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== Media coverage and public reaction ==
{{Tweet
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| text = At the request of @NorthPortPolice, @MyFWC law enforcement has been assisting in the search for Brian Laundrie. I have directed all state agencies under my purview to continue to assist federal & local law enforcement as they continue to search - we need justice for Gabby Petito.
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The search for Petito has gained significant national news coverage in the United States and produced widespread interest on social media.<ref name="Anders & Kornfield">{{cite news|last1=Anders|first1=Caroline|last2=Kornfield|first2=Meryl|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/18/gabby-petito-case-tiktok-sleuths/|title=A throng of Internet sleuths are on the Gabby Petito case. Why has it sparked so much interest?|date=2021-09-18|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2021-09-20|archive-date=September 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920194701/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/18/gabby-petito-case-tiktok-sleuths/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Yamada">{{cite news|last=Yamada|first=Haley|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/gabby-petito-case-point-interest-internet-sleuths-social/story?id=80131951|title=Gabby Petito case becomes point of interest for internet sleuths on social media|date=2021-09-20|work=ABC News|access-date=2021-09-20|archive-date=September 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921051057/https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/gabby-petito-case-point-interest-internet-sleuths-social/story?id=80131951|url-status=live}}</ref> Significant public attention has focused on Laundrie's silence in the case, and protesters and reporters have gathered outside his parents' home in North Port. Some local residents held a candlelight vigil for Petito on the night of September 17.<ref name="Matthews">{{cite news|url=https://www.fox13news.com/news/gabby-petito-disappearance-planned-protest-in-front-of-laundrie-home-will-now-be-candlelight-vigil|title=We all fight for each other: Disappearance of Gabby Petito unites North Port community|last=Matthews|first=Justin|publisher=Fox 13 News Tampa Bay|date=2021-09-17|access-date=2021-09-19|archive-date=September 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920210946/https://www.fox13news.com/news/gabby-petito-disappearance-planned-protest-in-front-of-laundrie-home-will-now-be-candlelight-vigil|url-status=live}}</ref> By September 18, several hashtags, including #gabbypetito and #justiceforgabby, had become widely used, appearing in thousands of [[Tweets (Twitter)|tweets]] and featuring in TikTok videos with over 212 million views.<ref name="AndersKornfield">{{cite web |last1=Anders |first1=Caroline |last2=Kornfield |first2=Meryl |title=A throng of Internet sleuths are on the Gabby Petito case. Why has it sparked so much interest? |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/18/gabby-petito-case-tiktok-sleuths/ |work=The Washington Post |access-date=21 September 2021 |archive-date=September 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920194701/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/18/gabby-petito-case-tiktok-sleuths/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On September 21, Florida Governor [[Ron DeSantis]] stated that he was directing all state agencies to assist in the search for Laundrie in a tweet saying "we need justice for Gabby Petito." <ref name="WFLA DeSantis">{{cite news|url=https://www.wfla.com/news/sarasota-county/gov-desantis-directs-florida-agencies-to-continue-helping-in-brian-laundrie-search-we-need-justice-for-gabby-petito/|title=Gov. DeSantis directs Florida agencies to continue helping in Brian Laundrie search: ‘We need justice for Gabby Petito’|publisher=WFLA Channel 8 Tampa Bay|date=2021-09-21|access-date=2021-09-21}}</ref>
The search for Petito has gained significant national news coverage in the United States and produced widespread interest on social media.<ref name="Anders & Kornfield">{{cite news|last1=Anders|first1=Caroline|last2=Kornfield|first2=Meryl|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/18/gabby-petito-case-tiktok-sleuths/|title=A throng of Internet sleuths are on the Gabby Petito case. Why has it sparked so much interest?|date=2021-09-18|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2021-09-20|archive-date=September 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920194701/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/18/gabby-petito-case-tiktok-sleuths/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Yamada">{{cite news|last=Yamada|first=Haley|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/gabby-petito-case-point-interest-internet-sleuths-social/story?id=80131951|title=Gabby Petito case becomes point of interest for internet sleuths on social media|date=2021-09-20|work=ABC News|access-date=2021-09-20|archive-date=September 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921051057/https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/gabby-petito-case-point-interest-internet-sleuths-social/story?id=80131951|url-status=live}}</ref> Significant public attention has focused on Laundrie's silence in the case, and protesters and reporters have gathered outside his parents' home in North Port. Some local residents held a candlelight vigil for Petito on the night of September 17.<ref name="Matthews">{{cite news|url=https://www.fox13news.com/news/gabby-petito-disappearance-planned-protest-in-front-of-laundrie-home-will-now-be-candlelight-vigil|title=We all fight for each other: Disappearance of Gabby Petito unites North Port community|last=Matthews|first=Justin|publisher=Fox 13 News Tampa Bay|date=2021-09-17|access-date=2021-09-19|archive-date=September 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920210946/https://www.fox13news.com/news/gabby-petito-disappearance-planned-protest-in-front-of-laundrie-home-will-now-be-candlelight-vigil|url-status=live}}</ref> By September 18, several hashtags, including #gabbypetito and #justiceforgabby, had become widely used, appearing in thousands of [[Tweets (Twitter)|tweets]] and featuring in TikTok videos with over 212 million views.<ref name="AndersKornfield">{{cite web |last1=Anders |first1=Caroline |last2=Kornfield |first2=Meryl |title=A throng of Internet sleuths are on the Gabby Petito case. Why has it sparked so much interest? |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/18/gabby-petito-case-tiktok-sleuths/ |work=The Washington Post |access-date=21 September 2021 |archive-date=September 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920194701/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/18/gabby-petito-case-tiktok-sleuths/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On September 21, Florida Governor [[Ron DeSantis]] stated that he was directing all state agencies to assist in the search for Laundrie in a tweet saying "we need justice for Gabby Petito." <ref name="WFLA DeSantis">{{cite news|url=https://www.wfla.com/news/sarasota-county/gov-desantis-directs-florida-agencies-to-continue-helping-in-brian-laundrie-search-we-need-justice-for-gabby-petito/|title=Gov. DeSantis directs Florida agencies to continue helping in Brian Laundrie search: ‘We need justice for Gabby Petito’|publisher=WFLA Channel 8 Tampa Bay|date=2021-09-21|access-date=2021-09-21}}</ref>


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Gabby Petito
Born
Gabrielle Venora Petito

(1999-03-19)March 19, 1999[1]
Blue Point, New York, U.S.
DisappearedAugust 27, 2021 (aged 22)
Body discovered(2021-09-19)September 19, 2021
Teton County, Wyoming, U.S.
EducationBayport-Blue Point High School
Height5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
PartnerBrian Laundrie (2019–2021)[2]

Gabrielle Venora Petito (March 19, 1999 – c. August 27, 2021) was an American woman and a missing person whose disappearance was the subject of much speculation and coverage in the news media and social media. Her family lost contact with her in late August 2021 while she was on a vandwelling trip across the United States with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie.[3][4] The return of Laundrie, without Petito, and his refusal to comment about her led to speculation about her whereabouts. On September 19, 2021, human remains consistent with her description were found in Bridger–Teton National Forest in Teton County, Wyoming, with an autopsy on September 21 confirming it was Petito and an initial determination of the manner of death as a homicide.[5][6][7]

Investigators benefited from increased public awareness and from social media users on platforms such as TikTok and YouTube describing contacts and sightings of the couple during their travels.[8][9][10]

Background

Petito, from Blue Point, New York, met her future fiancé, Brian Laundrie, while they were attending Bayport-Blue Point High School in Suffolk County, New York, on Long Island.[11] Petito graduated from high school in 2017.[12] They began dating in March 2019 and moved in together with Laundrie's parents in North Port, Florida, in Sarasota County that year. They got engaged in July 2020.[13] On June 17, 2021, they were both in Blue Point, New York for Petito's brother's graduation ceremony and shortly after on July 2, 2021, they departed Blue Point in a 2012 Ford Transit Connect van converted to a camper for a four-month cross-country vandwelling trip. The couple documented their trip on Petito's YouTube account, "Nomadic Statik", as well as their Instagram accounts, "gabspetito" and "bizarre_design_".[2][14][15]

Domestic disturbance incident

On August 12, 2021,[16] a witness called the 9-1-1 emergency response line claiming that the couple were fighting in front of the Moonflower Community Cooperative in Moab, Utah.[17] During the call, the witness told the dispatcher that Laundrie slapped Petito, the two ran up and down the sidewalk after which Laundrie hit Petito again, and then they drove off.[18]

When police responded, they forced a traffic stop of their van near the entrance to Arches National Park and found Petito crying heavily in the passenger seat, where she told officers she was struggling with personal issues. The responding officer wrote in his report that, "at no point in my investigation did Gabrielle stop crying, breathing heavily, or compose a sentence without needing to wipe away tears, wipe her nose, or rub her knees with her hands".[13]

Laundrie said that they had been arguing and that emotional tension had been building due to traveling together for four to five weeks. Both agreed that Petito had struck Laundrie, as she was concerned that he would leave her alone and stranded after he got in the van.[13] In the report, the officers characterized Petito as the suspect as "the male tried to create distance by telling Gabby to take a walk to calm down... She did not want to be separated from the male and began slapping him. She showed indications of separation anxiety. He grabbed her face and pushed her back as she pressed upon him and the van".[19]

No charges were filed as a result of the incident and the police arranged for Laundrie to spend a night in a hotel and for Petito to stay in the van, separating the two after characterizing the incident as a mental/emotional health break instead of domestic violence.[15]

The interactions between the couple and the Moab Police Department officers were all captured on body cam footage, which was released to the public on September 16, 2021.[20]

Disappearance

On August 24, 2021, according to staff, Petito stayed at a Fairfield by Marriott hotel near Salt Lake City International Airport.[21]

Petito's mother stated that Petito had told her they were traveling from Salt Lake City, to Yellowstone National Park, and had last received a FaceTime call from her around August 24, and Petito said she was in Grand Teton National Park in northwestern Wyoming. On August 26, 2021, the final post was made from Petito's Instagram account. Text messages also continued to be sent from Petito's phone to her mother until August 30. On August 27, a text was sent to her mother that stated "Can you help Stan, I just keep getting his voicemails and missed calls." The text raised concerns for Petito's mother, who stated Stan was her grandfather, and that Petito never referred to him by his first name.[22]

The last message, sent on August 30, stated "No service in Yosemite". Her mother expressed uncertainty about who sent these messages.[23] Laundrie returned to Florida with the van on September 1 without Petito.[24] On September 11, Petito's family reported her to be a missing person.[3][25]

Investigation

Police seized the van from Laundrie's family home to search for additional evidence.[24][when?]

On September 15, 2021, Laundrie was named a person of interest. He and his parents refused to speak to police or the Petito family and hired a lawyer, who advised him to remain silent.[19][17] On September 17, protesters gathered outside the Laundrie home in North Port. Some North Port residents held a candlelight vigil for Petito.[26] On September 17, 2021, after not having been in contact with anyone for 3 days, Laundrie was reported by his parents to be a missing person and, based on information from the Laundrie family on his possible whereabouts, the FBI and police searched for Laundrie in the T. Mabry Carlton Reserve, a Sarasota County park approximately 13 miles (21 km) northwest from North Port.[27][28][29][30][31] On September 20, a person resembling Laundrie was captured on a trail camera in a wooded area in Baker, Florida at approximately 6:00 AM. Police are actively investigating the sighting.[32][33]

On September 17, police spoke with a woman who posted a series of videos on TikTok claiming that she had picked up Laundrie on August 29, hitchhiking alone in Grand Teton National Park.[34]

On September 19, Jenn and Kyle Bethune, under a YouTube channel called Red White & Bethune, posted dashcam footage from August 27 which shows a white van matching the description of the one Petito and Laundrie had been driving in the Spread Creek Dispersed Camping area of Bridger–Teton National Forest (at 43°46′18″N 110°29′16″W / 43.77167°N 110.48778°W / 43.77167; -110.48778) in Wyoming near Grand Teton National Park. Initially interested in the white van's license plate as an indicator of a fellow traveler from Florida, the Bethunes stated they saw the van around 18:00 and saw it once more when they returned to the area later that night.[35] The video shows the back door of the van abruptly closing as the YouTuber is getting closer.[36] The same day that the Bethunes came forward with the footage, a body was found in Bridger–Teton National Forest that matched the description of Petito.[37][38]

On September 20, the FBI carried out a search warrant on Laundrie's home,[39] declaring it a crime scene.[40][41] Authorities towed the family’s Ford Mustang from the driveway of the home.[42]

On September 21, Teton County coroner Brent Blue confirmed the body found was Petito, and her death was ruled a homicide.[43][44]

Media coverage and public reaction

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At the request of @NorthPortPolice, @MyFWC law enforcement has been assisting in the search for Brian Laundrie. I have directed all state agencies under my purview to continue to assist federal & local law enforcement as they continue to search - we need justice for Gabby Petito.

Sep 21, 2021[45]

The search for Petito has gained significant national news coverage in the United States and produced widespread interest on social media.[8][9] Significant public attention has focused on Laundrie's silence in the case, and protesters and reporters have gathered outside his parents' home in North Port. Some local residents held a candlelight vigil for Petito on the night of September 17.[46] By September 18, several hashtags, including #gabbypetito and #justiceforgabby, had become widely used, appearing in thousands of tweets and featuring in TikTok videos with over 212 million views.[47] On September 21, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stated that he was directing all state agencies to assist in the search for Laundrie in a tweet saying "we need justice for Gabby Petito." [48]

Critics noted that the interest in Petito's disappearance coincided with the growing popularity of true crime podcasts and documentaries over the previous year.[8][49] Experts and media commentators have attributed the particular interest in Petito's case to a range of factors, including Petito and Laundrie's existing social media presence documenting their "van life"[50] lifestyle and the narrative appeal of a romantic excursion gone wrong.[8]

The intensity of the coverage surrounding Petito's disappearance and the subsequent investigation drew comparisons to missing white woman syndrome, because from 2011 up to Petito's disappearance, 710 indigenous women had been reported missing within the state of Wyoming without nearly the same degree of media attention.[51][8][52] Mashable writer Morgan Sung criticized some social media influencers for making "distastefully opportunistic" posts to appeal to "voyeuristic online frenzy".[49] Others have raised criticism about the potentially insensitive, unhelpful and/or monetized posts by true crime enthusiasts and the general population.[53] Media commentators have also called for greater awareness of domestic violence issues, reflecting on the signs of domestic abuse present when Police made contact with Petito and Laundrie in Utah. [54]

As with previous missing person cases receiving widespread attention, law enforcement's search benefited from increased public awareness, but was also distracted by a barrage of false or unhelpful tips. The increased use of social media as a platform for information on Petito's case led to law enforcement expressing concerns about the dissemination of false narratives before police have the opportunity to corroborate tips.[8][9][55]

See also

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