Posted on 09/15/2021 10:48:42 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
NORTH PORT, Fla — The boyfriend of missing Long Island woman Gabby Petito has been identified as a person of interest in her mysterious disappearance, police said Wednesday.
Brian Laundrie, who returned home to North Port, Fla., on his own after the couple went on a cross-country trip, has lawyered up and refused to cooperate with police.
Petito, 22, has been missing since late last month.
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Ya Think!!??!
Curious to know the evidence they discovered in the vehicle.
Next time he pokes his head up he will be in a non-extraditable Mooslim #hithole.
Really? Because I was positive it was white supremacists and Trump supporters.
Again with that fictitious label with zero legal meaning. It was coined for Richard Jewell by the FBI. Despite hit TV shows, there is no such legal thing as a “person of interest”.
He is a “suspect”, because reasonable suspicion indicates he may be be involved in her disappearance.
I know, right? A couple goes on vacation, and he returns alone. And he has nothing to say about why she didn’t return with him. Sounds mighty suspicious.
He did have that simple minded camel jockey look on his face.
Sounds like he’s planning a Casey Anthony defense. Dunno nuffin.
Ya think.
“Curious to know the evidence they discovered in the vehicle.”
While I am deeply suspicious of the boyfriend due to his not seeming to care about his missing girlfriend I’d be equally suspicious about any ‘evidence’ that turns up in the van. Why? Because police have a nagging tendency for confirmation bias and normal, routing things may end up as “PROOF!!” of murder.
She lived in the van so they’ll inevitably find hair, maybe blood from shaving, saliva, sexual fluid traces, and etc. and all of that kind of thing is not proof of murder. If the police muddy the case by asserting routine signs of life as proof of murder then they’ll pooch the case before it gets to trial.
The boyfriend needs to explain why the hell he was quiet about the girl’s disappearance.
Would you feel differently if they found evidence of a deceased body? Just wondering...
I’ve known a couple decent guys from the FBI in California and I once asked about the ‘person of interest’ thing and one of them said it could be applied to people who were possibly witnesses, bystanders, suspects, or maybe just people whose presence at or near a scene needed to be explained. Until the FBI had more info it’s a useful term to apply to someone they need to talk to.
Some Links you’ve seen on the other thread - posting for those who haven’t seen them .... all was not well:
Gabby Petito: Utah cops responded to ‘incident’ involving missing LI native, boyfriend last month
Police in Utah responded to an “incident” involving missing Long Island native Gabby Petito and boyfriend Brian Laundrie about two weeks before she was last seen — but no arrests were made and no criminal charges were filed as a result.
Moab Chief of Police Bret Edge said an unidentified person called in “an incident” involving the couple on August 12, according to Fox News.
“Officers conducted an investigation and determined that insufficient evidence existed to justify criminal charges,” Edge told the outlet.
The nature of the incident was unclear.
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More background info on Gabby & Brian than any of the ‘news’ articles:
Going West: True Crime (podcast)
51 minutes | Sep 14, 2021
Gabby Petito // 138 (CURRENT!)
https://www.stitcher.com/show/going-west/episode/gabby-petito-138-current-86797849
“Would you feel differently if they found evidence of a deceased body?”
Of course.
My concern is they’ll attribute routine signs of life as evidence of murder and build a case on it.
The only piece of physical evidence in the notorious Scott Peterson case was a single strand of hair found with a pair of pliers. Hair transfer is a real thing and this alone was held up as proof of murder when it could be easily explained as incidental transfer.
Consequently the death penalty in that case was correctly dismissed for lack of evidence.
I don’t want to see the police pooch this case the same way.
Cops appear to be carefully dotting their I’s and crossing their T’s in this case.
Every article I have seen has mentioned her age. Not a single article I have seen has mentioned HIS age. I guess if he’s not yet a “suspect” it would be intrusive, but they have lots of other biographical info. Just seems strange to me.
Casey Anthony’s dunno nuffin defense worked!!
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