Saturday, September 25, 2021
Comparing The Kercher & Petito Cases: What’s Similar, What Differs
Posted by Peter Quennell
Timeline uploaded this past Thursday
1. Overview Of Petito Case
Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito and Brian Laundrie met when at high-school on Long Island a few miles east of New York.
Brian’s parents moved to western Florida south of St Petersburg, apparently in 2015 when their house was bought (for just over $100,000), and they run a juicing-machine-sales business from there.
Gabby and Brian became engaged, and moved in with them down there. Neither have full college degrees, but Gabby has some nutritionist training and did work. Brian? Not clear.
Seemingly a bright and loving couple, they had established a way of traveling to great locations and mostly sleeping in a small van Gabbie owned.
They reported all this “van life” on social media video which had a sizeable following and so would have given them some sort of financial return.
This latest trip had taken them west from New York to southern Utah, where, with various incidents reported en-route, they headed north through eastern Utah to western Wyoming.
There, a week ago, just outside a dispersed camping ground, Gabby’s lifeless body was found. She had been dead for possibly three weeks.
2. Similarities
1. In the US, these are perhaps the highest-profile murder cases in recent years
2. The two girls were of approximately the same age; both sets of parents are divorced.
3. Each girl was killed by someone seemingly sociopathic and in a psychotic rage.
4. Each presumed killer knew their victim well; signs of tension were seen by friends.
5. Each presumed killer rearranged the crime scene and worked on creating an alibi.
6. Each of the suspected killer’s parents circled the wagons and hired hardline help.
7. In each case national-level law-enforcement and their excellent labs became involved.
3. Differences
1. In the US Gabby has about 100% of public support; Meredith was deliberately ignored.
2. Gabby built a large following on social media; serious student Meredith not so much.
3. Local police in Utah and Florida made critical mistakes; in Italy, they made none.
4. Meredith’s family were illegally stalked; Gabby’s two sets of parents are revered.
4. Mysteries remaining
1. Why did Laundrie fly back to Florida leaving Gabby alone in Salt Lake City Utah for a week? Did he need a new prescription for mental-health-related meds?
2. Why did the cops who accosted the pair north of Moab Utah not know HE had been reported hours before for hitting Gabby on a Moab street?
3. Did Laundrie’s extended psychotic-rage incident in a Jackson Wyoming restaurant (some 30 miles south of where she died), which Gabby apologized to staff for, lead to her death?
4. Oddly, around the time of death, Laundrie hitchhiked twice, from way north of the campground, heading back south; was he trying to create an “I wasn’t there” alibi?
5. Gabby’s death is officially a homicide; where exactly was her body found, was it buried, and what was the cause of death?
6. Why did Brian drive back to Florida in Gabbie’s van after seemingly trying to create an alibi and then fail to report and refuse to talk?
7. Where exactly is he now?
Below: timeline uploaded just BEFORE Gabby found
Posted by Peter Quennell on 09/25/21 at 09:40 AM in
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