Posted on 10/02/2021 8:41:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
BRIAN Laundrie shared a series of dark and disturbing posts about ghosts and witchcraft to Pinterest shortly before his fiancee Gabby Petito was found dead at a campsite in Wyoming.
Laundrie, 23, is not currently considered a suspect in the death of Gabby, 22, but has been identified as a person of interest.
Brian Laundrie's digital footprint has been raising questions in recent weeks
Prior to his vanishing, Laundrie failed to report Gabby missing and refused to cooperate with a police investigation into her disappearance.
In a statement issued by his attorney, Steve Bertolino, at the time, it was claimed that Laundrie chose not to speak to investigators because police often focus on "intimate partners" in situations such as this.
"The warning that 'any statement made will be used against you' is true, regardless of whether my client had anything to do with Ms. Petito’s disappearance," he wrote. "As such, on the advice of counsel, Mr. Laundrie is not speaking on the matter."
Days later, Laundrie was reported missing by his parents. They claimed he told them on September 14 that he was going hiking in Florida's Carlton Reserve but never returned.
A week-long search of the 24,000-acre reserve has so far yielded no trace of Laundrie.
LAUNDRIE'S BIZARRE POSTS
As the hunt continues, the mysterious circumstances surrounding Petito's murder continue to set news networks and social media platforms aflame.
Armchair detectives and internet sleuths have been re-tracing Laundrie's digital footsteps in search of clues that may help to shed light on what went wrong during the couple's so-called dream cross-country road trip.
On a Pinterest profile that appears to belong to Laundrie, the 23-year-old pinned several images depicting darkness, ghosts, crime, and witchcraft.
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In one post - or "pin" - Laundrie saved an image of the definition of nyctophilia, a "love of darkness or night, finding relaxation or comfort in the darkness."
In a second post, in an album titled "bleak", Laundrie saved an image of a "Witchcraft moon phase magic pocket guide" listed for sale on Etsy.
"Are you a Witch? A fan of Magick? Interested in the unexplainable, the occult? If the answer is yes, then these 'Pocket Guides for Witches' are for you!" the book's description reads.
Another image, saved to a folder called "my Heart", shows a skeleton holding a needle in one hand and a balloon in the other.
"You do it to yourself, and that's what really hurts," the text next to the figure says.
A second post in the same folder is a meme showing two people talking.
The first panel reads: "I just want someone to take me out."
When asked "like on a date or with a sniper gun", the same person responds: "Surprise me."
Other images saved by Laundrie include pictures of masked people posing with guns and an image of a tattoo on a woman's back, which reads: "I'm the hero of this story. I don't need to be saved."
The Sun previously reported on a number of other troubling posts saved on Laundrie's interest account.
'DON'T TRY TO FIND ME' Amid his own disappearance, one of the posts now causing a stir online is a pin he saved a number of weeks ago titled "The Opposite Of Lost."
The image, saved to a folder titled "my Heart", features pale purple and pink clouds. Also written beneath are the words: "Don't try to find me. I have finally escaped my 'master's' wicked clutches.
"To the others I say: JOIN ME. Bite the hand that feeds you. Vive La Beberte - Pierre."
The bizarre image appears to originate from a missing dog flier that was spotted in Portland, Oregon, in 2006. Oregon, incidentally, was the final planned destination of Petito and Laundrie's trip.
Also featured in the same folder is a series of quotes, including one from the movie Fight Club which reads, "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."
Another post, saved to the account's "things to burn off" album, contains a digital sketch of ghosts, clowns, and skeletons which is drawing alarm elsewhere on social media.
In the center of the artwork, designed by Sacha Strange, is a cartoon gravestone with the words "My Baby" written across it.
The words "She'll never find a sweet man like me", and "Let her go, let her go, GOD BLESS HER, wherever she may be" also appear around the headstone.
Much like his Instagram page, Laundrie has shared a number of his own sketches to Pinterest, including watercolor paintings of Hell Boy, other superheroes, and scenes from movies.
Images created by others feature heavily in the folder "watercolor" including several depictions of Joaquin Phoenix as The Joker and cover art for H. G. Well's Sci-Fi novel, The Invisible Man.
The book was loosely adapted into a feature film last year, which told the story of a crazed scientist who fakes his own suicide and makes himself invisible to stalk and terrorize his ex-girlfriend.
While Brian is not yet considered a suspect in Petito's murder, a warrant has been issued for his arrest in relation to allegations of unauthorized use of a debit card, which is believed to belong to Gabby.
He and Petito had been traveling across the country in a white, repurposed van when Gabby was killed.
Laundrie quietly returned home alone to Florida on September 1. He reportedly refused to tell Gabby's family where she was and immediately retained an attorney.
Gabby's mother eventually reported her missing to police in New York on September 11, more than two weeks after she last spoke to her daughter by phone.
PROBE NARROWS
Laundrie is now wanted by the FBI on an active arrest warrant issued late Thursday on allegations of unauthorized use of a debit card.
He has also been the subject of a massive, more than weeklong manhunt across a Florida reserve.
The scale of the search is expected to be scaled back in the coming days.
Josh Taylor, of North Port Police Department, told Fox: “The FBI is now leading the search. I’m told, it will be scaled back and targeted based on intelligence.
“Hopefully water will lower in areas hard to currently access.”
Officers from NPPD will still be involved in the investigation.
Anyone with information about the case is urged to call the FBI's tips line on 1-800-CALL-FBI (225-5324).
I haven’t heard any forensic evidence in the case. That’s a good thing. I’m just saying that I can see this clown accidentally killing her, and panicking. Not smart, but it could have happened. A broke hyoid bone might be the only evidence they have to work with, if she was strangled.
“What are you? The church lady? Please keep your self righteous prosthelytizing to yourself. The life you envision would be hell here on earth where we’d all be tortured with 24/7 Lawrence Welk reruns.”
LOL, check out my 23 years worth of posts. I ain’t no church lady. I assume you’ve heard of the 1st Amendment. I can say anything I damn well please, thank you. This guy is a weirdo who was fixated on dark subject matter for chuckles, and the proof is in the pudding. He offed his girlfriend. I smell a paranoid schizophrenic. Sounds like you took my comments a little too personally. Was I too close to the bone? Go look at Brian’s drawings. And he heard voices too.
See my # 15 above for further discourse about paranoid schizo personalities and the use of devils and other dark matter in drawings. Then you will know where I am coming from re Brian.
Hard to understand why someone who was so perfect would associate themselves to someone like Brian. Evidentially she never did anything wrong, was perfect in every way. America’s daughter. Nothing wrong with tooling around the country posting more “look at me” pics and videos either. That is completely normal. Just putting up your life for everyone - including people you never met - to see.
I digress.
I was going through older posts and just read this. Yes, Landrie hearing voices sounds schizophrenic. I’m amazed if Gabby didn’t know. Just takes one web search.
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