r/netflix • u/TheMirrorUS • Feb 19 '25

News Article Brian Laundrie’s parents shunned by Florida community over Gabby Petito’s murder following Netflix docuseries

https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/brian-laundries-parents-shunned-florida-984726
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u/CampingWithCats Feb 19 '25

As they should be.

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u/bbddbdb Feb 19 '25

Because they harbored and aided a fugitive who murdered his girlfriend.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '25

The mother also offered to help dispose of the body

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u/Enchantedscribe2024 Feb 21 '25

The parents should face obstruction of justice. Harboring a fugitive. But I don’t know if he was even considered a fugitive. It would not surprise me if his mother got mad at the situation over the days and told her son he’d be better off dead. She is definitely a narcissist!

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '25

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u/Unique-Significance9 Feb 25 '25

Exactly, the police literally let Brian escape.

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u/VirtualMoneyLover Mar 18 '25

At the end, this turned out to be better.

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u/CorkSoaker420 Feb 26 '25

Because "feels sketchy" and actual probable cause are very far from the same thing.

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u/SunCharming9692 Mar 06 '25

They would never to get more evidence and the warrant first.

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u/AkaleoNow Feb 23 '25

Because Florida. Because white privilege. Because incompetence.

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u/Unique-Significance9 Feb 25 '25

It's not like his family was super white 🤦‍♀️

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '25

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u/Temporary_Bliss Feb 23 '25

lol that’s how u get a case dismissed as a mistrial

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u/Ok_Bandicoot_2303 Feb 24 '25

Ya ok officer 🙄

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u/Mountain-Tap7560 Feb 24 '25

i’m sure you would’ve

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u/Key-Lead-3449 Feb 25 '25

Because that's not how the law works. They did not have enough evidence to obtain a warrant, it doesn't matter how sketchy it "seems".

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u/CDK5 Feb 26 '25

I just want to know how he managed to leave the house on the 13th without anyone seeing him.

Why didn't police search the house and place him under arrest as soon as his parents said he had an attorney.

I think such a precedent would be even more dangerous.

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u/Unlikely-Post-4063 Feb 26 '25

There's a pretty good chance he was never actually there. One theory says his parents picked up the van and brought it to their house to give him time to escape.

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u/CDK5 Feb 26 '25

One of the cops in the show mentioned there were two cameras pointed at the house, but the protestors were messing up the view (or something like that).

One of the cameras shown was one of the eye-in-the-sky types you see on telephone poles.

I don't know how that thing could have missed Brian.

There's a pretty good chance he was never actually there.

Seems like it could be verified with the said camera no?

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u/Unlikely-Post-4063 Feb 27 '25

Seems like it, but they were not there before the van showed up. They could verify *theoretically* whether or not he left the house, but you never know. Police make mistakes, cameras can fail.

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u/Krandor1 Feb 22 '25 
until they found the body and issued an arrest warrant he was not a fugitive.

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u/Unique-Significance9 Feb 25 '25

Huge mistake cause police could've asked for an interrogation warrant at least. They KNEW he was the last person to see Gabby alive.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '25

There is no such thing as an interrogation warrant. The Laundrie’s are horrible people but do have legal rights and there is a process for how things need to play out.

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u/kerrying_on Feb 26 '25

They could’ve arrested him for theft of her vehicle just to detain him if they really wanted to.

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u/No-Application-8520 Mar 04 '25

No they couldn’t. It would have to be reported stolen by the owner.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '25

Those parents should be sued for the wastes of resources spent looking for their murderer son. The cops should have pursued way harder before Laundrie went on his little camping trip. I'm so disgusted by how they handled this. Brian went home, returned to kill Gabby, then took her van back to FL. He called his parents the night of killing her and layered up. They obstructed, aided, and stonewalled cops and wouldn't even talk. I watched this all unfold as it happened, just finished the Netflix series tonight. I want more on the Laundries. I'm glad they're shunned, totally deserved.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '25

What do you mean he went home, then returned to kill gabby? He just killed her and went back to Florida.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '25

He went home to FL to clear a storage unit, leaving Gabby with the van at a hotel, hung with his vile parents, then returned to Gabby, killed her, hitchhiked for an alibi, then returned to her van and drove it to his parents home in Fl. Then, he and his parents kept using her van. While they knew Gabby was rotting away wherever their murderer son left her.

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u/SunCharming9692 Mar 06 '25

I just discovered that he went back home “to clear a storage unit” from the Netflix documentary. Very random and shady when you are on a van trip states away. And that she had told her ex-boyfriend/friend that she had a plan to leave Brian - that she thought it would be more beneficial for her blog if she was a single woman traveling in a van.

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u/Unique-Significance9 Feb 25 '25

People are using the word "narcissist" left and right these days...She is an evil person but we don't know what's her mental state.

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u/Megsnd 22d ago

Accessory to murder after the fact. They should be locked away.

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u/anaserre Feb 22 '25

She’s a piece of work

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u/Icy_Independent7944 Feb 19 '25

Thank you!!

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u/PistachioGal99 Feb 20 '25

I love running into friends on other subs. Hi Icy! 😀

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u/Icy_Independent7944 Feb 20 '25

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Hey, @‘Stache!! 👋

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u/PistachioGal99 Feb 20 '25

🥒🥒🤪

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u/Civil-Ad-7957 Feb 23 '25

How you say.. coincidence? 🥒

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u/vegaslivinn Feb 20 '25

I can't believe they haven't been charged yet! WTF

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u/Enchantedscribe2024 Feb 21 '25

And then there was no justice because he ended his own life. I’d rather he face a lifetime in prison than be able to shoot himself.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '25

He wasn't a fugitive at the time though. It's complex. They are not innocent, if anything, it's obstruction. Maybe criminal negligence.

I had this discussion yesterday, and it is difficult to criminally charge them.

They could go back I guess and depending on if they can obtain details of the conversations, I guess harboring could be on the table. They need to know what was said in those calls though.

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u/Shufflen Feb 19 '25

Still are, I don’t believe that was his skull.

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u/tiffanaih Feb 19 '25 edited Feb 19 '25

Stop, they confirmed it with dental records.

They said alligators were attacking the dogs while they were searching and the area was underwater meaning there were probably some fish milling about too. A bunch of fish could've easily picked the bones clean.

I am willing to speculate that the parents dumped the remains during their search, but they were being followed closely by police IIRC and that wouldn't explain it being only skeletal.

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u/yestoness Feb 20 '25

The autopsy report mentions evidence of extensive large animal gnaw marks on his long bones. That makes me morbidly happy.

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u/ThisThingIsStuck Feb 20 '25

They didn't dump anything lmao

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u/tiffanaih Feb 20 '25

Yeah that's what I said.

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u/ThisThingIsStuck Feb 20 '25

Actually not

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u/Hiro007 Feb 23 '25

She said it was speculative and gave reason that the theory didn't hold water, but continue being obtuse.

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u/ThisThingIsStuck Feb 23 '25

Triangle?

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u/Hiro007 Mar 09 '25

Lol. Sad I missed this perfect reply. Bless your heart.

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u/BlackLodgeBrother Feb 19 '25

Still are, I don’t believe that was his skull.

Just shut up. So f****ing done with fielding clown conspiracy theorists like this everywhere I turn on the internet.

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u/Spunkyzoe99 Feb 19 '25

Right !??? It’s out of control now .critical thinking is all but lost .people now ignore the facts in front of them and make up the most wild theories and run with it

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

You might need to turn the internet off for a while then.

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u/BlackLodgeBrother Feb 19 '25

You mean like so many have turned off their brains in favoring conspiracy over concrete fact?

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u/JudgeInteresting8615 Feb 20 '25

Or they fight for their space. You can't keep on ignoring stupidity.It affects all of us.We can't just keep on giving up space

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u/analfissuregenocide Feb 19 '25

Can you not say fucking here?

Edit: you can, weird self censor

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u/trashlikeyourmom Feb 19 '25

If I do talk to text, it automatically censors it

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u/BlackLodgeBrother Feb 19 '25

Some subs have an auto-mod trigger for profanity.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '25

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u/jimlemin Feb 19 '25

You don't have to respond brother Jesus

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u/BlackLodgeBrother Feb 19 '25

Baseless conspiracy peddlers deserve to be rebuked.

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u/jopparoad Feb 20 '25

I mean...you are on Reddit right now.

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u/amscraylane Feb 19 '25

I will always welcome theorists so we don’t just take things for face value. Question everything.

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u/BlackLodgeBrother Feb 19 '25 edited Feb 19 '25

There’s a stark difference between finding conspiracy in everything and judicially applied critical thinking.

Truth matters. Ignoring it in favor of “alternative” facts, even for funsies, is how we got into the current mess we’re in as a country.

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u/amscraylane Feb 19 '25

Fair.

Guy goes missing for a few weeks. When they have the search at the park, the family finds the body within minutes even though police have dogs on the scene.

The body is decomposed, but the notebook and pictures seem to be fine? Parents also found that.

I get it is far-fetched, but I don’t think it is wild to think otherwise

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u/BlackLodgeBrother Feb 19 '25

The skull was confirmed to be his by the FBI. Dental records don’t lie. Anyone who refuses to believe that it’s Laundrie at this point is the epitome of willful ignorance.

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u/amscraylane Feb 19 '25

I have a mom on this thread telling me she would do anything to protect their child, so I don’t think it is out of the realm of possibility.

There are also times when the FBI has made mistakes.

I am not Sandy Hooking it here, or telling you you have to believe it.

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u/BlackLodgeBrother Feb 19 '25

Once again, stating abject belief in a given conspiracy and leaving room for the improbable are not the same thing.

It’s possible that I’ll sprout wings tomorrow and then proceed to fly directly into the sun.

Do I believe it will happen? No. Am I open to it? Sure.

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u/gorcbor19 Feb 19 '25

I haven't watched it, but what makes you think the remains weren't his?

I am unaware if they positively ID'd his body with dental records.. though it seems like something they would have done.

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u/BlackLodgeBrother Feb 19 '25

I haven’t watched it, but what makes you think the remains weren’t his?

Wider cultural sickness in America leading to low media literacy and lack of critical thought. Also the rise of grifter culture peddling conspiracy as a source of income.

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u/gorcbor19 Feb 19 '25

I looked it up after asking this question, and it the skull was confirmed his via dental records by the FBI.

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u/BlackLodgeBrother Feb 19 '25

You are correct. Was just stating why some people come embrace ungrounded conspiracy in the face of concrete fact.

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u/gorcbor19 Feb 19 '25

Yes, makes perfect sense.

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u/ThisThingIsStuck Feb 20 '25

They love to make up their own theories they want to to right get likes or say what they think will get them thumbs up and feed their egos.. typical for any platform.. I speak facts regardless of likes. They were both mentally and physically abusive and weren't a gold fit. Cops dropped the ball and he was very creepy. He didn't like her recording the trip and hoped they'd be alone and enjoy it.. to him she ruined the trip and then cheated on him w rose and as they had a romantic walks on the beach whole he watched and slumber parties romps on the sac. So he was already half way over the edge.. then he slams the door at whole foods has zero contact and doesn't even look at her there.. wacks her shortly after that.. calls the guy ans texts her mom pretending to be her. Not sure there much else to talk about.. u can rest assured if it was his sister it wouldn't even have made the news.. u should be talking about why so called beautiful blondes get all the coverage but peope of color or people who aren't socially accepted gets denadas..

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u/Phisiii Feb 19 '25

What a mid-wit thing to say…

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u/Faile-Bashere Feb 19 '25

Is he still living under their garden out back?

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u/Similar-Tangerine Feb 19 '25

Whose skull was it? Where did they get it? Who helped them get it? Who planted the skull in advance?

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u/TangeloPerfect7383 Feb 19 '25

I have wondered that also. The parents move around with such arrogance that it wouldn’t surprise me if they one upped everyone. Perhaps that last minute camping trip they took as a family was an off the grid game plan

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u/gorcbor19 Feb 19 '25

I bet on that camping trip, they invited their dentist friend, who yanked all his teeth out and they replaced them in a skull they dug up from a graveyard so that when they did the dental records, it made it seem like it was his body! 🤣

/s of course..

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u/amscraylane Feb 19 '25

I am not against thinking this. The family went to great lengths to protect him and then he just went missing too? Totally sus

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u/JesusTitsGunsAmerica Feb 19 '25

He's not missing though.

They found him, with a bullet through his skull.

The dental records were an exact match.

If you have actual evidence to the contrary, by all means share it.

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u/Spunkyzoe99 Feb 20 '25

People refuse to believe actual facts anymore.its wild the nonsense they prefer to believe .There should be a study on why and what types of people prefer to believe conspiracy theories over factual evidence .

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u/panicnarwhal Feb 20 '25

the dna was a match as well. they tested a tooth and 2 sections of femur bone.

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u/amscraylane Feb 19 '25

Jesus Tits … calm down.

Several people have faked their own death.

The parents took a 55 minute phone call from Brian after he murdered his girlfriend and then they called a lawyer.

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u/JesusTitsGunsAmerica Feb 19 '25

Sure, people have faked their own death. Do you believe that a suburban family would have the means and know how to fabricate a skull that could fool trained forensic pathologists?

I don't believe anyone is debating his parents tried to help him cover up the murder. I mean that's why neighbors are shunning them.

You're making an extraordinary claim. Where is the extraordinary (or any at all) evidence to back it up?

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u/jaeway Feb 19 '25

Lmao faking a death is very hard lmao these were so Middle class suburban run of mill muthafucks.

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u/leolisa_444 Feb 19 '25

I never heard about this phone call, but DAAAAAMMMMMNNNNN that's sus as shit

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u/MozartWillVanish Feb 19 '25

It was mentioned in the documentary. How is it “sus as shit”? He called his mom as he was driving home and told her he did something that would require legal aid. My assumption, based on the length of the call and how they acted, is that he told them everything and they knew all along.

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u/Spunkyzoe99 Feb 20 '25

The FBI confirmed it was his body from dental records .So are you saying the FBI is also plotting with the Laundries to hide their son ? DNA and dental records are highly accurate so a mistake being made is doubtful

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u/GlobalTraveler65 Feb 19 '25

Honestly, at the time, I thought the same thing. Your son comes back from a cross country trip without his girlfriend, who lives with you and you guys go camping? Then, Brian disappeared and his remains are found in this natural reserve a week later? Brian’s mother is Looney Tunes!

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u/panicnarwhal Feb 20 '25

he was identified using dental records and DNA - they were his remains

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u/timoperez Feb 19 '25

Oh shit!!!!!

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u/vervaincc Feb 20 '25

And during the week he was missing everyone was certain he was under the garden, in the attic, shacked up with some uncle up town, and living on the Appalachian trail.
Why are people so fixated on ridiculous conspiracy theories with this case?

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

Yeah unless they did DNA testing, imm not buying that shit. It takes a long ass time for remains to be completely reduced to bone. And in the documentary they kind of alluded to the conspiracy when the FBI agent mentioned how much time and manpower it took to search for him then it only took the parents 1 hour to find him 1 mile from the car park. Pleaaaaaase!

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u/GlitteryCakeHuman Feb 19 '25

He was made into human sludge soup by heat and bacteria and eaten by animals. It goes fast.

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u/leolisa_444 Feb 19 '25

This is absolutely correct

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u/Fearless-Ice8953 Feb 19 '25

They DID do dna testing and a dental records check. I believe there’s a 47-page report on the autopsy.

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u/JesusTitsGunsAmerica Feb 19 '25

He was in a swamp with countless predators, scavengers, bacteria, and high heat/humidity.

I've seen animals in that same environment picked clean in days.

Produce your contradictory evidence pleeaaaaase!

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u/Basic_Gold8983 Feb 19 '25

Animals picked at him, then the area flooded and he was exposed to weather and heat. How easy do you think it is to find someone, in what they said was chest high water that had 0 visibility? There's also cameras everywhere, so unless he's hiding out in a cave or something we would have seen him.

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u/bananapants72 Feb 19 '25

And in the Florida heat? Of course he was deteriorating in the humidity and heat, left to be eaten by predators (which are plentiful there). People are too quick to latch on to any sliver of conspiracy, man. A quick google search shows the FBI used dental records to identify him. While I believe his parents are horrible people that aided and abetted him, I don’t think they’re hiding him in a cave and going to visit him. Maybe he’s hanging out with JFK and Elvis?

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u/vervaincc Feb 20 '25

Yeah unless they did DNA testing,

Spoiler alert: they did.

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u/panicnarwhal Feb 20 '25

they did dna analysis on a tooth and 2 sections of femur bone, as well as dental identification

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u/IMO4444 Feb 19 '25

Someone else in this thread said they used dental records. Not sure if it was a full denture. In Wild Things, Neve Campbell purposely leaves teeth behind so the police can identify her.

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u/Shufflen Feb 19 '25

To clarify “I don’t Believe” why in this day and age would DNA testing have been done.

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u/papa_f Feb 20 '25

Because his body was decomposed you nutter.

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u/Affectionate_Term_14 Feb 22 '25

I literally am trying to figure out how they were not charged with anything. They knew what happen they were trying to cover it up they lied to police multiple times and FBI how are they not charged with anything. 

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u/Aggravating_One_7559 Feb 26 '25

Don't forget were accomplices and obstructed justice

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u/torentine Apr 19 '25

Yes exactly how the F**k didn't police take him as the primary suspect. How our laws always work to help the aggressor

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u/TisrocMayHeLive4EVER Feb 19 '25

You mean their son?? I wouldn’t give my kid up either

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u/katwoop Feb 19 '25 edited Feb 19 '25

I would get a good lawyer and support my kid in every way I could but I would encourage him to turn himself in. If he refused, I would turn him in myself. He killed someone else's child. It wasn't an accident. He strangled her. He would need to take responsibility for that.

He wasn't going to get away with it no matter how much his parents tried to shield him. If he turned himself in, he may have gotten some goodwill from that

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u/leolisa_444 Feb 19 '25

💯 Being my kid does not mean I'll let you get away with murder ffs.

One of my best friends was murdered by a serial killer, and lemme tell you it changes EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIFE. Nobody in her family was ever the same.

There are ripples that reach outward to do severe emotional trauma in ways you can't even imagine. My other friend got panic attacks for five years after.

Murder isn't like any other death. It rips families apart, makes alcoholic/addicts, changes the way you see EVERYTHING, survivor guilt is real and terrible, and even when you think you're over it, BAM!! a wave of grief will just take you over, even many years later. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

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u/panicnarwhal Feb 20 '25

basically what i said to my husband when we watched the doc yesterday - i get wanting to protect your child, i would want to do that too - but in an event like this, protecting your child is getting them a good attorney and encouraging them to turn themselves in

it seems the laundrie family thought their child was special, and while he was certainly special to them, he is not worth more than any other person, and gabby was special to her parents as well

brian was not worth more than gabby, despite what the laundrie family thinks

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u/MsDean1911 Feb 20 '25

Narcissists gonna narcissist man….

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u/katwoop Feb 20 '25

Just how the parents turned down talking to the police when they knew Gabby's parents were desperately trying to find their daughter. How can any parent withhold information when they know what not talking is going to do to her poor parents. Just what kind of person can do that? I would hope they would be charged with impeding the investigation at least.

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u/djamp42 Feb 19 '25

Fuck, this hypothetical has my freaking head spinning with emotions.

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u/Griffdude13 Feb 19 '25

You can still love them but also tell them they messed up and have to pay the consequences of those actions.

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u/ExcaliburVader Feb 19 '25

I'm good friends with someone whose son is in prison for life for murder. She says very plainly that she will always love her son, but the person he killed had a mother who loved him too. And that her son has to pay the consequences for his actions. I'd be there for my kid, but you don't do them any favors by hiding them and trying to protect them because they killed someone.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

Exactly this.

I will support my kid in this situation. Hire the best criminal defense lawyer I can afford.

But they would have to face justice like everyone else.

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u/ExcaliburVader Feb 19 '25

Oh yeah I'd mortgage my house, sell everything I own to get them a great attorney. But I'm not hiding them.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

Then you’re a bad parent. If they’re wanted and didn’t do it, then let them explain their alibi and actions and let the evidence clear them. If they did it, why would you harbor such a horrible person regardless of relation? Bad parenting 101. The parents clearly knew he either murdered that girl or did something absolutely horrible.

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u/Tiny-Reading5982 Feb 19 '25

So you would help your son hide a body too? 😵‍💫 . Vile. His parents are up there with Chris watts' but he took the cowardly way out .

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u/Ometzu Feb 19 '25

What the hell is wrong with you

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u/amscraylane Feb 19 '25

I hate living on the planet with kids like you.

I had a child threaten to shoot me and the parents were angry with ME.

The mom literally told me in the meeting that “I am here to protect my son”

Not by making him a better person or anything, just protecting him from consequences.

And how do those people end up?

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u/TisrocMayHeLive4EVER Feb 19 '25

Would do everything I can to make them a better person. But what’s done is done. After the fact, my only concern is for my child

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u/amscraylane Feb 19 '25

That’s a lot of words for “I fucked up parenting and I am going to help cover their tracks and mine to disguise it”

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u/TisrocMayHeLive4EVER Feb 20 '25

Yeah yeah yeah. You do the best you can for your kids, but if they make a horrible mistake you still do whatever you can for them no matter what. You don’t be like whooops! Go to jail. Guess it’s my fault for being a shitty parent. You protect your child no matter what

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u/restinb1tch Feb 24 '25

Where do you draw the line since you're referring to this tragedy as a "horrible mistake"? Murder is ok since you're in the comment section defending it.

It's also funny that you're saying "whooops! Go to jail" cause whoooops is what I say when I drop a cup and it breaks. Or when I run a red light. I'm not saying, "whoops" after I just strangled someone and dumped their body lmfao

And you ARE a shitty parent if your reaction to your kid killing someone is oopies.

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u/TisrocMayHeLive4EVER Feb 24 '25

It’s not oopsies. Don’t misrepresent what I’m saying. It’s an absolutely horrible situation. That I would do everything in my power to prevent. But after the fact, I’m doing everything to protect my child from spending the rest of their life in jail. Would you call me a good parent if I have a kid with a life sentence. Probably not. So I’d rather be a bad parent who protects their child when they need it most than a slightly better one who helps them get locked away.

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u/ImageOtherwise Feb 19 '25

People like you are why we’re doomed

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u/MammothCancel6465 Feb 19 '25

I gasped at this. I would 100% give up my kid if they did this. You can still love them while they face consequences.

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u/rayquan36 Feb 19 '25

Yeah I wouldn't snitch on my son. I wouldn't bring a shovel and help him dig though...

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u/magic8ballin Feb 19 '25

I get family is family but I find this sentiment strange. You wouldn’t snitch on your son if he murdered his girlfriend?

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u/bananapants72 Feb 19 '25

I don’t get it. I have sons and would never allow them to escape the consequences of their actions. It’s murder, not a drunk and disorderly charge. No way would I help them avoid anything. I would help with defense if able, but hiding and harboring? No way.

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u/rayquan36 Feb 19 '25

I'd encourage him to turn himself in but I'm not making the phone call.

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u/magic8ballin Feb 19 '25

I find that interesting. Why not? Because he’s your son? If he can kill his girlfriend, who is to say you aren’t next if he finds it necessary?

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u/milesamsterdam Feb 19 '25

Follow up question, what if he does it again? How many women would he have to kill before you do turn him in? If he had killed more than one woman he dated and he brings home another girlfriend would you warn her?

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u/saucycita Feb 19 '25

spitting faxxxxx 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

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u/leolisa_444 Feb 19 '25

Excellent point!

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u/rayquan36 Feb 19 '25

Honestly who really knows what they're going to do in their parents situation? A lot of people say their morals would have them turning in their child. It's really easy to say stuff like that on Reddit when there's absolutely no consequences and it makes you look like a morally superior person but I can't imagine it's easy to pick up the phone and tell the cops to come and take your son away forever.

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u/CallMeCleverClogs Feb 19 '25

Well for me personally, if I catastrophically failed so spectacularly as a parent that my son actually lost it and murdered his girlfriend, I would not find it that hard to make that call. It would not be fun or pleasant, but I am raising my kids that killing is wrong so...

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u/Tiny-Reading5982 Feb 19 '25

No but the police were at the house looking for him and he was in the house at one of those times.

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u/milesamsterdam Feb 19 '25

How much harder would it be to turn him in after he does it again? If your son suspected your spouse of talking to the cops and planned on killing your spouse how would you respond? If your spouse had vocalized a possibility of turning them in and your son killed your spouse would it be easier to report him to the cops?

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u/angelic-beast Feb 19 '25

They don't take people away forever, if you turn yourself in and cooperate you can get less than a life sentence. Even then your parents can still visit you and speak to you. Its hard but its unequivocally the right thing to do. These parents did however lose their son forever by letting him go off to kill himself instead of taking accountability for his actions. As a parent you have to be ready to do the hard shit or it fucks up your kids even worse.

I can see saying you wouldn't know what you would do in a situation with your child in trouble with the law, and true, no one can predict perfectly what we would do, but I would hope we can all agree that even if its hard the right thing to do is to turn them in for things like murder. It would have saved the other family some anguish in the delay to finding her body and could have saved his life too. The parents took the worst route in this case imo.

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u/suarezj9 Feb 19 '25

I don’t think anyone can really say what they’ll do until they’re in the situation. All the people saying they’d turn their son in are full of it

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u/magic8ballin Feb 19 '25

Nah, people have turned in their children before. Plus, if you can be proven to have known about the murder and did nothing …. you’re just as bad

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u/rayquan36 Feb 19 '25

This is 100% exactly it. Right now I can't imagine turning in my son for anything but who knows? Thankfully I'm sure this will never be a choice I have to make.

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u/leolisa_444 Feb 19 '25

You obviously have NO idea what murder does to the surviving family. My SIL was murdered by an actual serial killer, and her family, including me, were never the same again.

It destroys the family members cuz you NEVER get over it. It creates alcoholics, addicts, and leads to things like Panic Disorder and paranoia. My husband had panic attacks for five years after.

It changes how you see the world, and other people. She knew her killer (he was my husband's roommate), so I don't trust anyone anymore.

Ask yourself this - what if someone murdered your child? How would it feel to have your kid ripped away from you - especially if the murder is particularly horrendous. My SIL had over a hundred stab wounds, over 100 self defense wounds, and then to top it off, he almost decapitated her.

If someone did this to YOUR CHILD, what would you do??

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u/molotovcocktease_ Feb 19 '25

I genuinely and with my entire heart hope they never have a moment of peace again in their lives.

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u/DanaAndrews Feb 22 '25

they won't. and btw, they knew he was going to kill himself. that contrived "search" was so cringe, especially with their stupid dated covid masks.

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u/Fine_Ad744 Jun 27 '25

I agree. I believe they assisted him with getting out of the home knowing he was going to end his life. The mother gloated about sneaking him out in front of surveillance. The way they found his waterproof bag and then his remains so quickly. They were so casual about it because they had already come to terms with it. It was just another way they assisted him in avoiding facing his consequences. It fits with everything else his parents did. They didn’t report him missing despite knowing he had went “hiking” and that the vehicle he was driving was ticketed in the area. They picked up the vehicle. He was missing for 3-4 days before they reported it. Just based on their behavior if they thought he was going on the run I don’t think they ever would have reported him missing. Either that or they believed he was going to run and then when they found his vehicle they knew he didn’t get far on foot. However, I strongly believe they were aware and assisted with the suicide plot.

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u/Accomplished_Ask_876 Mar 01 '25

Oh, they won’t. I actually posted a discussion thread here a few days ago specifically discussing if they will forever be shunned and hated or if they can live a life and it got taken down!!!!! Aka everyone agreed they will never live a normal life again. They need to go into witness protection if they want any chance of normalcy

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u/Forward_Bend_2189 Apr 11 '25

I don’t want taxpayer dollars going to Brian’s parents. I’m sure they wouldn’t qualify in any event. As my grandpa used to say, “If you want to dance, you’ve got to pay the fiddler.”

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u/ThisThingIsStuck Feb 20 '25

U Harbert alot of hate seek help

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u/ThisThingIsStuck Feb 20 '25

Never learned a new word?

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u/ModLifeCrisis Feb 22 '25

Apparently I just did. What does Harbert mean exactly?

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '25

Are you trying to say “harbor a lot of hate”? Because your ignorance is showing

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u/ThisThingIsStuck Feb 23 '25

2 days late to the party u can only get on reddit on weekends?? Sorry for ya

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u/Enchantedscribe2024 Feb 21 '25

Before I even opened this up my exact words. “As they should be”! And there it was

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u/National-Mission-750 Feb 25 '25

As it should’ve been.

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u/Ice_Battle Feb 20 '25

Yeah. Good.

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u/Vazhox Feb 20 '25

And should have already been doing. Did the neighbors just forget what had happened?

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u/BobBeerburger Feb 23 '25

We should shun more people! Lotta good candidates for shunning lately!

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u/Forward_Bend_2189 Apr 11 '25

Sadly, although I understand the sentiment, it’s that attitude that has helped to put the USA in its current predicament.