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

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Anonymous wrote:With all due respect - I hope that the protesters who were in front of the Laundrie’s home will now go quietly back to their own homes & let the Laundries grieve their loss of their child.

Sure, they should have been responsive to the Petito family from the get-go, etc., and they have certainly paid a hefty price for their silence.
As they should have.
However they were truthful in their son’s whereabouts, did not secretly funnel ca$h to him to live on the lam, etc.

So they should be allowed to grieve in peace.

I honestly couldn’t care less what happens to them. They are not good people.

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No they are not good people and many people will never get over the fact that they never responded to Gabby’s family when they were contacted by them.
There is no legitimate reason explaining how they could leave the Petito family in limbo the way they did.

One could scream “Karma!” for the way they behaved.
Perhaps that is accurate.
However their child is dead and that is the worst thing that can ever happen to any parent.
It just seems cruel to not allow them their privacy to grieve in their own home.
To stake them out 24/7 seems a little overkill considering the outcome….

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Anonymous wrote:With all due respect - I hope that the protesters who were in front of the Laundrie’s home will now go quietly back to their own homes & let the Laundries grieve their loss of their child.

Sure, they should have been responsive to the Petito family from the get-go, etc., and they have certainly paid a hefty price for their silence.
As they should have.
However they were truthful in their son’s whereabouts, did not secretly funnel ca$h to him to live on the lam, etc.

So they should be allowed to grieve in peace.

I honestly couldn’t care less what happens to them. They are not good people.

+1. Would I sit on their lawn? No. But I honestly do not have any sh+ts to give if others want to and won't be over here hand wringing about their privacy and grief.

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Anonymous wrote:With all due respect - I hope that the protesters who were in front of the Laundrie’s home will now go quietly back to their own homes & let the Laundries grieve their loss of their child.

Sure, they should have been responsive to the Petito family from the get-go, etc., and they have certainly paid a hefty price for their silence.
As they should have.
However they were truthful in their son’s whereabouts, did not secretly funnel ca$h to him to live on the lam, etc.

So they should be allowed to grieve in peace.

I honestly couldn’t care less what happens to them. They are not good people.

+1. Would I sit on their lawn? No. But I honestly do not have any sh+ts to give if others want to and won't be over here hand wringing about their privacy and grief.

Pp here. Exactly. I will care as much about their grief as they cared about the Petitos.

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Anonymous wrote:With all due respect - I hope that the protesters who were in front of the Laundrie’s home will now go quietly back to their own homes & let the Laundries grieve their loss of their child.

Sure, they should have been responsive to the Petito family from the get-go, etc., and they have certainly paid a hefty price for their silence.
As they should have.
However they were truthful in their son’s whereabouts, did not secretly funnel ca$h to him to live on the lam, etc.

So they should be allowed to grieve in peace.

I honestly couldn’t care less what happens to them. They are not good people.

+1. Would I sit on their lawn? No. But I honestly do not have any sh+ts to give if others want to and won't be over here hand wringing about their privacy and grief.

Pp here. Exactly. I will care as much about their grief as they cared about the Petitos.

Now that he’s dead - none of their own family has showed up. Not even their daughter. Something is off about that couple.

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Anonymous wrote:With all due respect - I hope that the protesters who were in front of the Laundrie’s home will now go quietly back to their own homes & let the Laundries grieve their loss of their child.

Sure, they should have been responsive to the Petito family from the get-go, etc., and they have certainly paid a hefty price for their silence.
As they should have.
However they were truthful in their son’s whereabouts, did not secretly funnel ca$h to him to live on the lam, etc.

So they should be allowed to grieve in peace.

I honestly couldn’t care less what happens to them. They are not good people.

+1. Would I sit on their lawn? No. But I honestly do not have any sh+ts to give if others want to and won't be over here hand wringing about their privacy and grief.

Pp here. Exactly. I will care as much about their grief as they cared about the Petitos.

Now that he’s dead - none of their own family has showed up. Not even their daughter. Something is off about that couple.

I mean they chose to harbor their murdering son over their daughter and her children getting death threats. I would never speak to my parents again if I were her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With all due respect - I hope that the protesters who were in front of the Laundrie’s home will now go quietly back to their own homes & let the Laundries grieve their loss of their child.

Sure, they should have been responsive to the Petito family from the get-go, etc., and they have certainly paid a hefty price for their silence.
As they should have.
However they were truthful in their son’s whereabouts, did not secretly funnel ca$h to him to live on the lam, etc.

So they should be allowed to grieve in peace.

Those so called protestors are horrid people. They should have all been arrested for the trouble they caused that family and their neighbors.

No one knows anything about the parents because they haven't spoke. Just the mob making up stuff once again.

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Anonymous wrote:We now know he was “extremely upset” and in a bad mental state when he left the house. Knowing this, the location and condition of his body, that there was never a camp fire, and the fact that he left his phone and wallet home, it seems to be a fair assumption that he didn’t leave the house to abscond from justice or hide away forever. He left to off himself. He didn’t bring a tent or supplies. He brought a notebook, which I’m going to guess he included his “story” in, and that’s pretty much seemingly it. He then went right to the park and entered an area that at the time was shoulders deep or more in water. All signs point to him killing himself that first evening - whether by bullet, alligator, overdose, hanging, or drowning. His parents knew his mental state when he left. It’s no wonder they insisted the only place they believed he would be is in the reserve. They knew he was almost surely dead and not fleeing. The fact that his lawyer called the FBI the very first night he left after Brian didn’t return is extremely telling regarding what they believed his mental state to be.

All of this seems likely accurate to me except they didn’t report him missing for at least 3 days. That is still strange to me. I can still never forgive the parents for not sounding the alarm when he returned without her and not answering her parents frantic calls and texts.

Couple things - they apparently reported him missing to the FBI the same night he left after not returning home. Second, you don’t know what he told his parents. The petito/s didn’t text/call until the 10th- the day before they filed the report and the van was confiscated. They admittedly included in their texts that they were going to call the cops. If the laundry’s didn’t know anything up until then, there was probably a wild scene in the household trying to figure it out with Brian which we know led to the attorney being retained on the 11th, if not the night of the 10th and then instructing them not to talk

Laundrie was reported missing on the 17th. His parents and lawyer even got the day wrong of when he left home. They first said the 14th was when he took the mustang to the reserve, recently changed that to the 13th.

He was reported to the FBI as having “not come home” on Monday evening, the 13th

Where is this stated?? Why did they forget what day he didn't come home, when they reported on the 17th? Even their lawyer contradicts that in his interviews last night.

It sounds like it's the shady lawyer saying all of this. For some reason there are a few posters who REALLY don't want his parents to be held accountable for their role in at the very least wasting extensive taxpayer resources searching for this dummy. Makes you wonder what sort of shit they've covered up for their own kids.

You are exemplifying the mob mentality quite nicely.

Exactly. The parents didn't do anything wrong that we know of. The kid probably gave them a story when he first came home about her. Gabby's mom said she text the parents, but we don't know. We don't know if they got the text. To harass them is beyond ignorant.

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Anonymous wrote:We now know he was “extremely upset” and in a bad mental state when he left the house. Knowing this, the location and condition of his body, that there was never a camp fire, and the fact that he left his phone and wallet home, it seems to be a fair assumption that he didn’t leave the house to abscond from justice or hide away forever. He left to off himself. He didn’t bring a tent or supplies. He brought a notebook, which I’m going to guess he included his “story” in, and that’s pretty much seemingly it. He then went right to the park and entered an area that at the time was shoulders deep or more in water. All signs point to him killing himself that first evening - whether by bullet, alligator, overdose, hanging, or drowning. His parents knew his mental state when he left. It’s no wonder they insisted the only place they believed he would be is in the reserve. They knew he was almost surely dead and not fleeing. The fact that his lawyer called the FBI the very first night he left after Brian didn’t return is extremely telling regarding what they believed his mental state to be.

All of this seems likely accurate to me except they didn’t report him missing for at least 3 days. That is still strange to me. I can still never forgive the parents for not sounding the alarm when he returned without her and not answering her parents frantic calls and texts.

Couple things - they apparently reported him missing to the FBI the same night he left after not returning home. Second, you don’t know what he told his parents. The petito/s didn’t text/call until the 10th- the day before they filed the report and the van was confiscated. They admittedly included in their texts that they were going to call the cops. If the laundry’s didn’t know anything up until then, there was probably a wild scene in the household trying to figure it out with Brian which we know led to the attorney being retained on the 11th, if not the night of the 10th and then instructing them not to talk

Laundrie was reported missing on the 17th. His parents and lawyer even got the day wrong of when he left home. They first said the 14th was when he took the mustang to the reserve, recently changed that to the 13th.

He was reported to the FBI as having “not come home” on Monday evening, the 13th

Where is this stated?? Why did they forget what day he didn't come home, when they reported on the 17th? Even their lawyer contradicts that in his interviews last night.

It sounds like it's the shady lawyer saying all of this. For some reason there are a few posters who REALLY don't want his parents to be held accountable for their role in at the very least wasting extensive taxpayer resources searching for this dummy. Makes you wonder what sort of shit they've covered up for their own kids.

You are exemplifying the mob mentality quite nicely.

Exactly. The parents didn't do anything wrong that we know of. The kid probably gave them a story when he first came home about her. Gabby's mom said she text the parents, but we don't know. We don't know if they got the text. To harass them is beyond ignorant.

Gabby went missing on August 27th.

Brian went missing on September 13th.

In the two weeks intervening he was living with them and her parents were frantically reaching out.

You can say what you want but what they did wrong is absolutely clear.

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Anonymous wrote:With all due respect - I hope that the protesters who were in front of the Laundrie’s home will now go quietly back to their own homes & let the Laundries grieve their loss of their child.

Sure, they should have been responsive to the Petito family from the get-go, etc., and they have certainly paid a hefty price for their silence.
As they should have.
However they were truthful in their son’s whereabouts, did not secretly funnel ca$h to him to live on the lam, etc.

So they should be allowed to grieve in peace.

Those so called protestors are horrid people. They should have all been arrested for the trouble they caused that family and their neighbors.

No one knows anything about the parents because they haven't spoke. Just the mob making up stuff once again.

Look, the Laundries friends are back again! We know for a fact that they did nothing from 9/1 until Gabby was reported missing. They could have checked on Gabby and contacted her parents immediately.

[Anonymous]

People are going to realize the huge, disgusting mistake they made about the parents. No one has been looking at this objectively but if you listen through all of the interviews and reports, you can see the other side. It’s insane how much misinformation has been put out there and believed

- When Brian returned, he told his parents that Gabby and he broke up and she went with her bestfriend who was in fact planning on meeting Gabby in Yellowstone on the 30th. Gabby decided to stay with the friend and let Brian take the van back home. Best friend lives near them in North Port, so Brian said Gabby was going to head back with her after Yellowstone. (My speculation - this is why he texted Gabby’s mother on the 30th from Gabby’s phone saying heading to Yosemite, no service. He effed up and actually meant to say Yellowstone where everyone including her parents knew she was planning to meet the friend for the friend’s birthday.)

- Brian was acting down and “off” at times between the 1-11, but it was chalked up to him and his fiancée having just broken off a long term engagement.

- The Petitos according to all of their own statements never even tried to reach Brian or the Laundries until the 10th. Gabby’s mom said she tried texting Brian and Roberta on this day. She actually didn’t have Brian’s number at that time. He returned to North Port without his phone (likely ditched it and Gabby’s someplace random before heading back- it still has yet to be found and has been off since the 30th), and he had told his parents he lost it on the trip. On Sept. 4, Brian and his mom went to ATT and got Brian a new phone on a new phone plan. He did not transfer his number over; he got a new number. Gabby’s mom never had that number- she was presumably texting his old phone. As to Roberta’s texts, there are mixed stories here, and I frankly don’t know which is accurate. However, the Laundrie’s maintain they never received any calls or texts from the Petitos. Perhaps they aren’t telling the truth, perhaps Brian interceded and deleted them, or perhaps Nicole had the wrong number. I don’t know.

- The first the parents heard anything about Gabby being missing was the evening of the 11th around 7pm when they received a CALL from law enforcement asking if they knew where Gabby and Brian were. They naturally got confused and said Brian was home and they didn’t know where Gabby was. The LE then explained how Gabby was missing and they were looking for her and the van. The parents responded that the van was at their house. They asked to speak with Brian. I don’t know the details of what transpired in the house within that moment but Brian refused to get on the phone and the call ended shortly after that. This news about the van and Brian triggered NY LE who were handling the case since it was filed there to immediately contact North Port LE and get them involved. FBI also got involved within this same time period. North Port police got their papers in order to seize the van and went to the Laundrie’s house at around 11pm. They knocked on the door to serve the papers and ask to speak with Brian. Parents provided keys and access to the van and said Brian had an attorney so they need to contact him. Van was ultimately towed off shortly after midnight. Brian had apparently engaged and spoken with Bertolino between the NY LE call and the North Port police arriving at the house which was actually only a matter of a few hours (3-4hrs). Bertolino in the meantime had reached out to the NY LE to receive information about the matter. Bertolino instructed all laundries not to speak with anyone.

- On Sunday, Bertolino spoke with FBI and North Port Police a couple of times and spoke with Brian at least once. My understanding is that Brian unequivocally did not admit what happened to his parents, but his behavior was becoming very alarming and erratic. I don’t know if or what he told Bertolino.

- The hatred and finger pointing at Brian was very immediate and overwhelming even as early as that Sunday. He was receiving 100s of death threats and disgusting messages on all his social media platforms and people were already bombarding them outside the house. This was causing him to downward spiral. Probably didn’t help that Grand Teton was the primary search area, and he knew she was there. He also was panicky about the fact that Gabby’s mom figured out the last two texts from Gabby’s phone (in which he made stupid “mistakes”) were unlikely to be Gabby.

- On Monday morning, the above continued at an even more alarming pace. He was already the presumed suspect #1 in every medium. Brian spoke with Bertolino that morning and was told the grim situation - how it doesn’t look good and what he could be facing in xyz scenario. Gabby’s mom and stepdad gave a presser this day that Brian watched. It pushed him over the edge presumably with guilt and remorse. That’s when he insisted on leaving the house to hike in Myakkahatchee. He was in an obviously bad state - even worse than prior days - so dad tried to stop him (i think this was over the phone because he wasn’t home at the time), but Brian didn’t listen and stormed out. Rest his history - he presumably offed himself almost immediately.

- That evening, Bertolino had a regular call with FBI and during it he mentioned in passing that Brian left earlier for a hike and had not yet returned. Parents were freaked out at Brian not being back but Bertolino said he told FBI so they would look. Chris Laundrie still decided to check for Brian that evening but it was really dark and he couldn’t see anything at Myakkahatchee so he didn’t stay long before returning home. Saw and left mustang there.

- Tuesday - Chris and Roberta went back to look for Brian. Spent a few hrs. The area was incredibly flooded - waist high so they couldn’t go off trail. It was also raining pretty badly. While there, they saw the car again, this time with citation. Roberta used their spare key to drive it back and Chris drove the truck back.

- Wednesday- they tried searching the reserve again but had the same problem as the day prior. They were very worried at this point but then this day, Brian was officially named a person of interest. Bertolino was crunched and felt a conflict of interest (best interests to Brian not to say he is missing and they are concerned bc he was distraught but best interests to parents to do just that), so said he needed to get legal advice before they could do anything. He could not file the missing person report without violating his responsibilities as Brian’s attorney because would have disclosed that Brian was distraught on Monday and panicky- would have implicated him. Also couldn’t advise parents to for same reason. They didn’t think Brian was a harm to himself so he didn’t see a loophole. Bertolino got legal opinion on Thursday - couldn’t make report.

- Friday- Someone else - not the parents or Bertolino- filed the missing person complaint re Brian. Still unclear who but maybe another attorney whose advice was sought. There has also been some reports that parents have another attorney they are working with who is based in Orlando - might have been him/her. That attorney is reportedly purposefully staying under the radar but was necessary to navigate conflicts issues that were arising for Bertolino.

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Anonymous wrote:People are going to realize the huge, disgusting mistake they made about the parents. No one has been looking at this objectively but if you listen through all of the interviews and reports, you can see the other side. It’s insane how much misinformation has been put out there and believed

- When Brian returned, he told his parents that Gabby and he broke up and she went with her bestfriend who was in fact planning on meeting Gabby in Yellowstone on the 30th. Gabby decided to stay with the friend and let Brian take the van back home. Best friend lives near them in North Port, so Brian said Gabby was going to head back with her after Yellowstone. (My speculation - this is why he texted Gabby’s mother on the 30th from Gabby’s phone saying heading to Yosemite, no service. He effed up and actually meant to say Yellowstone where everyone including her parents knew she was planning to meet the friend for the friend’s birthday.)

- Brian was acting down and “off” at times between the 1-11, but it was chalked up to him and his fiancée having just broken off a long term engagement.

- The Petitos according to all of their own statements never even tried to reach Brian or the Laundries until the 10th. Gabby’s mom said she tried texting Brian and Roberta on this day. She actually didn’t have Brian’s number at that time. He returned to North Port without his phone (likely ditched it and Gabby’s someplace random before heading back- it still has yet to be found and has been off since the 30th), and he had told his parents he lost it on the trip. On Sept. 4, Brian and his mom went to ATT and got Brian a new phone on a new phone plan. He did not transfer his number over; he got a new number. Gabby’s mom never had that number- she was presumably texting his old phone. As to Roberta’s texts, there are mixed stories here, and I frankly don’t know which is accurate. However, the Laundrie’s maintain they never received any calls or texts from the Petitos. Perhaps they aren’t telling the truth, perhaps Brian interceded and deleted them, or perhaps Nicole had the wrong number. I don’t know.

- The first the parents heard anything about Gabby being missing was the evening of the 11th around 7pm when they received a CALL from law enforcement asking if they knew where Gabby and Brian were. They naturally got confused and said Brian was home and they didn’t know where Gabby was. The LE then explained how Gabby was missing and they were looking for her and the van. The parents responded that the van was at their house. They asked to speak with Brian. I don’t know the details of what transpired in the house within that moment but Brian refused to get on the phone and the call ended shortly after that. This news about the van and Brian triggered NY LE who were handling the case since it was filed there to immediately contact North Port LE and get them involved. FBI also got involved within this same time period. North Port police got their papers in order to seize the van and went to the Laundrie’s house at around 11pm. They knocked on the door to serve the papers and ask to speak with Brian. Parents provided keys and access to the van and said Brian had an attorney so they need to contact him. Van was ultimately towed off shortly after midnight. Brian had apparently engaged and spoken with Bertolino between the NY LE call and the North Port police arriving at the house which was actually only a matter of a few hours (3-4hrs). Bertolino in the meantime had reached out to the NY LE to receive information about the matter. Bertolino instructed all laundries not to speak with anyone.

- On Sunday, Bertolino spoke with FBI and North Port Police a couple of times and spoke with Brian at least once. My understanding is that Brian unequivocally did not admit what happened to his parents, but his behavior was becoming very alarming and erratic. I don’t know if or what he told Bertolino.

- The hatred and finger pointing at Brian was very immediate and overwhelming even as early as that Sunday. He was receiving 100s of death threats and disgusting messages on all his social media platforms and people were already bombarding them outside the house. This was causing him to downward spiral. Probably didn’t help that Grand Teton was the primary search area, and he knew she was there. He also was panicky about the fact that Gabby’s mom figured out the last two texts from Gabby’s phone (in which he made stupid “mistakes”) were unlikely to be Gabby.

- On Monday morning, the above continued at an even more alarming pace. He was already the presumed suspect #1 in every medium. Brian spoke with Bertolino that morning and was told the grim situation - how it doesn’t look good and what he could be facing in xyz scenario. Gabby’s mom and stepdad gave a presser this day that Brian watched. It pushed him over the edge presumably with guilt and remorse. That’s when he insisted on leaving the house to hike in Myakkahatchee. He was in an obviously bad state - even worse than prior days - so dad tried to stop him (i think this was over the phone because he wasn’t home at the time), but Brian didn’t listen and stormed out. Rest his history - he presumably offed himself almost immediately.

- That evening, Bertolino had a regular call with FBI and during it he mentioned in passing that Brian left earlier for a hike and had not yet returned. Parents were freaked out at Brian not being back but Bertolino said he told FBI so they would look. Chris Laundrie still decided to check for Brian that evening but it was really dark and he couldn’t see anything at Myakkahatchee so he didn’t stay long before returning home. Saw and left mustang there.

- Tuesday - Chris and Roberta went back to look for Brian. Spent a few hrs. The area was incredibly flooded - waist high so they couldn’t go off trail. It was also raining pretty badly. While there, they saw the car again, this time with citation. Roberta used their spare key to drive it back and Chris drove the truck back.

- Wednesday- they tried searching the reserve again but had the same problem as the day prior. They were very worried at this point but then this day, Brian was officially named a person of interest. Bertolino was crunched and felt a conflict of interest (best interests to Brian not to say he is missing and they are concerned bc he was distraught but best interests to parents to do just that), so said he needed to get legal advice before they could do anything. He could not file the missing person report without violating his responsibilities as Brian’s attorney because would have disclosed that Brian was distraught on Monday and panicky- would have implicated him. Also couldn’t advise parents to for same reason. They didn’t think Brian was a harm to himself so he didn’t see a loophole. Bertolino got legal opinion on Thursday - couldn’t make report.

- Friday- Someone else - not the parents or Bertolino- filed the missing person complaint re Brian. Still unclear who but maybe another attorney whose advice was sought. There has also been some reports that parents have another attorney they are working with who is based in Orlando - might have been him/her. That attorney is reportedly purposefully staying under the radar but was necessary to navigate conflicts issues that were arising for Bertolino.

Oh, and most importantly, Chris and Roberta had no idea other than speculation based on Brian’s behavior before leaving then going MIA that Gabby was dead until it came out in the news that her body was found. This has all been a devastating blindside to them

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Anonymous wrote:With all due respect - I hope that the protesters who were in front of the Laundrie’s home will now go quietly back to their own homes & let the Laundries grieve their loss of their child.

Sure, they should have been responsive to the Petito family from the get-go, etc., and they have certainly paid a hefty price for their silence.
As they should have.
However they were truthful in their son’s whereabouts, did not secretly funnel ca$h to him to live on the lam, etc.

So they should be allowed to grieve in peace.

Those so called protestors are horrid people. They should have all been arrested for the trouble they caused that family and their neighbors.

No one knows anything about the parents because they haven't spoke. Just the mob making up stuff once again.

+1

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Does the long poster above know the family? They seem to have inside info and is speaking from their persective? Or is that "take" all readily available? I have not kept up with it all, other than DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:He returned to North Port without his phone (likely ditched it and Gabby’s someplace random before heading back- it still has yet to be found and has been off since the 30th), and he had told his parents he lost it on the trip. On Sept. 4, Brian and his mom went to ATT and got Brian a new phone on a new phone plan. He did not transfer his number over; he got a new number. Gabby’s mom never had that number- she was presumably texting his old phone.

I'm not going to re-quote that giant block. Assume Brian changed HIS number and didn't forward contacts. What makes you think Brian's parents have never spoken directly or met either of Gabby's four parents in the year + she was living with them? Thinking the parents only went through Brian, especially when I would think Gabby's family would want an emergency contact for the people their daughter was living with - is weird.