Van Lifer couple camping in Utah national park - two weeks later fiancee arrives in FL alone

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Anonymous wrote:I think that it is unfair to blame Gabby’s family for not assisting her w/her troubled relationship issues.

She was twenty-two years old > definitely old enough to make her own, independent decisions on the trajectory of her life.
Plus it doesn’t appear that anyone in Gabby’s family even knew of what a monster her fiancé was.

Ideally Gabby should have left Brian in Utah after he was situated in his hotel room.
She should have taken her van & just got the HE🏒🏒 away from that loser.

But love (especially young love) is so blind + I just feel it is so unfair to hold her family responsible for her tragic fate.
I am sure that they likely are dealing w/so many mixed emotions every single second. 😢

But financially and living situation wise, they both lived with his parents. Did she have access to her own accounts to pay for what she would need without him? Are they tied to his?

DP here. Not sure, but hadn’t her father moved to FL so he could be supportive of Gabby? What happened with that? I’m sure there are many regrets all around within that family.

Anyone find Gabbys father’s behavior a little off? I can’t quite put my finger on it. He just seems a little too composed in TV interviews considering how recently this all occurred. And has this weird hyper macho thing going on.

Totally agree. That he never called any of her boyfriends by their real names and only called them by feminized versions of their names? WEIRD. Plus, if he was so close with Gabby, why weren’t they in touch during the trip? Some strange family dynamics going on,IMO

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She was killed 2 weeks after the police encounter. What were the police supposed to do with her to prevent that from happening 2 weeks later? They separated them. She went right back to him within 12 hours.

The people who failed her were her parents and friends. They were the ones who had any chance of getting her to wise up and leave this looser. If I was her mom or dad I'd be on an airplane the day of that call with the police. When I was growing up, my dad did crazy stuff like that for me. When I was in graduate school (early 20s) he once drove 12 hours straight to help me move out of a bad situation. He just got in the car, arrived and helped me get my sh%t together. That's what parents are supposed to do, even with young 20 somethings. And friends too. Where were her friends in this? They had to have known that she was dating a verbally abusive loser.

Wrong.

The person who failed her was her fiancé. Then after that his parents.

For the sake of accuracy: they weren’t engaged according to her mother.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.insider.com/gabby-petito-mom-said-daughter-brian-laundrie-called-off-engagement-2021-9%3famp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She was killed 2 weeks after the police encounter. What were the police supposed to do with her to prevent that from happening 2 weeks later? They separated them. She went right back to him within 12 hours.

The people who failed her were her parents and friends. They were the ones who had any chance of getting her to wise up and leave this looser. If I was her mom or dad I'd be on an airplane the day of that call with the police. When I was growing up, my dad did crazy stuff like that for me. When I was in graduate school (early 20s) he once drove 12 hours straight to help me move out of a bad situation. He just got in the car, arrived and helped me get my sh%t together. That's what parents are supposed to do, even with young 20 somethings. And friends too. Where were her friends in this? They had to have known that she was dating a verbally abusive loser.

Wrong.

The person who failed her was her fiancé. Then after that his parents.

For the sake of accuracy: they weren’t engaged according to her mother.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.insider.com/gabby-petito-mom-said-daughter-brian-laundrie-called-off-engagement-2021-9%3famp

First the mom says they called it off and then she says they "put it on hold." Its two different things but it doesn't matter anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She was killed 2 weeks after the police encounter. What were the police supposed to do with her to prevent that from happening 2 weeks later? They separated them. She went right back to him within 12 hours.

The people who failed her were her parents and friends. They were the ones who had any chance of getting her to wise up and leave this looser. If I was her mom or dad I'd be on an airplane the day of that call with the police. When I was growing up, my dad did crazy stuff like that for me. When I was in graduate school (early 20s) he once drove 12 hours straight to help me move out of a bad situation. He just got in the car, arrived and helped me get my sh%t together. That's what parents are supposed to do, even with young 20 somethings. And friends too. Where were her friends in this? They had to have known that she was dating a verbally abusive loser.

Still, the police should have anticipated what would happen.

This is why their funding must be cut, and used instead for training them to better handle these type situations, provide counseling to women like Gabby, and lock up men like Brian.

Gmafb. Her parents, who knew him for years, didn’t even anticipate what would happen.

You don’t know that. Only they know.

Everyone should be more careful assuming they know what strangers know or knew or thought. You don’t know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So apparently half a dozen or more tips that he's in North Carolina/Appalachian Trail area. Who knows if it's true but it seems more likely if a half dozen people are claiming to have seen him as opposed to the other "sightings" in Alabama and in a hotel in Canada which was 1 person each time; like after a certain point, can a ton of people be wrong about someone's identity?

Good question. If one person hears about another person seeing him, then they could maybe believe they saw him. People who want to help may see things incorrectly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think that it is unfair to blame Gabby’s family for not assisting her w/her troubled relationship issues.

She was twenty-two years old > definitely old enough to make her own, independent decisions on the trajectory of her life.
Plus it doesn’t appear that anyone in Gabby’s family even knew of what a monster her fiancé was.

Ideally Gabby should have left Brian in Utah after he was situated in his hotel room.
She should have taken her van & just got the HE🏒🏒 away from that loser.

But love (especially young love) is so blind + I just feel it is so unfair to hold her family responsible for her tragic fate.
I am sure that they likely are dealing w/so many mixed emotions every single second. 😢

But financially and living situation wise, they both lived with his parents. Did she have access to her own accounts to pay for what she would need without him? Are they tied to his?

DP here. Not sure, but hadn’t her father moved to FL so he could be supportive of Gabby? What happened with that? I’m sure there are many regrets all around within that family.

Anyone find Gabbys father’s behavior a little off? I can’t quite put my finger on it. He just seems a little too composed in TV interviews considering how recently this all occurred. And has this weird hyper macho thing going on.

He just comes across as that typical hyper macho douchy Italian-American from Long Island. IDK where he lives now but he appears to be a Long Island native by accent. Those kinds of guys don't grow out of it - in their 20s they're strutting around showing off their biceps, mocking other guys; and then when they have daughters that's THEIR BABY, she'll always be their princess and NO MAN will be good enough and their mocking ways come out - in this case hating on every boyfriend and calling Brian Brianne. Doesn't mean he wasn't a good dad, it's just his personality. If her life had gone normally and she'd married someone (not Brian - like a normal non abusive guy), dad would have had a super hard time at the wedding "giving her away," would never like the son in law but dote on his grandkids, and it'd take like 15 years of marriage until the son in law was in his 40s for dad to finally admit - he's a pretty good guy who takes great care of my baby and my grandkids and THEN the son in law would be in the special circle of guys. It's seriously a personality type up there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think that it is unfair to blame Gabby’s family for not assisting her w/her troubled relationship issues.

She was twenty-two years old > definitely old enough to make her own, independent decisions on the trajectory of her life.
Plus it doesn’t appear that anyone in Gabby’s family even knew of what a monster her fiancé was.

Ideally Gabby should have left Brian in Utah after he was situated in his hotel room.
She should have taken her van & just got the HE🏒🏒 away from that loser.

But love (especially young love) is so blind + I just feel it is so unfair to hold her family responsible for her tragic fate.
I am sure that they likely are dealing w/so many mixed emotions every single second. 😢

But financially and living situation wise, they both lived with his parents. Did she have access to her own accounts to pay for what she would need without him? Are they tied to his?

DP here. Not sure, but hadn’t her father moved to FL so he could be supportive of Gabby? What happened with that? I’m sure there are many regrets all around within that family.

Anyone find Gabbys father’s behavior a little off? I can’t quite put my finger on it. He just seems a little too composed in TV interviews considering how recently this all occurred. And has this weird hyper macho thing going on.

Oh my god, absolutely!! Her controlling father is CLEARLY the reason she was drawn to a controlling man like Brian. It's very clear to me that Brian is basically her dad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My guess was BL parents were willing to financially support BL 100%, and put up Gabby in their home and basically support her too. And she just didn't like living with either of her parents.

Maybe that’s true. We’ll never know. But if a controlling and absurd boyfriend is preferable to your own parents, at what point do we give her agency over her own life and choices? Of course she didn’t deserve what happened but she was 22 not 18. I was making all of my own life choices at that point. Including an engagement to my college boyfriend and moving with him while he went to grad school. My story has a happy ending but I wouldn’t have listened if my parents told me not to go.

+ 1

Same here in my early 20s. Moved halfway across the country to be with an abusive cheater (and lied to my parents about all of it - they thought I was moving in with a girlfriend and that I had a job). Fortunately I got out, fortunately my parents were loving and supportive and let me move in with them no questions asked.

[Anonymous]

I really have a difficult time believing the FBI doesn’t have enough evidence at this point to arrest his parent.

[Anonymous]

Super pissed that BL has not been caught yet AND I don't know how that California family died.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Super pissed that BL has not been caught yet AND I don't know how that California family died.

Same!!! DH is annoyed and doesn’t want to hear any more about them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really have a difficult time believing the FBI doesn’t have enough evidence at this point to arrest his parent.

They probably do. Sometimes it makes more sense not to make an arrest right away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She was killed 2 weeks after the police encounter. What were the police supposed to do with her to prevent that from happening 2 weeks later? They separated them. She went right back to him within 12 hours.

The people who failed her were her parents and friends. They were the ones who had any chance of getting her to wise up and leave this looser. If I was her mom or dad I'd be on an airplane the day of that call with the police. When I was growing up, my dad did crazy stuff like that for me. When I was in graduate school (early 20s) he once drove 12 hours straight to help me move out of a bad situation. He just got in the car, arrived and helped me get my sh%t together. That's what parents are supposed to do, even with young 20 somethings. And friends too. Where were her friends in this? They had to have known that she was dating a verbally abusive loser.

Still, the police should have anticipated what would happen.

This is why their funding must be cut, and used instead for training them to better handle these type situations, provide counseling to women like Gabby, and lock up men like Brian.

Gmafb. Her parents, who knew him for years, didn’t even anticipate what would happen.

You don’t know that. Only they know.

Everyone should be more careful assuming they know what strangers know or knew or thought. You don’t know.

You think there’s some chance that Gabby’s parents knew that she would be murdered on that trip? That’s…laughable. And bizarre.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think that it is unfair to blame Gabby’s family for not assisting her w/her troubled relationship issues.

She was twenty-two years old > definitely old enough to make her own, independent decisions on the trajectory of her life.
Plus it doesn’t appear that anyone in Gabby’s family even knew of what a monster her fiancé was.

Ideally Gabby should have left Brian in Utah after he was situated in his hotel room.
She should have taken her van & just got the HE🏒🏒 away from that loser.

But love (especially young love) is so blind + I just feel it is so unfair to hold her family responsible for her tragic fate.
I am sure that they likely are dealing w/so many mixed emotions every single second. 😢

But financially and living situation wise, they both lived with his parents. Did she have access to her own accounts to pay for what she would need without him? Are they tied to his?

DP here. Not sure, but hadn’t her father moved to FL so he could be supportive of Gabby? What happened with that? I’m sure there are many regrets all around within that family.

Anyone find Gabbys father’s behavior a little off? I can’t quite put my finger on it. He just seems a little too composed in TV interviews considering how recently this all occurred. And has this weird hyper macho thing going on.

YES to the bold!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think that it is unfair to blame Gabby’s family for not assisting her w/her troubled relationship issues.

She was twenty-two years old > definitely old enough to make her own, independent decisions on the trajectory of her life.
Plus it doesn’t appear that anyone in Gabby’s family even knew of what a monster her fiancé was.

Ideally Gabby should have left Brian in Utah after he was situated in his hotel room.
She should have taken her van & just got the HE🏒🏒 away from that loser.

But love (especially young love) is so blind + I just feel it is so unfair to hold her family responsible for her tragic fate.
I am sure that they likely are dealing w/so many mixed emotions every single second. 😢

But financially and living situation wise, they both lived with his parents. Did she have access to her own accounts to pay for what she would need without him? Are they tied to his?

DP here. Not sure, but hadn’t her father moved to FL so he could be supportive of Gabby? What happened with that? I’m sure there are many regrets all around within that family.

Anyone find Gabbys father’s behavior a little off? I can’t quite put my finger on it. He just seems a little too composed in TV interviews considering how recently this all occurred. And has this weird hyper macho thing going on.

YES to the bold!!

I mean maybe he is overly calm and composed. Maybe he hasn't started grieving yet and is holding it together? Maybe he only goes on TV on days where he is able to hold it together and the rest of the time he's a mess? Who knows. But you're not suggesting his weirdness means he's somehow involved right? Bc as far as we know he lives in Vero Beach and was no where near these 2 on the camping trip.