Social Media Analyst

The death of Marlon Barnes really rocked this program.

The death of Marlon Barnes really rocked this program. Everything changed.

Life on the road is difficult. You have to pivot a lot. It changes in a millisecond and you have to be ready for that.

I do believe that going forward, these massive cases will find more ground on social media. They want to solve these cases. Gabby in the photo has perfect hair after being on a trip for two months in a van. And she's holding a pumpkin and writes, happy Halloween, which is odd because it was posted on August 25th.

Gabby's case, luckily, has brought awareness to that. Let's stand up for missing and murdered indigenous women.

When we found the footage, I'm like, please, please keep recording. Please keep recording. Please be on here. And all of a sudden, we see this white speck getting closer and closer and closer.

They're getting into Gabby Petito's mind and trying to align themselves to find out what happened. They're looking at the body language. They are looking into the timestamps. They're creating a map of everywhere that they traveled in this van.

My name is Jen Bethune and I travel with my husband Kyle, our three kids and four dogs in our 1983 Silver Eagle bus. Our story is very intertwined with Gabby's story. We're YouTubers, and so we film all the time.

It was crazy to us because it had Florida plates, and we're from Florida, and we were like, we can go hang out with them, but the van looked very dark. It didn't look like anybody was there.

When we found the footage, I'm like, please, please keep recording. Please keep recording. And all of a sudden, we see this white speck getting closer and closer and closer. We both got goosebumps all over our body. We knew it was her van as soon as the footage passed by it. It was an insane feeling. At 12.08 in the morning, I called the FBI.

I think each of us that had tips and that had the sightings held a piece of the puzzle. So I think it was a community as a whole working together to bring Gabby home.

Without even knowing who the shooter is or the motivation, they've already captured the idea that this is some sort of hero.

You can have News Nation doing an indirect interview with inmates in the same jail as Luigi Maggioni.