“We drove by them, and the gentleman was slapping the girl,” the caller said. Then that Insta-perfect picture shattered.Ī 911 call came in to police later on August 12th: it described a couple in a white van with Florida plates having an altercation, according to The Washington Post. Gabby wrote, “drawing and enjoying the nature without seeing anybody who was on line or taking photos! It felt like we had the entire delicate arch to ourselves!” August 12th they were in Arches National Park, made famous by Edward Abbey in his nature epic Desert Solitaire. They visited, in quick succession, three of America’s most beautiful desert parks: Zion National Park, Bryce’s Canyon National Park, and Canyonlands National Park, with a trip to some hot springs in between. July 4th found them at Monument Rock in Kansas from there, they traveled to Colorado. Laundrie and Petito Looked Like The Perfect Couple And on July 2, 2021, they left on what was supposed to be a four-month cross-country road trip.Īmerica’s sweetheart would not. Gabby and her fiance traveled to Blue Point, New York to celebrate her little brother’s graduation from high school. But the van seems more for storage and perhaps cooking clearly, she and Laundrie did their living outside in a tent rather than inside. Creating a space for both artistic expression and distance hiking,” Gabby says on her one and only YouTube post under the channel Nomadic Statik. “We handcrafted our own tiny van, a simple 2012 Ford Transit Connect, utilizing space with unique designs and features. They bought that van on December 11, 2020. She and Laundrie decided they “wanted to downsize lives”, instagramming, and vlogging on the way - #vanlife. The first spiderwebbing in the Insta-perfect facade began. So they were really just boyfriend and girlfriend.” They were excited at first, but then they were like, let’s just wait, we’re very young. “I think they kind of put that on hold just because they felt it was a little fast. Till death do us part or until I wake up, I’m so happy the answer was yes, Love you hunny.”īut they weren’t ready for marriage, Schmidt reveals, when they started on that cross-country trip - they’d called off their engagement. Laundrie posted, “My biggest fear is that one day I’ll wake up and it will have all been a dream, because that is what every second has felt like since the moment we found each other. “Brian asked me to marry him and I said yes! you make life feel unreal, and everyday is such a dream with you,” Petito wrote with a heart emoji on Instagram, according to Yahoo News (the post has since been removed).
They had already gone on one cross-country road trip - and had been together perhaps a year - when Laundrie popped the question in July 2020. Gabby moved to North Point, Florida to live with Brian and his parents that same year. They got back in touch and started dating” sometime, it seems, in mid-2019. She met Brian Laundrie at Bayport-Blue Point High School according to Nicole Schmidt, Gabby’s mother, “They went to high school together. Gabby grew up in Long Island, New York as the oldest of six. Simple: Gabby Petito is a classic case of missing white woman syndrome. Why did Gabby hook us when over seven hundred Indigenous people, mostly girls and woman, have gone missing in Wyoming in the last decade? When newlyweds Crystal Turner and Kylen Schulte were mysteriously - seemingly without motive - shot dead while camping in Moab only a few days before Gabby and Brian Laundrie passed through? There’s darkness there: domestic violence, possibly mental illness. Gabby Petito didn’t live that life she carefully curated.
We seem to crave that beauty lost, then its Insta-perfect facade shattered. Twin Peaks demanded its not-so-innocent sacrificial lamb, and in a bizarre way, so does TikTok. She wanted to be a travel blogger she wanted to drive all the way from New York state to Portland in a converted van. Five foot two, 110 lbs, on a road trip with a fiance she met in high school: Hollywood could have written her down. And if Lynch makes Twin Peaks’ Laura Palmer seem the archetypical, blue-eyed beauty in death, Gabby Petito is TikTok’s Laura Palmer. There’s something of David Lynch’s Laura Palmer in Gabby Petito: blonde, young, an American sweetheart type with a darkness underneath.
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