Why is everyone so obsessed with Gabby Petito?

Nichole Schmidt’s suspicions were further raised when she received a final “odd text” in which Ms Petito mentioned her grandfather by his first name “Stan” on 27 August, the warrant stated.

“Can you help Stan, I just keep getting his voicemails and missed calls,” the text said, according to the warrant.

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It’s obvious this guy did it and Gabby sent the cryptic “Stan” message as she knew she was in danger, just like Stan’s gf

Ps we should be together too

No I did not say anything close to that, you jumped to that conclusion! But if you want to know my opinion, I think the last few years has pretty clearly demonstrated that a substantial portion of the US adult population, be they white, black or purple, is pretty stupid.

This will be my last post on this thread because I’m done feeding you.

Illogical is not the same as stupid. Even the most intelligent people are capable of acting illogically because we let things like emotions cloud our judgement. It is after all, only human.

Live long and prosper.

only 20% of blacks believed OJ was guilty in 1995, now 50% do. They are coming around it's just taking longer. Myself I believe he was innocent, the killer is still out there. Probably big foot or an alien encounter gone bad.

800 dude wrote:

Two reasons, both above.

It's super weird/unusual that her boyfriend just shows up without her and utterly refuses to say a word about what happened to her. Doesn't matter that he probably killed her because there's zero evidence, and he can't be compelled to talk. Most people in his situation would talk to the police and eventually get caught in a lie, plus they'd give enough info to at least narrow down the place/time of death, which makes it a lot easier to focus investigative resources.

Also she's young and blonde, which automatically makes her disappearance national news.

Time to catch this weasel and let him air his dirty Laundrie.

Discusss wrote:

Cute white blogger girl disappears and Instagram and TikTok and now MSM is captivated by it.

A variety of reasons. Some already given. The thing that grabbed me was not the given reasons but the idea that this boyfriend returns home from a major road trip without his fiance, refuses to say what's happened to her, them, or anything, to her parents, or to the police, or press,, and that is accepted and allowed to stand! Couldn't have created a more frustrating, provocative story hook like that if you were Steven King!

When he's killed in a shootout today in Alabama, will that be enough to acknowledge his guilt?

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Discusss wrote:

Cute white blogger girl disappears and Instagram and TikTok and now MSM is captivated by it.

A variety of reasons. Some already given. The thing that grabbed me was not the given reasons but the idea that this boyfriend returns home from a major road trip without his fiance, refuses to say what's happened to her, them, or anything, to her parents, or to the police, or press,, and that is accepted and allowed to stand! Couldn't have created a more frustrating, provocative story hook like that if you were Steven King!

It's spelled Stephen and he writes thrillers vs. mysteries. This is more like a Dateline episode.

I tried to get obsessed with this case. Couldn't do it . Give me an marathon cheater, who is a doctor and works at a prestigious Catholic high school and is also claiming to have broken an age group world record and then you have something. This case sounds like garden variety meth head stuff.

de grasse high wrote:

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.

I wouldn't call the the rest of us suckers. Most people are happier having legit jobs and living on their own vs. having to rely on other people, getting murdered in a white van, being on the run from the police, etc.

Pendejon wrote:

I tried to get obsessed with this case. Couldn't do it . Give me an marathon cheater, who is a doctor and works at a prestigious Catholic high school and is also claiming to have broken an age group world record and then you have something. This case sounds like garden variety meth head stuff.

Weird. I thought that some of the people who have posted on here several times sounded an awful lot like the losers in some of the race cheat threads.

Pendejon wrote:

I tried to get obsessed with this case. Couldn't do it . Give me an marathon cheater, who is a doctor and works at a prestigious Catholic high school and is also claiming to have broken an age group world record and then you have something. This case sounds like garden variety meth head stuff.

So you are saying this crime is too garden variety for you? I feel obligated to apologize that this is the best I could serve you on behalf of America this week. :)

FWIW, I ignored this case until Sunday dismissing it as the usual missing white girl frenzy, but then made the mistake of giving it some attention and, sure enough, got sucked into its inexhaustible wormhole of crime gossip intrigue. Never again, need more discipline.

I heard an interesting comment on the news today. The police have a warrant to search the parents house and the suspects car. He pointed out that the FBI wouldn't be able to get a warrant unless they had a reasonable suspicion and they were looking for something specific. There is some bit of evidence that has not yet been released to the General Public.

Maybe see a therapist? I did over the marathon cheat.

Looks like the Laundries’ attorney canceled today’s press conference at FBI’s request. Why would the FBI care? Because it thinks Brian might be hiding and getting an open or coded message through the presser that they want him to not have? Even so, why would the attorney agree to postpone? Presumably the FBI doesn’t have the authority to prevent an attorney or really anyone from holding a presser (or does it under some circumstances?), so there must be some type of mutual understanding and agreement prompting the postponement.

She is young, cute and WHITE!

fisky wrote:

I heard an interesting comment on the news today. The police have a warrant to search the parents house and the suspects car. He pointed out that the FBI wouldn't be able to get a warrant unless they had a reasonable suspicion and they were looking for something specific. There is some bit of evidence that has not yet been released to the General Public.

They had a warrant even yesterday (Monday), less than a day after her body was identified on Sunday, to search the Laundries’ home and car.

They definitely have a lot of unreleased evidence. They clearly have evidence of her murder (as opposed to accidental death) for one as you need evidence of crime or imminent intent thereof to get a warrant, but have released little about the condition of the body and probably cause of death. Her autopsy is scheduled for today, so perhaps the public will know cause of death soon.

Yes, Wikipedia actually has an entry for missing white woman syndrome, but I feel like the syndrome also needs the woman to be attractive, not just white. Can’t remember the last MSM frenzy over a homely plump white girl gone missing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome

fisky wrote:

I heard an interesting comment on the news today. The police have a warrant to search the parents house and the suspects car. He pointed out that the FBI wouldn't be able to get a warrant unless they had a reasonable suspicion and they were looking for something specific. There is some bit of evidence that has not yet been released to the General Public.

One item they were looking for was a hard drive. The search warrant for that was issues on Sept 14th. They found the hard drive that same day. The FBI received court permission to access the hard drive (maybe yesterday), and I would assume that extends to phone records such as where the phone was located when accessing cell towers.