Once Brian’s parents realized Gabby’ parents hadn’t heard from Gabby in two weeks and were calling THEM to ask if they knew anything … I think that’s when the gears truly began to turn in the Laundries’ heads. I doubt Brian volunteered anything approaching the truth before this.
Although … sometime after Gabby’s parents called, Brian could have told HIS parents something like "No one will believe this … but I found Gabby’s body and freaked out. I didn’t know what to do. Because of the Moab stop and the fight in public in Jackson Hole … I knew I’d be the only suspect. I couldn’t see a way out. Help me … "
Though seemingly very unlikely, I still think it’s plausible that Brian Laundrie did not kill Gabby Petito. Most everything we know publicly points to him, true … but a speculative “I found the body and freaked!” scenario, IMHO, leads him to adopt a “No way out, no hope” mindset and to act pretty much the same way as he apparently did.
That’s a good start, but it needs more crazy. And a motivation. I think that while off the main roads, Gabby and Brian stumbled across a cabin in Moab that was hiding the routers that conclusively prove the election was stolen. The Deep State offed both of them, Gabby directly and Brian by zapping his brain with Italian-Jewish space laser beams to make him run and hide in a predator-filled swamp. (And by predator, I mean Predator - those things are invisible)
Both families are originally from Long Island and moved to FL just a few years ago; in fact one of Gabby’s parents still lives on Long Island.
Gabby and Brian met at Bayport-Blue Point High School on Long Island, when she was a sophomore and he a junior. He graduated in 2016.
The media in that area all use phrases like “Long Island native” in coverage of the story, recent example in the link
Re. the Long Island background, just to add, there are lots of connections between LI and FL. With the high cost of living on LI, there’s a load of LI transplants all over FL as well as people who have condos or timeshares to escape the cold weather. I know of many families who’ve moved there or to SC, NC or TX. 5 families in my son’s 1st grade class all moved to FL or other Sunbelt states at the end of that school year, 2006.
It was probably NY family or friends of the Laundries who connected them with the lawyer, whose office is 20 minutes from the HS where Gabby & Brian met. Who knows, maybe they knew him themselves.
And here’s a local news site with the story prominent, describing him as “Blue Point’s Brian Laundrie”
I’ve probably been ninja’d, but the report I heard while listening to news at work today was that the area had been flooded due to heavy rains until very recently. Carrion eating birds generally don’t swim or dive for their dinner.
Well, I hope that other families can finally have some answers.
Well, yes, there would need to be an autopsy and formal identification before much more information could be released.
To paraphrase from Chris Rock, I would rather look foolishly guilty while at home in my EZ chair watching the History Channel that look innocent inside the county jail cell. It is much better to feather the short term heat from the media than to say or do something that makes you a suspect that could cause your long term incarceration.
Because any lawyer who isn’t a fool will tell his client not to talk to the police under these circumstances. All of the country and all of the police think he is a murderer. Unless he has solid proof to convince them otherwise, talking will only give them ammunition to use at a later criminal trial.
Yep, nature isn’t always pretty and almost never tidy… the Carrion Crew does a great service for the rest of us but they gotta pee and poop somewhere and it ain’t gonna smell any better exiting than it did entering…
Luckily a lawyer is there for legal advice only, and not advice on how to be a good person. A good person should certainly share their information with the police, even if it incriminates their son.
That’s a pretty bold statement. I’m not sure I would so easily jump at the chance to put my children in prison for life. Especially if I wasn’t 100% convinced that they were guilty, which the Laundries are probably not so convinced. Or maybe they aren’t sure if it is murder or manslaughter and they believe that their kid should be punished, but by talking now, he will get more time than he deserves?
None of us know, so I think it is unfair to say that they are doing something morally wrong even.
I’m sure we can all dream up scenarios in which refusing to talk to the police is a net good. Waiting to see how good a deal their son could get from prosecutors before helping isn’t one of them.
Nobody is “dreaming up” anything. When the police are focused on you, it is hardly ever a good idea to talk to them. Why would you want to help the police in that situation?
If the police are trying to solve a crime that doesn’t involve you or your family, then sure, help away as a good citizen. It is not your job to help put you or your family behind bars, and I’m stunned that you think it is.
It’s certainly not your job to help solve murders, to tell the truth, or to help bring peace to grieving people. But it certainly seems like, in this case, it would have been the right thing to do.
Again, keep in mind we have no idea what Laundrie’s parents knew. I would agree if they had any information on where Gabby was, alive or dead, and withheld that from Gabby’s parents that’s deeply immoral. I would say they had a moral obligation, even larger than the moral obligation to their son, to tell Gabby’s family if they knew something like that. But I’ve seen no evidence they had any such knowledge. If all they knew is Gabby was missing, they have no idea where, they have no information that can help find her, and that Brian is implicated, I think it is entirely ethical to take the approach of protecting Brian’s right to not incriminate himself and his right to counsel, and his right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.
How do you know this? What information did the Laundries have about the guilt of their son? None of us know this. And if it was a situation, which seems likely, that he told a rather fishy story, why run to the police to provide evidence that may get him convicted of the harshest crime possible when he may have an innocent explanation or be guilty of a lesser flavor of homicide? And why do that to your own child? How is that “right”?
Also let’s really consider what people have as information in terms of the “parents behaving badly”
No evidence the parents even knew Gabby was missing before 9/10 or 9/11.
No evidence they hired an attorney until they became aware that Gabby’s parents and police wanted Brian to “answer questions.”
On 9/13 (previously 9/14, but the family attorney updated that this was actually on 9/13) Brian goes to a reservoir, which he told his family, and hasn’t come back ~3.5 days later. At which point they contact police.
The “big crime” is that they waited 3.5 days? When we have no idea they had any reason to assume Brian was doing anything other than getting some “alone time” out in the wilderness? When Brian had no warrants out for his arrest or legal limits on his movements? The police were supposedly surveilling Brian and somehow lost track of him, and that is the parents’ fault? That they didn’t update the police on where Brian might be, which they had ZERO obligation to do at all, of their own free will, for 3.5 days? We wouldn’t even know about the Carlton Reserve if not for Brian’s parents–Brian wasn’t even named in a warrant until 9 days after he went to the Reserve. Brian’s parents actually came forward to police when they were under no legal obligation to tell the police anything.
