The family and friends of Gabby Petito spoke out at a presser to announce that they are starting the Gabby Petito foundation to help others with missing loved ones. They called for Brian Laundrie to turn himself in and shared tattoos they got in honor of Gabby.
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praying for Gabby’s Parents and family and her friends. rest in peace Gabby.
Gabby’s smile is a beacon of light and hope to all. It took the loss of this beautiful young girl for all of us to look a little deeper into our own hearts, as well to watch over our loved ones. When we see something off in a relationship, we must step in. We all know Brian killed her and his parents are aiding him to avoid being captured. I know God will deal with them. My thoughts and prayers are with the Petito and Schmidt families. May God Comfort them as only He Can. Rest Peacefully in Paradise Gabby…no one will ever hurt you again. You are loved always.
The good thing is that Gabby’s sacrifice is not in vain and has become an expression for any missing person in the world. Gabby’s smile is a beacon of light and hope for all. Gabby’s sacrifice will make people more careful about their family. our loved ones. When we see something in a relationship, we have to step in. We all know Brian killed her and his parents help him avoid being captured. I know God will deal with them. My thoughts and prayers are with the Pettito and Schmidt families. May God console them as He alone can. Rest in peace Gabby, You are not part of this evil world, no one will ever harm you again. You are always loved….
Only by their looks you know that they are good people.
He’s surely being helped by his parents. The mother even called 911 on DTBH! Don’t worry, your evil son won’t be running away for long.
So let me mourn for you morning and evening, and weep for you blood instead of tears, out of sorrow for you, and regret for what has befallen you and with longing, until I die from the agony of the afflicted and the pain of depression.
Sending you my thoughts of positivity and love during a difficult time.
Please be encouraged in your life, knowing that your family are the bearers of Gabby’s presence, positivity and light.🦋💙
Wow they just buried there daughter 2 days ago .and all already talking about there daughter’s foundation. What a family
His family is hiding him with relatives or friends—- I don’ t believe anything they or their lawyer say. My prayers are with her heartbroken family. Rest In Peace Gabby—- your light will shine forever.
Why don’t you admit your daughter was a loose canon attacking people and she picked a fight she didn’t win. You want Brian to take accountability and turn himself into a lynch mob while you ignore the facts that your daughter was a violent mental case liar.
So, that justifies murder?
@Zee Lee flip the genders and you’d say yes…
He’s being seen in Grand Bahama
Her boyfriend is in the Bahamas
Let it be 🌊
He won’t. He is clearly a coward.
Very strange .. who cares about tattoos at this time ?
Gabby petito designed them. It shows the family grieving and remembering gabby through her art work
Something is wrong with this family mom dad looks dysfunctional big time
RIP Gabby Petito🤍 as an empath and experiencing abuse in a narcissist relationship for 26 years, this-heartbreaking story truly wakes me up to fight for myself. God bless you Gabby.
Why does Joe Petito have the same tattoo on his right hand/finger that Brian Laundrie has on his left hand/finger?
Google feels that Brian’s family is not “satanic”? What dimwitted inbred moderator keeps deleting my comments?
When Gabby disappeared, everyone assumed she was killed. When Brian disappears, everyone assumes he’s on the run.
I think he’s dead. They might have gotten involved with the wrong people.
@Thomas Bel that’s what I suspect too.
@IT V I don’t know what to think so far. Public opinion is he’s guilty but there’s very little information out yet to determine anything.
This is a country of goofy people
Gabby’s tattoo ‘Let it be,’ well, listening to the song *Wake up everybody* says, *”the world won’t get any better if we just let it be”*
I wish all missing people got this level of media attention. Please cover the story of Michael Joseph Vaughan, the missing 5 year old from Fruitland, Idaho with nearly NO coverage of his story! Michael deserves to be found too. #BringMonkeyHome #MichaelJosephVaughan
They’re not gonna help us find Brian:
Well Brian wouldn’t help find Gabby..turns out he killed her. So if his parents won’t help find him. Shouldn’t we imply they play a role. The government can pressure the family. Wish they could torture them
Love this family love gabby we will get justice for her yes us social internet detectives are on it 🕊❤️🤞🏽
how many homicide cases get this much attention? so much outrage, so many cyber slueths have it all figured out. would you all be so invested in this if the deceased was anything other than young, white, attractive, a social media ‘influencer’, would you care at all?
Virtue signaling makes you cool and moral?
There’s a man hunt for a white guy if that helps. You could judge content of character over color like MLK dreamed of.
Brian is definitely alive. I worked with murderers like him alot. They are to selfish to take their own life. He has convinced himself that he is the victim.
Perhaps I’m misunderstanding the timeline of this case, but can someone explain what date Gabby’s parents contacted local police to file a missing person report? How long did they not receive any communication from her prior to contacting police??
Two weeks
2 weeks? I’m a grown married woman, and my mother would call the police if I was not in touch for a day. What parent waits 2 weeks to contact police when their child has been in touch regularly up until that point? Something is not right here
he will never turn himself in, just like his parents will not help. evil people.
Okay so the swamp was definitely a decoy to keep authorities busy but there is no way the father didn’t know that de Soto would be authorities focal point once they saw it was visited by them. I believe that was their second decoy and Brian snuck out on foot and hitched a ride with them again and went to his true destination!! Check all the cameras, stop lights, gas stations etc. Search the closest forests to de Soto!!! Continue searching De Soto but they could be juking everyone.
Not sure why they couldn’t get a warrant to monitor him as a flight risk
Check the Bahamas
Blah blah blah
The killer is dead everybody knows it
rest in peace gabby 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️🤍🤍
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
He is a Coward…
This is a murder investigation,.not a picnic.
Why aren’t law enforcement treating it like so? Parents should’ve been pulled in for questioning from day 1.
Period!
Wtf is going on here !
A monetize foundation! Great!
Parents have all the answers…
They known this girl for two years and the behavior between the two that may have lead up to this…
Camping trip with son is the reason parents got to be questioned. What is FBI waiting for?
Who’s in charge, because they’re doing one lousy job..
RIP Gabby. Love from UK 💙🍃
They say he’s not a murder suspect then why persue him like this?His forearms look severely bruised like they got caught in an automatic window or something.
When ever I want to know what someone would do I just ask myself what would I do? Well, Brian and his parents would drive to Mexico with Brian hidden in the truck the whole way. it is OK to use electronic payment for the trip and save the cash for Brian. Drive across the border and find a nice bar and say goodbye with the plan to meet back at the same bar in 6 months. Then Brian goes into hiding. Hiding means no contact with anyone in anyway for 6 months. No “burner” phone. No letters, emails social media posts nothing. Absolutely no contact with friends, family known acquaintance. Do not get friendly with strangers. The parents go home with basically the same set of rules. The attorney does all the talking. The parents are under no obligation to speak to anyone. If the attorney is smart and competent he will keep his clients silent. The criminal defense attorney mantra: “Don’t talk and you walk.” It takes incredible self-discipline and determination but if they can do it for 6 months then Brian might just stay out of jail. There is lots of talk about putting the parents in jail. Look carefully at the timeline and the facts and you will see that they have committed no crime up to this point. If they drive Brian to Mexico, as I think, around September 10, Gabby has not even been reported missing. So they can claim ignorance of any crime. Then they drop Brian in Mexico. They can claim that they were on vacation and Brian met some friends and decided to stay. Then they return home around 9/14 and on 9/17 their attorney says they haven’t seen Brian since 9/14 which is true. They can also say that they don’t know where he is because he could be anywhere after they dropped him off. The clock on “accessory after the fact” doesn’t start until the arrest warrant is filed. Anything they did before that can be deflected with ignorance of a crime.
Watch it somehow not be brian and we get like the biggest plot twist of the century
He is dead. Been dead. For awhile.
For godsake.
Move on!
The world doesn’t revolves around this petita or petiti or whatever. She got her moment of fame. Let the world breath now
Also pray for laundrie’s parents. They to lost a son right now
They knew he came home without his fiance, yet they did nothing except cover for him. No prayers needed for them. Just more pressure from the FBI
Hope they find Justice 🙏
Ask to turn in? Dam….. naaa the killer and his family need a public punishment for this… poor lady she have a life How you bring her from dead? He deserves a “shame”.
https://youtu.be/psrCkXBcROw FBI HAS CONFIRMED GABBY PETITO’S MANNER OF DEATH WAS A HOMICIDE! The family knows her cause of death, but will only name a public statement when they can bring her body home with them.
Let find this dude fr what he did I hope he realize what he did while sitting there
Gabbys mom is very pretty.. I see where gabby got it from. Rest In Peace beautiful 💜🕊🕊🕊💜
Her mom looks like she can barely keep herself together. The amount of strength it must take is unimaginable. Rest in peace Gabby. Sending all the love to her family.
There is 75000 black women and children missing here in America and no one is talking about it am I missing something here🤔🤔🤔🤔on my📄 I tell no lies 🧐🧐🧐
U dont care about them. U just race baiting.
Theres tons of white girls missing too.
Finally a famous person went missing to it brought light to these cases.
Stop being racist.
Gabby was a Monster
#MiyaMarcano
Condolencias para sus Padres!!🥺😭. Me imagino su dolor!!! Dios 🙏 les de fuerza para soportar, Descansa en Paz Gabby!! 🕊🕊🕊🙏
I WOULD BET THAT BRIAN TOOK A BUS TO THE NEAREST CRUISE SHIP TERMINAL AND HEADED FOR BELIZE OR SOMEWHERE NEAR THERE AND ALL HE WOULD HAVE TO DO IS WHEM THE SHIP STOPPED FOR A VISIT , HE COUKD JUST GET OFF WITH HIS SUIT CASE AND NOT COME BACK ON THE SHIP.
His family….
💙🕯🙏🏼
Rest In Peace Eternal Gabby 🌹
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
“GABBY, IS NOW THE BEAUTIFUL ROSE 🌹 BEYOND THE WALL”.
Near a shady wall a rose once grew,
Budded and blossomed in God’s free light,
Watered and fed by the morning dew,
Shedding it’s sweetness day and night.
As it grew and blossomed fair and tall,
Slowly rising to loftier height,
It came to a crevice in the wall
Through which there shone a beam of light.
Onward it crept with added strength
With never a thought of fear or pride,
It followed the light through the crevice’s length
And unfolded itself on the other side.
The light, the dew, the broadening view
Were found the same as they were before,
And it lost itself in beauties new,
Breathing it’s fragrance more and more.
Shall claim of death cause us to grieve
And make our courage faint and fall?
Nay! Let us faith and hope receive–
The rose still grows beyond the wall,
Scattering fragrance far and wide
Just as it did in days of yore,
Just as it did on the other side,
Just as it will forever-more.
🌹💓🌹💓🌹💓🌹💓🌹💓
SLEEP SAFE FROM EVIL ONES SWEET ANGEL 🌈🙏🏻👼🏻
Love, peace and our my sincere condolences to all your family & friends,
From H.R.H Prince Louis Xaiver Of The Grand Ducal Royal Family Of Luxembourg 🤴🇱🇺🌹
Ps, if anyone is in an abusive relatiojship, get out now ! . The abusers will never ever give it up, they will never ever give in . They can’t “EVER” change, so – the only person who can make it stop is you ! . Never , ever “ Give In , Never Give Up 💯👍”
Am I the only one that thinks this is fake? I’m not trying to be disrespectful, however, I’m seeing a lot of off settings in these interviews.
Not fake, the father just seems like he is ok with losing his daughter if it gets him on TV
Omg find the dude already I don’t care about what happened to gabby maybe she should’ve made better life choices
My heartbreaks for this family. No family should have to go through this. 🙏🏻
Gabby isn’t a real person and neither is Brian. They’re both actors in a pre planned distraction plot.
Tattoo’s? Degenerate lol consumers no wonder she was so UNFUNCTIONAL.
She made poor life choices. Selfish delusional life choices.
Brian is probably dead.
Brian Laundrie neighbor fight video on my channel. RIP GABBY PETITO
Eso es mierda una extratejia ellos si saven donde el esta inclusive lo estan escondiendo que poca vergüenza 🙁
Two reasons this particular story stood out for people is 1) She had a travel blog and 2) The bodycam footage made us feel like we knew them. Don’t think news outlets should feel apologetic for giving it attention.
They should feel apologetic for not giving women of color the same type of coverage and resources . That also does not mean gabbys story should not be told.
What did he get charged with?
For what ? What charges have been brought. Brian could have been an abuser, but so could Gabby. If it turns out she was abusive as well then all these domestic violence groups are full of 💩
Master mind
And the message is that husbands, boyfriends and partners to cool down; by killing doesn’t solve any problems. This is a cower act
The way the family is handling this is beautiful and inspirational. I lost my 18 year old son on March 28th, my goal is to want something positive to come of this loss of a beautiful young person. We may not know how or in what way it can touch people, but we just want their lives to have mattered, and they do. Sending love to the family
Condolences to Gabrielle family and to all people who loved her.. such a loss of a beautiful and full of life girl.💔🖤💔🇩🇰🇩🇰
Jesus tell us where we can find him please and thank you in advance.
You know I just dont get why the FBI is dragging their feet in going to CUBA….thatss where hes at…but frankly, we still dont know what the girl died of, and they just reccently found a father dead as well out there in the middle of nowhere, same area…….people are just sooo sooo sure he killed her. what if it was self defense after all, she did scratch his face out, blamed herself for being MEAN to him…they were going to arrest her, but he didnt press charges…..remember also the brother apparently works for the state police, and the mother worked at the DAs office…..so yeah…white priv at its best, oh but we complain when it happens to their own….thats when white priv is a problem…LOL
Gabrielle Pedido was a Monster scratching Brian almost to his death
In an earlier interview, the stepfather said they had people in Florida may be that person followed Brain in the swamp killed him stripped his clothes off tossed him into an alligator-infested area? This interview just seems like Closure we opened a foundation we are being positive just seems they have moved past Brian – they need positive stuff to come from this and bring up positive stuff…that seems like they have moved past Brian…just makes me wonder if whoever they had in Florida killed him. Having said that My heart goes out to the family. I can not even begin to comprehend their pain/anquish.
Love the tattoos! Such a nice way to honor their angel. RIP Gabby!
Another foundation smh 🤦♀️ . How about training the cops and such to learn how to spot these narcissist/sociopaths
Fake news.
The laundrie parents were complicit in letting him get away. They should be held accountable for that.
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
My heart goes out to her mother and her father and siblings if she has siblings. 🙏
I see that father very cold and I see that mother who is being abused by her husband, look at her face, her appearance, is a young woman and she dresses as if she were very old, Gaby’s mother needs help.
Bryan’s parents know where their son is they are hiding him, I don’t know if that is also a crime.
My Deepest Sincere Sympathy Goes Out To All Those That Knew and Loved Gabby..
Turn Yourself In Brian..
It could Turn out much worst for you and your Folks if you are found and make no mistake..
You will be found ..
You’re so touching and heartfelt to see this mom so broken-hearted. I pray that you’re fine God’s comfort and love in your time of loss I know it’s painful but take one day at a time
🙏✝💕💕💕💕💕
I CAN CRACK THIS CASE RIGHT NOW…. ARREST THE PARENTS PUT THEM IN JAIL AND SHOW IT ON THE MEDIA… HE’LL TURN HIMSELF IN GUARANTEED! APPARENTLY AMERICAN DETECTIVES DON’T HAVE COMMON SENSE TODAY!
All girls need to look out for the good look but not the good heart.
Just found out about this tragedy. May her soul find Eternal Rest.
God Have Mercy on her Soul.