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/LoudNoises89 Feb 19 '25

I have a son and if he had killed anyone, I would have reported him to the Police and forced him to turn himself in. His parents are disgusting and deserve to be in prison bc as I see it they are accomplices and withheld information. The minute their son went missing they went to search for him when it was allowed bc they wanted to know if he was dead or alive.

When Gabby was missing they did nothing except call an attorney bc they knew what their son did. Anyone with children can understand how devastating that would be. All they had to do was help by giving them the information from their son even if he said he didn’t know. I also believe they knew he was either going to try to escape or kill himself which he did. I don’t know how they live with themselves everyday and feel no remorse and still won’t comment. Sick human beings and I feel sorry for the rest of their family bc they clearly have severe mental issues.

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u/Morganmayhem45 Feb 19 '25

My son is the same age as Brian and Gabby and his girlfriend actually looks a lot like her. I would do anything for my son but if he did something like that I would have to turn him in. I would cry the whole time and do whatever I could to help but I cannot comprehend knowing he hurt someone like that. I am so completely disgusted with those trash excuses for humans.

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u/ScienceNthingsNstuff Feb 20 '25

Yea I feel like this isn't that hard. If my kids came to me and said they killed someone, I'd turn them in. I'd still love them, help them get a lawyer so their treated fairly, etc but they gotta go to jail and a jury can decide if they're guilty

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u/ScienceNthingsNstuff Feb 21 '25

I do understand that and maybe I'd feel differently if it happened. I can't know. But I do know many parents have found out their child murdered someone and immediately turned them in.

And the protestors weren't there when their son said he killed his fiance, their daughter in law. They had, what, a week to process and decide what to do. They got him a lawyer knowing he was going to get in trouble but still sheltered him, hid him from police and drew it out as long as possible. I hope I'll never know the answer but I fully believe I'd do the right thing.

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u/RelativePickle8333 Feb 22 '25

But Brian had been there for days before the protestors turned up.

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u/timelesstaxi Feb 19 '25 edited Feb 20 '25

Exactly 100%. If the situation was reversed and Gabby had harmed Brian, his parents would have flipped the fuck out and used the situation to defame Gabby's family. 

All 4 of Gabby's parents have shown so much empathy & integrity in this situation. They have made sure Gabby's memory gets the respect it deserves. And they have done the work to help shine the light on missing people who are marginalized and have been ignored.

Edited for grammatical errors

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u/DanaAndrews Feb 22 '25

she gave him a small bruise with her cell phone. but he strangled her to death in a rage.

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u/Interesting-Read-245 Feb 19 '25

I would too, daughter or son, they need to be held accountable

Her letter to him was crazy

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u/super-mich Feb 19 '25

So many people are typing comments like "obviously you don't have kids" or "you clearly don't love your kids id do anything for my mine" which is absolutely crazy to me. If one of my children murdered another, I'd be dragging them to the police station myself.

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u/Interesting-Read-245 Feb 19 '25

A way to show your kids true love is not letting them be shit

But Brian’s mother is shit. I have a feeling he was shit cause she’s shit

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u/belizeanheat Feb 19 '25

Terrible people almost always owe it to terrible guidance as young kids. 

Pretty safe to say Brian's parents are awful 

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u/Interesting-Read-245 Feb 19 '25 edited Feb 19 '25

Agree! Both his parents are but I mentioned the mom more because of her letter and because how emotionally abusive and manipulative she seemed to be, what with how jealous she was that her son was giving Gabby attention etc

And when Gabby complained that his mother was in one of her moods and she was afraid, he brushed that off like, “oh she’s always like that”

Like this is normal mother behavior. And then how she’s joking around with her daughter after Gabby is found dead and I think authorities were looking for Brian and she’s like, “they confuse me with Brian, must be the short and sassy, haha!”….your future daughter in law is dead, your son murdered her, your sons in trouble and you are joking around….

So many wtf moments. I was completely triggered as a mother, and I hate using that word.

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u/DisposableSaviour Feb 19 '25

I honestly wonder if there are any skeletons in her flower beds.

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u/Briodicuore Feb 21 '25

Brian's sister was a liar. She claimed she had no idea what was going on because she hadnt been in contact with her parents, clearly a lie, given they're texting each other joking nonchalantly about police mistaking Brian for his mother.

As an aside, wtf is wrong with the law enforcement guarding the scene? How could they let him slip, and how could they confuse him for his mom...

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u/Kitt2k Feb 25 '25

that's ok coz she got what she deserved too in the end....

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u/MsDean1911 Feb 20 '25

Brian’s mother is a narcissist enmeshed with her son. And she raised an abusive, narcissistic pos imo.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '25

She sounds like a malignant narcissist and made her son into a covert cluster b disaster.

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u/RatatouilleFiend Feb 19 '25

Hard agree! Also, In no way ever am I going to jail / punished for something my kid decided to do. The second I find out Im calling the police. Sorry not sorry

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u/pulp_affliction Feb 19 '25

They’d probably raise their sons to be abusive pieces of shit too.

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u/lnc_5103 Feb 20 '25

I would be too - but I'd ask a lawyer to meet us there.

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u/Alarmed_Ship_8051 Feb 21 '25

Some parents are like that. They have total unconditional love and family is family. Regardless of what happens you’re loyal to your blood. Do I agree with that? No. I think you should be loyal to your morals. If your child is a murderer you turn them in. But the  Laundrie attitude is not that aberrant. It’s more common than you think. 

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u/Own-Explanation2211 Feb 21 '25

Yeah, this should not be taken literally, but figuratively...."I brought you into this world, I will take you out" comes to mind. This just means a parent will hold your children accountable for their actions. That is not mean... that is being a good parent by teaching your children actions have consequences - good or bad. As a parent, you should not help your child carry their baggage when they are in the wrong.

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u/jrr6415sun Feb 20 '25

you can say that behind a computer on a reddit thread, but you have no idea what would happen if it happened in real life.

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u/thotfullawful Feb 21 '25

I imagine if he just turned himself in from the start they would atleast still have their son, a murderer but someone they could atleast still fight for if they felt so willing. I mean the rejection of their community is nothing compared to the fact that they went through all this effort and risk just for him to kill himself. They have to live with that choice.

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u/ConceptualisticGob Feb 22 '25

Ironically, if they had actually done this, their son might still be alive. I hope that haunts them

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u/QuesoDrizzler Feb 22 '25

You are a reasonable human being.

The Laundries are psycho pieces of shit who deserve to rot in hell.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '25

I think that the fact that the mom didn’t like Gabby was going to look very very bad to the police.

And unfortunately, talking to the police is a really risky thing to do because you have zero control over what they do with the information you give to them. The police are NOT looking to clear up misunderstandings. They are there to make arrests.

So if police get the sense that Mom didn’t like Gabby, those cops are trained to “trick” her into a confession, even if she wasn’t the one to kill gabby. That’s why, I suspect, they sought counsel

I’m not defending the parents, but they were actually smart to not talk to the police. That decision just happened to come with the risk of being social pariahs

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u/Briodicuore Feb 21 '25

Excuse me, why didn't they at least respond to Gabby's parents' desperate texts and calls then? Gabby's parents are not police. You're basically making an argument that what they did was smart and in their own interests, but that was never the point of op's post. The post is about the Laundrie family being shunned in Florida because they're horrible people. The original post is not about whether the Laundries were cunning for evading criminal prosecution. They're putrid, sickly, infested excuses for human beings.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '25 edited Feb 21 '25

Again, their lawyer probably told them not to. Texts are evidence, and you don’t have control over what’s used against you. This was probably their thinking

that was never the point of OP’s post

that's okay, you don’t have to keep me in line. Thanks. I’m responding to a thread on someone saying “if it were my son” and I’m explaining why the Laundries probably didn’t. I’m just adding to the conversation