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/[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