The missing case of Gabby Petito - top case in US right now

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Florida police search for fiance of missing woman Gabby Petito

Officers say Brian Laundrie has also disappeared after Petito went missing during couple’s US road trip

 

Gabby Petito pictured on police body cam after the couple were pulled over by officers on 12 August. Photograph: AP

 

Edward Helmore and agencies

Sat 18 Sep 2021 10.22 EDT

 

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Mystery surrounding the whereabouts of 22-year-old Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito deepened late on Friday, after police in Florida said they were working with the FBI to locate 23-year-old Brian Laundrie, Petito’s fiance who is described as “a person of interest” in her disappearance.

Petito and Laundrie had been on a “van life” trip across the south-western US, living in their vehicle. Petito’s family reported her missing last week, after Laundrie returned to Florida alone.

 

Police in North Port said Laundrie’s family told officers they had not seen him since Tuesday, but had not told authorities he was missing for three days. The conversation on Friday evening, police said, was the first time they had spoken to Laundrie’s family in detail, and came at the family’s request. An attorney for the family called FBI investigators and said they wanted to talk, police said.

In a separate statement, police said Laundrie was a person of interest but was not wanted for any crime. The investigation was now a “multiple missing persons” case, they said.

In a statement late on Friday, Richard B Stafford, an attorney for the Petito family, said: “All of Gabby’s family want the world to know that Brian is not missing, he is hiding. Gabby is missing.”

On Thursday, police in Utah released video showing 22-year-old Petito and Laundrie after an argument in the tourist town of Moab. Authorities and Petito’s family then appealed to Laundrie’s family to cooperate with investigators.

The body-cam footage, dated 12 August, shows an officer pulling over the van in which Laundrie and Petito were travelling after it was seen speeding and hit a curb near the entrance to Arches national park. Petito is visibly upset.

“We’ve just been fighting this morning,” she tells an officer. “Some personal issues.”

She adds: “Some days, I have really bad [obsessive compulsive disorder], and I was just cleaning and straightening up and I was apologising to him, saying that I’m so mean because sometimes I have OCD and get frustrated.”

Laundrie says the couple got into a minor scuffle that began when he climbed into the van with dirty feet. He says he does not want to pursue a domestic violence charge against Petito, who officers deem to have been the aggressor.

“I’m not going to pursue anything because she is my fiancee and I love her,” he says. “It was just a squabble. Sorry it had to get so public.”

Moab police separated the couple for the night, Laundrie checking into a motel and Petito remaining with the van.

A month later, Petito’s family reported her missing. She is now the subject of a nationwide search. Before his family reported him missing, Laundrie had not cooperated with investigators.

The case has attracted intense attention, in part due to Petito’s large following on Instagram. Her last post was dated 25 August.

Investigators became frustrated by Laundrie’s refusal to meet. “Two people left on a trip and one person returned!” the North Port police chief, Todd Garrison, tweeted on Wednesday.

The couple were childhood sweethearts on Long Island then moved to Florida in 2019 to live with Laundrie’s parents in North Port, about 34 miles south of Sarasota. They set off on their “van life” trip in July, planning to reach Oregon by Halloween, according to their social media accounts.

Authorities have said Petito’s last known contact with her family was in late August and from Grand Teton national park in Wyoming.

Laundrie drove the Ford Transit van back to Florida on 1 September. Petito’s family filed a missing persons report with police in Long Island and released a letter to Laundrie’s parents.

“We believe you know the location of where Brian left Gabby,” the letter said. “We beg you to tell us. As a parent, how could you let us go through this pain and not help us? As a parent, how could you put Gabby’s younger brothers and sisters through this?”

Laundrie’s attorney, Steven Bertolino, said the family was hoping for Petito’s safe return, but he had asked them not to speak to investigators.

Garrison, the police chief, told ABC: “I can’t speculate as to why he’s not talking, but he has the pieces to the puzzle that we need to find Gabby.”

Laundrie’s sister, Cassie Laundrie, said she wanted Petito to be found and for this “to be just a big misunderstanding”.

Garrison told reporters the investigation remains a missing persons case. No searches had been initiated because authorities were unclear where they should begin to look.

“We’re still trying to nail down geographic areas,” Garrison said. “There’s a lot of information we are going through. Our focus is to find Gabby.”

At the same news conference, Petito’s father, Joe Petito, said: “Whatever you can do to make sure my daughter comes home, I’m asking you to help. Nothing else matters right now.”

Police in North Port said they had not ruled out a connection with the murder of two women at a campsite near Moab in August, though they did not know of any link.

The bodies of Kylen Schulte, 24, and Crystal Turner, 38, were found on 18 August. The women told friends they feared a “creepy man” might harm them.

 

[tennisluvrredux]

Pakka feeling entante aa fiance gaade edo chesadu aamenu probably hit the body somewhere in the wilderness in Wyoming then silently came back to Florida and lawyered up. 

 

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https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/09/16/moab-bodycam-captures/

[Swatkat]

8 minutes ago, tennisluvrredux said:

Pakka feeling entante aa fiance gaade edo chesadu aamenu probably hit the body somewhere in the wilderness in Wyoming then silently came back to Florida and lawyered up. 

 

Yes most of the cases lo fiance/ husband galle chestharu.

[Swatkat]

Theda ga unadu vadu

[DummyVariable]

@LuckyCharm Nee detective instincts emi chebuthunnayi?

[tennisluvrredux]

1 hour ago, Swatkat said:

Theda ga unadu vadu

Yeah gammuna okkade ochi lawyer ni hire chesukunnadu Florida lo, not co-operating with the police or press. 

[LuckyCharm]

2 hours ago, DummyVariable said:

@LuckyCharm Nee detective instincts emi chebuthunnayi?

Fiance tho trip ki poinappudu desitnation reach ayye varaku break up cheppakudadhu ani

[Lakhan]

 

[Hungry_DinoBaby]

If the girl is kidnapped by strangers fiance gadu panic ayyi police ki cheppevadu

if the girl went missing by herself fiance gadu missed calls texts pampi police ki inform chesevadu

evi yevi cheyakunda calm ga vachi lawyer ki pettukunnadu ante he did soemthing to her.. he is the last or the most recent person to see her.. vadini investigate chesthe nijam byiki vasthadi

[Swatkat]

1 hour ago, tennisluvrredux said:

Yeah gammuna okkade ochi lawyer ni hire chesukunnadu Florida lo, not co-operating with the police or press. 

Naku telisi champesuntadu e patiki full theda ga unadu. Malla vadi ego hurt ayintadhi. Shes gone casez

[TOM_BHAYYA]

30 minutes ago, Hungry_DinoBaby said:

If the girl is kidnapped by strangers fiance gadu panic ayyi police ki cheppevadu

if the girl went missing by herself fiance gadu missed calls texts pampi police ki inform chesevadu

evi yevi cheyakunda calm ga vachi lawyer ki pettukunnadu ante he did soemthing to her.. he is the last or the most recent person to see her.. vadini investigate chesthe nijam byiki vasthadi

Sherlock Holmes malli puttaaada anipisthundhi ninnu chusthunte

[Hungry_DinoBaby]

6 minutes ago, TOM_BHAYYA said:

Sherlock Holmes malli puttaaada anipisthundhi ninnu chusthunte

Etu vantidhi edho expect chesa

[nuvvu_naakina_paalem]

57 minutes ago, Hungry_DinoBaby said:

If the girl is kidnapped by strangers fiance gadu panic ayyi police ki cheppevadu

if the girl went missing by herself fiance gadu missed calls texts pampi police ki inform chesevadu

evi yevi cheyakunda calm ga vachi lawyer ki pettukunnadu ante he did soemthing to her.. he is the last or the most recent person to see her.. vadini investigate chesthe nijam byiki vasthadi

3d degree isthe anni nijalu chepthadu

[Sputnik]

1 minute ago, nuvvu_naakina_paalem said:

3d degree isthe anni nijalu chepthadu

They can’t until they have something solid.