person saw it closed, one person did not.
- 18:00Speaker 1: My point is they didn't see it, They did not
- 18:03Speaker 1: see her body, and they were just within walking distance
- 18:06Speaker 1: of her body. I mean, this is a chess game.
- 18:09Speaker 1: You have to take the pieces and figure out your
- 18:13Speaker 1: next move what you were learning from your pieces, not
- 18:16Speaker 1: take potshots at the pieces you don't have. It's not helpful,
- 18:20Speaker 1: waste of time. Listen to this, guys, and this is
- 18:35Speaker 1: something Joe Scott and Cheryl McCallum have repeatedly said, take it.
- 18:39Speaker 1: Listen to our three one nine. This is Jose Carbonaro,
- 18:43Speaker 1: w p b F. Former FBI agent Stewart Kaplan believes
- 18:48Speaker 1: DNA the Teton County Corners says he handed over to
- 18:52Speaker 1: law enforcement could help take this case one step further.
- 18:56Speaker 1: This can of course include him as being the attack
- 19:01Speaker 1: or being the responsible person for having caused Gabby Petito's death,
- 19:05Speaker 1: or it could exclude him him being Brian Laundry person
- 19:09Speaker 1: of interest in the death of Gabby Petito. He's also
- 19:13Speaker 1: wanted for the unauthorized use of her credit card and
- 19:16Speaker 1: is still nowhere to be found today, marking one month
- 19:20Speaker 1: after his parents say they last saw him leave very
- 19:22Speaker 1: hike at the Carlton Reserve. The case getting some backlash
- 19:27Speaker 1: from the public as slow moving, but Kaplan thinks otherwise.
- 19:31Speaker 1: I think they have moved this investigation quite expeditiously. Every
- 19:36Speaker 1: procedural aspect of this case may be at some point
- 19:41Speaker 1: subjected to questioning or challenging and import of law and
- 19:45Speaker 1: law enforcement only has one opportunity to do it right
- 19:48Speaker 1: and get it right. You know, I've rarely seen public
- 19:52Speaker 1: officials actually address the details of the facts of an investigation,
- 20:00Speaker 1: ongoing investigation. So I was very surprised, Cheryl McCollum when
- 20:04Speaker 1: we learned so much from the Tea Time County Coroner,
- 20:08Speaker 1: doctor Brent Blue. But here you have it, here, you
- 20:11Speaker 1: have it, you Joe Scott deal, I've been talking about
- 20:15Speaker 1: this from day one. Is there d N A on
- 20:19Speaker 1: her body? And you're just hearing right there, he tells
- 20:23Speaker 1: us the Tea Time County Coroner handed over to law
- 20:28Speaker 1: enforcement DNA. Absolutely, no question, There is absolutely going to
- 20:33Speaker 1: be DNA. Whoever drug her on that blanket, whoever you
- 20:37Speaker 1: know pulled her shirt. Why do you people keep saying
- 20:41Speaker 1: dragged her on the blanket? We don't know that. Let's
- 20:45Speaker 1: stick with what we had to get her, the killer
- 20:50Speaker 1: from wherever he killed her to where he left her. Right?
- 20:53Speaker 1: Can you not accept that maybe they were out looking
- 20:56Speaker 1: at the stars, got into a five and she died.
- 21:00Speaker 1: But about that, because there would have been a sign
- 21:02Speaker 1: of struggle. That ground has rocks everywhere. You would have seen,
- 21:06Speaker 1: you know, evidence of her feet moving, and her clothes
- 21:10Speaker 1: would have been twisted or torn. It would have looked
- 21:12Speaker 1: like a fight. Remember what Joe Scott said earlier. The
- 21:16Speaker 1: vantage point was from aerial you can't tell from up
- 21:20Speaker 1: in a chopper whether rocks have been disturbed. I mean,
- 21:25Speaker 1: I don't know that it was on rocks. I don't
- 21:27Speaker 1: know that it could be on Remember, under trees, there's
- 21:31Speaker 1: got to be some soil under a tree. So I
- 21:35Speaker 1: want to deal with the facts that we need. Want
- 21:37Speaker 1: to go back to the DNA. Okay, she was grabbed, touched, placed,
- 21:43Speaker 1: That person that killed her touched her. So I'm going
- 21:46Speaker 1: to think that this is a secondary crime scene. I
- 21:49Speaker 1: really do believe that where she is left, to me
- 21:53Speaker 1: appears to be secondary. The way it appears that people
- 21:57Speaker 1: are saying things were left appear to be secondary to me.
- 22:01Speaker 1: If that's the case, there could be DNA under her arms,
- 22:04Speaker 1: which in fact could extract Please explain what you're saying
- 22:08Speaker 1: in that the Impact is a tool that we have
- 22:11Speaker 1: that it can extract DNA off clothing, rocks, rope, broom handle.
- 22:18Speaker 1: That is better than just swabbing with the bugle swab.
- 22:22Speaker 1: That's basically like you always say, it's a Q tip.
- 22:24Speaker 1: This is a machine that can you get us a
- 22:28Speaker 1: sample that is a thousand times better than anything a
- 22:31Speaker 1: bugle swab can do. Nancy I believe. I believe also
- 22:36Speaker 1: that the DNA, the sample, this unidentified sample that we
- 22:41Speaker 1: know about so far, could very well have to do
- 22:44Speaker 1: with the fingernails. That's something I've been beating on for
- 22:47Speaker 1: a while. They did nail scrapings and nail trimmings, and
- 22:51Speaker 1: if there is a place to harvest this, it will
- 22:55Speaker 1: be beneath those nails because it will have been captured.
- 22:59Speaker 1: You know. The nails act like a little hood, almost
- 23:01Speaker 1: like a little protective hood. If she's scratching him, which
- 23:04Speaker 1: we know has probably happened. Remember there's still images that
- 23:07Speaker 1: we had of him from the altercation that they had had.
- 23:11Speaker 1: I think that this is something it was a reactive event.
- 23:14Speaker 1: She probably put her hands on him to fend him
- 23:17Speaker 1: off as he is trying to choke her out strangulation,
- 23:20Speaker 1: and those her nails are going to tell the tale
- 23:23Speaker 1: here it's protected. Whereas the rest of the body might
- 23:27Speaker 1: be exposed to elements, the nails provide a safe haven.
- 23:30Speaker 1: And it's not passive DNA. This is something that was
- 23:33Speaker 1: scraped away, scraped away and stored beneath the nails. That's
- 23:37Speaker 1: going to be their best shot, Ryn Colin, where I
- 23:40Speaker 1: agree with Joe Scott. But where else do you believe
- 23:43Speaker 1: on the body we could get DNA. Possibly it's manuel
- 23:46Speaker 1: strangulation from the neck. Blanket, You'll get it from the blanket.
- 23:53Speaker 1: There's a blanket had to come from somewhere and it
- 23:55Speaker 1: likely came from the van and it was placed over
- 23:58Speaker 1: the body. No, this is your mind of me, Del Carson,
- 24:00Speaker 1: And I'm glad you said blanket. It's reminding me of
- 24:03Speaker 1: the top Mom Casey Anthony case where the body is
- 24:07Speaker 1: disposed of. If we're going under Cheryl McCollum's theory that
- 24:10Speaker 1: this is a secondary crime scene, that she was killed
- 24:13Speaker 1: in the van and left here where the body is
- 24:15Speaker 1: disposed of, very near the location of the murder and
- 24:19Speaker 1: Tod Mom Casey Anthony Kelley was thrown out into the
- 24:24Speaker 1: woods and a trash bag and a blanket from the
- 24:27Speaker 1: home about twelve fourteen houses down from the Anthony home.
- 24:31Speaker 1: Why it was convenient for the killer Tod Mom, she
- 24:36Speaker 1: had to do it quickly, Just as this prosecutor is saying,
- 24:39Speaker 1: this was quick, down and dirty. Same thing here, This
- 24:43Speaker 1: was a convenient place next to the van, Gabby's van
- 24:48Speaker 1: and the blanket. The Dell Carson is highlighting is significant
- 24:52Speaker 1: because on it there may be DNA and significant it
- 24:56Speaker 1: may be from the van. So the killer killed her
- 25:00Speaker 1: and then goes to the van and gets a van
- 25:03Speaker 1: blanket and covers her up. That doesn't make sense unless
- 25:08Speaker 1: it's Brian Laundry Doctor Bethany wanted to end Japan Dodger. Well, Nancy,
- 25:14Speaker 1: we're talking about DNA under the fingernails. That nobody's mentioning
- 25:17Speaker 1: semen I mentioned it not today, Oh okay, so go ahead. Sorry. Well,
- 25:23Speaker 1: you know, love and hate our opposite sides at the
- 25:26Speaker 1: same point. And if the primary crime scene was in
- 25:30Speaker 1: that van, he's not like a serial killer where he
- 25:34Speaker 1: was taking run a trip just so he could kill her.
- 25:37Speaker 1: There was a build up of hostility, resentment, tension, jealousy
- 25:42Speaker 1: that had been going on prior to the mo App incident.
- 25:46Speaker 1: There was simmering resentment on his part. We don't know
- 25:49Speaker 1: what it's towards. If it was because she was doing
- 25:52Speaker 1: her van life hosting. Was he jealous of all the
- 25:55Speaker 1: followers she had? But something happened that night that was
- 25:59Speaker 1: intimate before turned to hatred. I don't know that I
- 26:01Speaker 1: would always be quite sex with love. No, it's about power,
- 26:04Speaker 1: Nancy and I gotta tell you, they would have done
- 26:07Speaker 1: a rape kit on her, which would have been extensive.
- 26:11Speaker 1: They could have collected some kind of sample. However, she's decomposing,
- 26:16Speaker 1: so that's going to, you know, compromise things. But also
- 26:19Speaker 1: to Bethany's point, if there is ejaculate there, it could
- 26:23Speaker 1: very well be on the blanket, semon sperm. That's what
- 26:27Speaker 1: he's talking about. They're checking, they're checking the blanket for
- 26:30Speaker 1: that as well. And I got to tell you something else.
- 26:33Speaker 1: That is an element here. When you're talking about blanket
- 26:35Speaker 1: covering or covering of the body, there's an element of
- 26:38Speaker 1: shame here too. This could go to a sexual motivation.
- 26:42Speaker 1: If he had violated her sexually like that, it might
- 26:46Speaker 1: just be guilt on his part. And that's that's in
- 26:48Speaker 1: addition to the actual choking or the strangulation. You're making
- 26:52Speaker 1: me think of another case, Sharyl McCollum, Shenan Watts. Remember
- 26:57Speaker 1: Chris Watts had sex, Oh yeah, and then he killed her.
- 27:02Speaker 1: He had sex with her, a whole power thing, and
- 27:06Speaker 1: she's what eight nine months pregnant, and then he kills her.
- 27:11Speaker 1: It's not unheard of, not unheard of. In this situation,
- 27:14Speaker 1: I have to disagree though, because what I see with
- 27:18Speaker 1: Brian Laundry is completely different. He is exhibiting more of
- 27:24Speaker 1: like a baby fit when he doesn't get his way,
- 27:27Speaker 1: when he's not as popular as her, when he doesn't
- 27:29Speaker 1: have the money that she has. Cabby will be fully closed.
- 27:33Speaker 1: There will be no seminal fluid. It'll be seminal fluid,
- 27:36Speaker 1: and it'll be on that blanket because it was in
- 27:39Speaker 1: the van and that's what they've been doing in the
- 27:41Speaker 1: van for some time. So it's there and it identifies
- 27:45Speaker 1: the blanket coming from the van from this guy. Hey, Masa,
- 28:04Speaker 1: what's happening where you are? Yeah, so it's actually pretty significant.
- 28:10Speaker 1: What's happening again, we're seeing an uptick of activity at
- 28:13Speaker 1: the twenty five thousand acre swamp that they have been
- 28:16Speaker 1: searching for Brian Laundry, now missing more than a month,
- 28:19Speaker 1: and pointing to the family's timeline, Massa, you just made
- 28:22Speaker 1: me think of something, thank you. You know how the
- 28:24Speaker 1: parents rearrange their timeline. And I've been we've all been saying,
- 28:30Speaker 1: how can you not know the last time you saw
- 28:32Speaker 1: your son alive? How can you suddenly go, oh, oh, sorry,
- 28:36Speaker 1: you know what? It was a Friday? It was Thursday.
- 28:40Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. I think because their lawyer said, listen, people,
- 28:45Speaker 1: if you don't talk to the FBI, that's fine, you
- 28:47Speaker 1: can't get charged for that. But if you lie and
- 28:51Speaker 1: give them false information, you're up the creek, and you
- 28:54Speaker 1: know what creek, You're up the creek without a paddle.
- 28:57Speaker 1: And then suddenly their memory is jogged and they rearrange
- 29:01Speaker 1: their timeline because if they had stuck with a lie,
- 29:06Speaker 1: that would be a crime. When you lie to the beds,
- 29:11Speaker 1: you might as well go ahead and hold out your
- 29:14Speaker 1: risk because you're going to get cuffed that. I think
- 29:17Speaker 1: that's why they change the timeline. You're right, deal, Carson.
- 29:21Speaker 1: Remember what parent doesn't know the last time they saw
- 29:25Speaker 1: their child. I mean, they go camping, they come back,
- 29:30Speaker 1: they know what day they last saw him, and then
- 29:33Speaker 1: weeks in they go, oh, yeah, we got our memory jogged.
- 29:39Speaker 1: I bet they did get their memory jogged changing that timeline. Okay, sorry, Massa,
- 29:44Speaker 1: go ahead. Yeah. They The SBI apparently had spotted the
- 29:48Speaker 1: vehicle at the launder Mustang at the laundry home on
- 29:51Speaker 1: the fifteenth, which is why they said it must have
- 29:53Speaker 1: been the thirteenth, not the fourteen. But yeah, again, we
- 29:56Speaker 1: are seeing an uptick of activity at the site. We
- 30:00Speaker 1: saw ten vehicles the canine forensics unit. We did see
- 30:04Speaker 1: Pastill County Sheriff's Office there today their CAN nine unit,
- 30:08Speaker 1: and that's something that I personally haven't seen before. And
- 30:13Speaker 1: just to tell you a little bit, it's one of
- 30:15Speaker 1: the first agencies, the Passing County Sheriff's Office. Between the
- 30:18Speaker 1: users knines, they have close to two dozen dogs. They
- 30:21Speaker 1: have all sorts of specialty dogs like bloodhounds that are
- 30:25Speaker 1: specifically trained to trail missing people. So they do have
- 30:30Speaker 1: a significant ability with K nine. So the question with
- 30:34Speaker 1: K nine, so the question is what have they found
- 30:36Speaker 1: now today? What are they looking for now? Well, we
- 30:39Speaker 1: have a little bit more information as the search goes on.
- 30:42Speaker 1: According to mass Societe joining us from w FLA there
- 30:46Speaker 1: in Florida, we've got some more information, Tyler, if you
- 30:49Speaker 1: could please roll cut three twenty air friends at WP
- 30:53Speaker 1: the F He says, now that Potito's death has been
- 30:56Speaker 1: ruled a homicide and the cause has been determined as
- 31:00Speaker 1: dring galician a suspect may already be named behind closed doors.
- 31:04Speaker 1: That piece of information I would bet has gone into
- 31:07Speaker 1: grand jury. There is now a sealed indictment for the
- 31:11Speaker 1: apprehension of the person who is responsible for the death
- 31:15Speaker 1: of Gabby Petito. Details surrounding possible warrants and charges, however,
- 31:21Speaker 1: likely won't be released until an arrest is made. They
- 31:24Speaker 1: would tend not to want to unsteal that because I
- 31:27Speaker 1: think they realized absolutely there's a very good chance all
- 31:31Speaker 1: this has already been sent to We say secret grand jury,
- 31:35Speaker 1: but all grand juries are secret, so to speak, so
- 31:39Speaker 1: that's not some mysterious thing to have a secret grand jury. Also,
- 31:45Speaker 1: we now have the Teton County Coroner kind of backpeddling
- 31:51Speaker 1: trying to clarify his earlier comments. That's why you know
- 31:55Speaker 1: my old boss, Cheryl Uniamwells Lewis Slayton, the longest serving
- 32:01Speaker 1: district attorney in the country at that time, I believe
- 32:05Speaker 1: it was thirty seven years and for a good reason, honest,
- 32:10Speaker 1: hard working. He told me on day one, don't speak
- 32:15Speaker 1: to the press, don't come up. He didn't say this,
- 32:18Speaker 1: but I came up with a standard answer. I always said,
- 32:23Speaker 1: I fully believe a Fulton County jury will reach a
- 32:27Speaker 1: verdict that speaks the truth. Bam. That was it. There's
- 32:31Speaker 1: a reason you don't talk to the press. Okay, take
- 32:34Speaker 1: a listen to our cut three one five, our friend
- 32:37Speaker 1: Brian Enton. Doctor Blue says he's not allowed to get
- 32:40Speaker 1: into Gabby's specific injuries because of the ongoing FBI investigation.
- 32:45Speaker 1: He says her body was discovered nearly a month after
- 32:48Speaker 1: she was killed. What sort of challenges are involved in
- 32:51Speaker 1: an autopsy win a body as you described yesterday, has
- 32:54Speaker 1: been out in the wild for three to four weeks.
- 32:57Speaker 1: And the situation where anybody is out in the outside,
- 33:03Speaker 1: whether it's exposed to the elements and insects and animals,
- 33:08Speaker 1: there is various forms of decomposition, and that decomposition usually
- 33:15Speaker 1: runs this very specific course. And also, da please run
- 33:20Speaker 1: three one six. This statement from the Teton County Corner
- 33:24Speaker 1: Tuesday got so much attention. Unfortunately, this is only one
- 33:29Speaker 1: of many deaths around the country of people who are
- 33:36Speaker 1: involved in domestic violence. Some assume doctor Blue was confirming
- 33:40Speaker 1: laundry was involved. Today he told me that's not what
- 33:44Speaker 1: he was saying. Did you determine that their cause of
- 33:47Speaker 1: death was the result of domestic violence or was that
- 33:49Speaker 1: just you know, comment you made in the moment? That
- 33:52Speaker 1: was a comment I've made in the moment, in the moment, Okay,
- 33:57Speaker 1: that's why a lot of people on air right off
- 33:59Speaker 1: of OPT because they don't want to say anything in
- 34:03Speaker 1: the moment that is completely Let's just say they shouldn't
- 34:08Speaker 1: have said. Okay, I believe I recognize your voice, Massa said, WFLA,
- 34:14Speaker 1: Is that you questioning? Yeah, that was me. I tried
- 34:17Speaker 1: to you know, I was trying to get more information
- 34:20Speaker 1: out of him, just whatever other details that could be released,
- 34:23Speaker 1: you know, with that he told me it was a
- 34:25Speaker 1: comment he made in the moment. He told another reporter
- 34:28Speaker 1: he had no direct knowledge. He told someone else was
- 34:31Speaker 1: an assumption, but he told like another reporter because I
- 34:33Speaker 1: went back and watched everything he said to everybody. He
- 34:36Speaker 1: said that he believed that it had indicated domestic violence
- 34:40Speaker 1: because she had been on a band trip together with
- 34:43Speaker 1: her partner. So he kind of said a little bit
- 34:47Speaker 1: different phrase to every single one of us. But I
- 34:50Speaker 1: also asked him in another report if you could talk
- 34:53Speaker 1: about like because you know how he wouldn't tell us
- 34:55Speaker 1: about the autopsy findings, what led him to believe like
- 34:59Speaker 1: what Marke on her Knacker go on site tried to
- 35:02Speaker 1: get him to talk more about that. And he talked
- 35:04Speaker 1: about just how typically blood flow would be cut off
- 35:10Speaker 1: to the brain and the other way would be that
- 35:13Speaker 1: there would be a crack in the wind type. Because
- 35:15Speaker 1: I asked him, like, how do you know it's manuel,
- 35:17Speaker 1: like did you find fingerprints? Like how did you know?
- 35:20Speaker 1: And that's what's his answer to me, my society, what
- 35:23Speaker 1: can you tell me about alleged prior domestic incident reportedly
- 35:32Speaker 1: committed by the coroner. So this is an interesting little tidbit.
- 35:36Speaker 1: I'll let you decide how relevant it is. But according
- 35:39Speaker 1: to the Jackson Hole News and Guide, a publication out
- 35:43Speaker 1: of Wyoming that I'm not familiar with, in nineteen ninety nine,
- 35:46Speaker 1: there was a court case involving the Titon County corner
- 35:49Speaker 1: doctor Brant Blue, and apparently he was accused of shooting
- 35:52Speaker 1: a gun at his ex wife's car to keep her unseen.
- 35:58Speaker 1: So that is an allegation of domestic violence at the
- 36:01Speaker 1: guy that's now the corner and sort of talking about
- 36:05Speaker 1: domestic violence in this high profile case. And apparently in
- 36:08Speaker 1: the end that's turned out to be a misdemeanor reckless
- 36:12Speaker 1: endangerment and he's able to have a concealed weapon and
- 36:16Speaker 1: so on. But that's just a little tidbit that's reported
- 36:18Speaker 1: from local authorities there. And I'll let you guys debate
- 36:22Speaker 1: how what that means. Did he shoot the gun at
- 36:26Speaker 1: the X or in the air to keep the X
- 36:29Speaker 1: from laving or did he pull the gun and not shoot.
- 36:34Speaker 1: He's accused of shooting the gun at the ex wife
- 36:37Speaker 1: car to keep her, to prevent her from leaving that
- 36:41Speaker 1: scene that was in nineteen ninety nine. Well, I can
- 36:44Speaker 1: tell you this. I question why it's surfacing now now,
- 36:50Speaker 1: what motives someone may have for bringing it forward now.
- 36:54Speaker 1: But if it's true, it's true, and that's gonna be
- 36:58Speaker 1: one heck of a line of cross examination when the
- 37:03Speaker 1: coroner takes the stand. Okay, that's just another fun thing
- 37:07Speaker 1: to think about. How are you going to tackle that
- 37:10Speaker 1: if this thing, ever ever does get to trial, when
- 37:13Speaker 1: your coroner has this prior what about it? Cheryl? I
- 37:18Speaker 1: think that's a really good reason why they had four
- 37:20Speaker 1: additional experts. They're going to be able to talk about
- 37:23Speaker 1: the toxicology. Now I disagree with that. I disagree with
- 37:26Speaker 1: that because Cheryl, the county coroner is elected in most
- 37:32Speaker 1: a lot of jeristications, he may not even be a
- 37:35Speaker 1: forensic pathologist. He's a doctor, so they needed an anthropologist,
- 37:38Speaker 1: they needed a forensic pathologists. They needed all of these experts,
- 37:43Speaker 1: a cat scanned expert, and this expert and that an expert.
- 37:46Speaker 1: It's just like you're going to go a foot doctor
- 37:48Speaker 1: for an open heart surgery. So I don't want to
- 37:51Speaker 1: take away from doctor Blue his credentials. I don't think
- 37:56Speaker 1: that they had this prior shooting in mind when they
- 37:59Speaker 1: called in the experts go ahead. I don't either. What
- 38:01Speaker 1: I'm saying is independently of him. They have three people
- 38:04Speaker 1: that can walk you through the friends without any hiccups,
- 38:07Speaker 1: is what I'm saying. And we don't normally hiccup. He
- 38:11Speaker 1: fired a gun at me, I think I call it
- 38:12Speaker 1: a little more than a hiccup. But okay, but hey,
- 38:15Speaker 1: I want to make one more point that I think
- 38:17Speaker 1: people need to know. When the medical examiner says he
- 38:20Speaker 1: had no independent knowledge of the domestic violence, I don't
- 38:23Speaker 1: know how that's true, because law enforcement his own site
- 38:26Speaker 1: for the autopsy, and they would have been talking to
- 38:28Speaker 1: the group the whole time. Jay Scott, Yeah, one of
- 38:31Speaker 1: my favorite, one of my favorite comments that you use
- 38:34Speaker 1: is you can never unring the Bell, and he did
- 38:37Speaker 1: not stay in his lane. As a coroner, I trained
- 38:42Speaker 1: corners for a living, That's what I do. And so
- 38:45Speaker 1: he has no knowledge relative to that he should speak
- 38:49Speaker 1: upon relative to an ongoing investigation relative to domestic violence.
- 38:53Speaker 1: His job is manner and cause of death, and a
- 38:56Speaker 1: subset of that is identification of the deceased. Beyond that,
- 39:00Speaker 1: there's no interest here. And so he really he really
- 39:03Speaker 1: ran outside of his lanes with Discassi. Well, he would
- 39:06Speaker 1: never testify about that in any event. It's just going
- 39:10Speaker 1: to be the manner of death. Now, that's it. Now
- 39:12Speaker 1: he is going to testify. There's every trial he's in charge,
- 39:16Speaker 1: he's going to be compelled. He's going to be compelled
- 39:18Speaker 1: as a result of all unless you can get an
- 39:20Speaker 1: assistant medical examiner or assistant coroner. And then the defense
- 39:24Speaker 1: is going to say, well where's the coroner. Yeah, he
- 39:27Speaker 1: will be taking the stand. Okay, Bethany, I know you've
- 39:30Speaker 1: got a lot to say, nutshell, nutshell. Well, I'm just
- 39:33Speaker 1: going to say, you know, he shot at his wife's card,
- 39:36Speaker 1: he's still shooting from the hip. How is this going
- 39:39Speaker 1: to affect the trial? And you know, somebody who shoots
- 39:42Speaker 1: the gun in a domestic situation is impulsive. So I
- 39:45Speaker 1: was just wondering, how is that impulsivity going to affect
- 39:48Speaker 1: how he examines the body, how he presents evidence, and
- 39:51Speaker 1: how he presents a trial. Don't you think you're reading
- 39:54Speaker 1: a level too much into it? He shot a gun,
- 40:00Speaker 1: all right, you got me over a barrel. Okay, that's bad.
- 40:02Speaker 1: We will figure out how this is going to affect
- 40:05Speaker 1: a trial, if there ever is a trial, if there
- 40:08Speaker 1: is a grand jury, and dive. But first we gotta
- 40:11Speaker 1: fine Brian Laundry massa. Is there any light at the
- 40:14Speaker 1: end of the tunnel. Well, the search we're told, you know,
- 40:17Speaker 1: we don't always stop activity because the scene is just
- 40:19Speaker 1: so vast out there. But we're told of the activity
- 40:23Speaker 1: is going on all the time, around the clock, constantly.
- 40:26Speaker 1: And here we are, you know, nearly a month into this,
- 40:29Speaker 1: more than a month this season missing, but nearly a
- 40:31Speaker 1: month of the search, and you know, there's so every
- 40:35Speaker 1: couple of days we see this huge uptick and we
- 40:38Speaker 1: get out our chopper and we're trying to figure out
- 40:40Speaker 1: what's going on. And that's what we're doing today. I
- 40:42Speaker 1: think you guys know this. But about doctor Blue, he
- 40:45Speaker 1: certified and emergency medicine and family medicine. He did not
- 40:49Speaker 1: conduct the autopsy. He just interpreted the results here And
- 40:53Speaker 1: I asked him, I said, hey, does sb I know
- 40:55Speaker 1: you're talking? Did they tell you not to talk? And
- 40:57Speaker 1: he said that he was independent of the SBI. But
- 41:00Speaker 1: he did hold off having that news conference because the
- 41:04Speaker 1: US Attorney asked him to hold off for one week.
- 41:06Speaker 1: But he's kind of doing his own thing because he
- 41:09Speaker 1: said that he believes it's important to get out the
- 41:12Speaker 1: right information out to the public, whatever limited information that
- 41:15Speaker 1: he's available to give. We wait as a search goes
- 41:19Speaker 1: on for Brian laundry and all of this with the
- 41:23Speaker 1: backdrop that as we speak, Gabby's family is going to
- 41:29Speaker 1: bring home her remains. Can you imagine that trip? Goodbye friend,