Comments by "Glamdolly" (@glamdolly30) on "BREAKING: Brian Laundrie's Body Found | COURT TV" video.
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@KH-dm9zm Great posts. Anyone with a modicum of common sense and critical thinking skills can deduce from their extreme behaviour Chris and Roberta Laundrie knew their son had killed Gabby. If he's told them a fiction about her, eg that she went off with another guy, they would have shared that with her family. And they would not have felt any need to hire a damn lawyer!
It's patently obvious the mommy's-boy drove home to mommy (in Gabby's van, stealing $1,000 of her money en route), and as soon as his peanut head was through the door, spilled the beans about killing her. He put the most positive spin he could on it of course, with a ton of victim-blaming, and his parents supported him - as he knew they would. It's clear they'd over indulged him, and cleared up his messes all his life, at 23 he was a man-child who'd never held down a job or lived independently of them!
The Laundries deserve nothing but contempt for their disgusting disrespect of Gabby and her family, a young woman who had shared their home for the last two years. It can't be proved, but it's pretty obvious they knew her body lay abandoned by their son to the elements, rotting and possibly being eaten by animals. Yet they zipped their mouths, and helped Brian escape on foot before whatever was left of her remains, was found by police.
As parents, and as human beings, they should have had enough basic decency to speak to Gabby's desperate family But it's blindingly obvious to all, why they did not. They were protecting their killer son, from the consequences of his sickening violence against a defenceless woman. They over protected him his whole life - that's how he grew into such a disappointing and dangerous man-child.
It's sickening he's cheated justice, and let his folks off the hook too by dispensing with a high profile murder trial and a lifetime of visits to a maximum security prison. Gabby deserves some small morsel of justice, even if it's only the Laundries being prosecuted for harbouring a fugitive and hiding evidence.
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You talk about Brian as if he's in the same category as Gabby - He is her murderer! She is the only victim here, along with her heartbroken family and friends, and they are the only people deserving of sympathy. I doubt anyone but his warped parents will mourn Brian the fiance-strangler.
Brian has taken the coward's way out, which is to be expected from a cowardly domestic abuser and killer. Gabby's loved ones have been cheated out of the closure they deserve from a full trial, and justice for their murdered child.
As far as Brian Laundrie's parents Chris and Roberta are concerned, his death is a little bit of karma - they will experience some of the pain her family have. However, they have the comfort of knowing their child died at his own hands and by his own choice - he was not terrorised and brutally murdered by someone he loved, trusted, and planned to spend his whole life with! Gabby's death by strangulation at his hands, was infinitely crueller and totally unjustifiable.
The Laundries should now be prosecuted in Brian's place for withholding evidence, aiding and abetting a fugitive and every other offence that can possibly be thrown at them. They are scum. Maybe now they might have a little empathy for the suffering they put Gabby's parents through, in barring their doors and windows and refusing to answer their pleas for information. But I doubt it, those two care about no one but themselves - and in their killer son they spawned an evil sociopath in their own image. Good riddance to Brian Laundrie - the only good domestic killer is a dead one!
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Police should have taken Brian Laundrie into custody as soon as Gabby was declared a missing person - if they had, he'd be behind bars now where he belongs. He came home from that road trip in Gabby's van alone, hid behind his parents and an attorney and refused to answer any questions about her whereabouts, despite her family's desperate pleas.
Brian Laundrie was the sole person of interest in her disappearance, police should not have given him the chance to leave his parents' house and go on the run! That's not just my view, even senior police like Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd believes his colleagues dropped the ball.
The Keystone Cops messed up every step of the way - firstly by failing to arrest Laundrie for domestic abuse on the roadside, after not one but TWO 911 witness reports of him hitting her, (Sheriff Judd said there were ample grounds to arrest him right then for domestic abuse), then by failing to take him into custody or even put him under round the clock surveillance when Gabby was missing, suspected murdered.
The dirty Laundries totally ran rings around law enforcement, and now Brian's killed himself he's totally cheated justice! If I were Gabby's family I'd be lived at police.
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@3_up_moon Exactly right! Isn't it strange, how some people seek to project positive qualities like guilt and remorse onto a man who strangled his fiance to death, abandoned her body to rot in the elements, and drove himself home to his mommy & daddy in her van, stealing $1,000 of her cash en route?
Worse, he hid behind Mommy's skirts and an attorney, refused to share Gabby's fate with her desperate loved ones, and then ran away before searches located her strangled body.
Now we find he's killed himself because he was too gutless and egotistical to face the world's disgust and rage at his appalling crime against a woman he should have loved and protected. Dirty Laundrie never loved Gabby, he only ever cared about himself. Suicide was his final, selfish act, cheating Gabby and her family of justice, so he could dodge a death sentence and all the bigger psychopaths he'd have inevitably been 'bitch' to. He literally got away with murder - and his grotty parents escaped the shame of his high profile murder trial and many miserable years of visits to peanut-head in a maximum security prison.
However Chris and Roberta Laundrie should not escape justice for harbouring a killer son, aiding and abetting him and withholding evidence. Their callous disrespect for Gabby, a woman who had shared their home for the last two years, is shocking and should not go unpunished.
Their son had the dignity of dying by his own hand - in stark contrast, Gabby was terrorised and murdered by the man she loved and trusted, strangled to death in the most horrific betrayal imaginable. Brian's creepy parents deserve only contempt. After messing this case up every step of the way, police should belatedly do something to show support for abuse victims like Gabby, and prosecute the dirty Laundries to the full extent of the law.
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Marie Hackett At least the Laundries don't have to suffer the agony of knowing their child was brutally murdered - and by someone he loved, trusted and planned a life with - as Gabby was brutally murdered by their son Brian!
No one ever expected Chris and Roberta Laundrie to appear on TV and explain themselves. What has shocked so many is their callous disregard for Gabby Petito and her parents, and their refusal to respond to that devastated family's private questions sent by phone and text message.
As parents themselves, it was shocking they could so cruelly ignore Gabby's family, desperately worried about her safety. And let's not forget, Gabby had lived in the Laundrie home for the last two years - didn't they care about her?! Of course the reality is now all too clear - their son Brian had told them he killed Gabby, hence their decision to use the services of a lawyer and keep their collective mouths shut. They totally forgot about Gabby's tragedy, in their unseemly haste to protect their son from the consequences of his evil actions.
We can only guess at the end game Chris, Roberta and Brian decided on. Was the plan for him to escape justice for good with suicide? Could his parents have packed him off with enough drugs to do the deed? Frankly the Laundries have behaved so bizarrely, I can't put anything past them. Or was he just hiding out awhile, and got attacked by a crocodile? Whatever happened to him, I cannot mourn his passing. He murdered a much-loved young woman with her whole life ahead of her. May he rot in hell for all eternity.
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@ebogar42 There is never any excuse for men to murder women - you shouldn't post victim blaming shit like that. Brian Laundrie was a cowardly domestic abuser, who wasn't dealt with robustly by police as he should have been, so carried right on abusing her and soon escalated his abuse to her murder. Law enforcement need to use that bodycam footage of the Keystone Cops for training purposes, it shows how NOT to handle domestic abuse relationships!
Laundrie's a covert narcissist and did the classic abuser thing of getting Gabby miles away from her family and friends, living with him in his parents' home, so he could exert total control over her. He jumped at the 'Van Life' road trip, because he'd have her all to himself. He knew she was out of his league, and was terrified of his cute, smart girlfriend leaving him - and taking her money, van and electronics with her.
The usual trigger for abusive men like Laundrie to kill, is the woman leaving him, or talking about it. I'm certain that was ultimately the reason he murdered her. The incident at the Mexican restaurant on 27th August, when he argued over the $60 bill and returned FOUR times to yell at the female staff, was likely what led up to his final, fatal attack on Gabby. She went back in last of all, to apologise to the staff for his behaviour - he was acting like a big kid, the same way he would trail mud into the van with filthy feet, and leave it like a pig sty. I think Brian was finding the whole road trip stressful - a man-child who had never lived independently of his parents aged 23, would struggle to cope on an extended, cross country road trip, with no 'grown up' parents in the next room to help him.
Covert narcs can't handle losing an argument - and it's obvious he got nowhere with his temper tantrum in the restaurant. He must have finally left the Mexican place enraged, because he couldn't win. And if he found out Gabby had apologised to the staff for him, that would have left the loser feeling even more humiliated and enraged. It was his own damn fault for temper tantrum-ing in public - but nothing is ever a narcissist's fault, so of course he will have blamed Gabby.
Domestic abuse is about the abuser, not the victim. Gabby did nothing to justify that cowardly bully's abuse and murder, brutally taking her whole life from her, when it had only begun. Gabby was a big-hearted, smart, funny, lovable and much loved young woman, and will be greatly missed by a great many people. I doubt anyone but peanut head's weird parents will miss him. May he rot in hell.
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@ebogar42 Who's 'gaslighting'? Gabby Petito's murder by Brian Laundrie is only too real - along with the countless other women murdered in similar circumstances by abusive males around the world every day. Domestic abuse is a deadly global pandemic for females.
The young woman you paint as an 'abuser' is dead by homicide (strangled - the favourite method of abusive males). Her boyfriend has now been found dead by his own hand, after hiding behind his parents and a lawyer, refusing to explain his missing girlfriend's whereabouts, and going on the run from police. It doesn't take Columbo to work out what happened, or the dynamics of this all too common relationship in which a woman was abused - and then killed - by a man.
Such relationships, and the behaviour of both perpetrator and victim, are all too predictable. So the police failings are shocking. Had those officers received proper training in domestic abuse, they'd have recognised the many red flags evident on the bodycam footage in both parties' behaviour. It was textbook!
The marks on Brian Laundrie's face were typical of the superficial defensive wounds female victims inflict on men who assault and kill them. During an attack by a physically bigger and stronger male, all a female can do is lash out the best she can, and her nails will often leave marks. Laundrie may have received a few more of those scratches soon after, during his final, fatal assault on her, when Gabby desperately fought for her life - and lost. Those marks were evidence of HIS abuse, not her's! This is very basic stuff and it's astonishing police misunderstood the true significance of those marks.
Alas ignorant misogyny like yours is widespread among the public, but we expect better of law enforcement officers. It's appalling that they branded Gabby the perpetrator, and treated the actual aggressor Brian Laundrie as the victim. WTF? They didn't even once confront him about the very serious 911 witness reports of him assaulting her. People don't call 911 for no reason!
Instead cops accepted Gabby's self-blame at face value (when they should know taking responsibility for a perpetrator's abuse and minimising it, is a typical victim response), and decided she was the problem. They also failed to see through Brian Laundrie's simpering apologies and smiles, putting on the 100% expected 'nice guy' act that is the covert narcissist's stock-in-trade (see Chris Watts' police encounters for further examples). Confusing the identities of perpetrator and victim was an unforgivable fuck up by police, and should be the subject of an independent public enquiry.
Police above all should know the basic facts of domestic abuse and homicide. The statistics are clear and unambiguous. Domestic abusers are overwhelmingly male, and victims overwhelmingly female. And the victims of domestic homicides, are almost exclusively female. It's extremely rare for a man to die at a woman's hands, but women are killed by men with depressing regularity. Therefore, of Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito, it was her, not him, who was at significant risk of serious harm, or homicide. It was Gabby whose welfare should have been prioritised by police - as her death soon afterwards powerfully proved.
Gabby Petito was involved with a man so abusive, he killed her. Like the dumb police officers whose warped judgements paved the way for her murder by him two weeks later, you feel more comfortable viewing this not as a case of male abuse, but as two abusive people - which is plainly ludicrous. Policemen have got to do better than this, if they are to perform their duties appropriately and support the predominantly female victims of abuse. In not confronting Brian Laundrie about his abuse of Gabby, they effectively endorsed it. This made him feel more empowered and entitled to continue his abuse - and as we know, to escalate it to murder.
Why do some males have such difficulty calling out abusive assholes like Brian Laundrie? If you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem! No wonder so many women suffer in silence and stay with their tormentors - sometimes with tragic consequences. The victim-blaming they get, even from the police paid to protect and serve them, is totally unacceptable.
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Marie Hackett Gabby certainly didn't 'win', when she was conned into a relationship with a manipulative covert narcissist who viciously took her life at just 22. Her killer's subsequent death was as a direct result of his own wicked crime, so he certainly deserves no sympathy, least of all understanding!
It's now crystal clear Brian Laundrie's parents knew exactly what their son had done to Gabby Petito, a defenceless young woman who had shared their home for 2 years. Yet they ruthlessly closed ranks, hired a lawyer, shut their mouths and protected him from the consequences of his obscene violence against a woman who loved and trusted him. They callously ignored her family's desperate phone and text messages, knowing full well her body lay rotting out in the open where their son had dumped it - before driving home in her van, and stealing $1,000 of her money en route. Hardly a son who deserves protection!
I wish more women were clued up about the realities of narcissistic behaviour, which is seen in its most extreme form in the men who abuse and kill women. Such males (and domestic abusers are overwhelmingly male), typically kill the woman when she ends or talks about ending the relationship. Brian Laundrie's well documented controlling and possessive behaviour is textbook. I believe he was always afraid Gabby would leave him, and the pressures of the 'Van Life' road trip escalated his abuse of her and brought his fears and insecurity to a head.
It's great that people are learning about narcissistic abuse. In my view older schoolchildren would benefit greatly from lessons in respectful adult relationships. The Cycle of Narcissistic Abuse should be central to any such lessons. Knowledge is power. Armed with the facts it's entirely possible women who wind up dead at the hands of covert narcissists like Brian Laundrie and Chris Watts, might recognise the danger signs in time, and escape such men with their lives.
You don't need a Phd in psychology to recognise the all too predictable patterns of behaviour at play in abusive relationships like this one. There are common red flags in abusers' conduct - and in victims' responses too. That's why it's so shocking police in the bodycam footage were ignorant of those behaviours, and misjudged this couple so disastrously.
Had those police received proper training/education in narcissistic abuse they would not have been taken in by Brian Laundrie's totally fake 'nice guy' act. Nor would they have accepted Gabby's self-blame (the usual stance of victims) at face value. Those cops misidentified sly Brian as the victim, and branded the actual victim Gabby as the abuser! Detective work doesn't get lousier than that. Two weeks later Laundrie strangled her to death, revealing exactly how wrong those cops called it.
More education on the MO of abusers like Brian Laundrie would be very welcome - especially for law enforcement, who dropped the ball and missed a golden opportunity to save Gabby Petito's life. That damning bodycam video should be used in police training, as a powerful example of how NOT to handle abuser and victim!
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