Have you never heard of the concept of this thing called a “road trip”? Google it. It’s a type of vacation.
You act as if giving someone permission to drive your car is open ended and devoid of your intended use. I would be surprised if the court sees it this way. Is there a relevant case that backs that up?
In other words, abandoning her in the middle of nowhere or killing her and taking the car would be an implied revocation.
I confess I’m surprised at the amount.
From what I understand of social media income, some of it comes from ads that the social media company links in (like youtube ads) and some of it comes from product sponsorship and placement. In some cases the placement is explicit and looks exactly like an ad, such as holding a sponsor’s drink with the caption “Acme Soda is so refreshing after a long hike!” Companies also pay to have their products just in the background. They may have cans of Acme soda just lying around the van that show up in videos and posts. The viability of making a living depends on how many followers they have and how engaged their followers are with their posts.
It can be quite lucrative, but it is a highly erratic living for most. You’re dependent on consistently holding people’s attention, which for many can be pretty tough to do over time. It’s constant (hopefully) little bursts of revenue from successful videos, especially if they go viral. But rarely anything like a truly steady income - only the YouTube giants achieve something approaching that.
A few have speculated about the role her OCD may have played, but:
In the footage, Gabby Petito cried as she told the officer she and Laundrie had been arguing over her excessive cleaning of the van. She told the officer she has OCD — obsessive compulsive disorder.
On “Dr. Phil,” her father said that was not literally true. She just likes to keep her living area orderly and was using slang, he said.
My take is that he’s probably a slob and she was manipulated by him into thinking that there’s something wrong with her because she didn’t want to live in a stinky pigsty.
There’s now an arrest warrant out for Laundrie for use of unauthorized devices:
I didn’t see anything from the police video of the van that suggested it was converted into anything other than a dumpster.
Now people could be charged for hiding Laundrie or helping him evade arrest.
I’ve read that hiding a person of interest might not be a crime.
This new development might be helpful. A old college buddy may decide letting Laundrie use their fishing cabin is too risky.
Put him in the cell next to Al Capone III.
His hometown, Bayport/Blue Point on Long Island (where he and Gabby both went to high school) is 50 miles from NYC. I’ve heard talk radio speculation here on Long Island that he left Florida and may be hiding out with relatives or friends in this area, but there didn’t seem to be any concrete evidence behind it.
The parents can still be charged with providing false statements to federal investigators if they deliberately misled special agents working the case - doesn’t matter whether he was a person of interest or charged with a crime. Knowingly providing a false statement that is material to a criminal investigation is an automatic felony.
This thread is like a Ouija Board on acid.
Haven’t they been really tight lipped? Probably for this very reason.
Yes, although they did tell the police they believed he went into the swamp. If it could be proven they knew he was elsewhere (say, because they took him to a relative’s home to hide out), then that would be bad for them.
If they said that he went to location A but the bureau can establish they knew he was at location B, they’re fucked. I mention this because there are now reports (which could be just rumors, understood) that neighbors saw the family leave together in a camper/van vehicle. If this is true - and it might not be - then they know he’s probably not at the bottom of a swamp, but hiding out somewhere. If they’re obstructing justice, they’re fucked. They’re going to get prison time, absolutely.
His parents retrieved his car from the reserve and it had a police note on it to remove it. so there’s a police time stamp and a location.
there’s a good chance there’s a camera trail of his car.
Someone has apparently enhanced the video of the van showing the door allegedly closing:
Maybe he attacked Gabby and she was in the van recovering? Letting the swelling and bruises go down. She avoids being seen.
She gets worse and dies. That could easily happen without professional medical care.