An observation about the Gabby Pettito case

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  1. yabberefugee

    yabberefugee Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Watching the news we have been treated to minutes of footage of a lovely young couple in their "Camelot" as they traveled across the country together in love.,, That is until we see the police footage as to the reality of truth of what can go on in the underside of "relationship". This couple was bent on capturing their perfect love and possibly starting a blog about their travel across the Nation

    Isn't this sort of typical of those that are obsessed today with selfies on Facebook that always show the best smiles and good times? It is a very shallow operation and fau reality that might be a lethargic to pin that runs deep. What kind of hope do we have for those that fall into this?
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/g...und-in-wyoming-fbi-says/ar-AAOCkFu?li=BBnb7Kz
     
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    North Port is pretty close to me. This whole case is a joke. His ass should have been arrested quickly. They were searching large preserves in Charlotte county as recent as this morning for him. Police said he was last known to be home Tuesday....come Friday he is "missing" and his parents sent the police to waste time searching a 20thousand + acre preserve.....He is probably thousands of miles away and she is likely dead.

    Who TF drives their girlfriend's van back across country with her missing, runs home to mom and dad and lawyers up and stays silent?

    On a side note....North Port is a nice place, lots of land.
     
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    Just popped over to local FB groups, not yet confirmed 100% but her body has been located.
     
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    I can't believe this dirtbag came home, lawyered up and had mom and dad defend him....was merely called "person of interest" by the police and would not say a damn thing.....I have been following this case closely.

    Are his parents rich that police did nothing?

    His parents are ALMOST...as guilty as he is.
     
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    This is sad that she is dead if the body is hers.

    I heard she had OCD as was reported and so does someone I know close to me. It's easy for someone like that to get angry and go to a dark place and become a monster and then after awhile come out of it and feel so mean and apologize becoming the nicest person ever.

    It's hard for people like that to controll thier emotions but they are not a threat to anyone. I have alot of patience and so it does not bother me as much as it would others.

    Gabby was probably the same way. Angry at times and sweet at times. She was only 22 years old.

    A year or two ago a woman was reported missing at the Virgin Islands and her boyfriend would not let police search his boat. Sounds like a similar case.
     
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    Sarm Heslop is the woman who dissapeared in the Virgin Islands and that was March of this year. She was 41. Her boyfriend was drunk and hostile with the cops when he refused to let them check his boat. People are asking him to cooperate.

    He claims he woke up in the middle of the night and she was gone. The boat was away from land and her stuff was in it. Police and the FBI are still looking for her after being missing for months.

    A body was found in St. Croix but ended up not being her.

    Sarm was said to be the sweetest person ever and this case is similar to Gabbys case.
     
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    The body they found "matches her description. " This Whole situation really stinks. The fiance's behavior is very suspicious .........and not in keeping with true "fiance". Getting Lawyered up while she is missing......is almost an admission of guilt.
    It is amazing how her family made sure she was in the the news.......and the case was getting attention. It was almost as if they felt they HAD to .....for the case to move forward.
    Now there is a "fiance" from Hell. Did not help with the search .. Or even pretend to...........like Scott Peterson did..(Remember him)
     
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    I mean he probably did it. But getting lawyered up is safer even if you're innocent. Cops often make a case against an innocent person, and it can be based up them saying something stupid while trying to be helpful. Don't trust the criminal justice system. They do not always get it right. First because they're humans, and second because a trial is a competition between lawyers who may not be the same caliber, and decided by juries who can be manipulated, are emotional, and don't understand important things like that confessions aren't 100% reliable.
     
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    Yeah but this looks especially bad she's been missing so what does he do he drives her vehicle what 2,000 miles back home I would assume he never reported her missing in Wyoming or wherever it was and now all of a sudden he's got a lawyer and he will not say a single word to the police?
     
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    The fact that he has been "missing" from his parents home and it took this long for them to say anything about it tells me they're guilty as sin too.

    Who knows if the parents even reported him gone?
    Read an article in the local paper about this today said that his vehicle was recovered at that preserve or at least seen there and then they said the vehicle made its way back to the house.

    Must have been one of them fancy newfangled Tesla vehicles huh?

    This entire story stinks like a week old can of fish. Someone in this family is wealthy and politically connected you can almost guarantee of that
     
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    good point about him not reprotingher. missing. Are we to assume that he left her alone there .......and drove home in HER vehicle and left her ......stranded?? That raises questions too.

    If she was "missing" before he left for home.......why didn't he report that?
     
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    There is more about this story that does not make sense that anything that makes a remote amount of sense.

    The city of North Port is only about 50 miles from me, so not that I really wanted to follow the story but on all of the local social media and local newspapers have been filled with this story Non-Stop.

    Evidently her family last heard from her and a text message perhaps on the 17th or 23rd of August?

    So he drives her vehicle back alone across the country having said nothing to no one. Then his parents retain an attorney and evidently at no point did he speak to any authorities anywhere about her whereabouts. I mean if you just wanted to look guilty as sin you'd be hard-pressed to find a worse way to present it.

    Now he's supposedly missing in one of two very large preserves not far from his home in North Port. So they had a massive amount of law enforcement resources out there looking for him for the last 2 days at least. And get this it was evidently on the word of his parents alone.

    I would not trust them further than I could throw them.

    Yes innocent until proven guilty and all but this guy is making himself look just as guilty as you possibly could.
     
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    I get the impression that Gabby was the one interested in vlogging and all that. Brian smiled for the camera same as he smiled for family and public, but now he only knows what all happened when the camera was off.

    I am just curious as to how it all went down, whether it was planned, and what could have motivated Brian. Either it was murder or abandonment that led to death, going by his behavior.
     
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    Here is a picture of the local paper from about 24 hours ago and the headlines.

    Today's newspaper should be here within the hour I will see what the headlines are then. IMG_20210920_021553.jpg
     
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    Today's newspaper headline just got delivered 2:30 a.m.

    IMG_20210920_023037.jpg
     
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    The North Port Police Department is particularly noteworthy for their incompetence, and that was true before this latest #VanLife saga.
     
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    Hell North Port is a little bit on the ritzy side. There's a huge area in there where they started to go build giant subdivisions years ago put in the power lines and roads and that's as far as they got.

    Lots of party spots back in there and a lot of ATV riding. Just in general nice place to cruise the back roads.

    Fortunately I cannot say much about the North Port Police department as the only time I'm in North Port is to cruise through on my way to the gulf to go fishing but if this case is anything to judge by then they really do suck
     
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    AFAICT, the timeline is that Gabby last had a phone conversation with her mother on August 25th. Their van was spotted (and filmed) very near the location where her body was discovered on August 27th. Brian hitchhiked alone on August 29th. A suspicious text was sent from Gabby's phone on August 30th about not having service. Gabby's mom believes this message did not originate from her daughter. Brian returned home to Florida on September 1st (again, alone, obviously).

    Lastly, the FBI is asking for information from people in the Spread Creek area from August 27-30, so that's probably a pretty good indicator of when she was likely killed.
     
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    There are 3 types of "Van Life" numbskulls

    1. Stinky hippie dirtbags who are content to dumpster dive for food, and live in their own filth.

    2. Trust fund brats who stay in hotels more than the van and pretend like they’re “roughing it” for the YouToob and Bookface attention whoring points.

    3. Naive young dummies who think living in a van like a hobo will be fun, and then dirty, disgusting reality kicks them in the teeth.

    I'm guessing these two crazy kids were in the 3 category.
     
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    Not to speak ill of the dead, but I suspect there's a high likelihood that both Brian and Gabby were regular consumers of illegal narcotics.
     
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    Not at all. It is actually quite rare. I don't see any value in Facebook but I don't see any harm in it either.
     
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    From what I understand their fight was mostly about her wanting to get rich with her blog and him trying to bring her down to Earth and reality, which she took as him not supporting her. I basically find most social media disgusting and can't for the life of me understand why people think others would find their stupid travel blog so fascinating that the bloggers would get rich off of it or even make a living off of it. Might as well ditch everything and move to Hollywood to become an actor. Your chances are slim to none. This is what the mindless do when they don't want to work for a living.
     
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    There are a lot of things regarding this case that don't make sense, at lot of missing pieces. We need more information. And, yes, the boyfriend's behavior is suspect.

    Sure, she was OCD and the officers also said she appeared to be having a "manic" episode. I thought that "language" from a LEO's report was rather interesting, even surprising.
     
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    Based on what, because they are young? No indication of illegal narcotics during the traffic stop or on their social media, only mentions that they were taking their legal prescribed med's. Just curious if you could elaborate on why you suspect this since you brought it up.
     

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