True Crime Vault: Life Online: The Last Days of Gabby Petito
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What details about Gabby Petito's life and personality are shared?
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.
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.
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.
She did a lot. She was very busy. She loved her friends. She was a beautiful artist, brilliant artist, just so talented.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gabby wore her heart on her sleeve. Gabby believed everything could come true.
She believed in this perfect love.
I can't wait to get back to days like this, traveling the world with you and asking strangers to take our picture. Never taking moments like this for granted again.
Brian Laundrie is a typical American young man. Loved the outdoors by all accounts. They met in high school. He was a junior when they met in high school. Seems like the both of them were kind of free spirited. We don't know a whole lot about Brian Laundrie. There's no friends or acquaintances that have really come forward and wanted to speak with us. If you take a look at his public Instagram page, a lot of the photos are just solo with just him alone. Brian Laundrie had his own social media accounts too, and he did his own posting. He definitely fashions himself as being a little edgy. Gabby and Brian knew each other in Long Island. That's where they're from. She came down to where he was living with his parents in their house.
My name is Kristen Thorne. I'm a reporter with WABC Channel 7 Eyewitness News in New York, and I've been covering the Gabby Petito case since day one. We do know that Gabby Petito lived with the Laundries in Northport, Florida for about a two and a half year period. Brian and Gabby were actually engaged before they went on this trip.
So we are right outside Capitol Reef right now in a free dispersed camp spot. Since we left New York, I've only set up my hammock once.
And we're kind of like in the desert. You see this evolution. You see them growing. You see the excitement. You see what's happening. You watch someone grow up, right, through Instagram photos.
The Petitos talk to ABC Australia.
She always wanted to do this. She planned it out.
She knew what she wanted to do and she knew where she wanted to go.
I worried. I told her to be careful, be safe, you know, make sure to be aware of your surroundings, you know, don't trust everybody. But I felt safe because she was with Brian and I felt like she would be okay. I thought he would take care of her. It's a lot easier walking upriver holding someone's hand than walking alone. What we can tell from Brian Laundrie from his Instagram page is that he was very into the environment, keeping the environment clean. And we can see that he eats out of melon rinds. He tries to not use plastic.
Downsizing our life to fit into this itty-bitty van was the best decision we've ever made.
She wanted to create her own business of blogging for a living and she had a unique perspective on how she was going to capture that audience.
We know that Brian and Gabby purchased this van actually a year prior, and this was something that they had been planning for quite some time to do to travel the country.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What details about Gabby Petito's life and personality are shared?
0:00–9:51
2
How did Gabby and Brian Laundrie's relationship develop?
9:51–46:03
3
What events led to the police being called during the couple's trip?
46:03–50:41
4
What was the outcome of the police encounter with Gabby and Brian?
50:41–1:21:08