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/Fearless-Ice8953 Feb 19 '25

Agreed. I mean how hard would it have been to text them and at least say, “No, we haven’t heard from Gabby.”

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u/Dazzling_School_593 Feb 20 '25

This is the bit I don’t understand, like they all made it so much more suss, if she said she’s left and he’s given her some money (or she gave him I can’t remember) as per the messages/story he tried to ‘set up’ with the bank transfer, why then just refuse to say anything. It just makes you look guilty, so why even bother to attempt to cover it up. Surely it makes more sense to say ‘Brian told us he gave her some money and she took off, we haven’t seen her’ (I can’t actually remember who he made it look like that ‘gave’ who the money)

Also, they knew where he was, I think they knew he was dead when they went to the park. How did they find him in like under an hour when hundred of people couldn’t find him over days. Why didn’t they tell the cops where to look, did they not want him found??

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u/babyornobaby11 Feb 21 '25

What’s crazy is he sent himself money from Gabby’s account. I had to pause and read it because I thought for sure it would be the other way. Murdered her then stole money from her.

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u/MiaParsonsBlvd Feb 21 '25

AND wrote in the transfer note "Goodbye Brian. This is the last you'll ever have to deal with me." Or "hear from me."

Something along those lines. Unsure if that's a new detail by the documentary but that got me even more livid.

How psychotic do you have to be to do that??

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u/Dazzling_School_593 Feb 21 '25

There’s something pretty self absorbed about even after murdering someone thinking the most likely story is them paying you so they can leave you - because you’re just so important.

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u/Hellbender23 Feb 23 '25

Supposedly it was for the van too. He tried to make it look like she paid him to take the van off her....wtf hoe does that make sense

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u/heddalettis Mar 02 '25

Narcissism 101!

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u/VirtualMoneyLover Mar 18 '25

That actually made it a federal crime. Stolen money transfer between statelines or something.

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u/Ryjeska Feb 20 '25

If Brian called his parents, and they did actually contact an attorney as it was suggested, then I would assume the first thing the attorney would tell them would be “don’t say a single word to the other family or the police, I will handle any contact with police if needed” or something along those lines. I think morally it’s terrible, but that’s how they have to handle it legally.

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u/jaylee-03031 Feb 21 '25

Their lawyer literally told them "Do not talk to anyone. All communications must be through me." so they did what the lawyer told them to do.