Gabby Petito

 Like most of America, I am grimly fascinated by the true crime drama we are seeing unfold daily.  

Pretty young woman and her fiancé, high school sweethearts, decide to travel cross country in a converted van.  So sweet, so exciting.   An idealistic adventure.

And then it went so horribly wrong.  She is dead and he is a fugitive facing a federal arrest warrant.

How could this have happened?

And slowly the details have emerged.  Brian Laundrie was controlling and abusive.  The couple argued so violently that the police had to separate them for one night. His behavior after he returned home without Gabby is suspicious. And now, possibly with the help of his parents, he has disappeared.

Let’s be fair.  At this point Laundrie is merely a “person of interest” in Gabby’s death, the arrest warrant is for bank fraud in misuse of a debit card.  And while we know her death is a homicide, we don’t know exactly how Gabby died.

But I began to suspect Laundrie from day one.  How do you drive all the way home from Wyoming to Florida without your partner, who is never heard from again, and why do you lawyer up as soon as she is reported as missing?

I am sure he will be caught, I am sure the details of her death will come out, and I hope justice will be served.