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New Gabby Petito Texts Reveal Brian’s Obsession & Final Moments Before Death
13 Apr 2025
15 days before the murder. “Hello, I would like to report a dispute. I saw a gentleman slapping the woman.” The police chase after the van life YouTuber couple in their white, sprinter van. By the end of the hour long investigation of questioning both Gabby and Brian - the two police officers step off to the side to figure out what to do next. One officer tells the other - “Too many times women who are at risk want to go back to their abuser. They don’t want him charged. They don’t want him to go to jail. Then they end up getting worse and worse treatment and then they end up getting killed.” The officers decide not to press DV charges….against Gabby. They believe she is the primary aggressor. In 2 weeks Gabby Petito will be murdered. And the only person that might know where she is - goes missing. Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
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15 days before the murder august 12th 2021 dispatch in moab utah they get a phone call hi i'd like to report a domestic dispute okay what are they doing uh we drove by and the gentleman was slapping the girl he was slapping her yeah and then we stopped they ran up and down the sidewalk he proceeded to slap her hit her hopped in the car and then they just drove off
Okay, you said that the car was a white van. It's like one of those smaller Ford Transit white vans. You could probably fit a mattress in the back. Officers get notified, find the white van, stop the white van, figure out what's going on inside the white van. When they find this little car on the highway, it's going 20 over the speed limit. It's hitting the curbs.
Clearly something is going on inside that car. Moab police officers, they turn on their lights, The van pulls over without incident. And when the officer walks body cam on to the passenger side of this car, they see a very young couple, like 22 years old. They see a young blonde girl in the passenger seat, Gabby. She's very distraught, which makes sense.
Someone just reported that her boyfriend was chasing her down the sidewalk, slapping her. Meanwhile, the driver, the guy's name is Brian. It's her boyfriend. He leans closer to the steering wheel so that he can look at the officer because they're on the passenger side. He's like the opposite of upset. He actually seems so calm.
The officer says, turn off your engine and go ahead and set your keys on the dash for me. And what are your names? I'm Gabby. I'm Brian. Okay, Gabby, Brian. So what's going on? How come you're crying, Gabby? Gabby is very emotional. She's trying to explain, I'm just sorry. We've just been fighting this morning and we've been having some personal issues. Brian leans over.
He doesn't look like he's having personal issues. It's a long day. We were camping yesterday and, you know, camping got flies and stuff. Sorry I hit the curb earlier over there. Gabby's eyes are just red and she's trying to explain, I was distracting him from driving. I'm sorry.
Both Brian and Gabby are asked to leave the van so that the officers can talk to them separately to figure out what's going on. They're trying to get both sides of the story. And their stories are kind of adding up, kind of not. There's some inconsistencies here and there, but the officers don't even seem concerned about that because their body cam is left on.
And when the officers, there's three of them. So there's two officers, a park ranger that shows up. And when the three of them, they start talking away from Gabby and Brian, their main debate is, do we file DV charges? Like, it feels like, is it worth the paperwork? That's the feeling. I mean, they're trying to push the decision off to each other. It's up to you. What do you think? It's up to you.
The main debate here is, do we take someone to jail? Do we book them? I mean, one of them says, listen, she's got to be what? 105 pounds soaking wet, 22 years old, full of anxiety, having a really tough time. I'm not making excuses, but I mean, it's written in the code, right? We do have a domestic assault here. Why the domestic assault code is there for a reason?
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