**Discussion begins at 5:00** Gabby Petito was born and raised in Blue Point, New York and was the oldest of 7 children in a blended family. While attending Bayport Blue Point High School, she met Brian Laundrie. After graduating in 2017, they reconnected and began dating in 2019. Eventually, they decided to move to Northpoint, Fl to live with Brian's parents. In 2020 they got engaged, and Gabby purchased a Ford Transit Connect - which the couple converted into a sleeper van. On July 2, 2021 they set off from New York on a 4 month roadtrip through national parks. Gabby was hoping to take off as a content creator, and was vlogging the journey on her YouTube and Instagram accounts about #vanlife. On August 12, 2021 police responded to a 911 call in Moab, Utah. The caller had reported seeing a man attacking a girl in a van driving by. The couple was separated and the police felt that Brian was the victim and no charges were pressed. They sent him to a domestic abuse hotel for the night, and she stayed in the van. The couple then proceeded on their trip. On August 25 Gabby made a final post to Instagram and then stopped responding to texts or phone calls. On September 11, Gabby's mother filed a missing persons report in Suffolk County, NY. When police went to the Laundries as part of a wellness check, they learned that Brian had returned home in Gabby’s van, without her. But the Laundries had already hired an attorney and refused to cooperate with the police investigation. The investigation let them to Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, where Gabby's phone was last used. On September 19, 3 weeks after the investigation had begun, her body was found in the park. After the discovery of her body, a search warrant was issued on the Laundrie home, and it is then that we learn Brian Laundrie had disappeared days prior, last seen going on a hike. A month later, on October 20, Brian Laundrie’s parents discover his body in Carlton Reserve, a nature preserve near their home. With him, they find a backpack that contains a journal with a partial confession – Brian claimed that he had killed Gabby, but only because she had a freak accident and was suffering and asked him to put her out of his misery. The coroner eventually ruled Brian Laundrie’s cause of death to be suicide by GSW. However, a number of inconsistencies in the crime scene, and his parent’s unwillingness to assist in the search for Gabby Petito, have led many online to speculate that Brian Laundrie is not actually dead, and that his parents helped him fake his death to cover it up. Send us a text Support the show Theme song by INDA
