Posted on 10/04/2021 8:46:31 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Florida fugitive Brian Laundrie’s sister told protesters outside her Lakewood Ranch home Monday that her family has been ignoring her following the disappearance of her brother and the death of his fiancée.
When asked if her parents were helping Brian Laundrie evade authorities, she said, "I don't know" and that she hadn't been able to speak with them.
"I'm in the boat where I'm getting ignored by my family and thrown under the bus by my family's attorney," Cassie Laundrie said to a group of protesters Monday in video shared by TikTok user @chroniclesofolivia.
The lawyer Laundrie seemed to be referencing, Steve Bertolino blamed the media. "I do not represent Cassie Laundrie," he told Fox News Digital in a text message Monday night. "Cassie’s comments can only be attributed to the press twisting my words and hers, which were only given to clarify prior mischaracterizations by the press, with the hopes of further sensationalizing this tragic story."
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"We are just as upset, frustrated and heartbroken as everybody else," Cassie Laundrie and her husband told the crowd. "I am losing my parents and my brother and my children’s aunt and future sister-in-law on top of this."
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It wouldn’t be so had the press not created the story. There’s lots of people found dead and missing every day in our country. There’s no reason this one is any different .
It wouldn’t be a taxpayer funded sinkhole if Brian Laundrie would be a man and face the questions about what happened to Gabby.
https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2021/10/6/22712692/brian-laundrie-lawyer-gabby-petito-storage-unit
Still so many unanswered questions
my intuition is that carlton reserve is a wild goose chase
I’m thinking Gabby’s laptop, phone, wallet, etc. could be in the swamp.
Witnesses and workers at the Merry Piglet came forward.
FR is an OPINION forum, not a courtroom. We give our OPINION on what evidence we read.
Are you related to the Laundries perhaps?
> I’m thinking Gabby’s laptop, phone, wallet, etc. could be in the swamp.
Hmmmm, ok, maybe so...
the storage locker if there is one should be very nearby and in either brian’s name or one of his parents’ names. in theory that would be easy for LE to chase down and verify.
So LE probably knows whether or not one of the laundries actually had a storage locker, and if so, what happened with it.
on the deceased lesbian couple, LE should be able to verify using cell phone tower logs whether or not brian or gabby came near their camp.
issuing a warrant for a $1k petty theft charge seems penny ante but it is not if the notion is to withhold a more serious warrant until brian is in custody, and then spring the trap with a new warrant (and quickly). maybe the new warrant exists and just has not been signed off upon yet? LE is exhibiting strategy by taking advantage of bad publicity against brian and luring him in with a light charge. the other side would be that brian might have been alerted to this strategy by his lawyer before the first warrant went out, in which case the main remaining advantage would seem to be continued public pressure and cooperation based on the logic that brian has nothing to lose by going in for questioning (perhaps not true lol).
so many open questions... eg, did brian have a CC license? someone on facebook suggested that he did/does. if so, does the ammo caliber match the deceased utah lesbian couple evidence? what caliber is it?
if gabby’s stuff was at brian’s parents home and/or a laundrie family rented storage locker, then who legally owns gabby’s stuff now? gabby’s parents? if so, why isn’t gabby’s stuff returned to gabby’s parents or LE? was it returned and i just missed it? tia
If I may interject here, the warrant is a federal warrant and it states it was OVER the $1000 threshold. It didn't state an exact amount.
> If I may interject here, the warrant is a federal warrant and it states it was OVER the $1000 threshold. It didn’t state an exact amount.
OK, i can believe that you are technically correct. I am just trying to be as circumspect in a conservative sense as possible.
I wonder if there is a distinction in severity of crime between amounts stolen in theft in federal law. ideally someone with more legal expertise could chip in and then we might learn what the range of possibilities are for the initial warrant charge. in any case, i think that the distinction between theft being relatively minor in terms of seriousness of the crime compared to murder or manslaughter remains.
Good work. Rational thoughts.
Again!, this isn't a court of law, it's an OPINION forum. If you believe what you're saying, why are you on FR giving your OPINION on any news article posted? If NOTHING posted is evidence, why discuss it?
we all seem to be relying on the sheriff white release that the utah lesbian couple slaying is not related to the gabby case:
https://nypost.com/2021/09/17/gabby-petito-disappearance-not-connected-to-utah-slayings-cops/
yet, what if the sheriff white release is actually a part of a ruse which includes the $1k theft warrant all designed to lure brian into LE custody so they can charge him with more serious crimes, viz. gabby, the lesbians, or both?
i don’t think that sheriff white or any other LE has an ironclad obligation to be fully forthcoming about an ongoing investigation, even to the point of making a misleading or untruthful statement so long as it increases the probability that brian will give himself up to LE.
maybe this is behind the mysterious reason that the NPS has not yet released the third bodycam taken by the female NPS ranger (eg along the lines that it is somehow just too damning in some way and therefore tips the hat on LE strategy or threatens to force LE’s hand via engendering an uncontrollable avalanche of negative publicity against brian, to avoid inciting a mob against him).
someone with knowledge of LE manhunt strategy might able to contribute insights. or not, if part of the strategy is not to comment about it in open public forums. if not, then it is possible that we will not learn about the possibility of this strategy until the trap is actually sprung.
an incomplete conjectural scenario involving lesbians (partially laid out, iirc, in a reddit thread somewhere):
august 12
brian and gabby argue in a utah store (moonflower co-op), one of the lesbians work there and witness the verbal altercation. she becomes worried and attempts to console gabby. gabby and the store lesbian exchange contact info. brian becomes agitated at the perceived intervention and leaves with gabby.
gabby suggests to brian that they get together with the lesbian store worker at the lesbian couple camp. brian agrees but not for the reason that gabby thinks. perhaps brian has a handgun (note: no definitive confirmation of this is known to me at this time).
gabby and brian drive to the lesbian camp area. gabby cleans up the van or something while brian wanders around the camp alone, trying to find the lesbian couple campsite. he succeeds. he shoots the lesbian couple and leaves their campsite.
brian returns to gabby and suggests they leave immediately. gabby becomes confused but agrees. she begins to become suspicious about brian’s motive for leaving the campground so suddenly but she cannot prove anything. brian becomes more domineering.
brian and gabby continue their travels.
august 17
brian flies home for “clearing out the storage locker.” gabby stays at an airport hotel.
august 23
brian flies back to SLC and reunites with gabby.
august 24
news of the utah lesbian murder is released to the public.
the news confirms gabby’s suspicions about brian’s wierd, suspicious and progressively more controlling behavior.
brian and gabby become increasingly argumentative.
brian is in a box and gabby is the problem. she wants to go to LE and report and brian realizes that this will put him under a LE microscope from which he is not likely to escape suspicion for the lesbians’ murders. gabby provides potential motive and opportunity and means (eg knowledge of handgun possession) testimony against brian.
brian is trapped with gabby primed to spring a LE trap against him. brian realizes that he is potentially in a position to evade LE suspicion if he can silence gabby permanently.
august 27-28
brian kills gabby in the remote wyoming campground, bridger-teton national forest.
september 14
police have enough to go to a grand jury for a warrant for brian’s arrest including cell phone tower records.
brian goes missing at carlton reserve, florida.
Revisions to September timeline--As of this week:
9/1 Brian returns to FL in Gabby's van
9/4 Brian & older woman get new phone at AT&T
9/6-9/8 Camping trip Ft. DeSoto Park (Cassie & husband join Laundrie family 9/6)
9/11 Gabby's parents report her missing
9/11 Gabby's van seized by LEO from Laundrie residence
9/13**Brian went missing (new date per Bertolino)
9/14 Abandoned vehicle (Mustang) reported by LEO at Carlton Reserve
9/15 Mustang returned home
9/17 Parents report Brian missing
9/19 Gabby's body found
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