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True Crime Vault: Life Online: The Last Days of Gabby Petito

30 Dec 2025

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Chapter 1: What details about Gabby Petito's life and personality are shared?

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Step into the 2020 True Crime Vault, where you'll hear our most gripping stories. Gabby's keto never goes outside. She was happy, genuinely happy.

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19.461 - 28.435 Kristen Thorne

She's like, yeah, come on, let me show you this. We'll go to the beach, just listen to the ocean, look at the waves, look at the sand, watch the sunrise, watch the sunset.

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29.14 - 40.815 Brian Laundrie

Driving across the country all the way to California and Oregon was an absolute dream. Wish I was back running down the beach looking at the Pacific Ocean.

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She did a lot. She was very busy. She loved her friends. She was a beautiful artist, brilliant artist, just so talented.

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Everybody sees the pictures of her out there as an adult, but when I close my eyes and I think of her, I still remember that little blonde hair, bright blue eyed, little girl with her hair up and ponytails.

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Gabby wants to be adventurous. If you look at the Instagram posts, it's just very clear she just loves life and loves new experiences.

81.875 - 97.842 Brian Laundrie

made my favorite mango smoothie for breakfast, went on a nice little hike, had some sushi, and watched the sunset before going home to some chocolate-covered strawberries. What could be better than this? Hashtag 21.

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The Gabby Petito story is important because I think everybody not only saw a little bit of someone they knew in the story, but also frankly maybe saw a little bit of themselves.

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Gabby wore her heart on her sleeve. Gabby believed everything could come true.

Chapter 2: How did Gabby and Brian Laundrie's relationship develop?

591.717 - 601.83 Gabby Petito

Social media is basically the highlight reel of your life. You're not posting videos of yourself fighting with your spouse. You're there to project an idealized version of yourself and your relationships.

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602.755 - 625.942 Brian Laundrie

So me and Brian just got up and got ready, made the bed in the tent, set up. I think our plan for today is to just hang out here in the tent. Brian's stretching, doing some morning yoga.

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So they're visiting National Park. So we know they stopped in Colorado. Then they stopped in Utah.

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633.35 - 638.396 Kristen Thorne

Thank you at Gab's Petito for putting up with me through Utah, a topographic playground.

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They've been on this trip over a month. And then on August 12, there is a phone call placed to 911.

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A witness had reported seeing Gabby and Brian fighting. That witness said Brian had slapped Gabby.

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Hi, can you hear me, sir? Yeah, I can hear you. Hi, I'm calling. I'm right on the corner of Main Street by Moonflower. And we're driving by, and I'd like to report a domestic dispute. Florida with a white man, gentleman with a five-stick beard. What were they doing? We drove by, and the gentleman was slapping the girl. He was slapping her? Yes, and then we stopped.

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They ran up and down the sidewalk. He proceeded to hit her, hopped in the car, and they drove off.

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At the time these officers received that original radio call, they were under the impression that a male had assaulted a female. It was clear that there was a domestic situation occurring and that officers needed to respond.

Chapter 3: What events led to the police being called during the couple's trip?

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So the attorney for the Petito family puts out a statement directly to the Laundries, pleading with them to come forward with information. They said she was going to be your daughter-in-law. Please help us. And then it all takes a turn.

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2779.458 - 2786.844 Kristen Thorne

Tonight, her boyfriend is now a person of interest, but he's not talking. The new pleas for him to share what he knows.

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If law enforcement tells you they have a person of interest, we now know that this is a serious case. We've been assuming that Brian Laundrie was at home with his parents, but then his parents told investigators that Brian had gone on a hike into a swamp in the Carlton Preserve that he had left days ago and that he hadn't returned.

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When we got that alert that Brian Laundrie was missing, my stomach dropped. I remember looking at my phone and not being able to believe what I was reading. The question everyone wanted to know, is Brian missing or is he just hiding? So investigators are searching everywhere for Brian Laundrie, and they're soon joined by someone unexpected.

2828.594 - 2836.806 Kristen Thorne

Fox News capturing Dog the Bounty Hunter joining the search, knocking on the Laundrie's door. Boom, boom, boom, boom. I really let loose on a dog.

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Tell me lies returns with an all-new season.

2864.588 - 2869.456 Kristen Thorne

I'm willing to forgive you after everything you've done. Everything I've done? What about everything you've done?

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On January 13th.

Chapter 4: What was the outcome of the police encounter with Gabby and Brian?

3041.29 - 3042.394 Kristen Thorne

Just don't think he has it.

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People are going to turn this guy in if they find him. But he might be able to survive on his own for a time or get somewhere else, like Mexico.

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There's no border patrol on the Mexican side. There's no immigration. Brian Laundrie could have walked across that border with his hair on fire naked, and nobody would have seen him. If he would have done this correctly, he would have had to have front-loaded his movements, have enough cash to avoid ATMs, grocery stores, gas stations.

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My theory is he's going back to wherever he left her body to make sure that it's decomposing, that an animal's ate it or something. That way he doesn't go to prison.

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There are obviously numerous law enforcement agencies investigating this case, but also it caught the attention of Dog the Bounty Hunter. Fox News capturing Dog the Bounty Hunter joining the search, knocking on the laundry's door.

3096.063 - 3113.005 Kristen Thorne

Boom, boom, boom, boom. I really let loose on a knock. The reason I got involved in the Gabby case was purely by request from our fans. This is a real hunt. This is probably, right now in America, the most wanted man there is.

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In order to find him, we've got to hunt him. He's going into the wilderness because that's what he knows and he feels protected there. We don't know if he's armed or not.

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If you have personalities like John Walsh or Dog the Bounty Hunter being involved, then that's a win. The more eyes on this case, the better. What's with all the resources to find this one guy who may or may not have killed this one woman?

3139.962 - 3152.619 Gabby Petito

One thing that happened immediately after this case blew up in the media and on the internet was it opened up this broader conversation about missing women and specifically missing black and indigenous women and the lack of attention given to them.

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