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/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/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/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.