Why is everyone so obsessed with Gabby Petito?

picnic for Yogi wrote:

zdf wrote:

He'll blend in, disappear, you'll never see him again. With any luck, he's got the grail already.

Remember the Olympic Park bomber, who was supposedly such a great survivalist? They eventually picked him up scrounging for food in a dumpster. This guy doesn't have the means or skills to hide for very long...

Ted Kaczynski had genius level intelligence and they found him eventually

Creepy old man wrote:

Oscar Ponce was never caught. We could all learn from his example.

There’s a post credits scene where Oscar is drinking alone in a bar back in Mexico when Chris Severy walks in and says “It’s time to put the team back together”.

The FBI would still be clueless as to who the Unabomber was if his brother hadn't just turned him in.

MA wrote:

The FBI would still be clueless as to who the Unabomber was if his brother hadn't just turned him in.

It would have been impossible to catch the Unabomber otherwise. His bombs were made from parts that could be purchased at any hardware store and he would travel by bus to locations far from his home to mail the bombs.

Smoove wrote:

For those who think this guy has gone to ground, never to be found again, how do you imagine he’s going to stay off the radar with no money?

This guy’s parents own a 1500 square foot house that they bought for $120k back in 2015 according to the public records. That doesn’t sound like a prosperous enough family to fund a 23 year old for the rest of his life.

If he’s not dead, he’ll turn up.

Here's one guy, with limited parental resources, who lived large on the lam for years. He slipped up based on a stupid and erroneous reading of law.

If you can get outside of US borders, it's easy to disappear. Even in the US, it isn't impossible - Whitey Bulger comes to mind.

Laundry isn't in a Florida swamp. He's somewhere in Central America getting the lay of the land, counting the days until this fades off the headlines for good.

But Whitey Bulger was a professional mobster. He had connections, supposedly even with some cops. This Laundrie guy just sounds like your average neighborhood boy who ended up screwing up big time.

So, ABC’s chief legal analyst says they haven’t even still issued an arrest warrant for him because it has the legal implication that anyone who helps him is liable for the crime of “harboring a fugitive” including his parents. Still doesn’t make sense to me why there wouldn’t be a warrant, at least a sealed one. Or maybe be there is one and ABC doesn’t know about it. Warrants get issued all the time for prime suspects on the run, and getting a warrant only needs law enforcement to meet the probable cause standard.

https://abc7chicago.com/brian-laundrie-gabby-petito-homicide-parents-search/11037488/

Discusss wrote:

But Whitey Bulger was a professional mobster. He had connections, supposedly even with some cops. This Laundrie guy just sounds like your average neighborhood boy who ended up screwing up big time.

Bulger's connections were all trying to kill him. He was on the FBI's Most Wanted List for 12 years after he lammed it. He was living in Santa Monica, making trips to Mexico when he wanted.

There is no evidence anyone in law enforcement helped him during all the years he was living it up on the beach in California.

Killer is white, so it is safe.

When killer is not white, the media ignores.

"To blend in, Hollywood learned the Portuguese language. He earned money in Brazil by putting up posters advertising a nightclub and later got jobs teaching private English language classes and as a dog walker. Yet the bulk of the money he lived on came from a US$1,200 monthly stipend from his father."

Hollywood also probably left the country with a good amount of cash from his drug dealing. You also gotta realize that was in the year 2000, when $1200/month went a lot further. Also back then no one had a camera on their cell phone so it was pretty hard to record evidence.

Even if Launderie's parents could afford to send him $1,200 per month, it's likely the police will be monitoring any money they wire.

All they need is some cash initially and then steal an identity (usually the SSN of a dead child.) Sara Jane Olson (a runner!) was hiding in plain sight for 20 years. Married a doctor and had 3 kids. Look at any 'most wanted' list and there are a lot of people that avoid getting caught.

If the "downer" boyfriend was going to run, why bother driving home first? It would have been much easier to drive to LA , SanFran, or Portland; ditch the van; and then blend into a homeless encampment. He likely ended up doing the right thing after going so wrong and offed himself.

CrispyChicken wrote:

If the "downer" boyfriend was going to run, why bother driving home first? It would have been much easier to drive to LA , SanFran, or Portland; ditch the van; and then blend into a homeless encampment. He likely ended up doing the right thing after going so wrong and offed himself.

Maybe some combination of the fear of the unknown, lack of cash, and caring enough about his own parents to not leave them not knowing if he was dead or alive for a long time.

FWIW, John Walsh seems to be questioning if anyone even saw him at his parents’ when he supposedly spent nearly two weeks there. Their lawyer is in LI, so presumably he didn’t see any of his clients in person. But all news is reporting that he did come back on Sep 1.

Discusss wrote:

CrispyChicken wrote:

If the "downer" boyfriend was going to run, why bother driving home first? It would have been much easier to drive to LA , SanFran, or Portland; ditch the van; and then blend into a homeless encampment. He likely ended up doing the right thing after going so wrong and offed himself.

Maybe some combination of the fear of the unknown, lack of cash, and caring enough about his own parents to not leave them not knowing if he was dead or alive for a long time.

FWIW, John Walsh seems to be questioning if anyone even saw him at his parents’ when he supposedly spent nearly two weeks there. Their lawyer is in LI, so presumably he didn’t see any of his clients in person. But all news is reporting that he did come back on Sep 1.

Sorry, I think Walsh is questioning only if he was even in that house for 4 days since Sep 11 when her parents filled the missing person report and wondering how her even got out of the house around Sep 15 with all the media publicity. His parents say they “last saw him”on Sep 15, not that he was in the house until then, so maybe he was on the run starting Sep 11.

"He mowed the lawn. Him and his mother went for a bicycle ride around the block," [Charlene] Guthrie [who lives across the street from Brian Laundrie's Florida home] said. "I mean, everything was just normal life once he came back. And I just can’t get over the fact that they — it seemed like nothing bothered him. How can you do that?"

SDSU Aztec wrote:

Mid Age Guy wrote:

"To blend in, Hollywood learned the Portuguese language. He earned money in Brazil by putting up posters advertising a nightclub and later got jobs teaching private English language classes and as a dog walker. Yet the bulk of the money he lived on came from a US$1,200 monthly stipend from his father."

Hollywood also probably left the country with a good amount of cash from his drug dealing. You also gotta realize that was in the year 2000, when $1200/month went a lot further. Also back then no one had a camera on their cell phone so it was pretty hard to record evidence.

Even if Launderie's parents could afford to send him $1,200 per month, it's likely the police will be monitoring any money they wire.

There are a lot of ways to send money without going through a bank, including crypto.