Utah cops release chilling bodycam footage of Gabby Petito, beau in domestic incident call

NY Post ^ | 09/16/2021 | Emily Crane

[ChicagoConservative27]

Police bodycam footage has been released of officers speaking to Gabby Petito and her boyfriend Brian Laundrie in Utah after they responded to a 911 call of a domestic incident a month before she was reported missing.

The Moab City Police Department on Thursday released the hour-long footage of their interaction with the couple when they pulled over their white van outside Arches National Park in Moab on Aug. 12.

In the footage, obtained by ABC7, Petito sobbed as she spoke to an officer.

“I have really bad OCD. I was apologizing to him saying I’m sorry I’m so mean,” Petito told the officer.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Domestic incident a month before? I am thinking this jerk just let his rage get out of control. Wonder what triggered it?

[Yo-Yo]

“I have really bad OCD. I was apologizing to him saying I’m sorry I’m so mean,” Petito told the officer.

“We’ve been fighting all morning. He wouldn’t let me in the car before… he told me I needed to calm down.”

The officer let Petito sit in his squad car before going back to speak to Laundrie.

“She just gets worked up sometimes, I try to distance myself from her. I locked the car,” Laundrie told the officer.

“I said let’s just take a breather. She had her phone. I was trying to push her away to say let’s just take a step back,” he said, adding that Petito hit him with her phone.

Laundrie also told the officer Petito had grabbed the wheel of their van to make him pull over as police were following them.

According to a police report, neither Petito nor Laundrie called 911 to report the domestic incident.

Officers did not file any criminal charges and classified the incident as a “mental/emotional health break” instead of domestic assault.

Police said the couple agreed to spend the night separately instead of charges being filed.

[Sans-Culotte]

According to the article she was hitting him.

[HighSierra5]

Why, he looks like a nice young man that would be a part of Manson’s clan.

[antidemoncrat]

Sounds like she should have ask police to let her get her stuff out of the van and take her to the nearest plane, train or automobile rental place.

[nuconvert]

She sounds like a kook with violent tendencies. He probably couldn’t take it anymore and killed her.

[ClearCase_guy]

Frankly it sounds like she was a bit of a nut and he was trying to be hands off and distance himself. Seems like good choices.

I can imagine a scenario where she pushed and pushed and pushed and he just lost it and slugged her. Maybe she died on the spot and he thought “oh oh”.

Don’t date crazy people. Run away. Sounds like he ran away “after” when they both would have been better off if he had runaway “before”.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

It might be a case of self-defense.

[EEGator]

He’s “marked up” by his right eye. Looks like maybe a fingernail cut?...

[FreshPrince]

So sad..

When I see bad things happen to young woman I just immediately think, “what if that was one of my daughters” as they are of her age.

This girl had issues..getting violent, with slapping and grabbing steering wheel.

I bet the guy just finally blew a gasket.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

It might very well be that she exasperated him to the last limit of human endurance, at which point he assaulted her, either killing her outright, or injuring her to the point where he felt he had to finish her off to prevent going to prison.

I'm writing a novel now with just such a premise; the wife berates her poor husband until it graduates to violence, and even that doesn't move him until she starts belittling his manhood. At that point:

There was nothing for it now. The whisky bottle, by the merest chance, stood right at hand. With a single rapid move he seized it by the neck and brought it crashing down upon the frenzied woman’s head.

[woodbutcher1963]

After reading the account/police report I tend to agree with your analysis. She probably is/was a psycho that kept pushing the guy until one time he snapped and hit back. She probably fell and hit her head. Now, she is buried out in the desert somewhere.

OR, he kicked her out of the van and she got picked up by a predator. Then, that guy killed her and buried her in the desert.

The fact is IF she was alive, she would have called mom and daddy to come and get her.

[Sans-Culotte]

Really cute girl. Maybe too far on the Crazy/Hot matrix scale?

[Kharis13]

I have no doubt the fiance is a murderer, but his parents aren’t much better. They’re shielding him, protecting him. I bet they’re thinking, “If they don’t find a body they can’t charge our son.” This entire case is very sad.

[shotgun]

I see it going both ways. Either he snapped after months of her mental and physical abuse or she completely lost it and refused to get back in the car and he drove off and left her, and she offed herself.

I was in a similar relationship for 9 years with a psychotic hose beast. You learn to keep your thoughts to yourself and rarely speak to avoid confrontations.

I never laid a hand on her except when she came at me with a butcher knife and I grabbed her arm.

[MNnice]

They supposedly stopped at a hotel, where he spent the night in the room and she stayed in the van.

Here’s my theory: She left the van before morning and started walking. She got lost in the Utah wilderness and died or was picked up by someone and hasn’t been heard from since. He’s not talking because he honestly doesn’t know what happened to her.

[null and void]

Where on the matrix? I’d say about 8,10

[Theoria]

A mere week later 'they' uploaded their only video to youtube.

[1Old Pro]

I’m still struggling with the fact that they took 5 months off just to drive around the country like they are retired.
I can see a month or so over the summer, but 5 months? Sheesh, what are we France? Are they getting unemployment checks?

[Mr. K]

I was married to one of those too... It’s a horrifying experience. They can act like an angel until it’s too late.