Why is everyone so obsessed with Gabby Petito?

This whole story is horrific.

Two twenty somethings whose lives are/were over in an instant :(

If you’re physically fighting with your partner, maybe it’s time to break it off and start over.

What a waste….. Sad.

She and the fiance lived with his parents for about a year. Before that, she probably lived with her own parents. No rent. His sister and her kids also lived with them and Brian's parents, from what I read. So a bunch of people who can't (or won't) live on their own, but can buy vans, cars, vacations, etc.

It doesn't make this situation any less tragic, but a bunch of grifters living off other people. The rest of us are such suckers for working at legit jobs and living on our own.

You know what is really sad? When women get framed as "crazy" until their boyfriends and spouses kill them.

Oil embargo wrote:

apple juice wrote:

Did I say anything about black or white in my post? How do you know you’re not presuming my race?

I bolded the racial comments above, for your ease of reference.

I didn't presume anything, Apple Juice. You're an admitted liberal and are toeing the party line expressed by fellow liberal Azteca.

Those are the facts, and they are undisputed.

What exactly are you arguing, because I’m not sure. You can simultaneously believe that some POC commit crimes and that many police officers have racial bias and some are downright racist. The two are not mutually exclusive. Are you saying that believing OJ was guilty automatically makes you a racist? Because there are plenty of POC who thought OJ was guilty just like there were plenty of white people who thought he was innocent. You know what assuming something about people as a group is called right?

blunkered wrote:

Ernest wrote:

My noting wild speculation has nothing to do with ... hence wild speculation.

Trying to control what comments are made on a thread is what fools do.

Are you trying to control what comments are made on a thread?

Ernest wrote:

Are you trying to control what comments are made on a thread?

Pointless speculation on your part.

Ernie needs a nap.

Discusss wrote:

I am Sam wrote:

"Blah blah circumstantial evidence, I know more than you , blah blah"

It’s called the Dunning Krueger effect, :) especially strong in online forums. Everyone becomes a rocket science temporarily while discussing rockets, but a tiny fraction in the crowd are actual rocket scientists and chuckling to themselves.

Come on, man. They weren’t even traveling in a rocket…….

Before the video altercation where the woman "attacked" the defenseless male.

On August 12th:

911 call: "the gentleman was slapping the girl"

Official police report: "no one reported that the male struck the female"

On August 27th, according to the FBI search warrant: her cell phone was "no longer operational."

On August 30th, the day before her van arrived at his home in south Florida, a text was sent to the mother: "No service in Yosemite."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/gabby-petito-investigation-search-warrant-documents-reveal-odd-texts-disappearance

blunkered wrote:

Before the video altercation where the woman "attacked" the defenseless male.

On August 12th:

911 call: "the gentleman was slapping the girl"

Official police report: "no one reported that the male struck the female"

On August 27th, according to the FBI search warrant: her cell phone was "no longer operational."

On August 30th, the day before her van arrived at his home in south Florida, a text was sent to the mother: "No service in Yosemite."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/gabby-petito-investigation-search-warrant-documents-reveal-odd-texts-disappearance

Just woke up from my nap.

Had a horrible dream where posters on LR made sense and were nice to each other.

It seems completely obvious Gabby was killed by her Boyfriend... whose mind are you trying to change by recapping these facts?

He got some scratches.

She got slapped... oh, yeah, and murdered.

Seems like you love arguing so much, you have to do it even when people agree with you.

I’d like to hear from anyone who doesn’t think he caused her death. My guess is, that if you forced each person on this sting to choose “he probably directly caused her death” or “he didn’t directly cause her death” very, very few would say “he probably didn’t.”

Smoove wrote:

I’d like to hear from anyone who doesn’t think he caused her death. My guess is, that if you forced each person on this sting to choose “he probably directly caused her death” or “he didn’t directly cause her death” very, very few would say “he probably didn’t.”

But there exists no world where one is forced to take a position or bet on what happened, rather there is a simple alternative — agnosticism or an open mind — until more information emerges. Humans seem to have an all consuming urge to jump to a judgment about what must have happened.

Discusss wrote:

Humans seem to have an all consuming urge to jump to a judgment about what must have happened.

Such an odd thing for the OP to post. Why did you start this thread at all?

I dismissed you when you said "mutually exclusive."

That's code for "you're insufferable."

runnerboy70 wrote:

Grown Men in Law enforcement need to be strong and not sniveling wimps like so many have become...They seem to think they are signalling their humanity but actually it's pathetic and weak.

Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.

Discusss wrote:

I am Sam wrote:

"Blah blah circumstantial evidence, I know more than you , blah blah"

It’s called the Dunning Krueger effect, :) especially strong in online forums. Everyone becomes a rocket science temporarily while discussing rockets, but a tiny fraction in the crowd are actual rocket scientists and chuckling to themselves.

Irrelevant in scope. More than a tiny number of attorneys, police sergeants, even if military police and detectives on this site.

apple juice wrote:

Oil embargo wrote:

I bolded the racial comments above, for your ease of reference.

I didn't presume anything, Apple Juice. You're an admitted liberal and are toeing the party line expressed by fellow liberal Azteca.

Those are the facts, and they are undisputed.

What exactly are you arguing, because I’m not sure. You can simultaneously believe that some POC commit crimes and that many police officers have racial bias and some are downright racist. The two are not mutually exclusive. Are you saying that believing OJ was guilty automatically makes you a racist? Because there are plenty of POC who thought OJ was guilty just like there were plenty of white people who thought he was innocent. You know what assuming something about people as a group is called right?

You know exactly what I'm arguing. And you're trying to weasel out of the fact that you just stated that 90% of the adult black people in America in 1995 were illogical (i.e., stupid).

You can't have it both ways, Apple. You can't avoid the reckoning upon you. You want to dance, you have to pay the fiddler. You reap what you sow. Can't play both halves against the middle. Live by the sword, die by the sword. This is still America, until we say it isn't.

A beautiful mind wrote:

Discusss wrote:

It’s called the Dunning Krueger effect, :) especially strong in online forums. Everyone becomes a rocket science temporarily while discussing rockets, but a tiny fraction in the crowd are actual rocket scientists and chuckling to themselves.

Irrelevant in scope. More than a tiny number of attorneys, police sergeants, even if military police and detectives on this site.

The responses don't indicate that any of them posting. They would still have been chuckling though.

Questioning of the search warrant for a start, when quite obviously the FBI wouldn't have published their 'probable cause'.

I am Sam wrote:

A beautiful mind wrote:

Irrelevant in scope. More than a tiny number of attorneys, police sergeants, even if military police and detectives on this site.

The responses don't indicate that any of them posting. They would still have been chuckling though.

Questioning of the search warrant for a start, when quite obviously the FBI wouldn't have published their 'probable cause'.

Attorneys are posting.