The first thing is, they need to look at the '120 miles" of 'desert in the south east corner (of Utah) that the officer chats about starting at 1 hour 12 minutes, as he tells boyfriend how to get to Yosemite and says he's doing himself a disservice if he doesn't go. (the text msg to mom on Aug 30 was the no service yosemite text)
It's unfortunate that she lived with him and his parents and that they were engaged 'from highschool'?, because I'm sure it made her feel obligated to continue on, not realizing that he was the ticking time bomb.
“The first thing is, they need to look at the ‘120 miles” of ‘desert in the south east corner (of Utah“
I suspect you have never been there.
It seems that these two were unsuited for close quarters of the RV lifestyle.
Covid divided and now this is dividing people on a national scale.
Misleading headline...Gabby didnt ‘blow her off’ she just didnt show...did the friend call her at all or try to contact her since then ???
Why wasnt the friend worried when Gabby didnt show up ???
She last talked to her mother the 25th. She does not show for a friends B”Day on 29th.
I commented to my wife that these 2 may have been under prescribed mood drugs. There was something strange about their behavior. Now I’ll wait for “the rest of the story”.
One wonders if this entire story was scripted to distract Americans from the border chaos, Afghanistan, traitor Milley and the $3.5T socialism bill. This could enrapture viewers for months, perhaps over a year. By design?
This case is very curious, although I believe Occam’s Razor applies: The simplest solution is usually the correct one. There are way too many shady actions by the fiance to not have him right at the very top of the suspect list. Gabby talked to her mom via phone on August 25th. Her mom also received two texts from Gabby’s phone (Aug. 27th and 30th, I believe), but she’s not sure it was her daughter doing the actual texting, since she didn’t talk to her. Now we have Gabby’s friend saying she was supposed to hear from her on the 29th. That can help shorten the window of her disappearance by a day.
It’s frustrating that we don’t know more, but I’m confident investigators are several steps ahead. I’ll be interested to find out what they’ve learned after tracking their phones. Particularly, when did Gabby’s phone signal end, and if and how many times the fiance called his parents while headed home.
I feel really sorry for that poor gal - whether she’s dc or not - but I have to admit somewhat shamefacedly that all these stories about weird camping events make me furious because I really want to go camping. These people are all like “Wheeee! Look at our cool vehicle and high-tech tent and we’re so happy in every pic” and it’s at Mt Rushmore or Canyonlands or something. I know: Shame on me for being jealous of someone who’s likely dead.
so, for those who don’t have an hour and 14 minutes to watch the entire body cam, here’s some notes on the traffic stop:
Last 10 minutes of the tape officer repeats that boyfriend said the couple was headed to washington to work on a ‘wwoolfing’ organic farm with Gabby’s grandmother or grandmother’s friend and sounds like he’s saying to follow the farming down to Oregon and California same story as (20min) hard to hear it all without my headphones
Instead of a branch smacked me camping type of no issues here white lie, boyfriend says Petito hit him with her phone and, admits to grabbing her by the face and pushing her away from him. That flies bother her, his dirty feet bother him and seems chummy with the officers. When officer asks if he’s on medication, he’s animated, (16 min), boyfriend changes his body language to crossed legs and arms and even uses the ladder on the rear of the van at one point towards the end of the tape to keep himself in one place. When the officer that asks the question leaves, he gets reanimated with the other officer then goes back to closed position when original officer returns. He says he doesn’t really have a phone (14 minutes in) “if she goes off without me I’m on my own”, but at the end of the hour (55 min), he has one. He claims that he hit the right curb because Petito grabbed the wheel, but she denies it. He never explains why she was crying when they were pulled over. The only time he seems to tear up was when he learned that the officer wasn’t going to issue a citation to Petito. When the officer told him not to contact her until the next day, he replied that he’d only text her to tell her not to message him, anyway, with a hand-sweeping motion.
I didnt hear the officers asking for the vehicle reg, and boyfriend didn’t offer that it wasn’t his vehicle in the first 15 minutes.
Boyfriend claimed that at the cafe he was upset he had dirty feet, and they were at the cafe for 4 hours and he wanted to get water at the campground because they were out. She said he was basically telling her she wasn’t good enough (at the internet?) to do her blog, his lack of confidence upset her. Boyfriend told officer that when they got back to the van there was dirt and he was moving things around in the van. Then he had locked the van, you take a walk this way in the shade and I’ll take a walk that way and cool down. But she wanted the vehicle keys and he admits to keeping the vehicle keys from her, that he ‘got loud’ yelling at her, to embarass her, and being close enough to “grab her face” to “push her away” and that’s when her phone allegedly scratched his cheek. This is a bit different than the witness account. To note, the blackmasked officer actually made tiger-clawing motions several times with his own hands to which boyfriend nodded.
The witness said they were arguing, that he shoved her, that he locked her out of the vehicle and put her backpack on the back of the van (21 min) and seemed ready to leave, but the drivers door was unlocked and Petito force-climbed her way over him to her seat and they drove off. Petito also said ‘he wouldnt let me in the car.’ Petito also said was she didnt want him to leave her ‘again’. (so they were both worried each other was going to strand each other?) Petito says she’s a neatnick and was trying to clean and before they were pulled over he kept telling her to calm down which made her mad. It sounded like she was trying to cover for him. He posed for photographs of a fingernail ‘scratch’ on his arm and the scratch on his cheek (described as a “swollen eye” by the officer). Boyfriend says at (29) minutes he doesn’t have the money for a hotel and listens while the sgt is telling him the trouble that Petito is in for domestic abuse. Officer seems to still assume that the van is the boyfriends, saying Petito can stay in a hotel for the night and he can pick her up the next morning. Boyfriend again says they have little money and asks what if she takes the van.
Arrangements were made for boyfriend to be given a ‘abuse victim’ hotel room, I didn’t hear any officer ask where Petito intended to spend her night but he did ask on the phone if another place could be found for ‘the agressor’ and it could not.
The officer says at (24min) that boyfriend said they had been living out of the van for ‘4 or 5 months’
Hard to believe it's true, but here's an article about it, published back in January this year:
“… The friend has not yet spoken to police, the Sun reported.”
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Well, she definitely needs to speak to the police. She has more “bread crumbs” that the investigators can add to their collection. Every bit of information counts.
How long did they have the “van life” channel?
The officer is talking about the 120 miles of desert in the southeast corner of Oregon, not Utah.
These 2 definitely were showing signs of coming down from anxiety type drugs. My guess is if they’ve been on the road for months, they ran out. They were both ridiculously paranoid yet coherent...likely supplemented with marijuana or edibles. Both admit issues with anxiety and clearly displayed it. Also clear signs of codependency and disconnect from what’s considered a healthy and functional relationship.
I actually do believe Gabby was the aggressor. Young women these days, especially aspiring influencers, have been lead to believe there are few consequences for their actions and I’ve met plenty of girls just like her. Hitting or slapping your man is pretty common behavior these days.
Missing pretty white girl stories are big news. If she wasn’t and was just average we would not be hearing about it much. Get ratings and make money.