When the letter says she was gasping for air and trying to say his name, I think he's describing what happened when he strangled her. Embedded confession.
Brian was jealous of Gabby. She was beautiful, popular & more talented than he. She was a better artist & had a real chance at becoming a successful social media influencer. That's why he called it "her little blog." I'd be willing to bet that she didn't suffer anxiety until she met him.
@Be yes , just like when HE gets pulled over, and SHE is apologizing for the whole action - how many people can get the attention of the police , get pulled over for it, and have someone else nearly arrested for their own actions nearly while they get the red carpet.
@@kate4biglittlevoices Those cops pissed me off. And this was before she got murdred by him, I was in the comments saying how they missed so many red flags, and what they did wrong, while most in the comments section were praising the cops for doing a good job.
What stands out to me, is how Brian painted himself to be the hero who failed trying to save Gabby, then rushed home to save James & TJ from murdering him and having to spend time in jail. What a great guy who would even take his own life to satisfy their "misguided" lust for revenge. But of course, it would be done on his terms, not theirs, not the justice systems, and with him getting the final word. A desperate attempt at one final jab before the prosecution had a chance to blow holes in his ridiculous story and destroy his credibility. Something a narcissistic liar would rather die than to lose.
He is describing his act of strangling and beating her to death, but he reframes it as an accident, exposure to the elements and a mercy killing. How narcissistic do you have to be to lie in your suicide note? He couldn't stand the idea of everyone knowing his guilt, and he figures this will work because we are all a bunch of dummies compared to him.
They DID have enough to arrest him. They ignored the fact that what they fought over was him taking her phone from her. When you take property from someone by force, that is called ROBBERY and it is a felony. He told them he took her phone because he didn't have one. That was a lie, but had it been true it is not an excuse and of course taking the phone was for control, which is a big part of DV. I was trained in 19 freaking 88 that where you have a hysterical woman and a calm man talking about controlling or "caring for" her, you are likely looking at DV. Their interview techniques were awful, they never got the actual story. I'm not saying their intentions were bad, but as retired LE, watching that video was very hard.
A guy called 911 because he saw Brian slap her in the face extremely hard I don't know why that wasn't taken into consideration and he should have been arrested immediately
I just watched the police stop video again, and something struck me. What Brian does (and also did in his notebook) is that he admits to forgivable things.. "sorry I hit the curb, sorry I was going too fast.. blah blah" He makes himself so "truthful" by apologizing for little things that the police missed the point that he was a danger to Gabbie. In the note, he does the same thing.. "I'm sorry that I didn't light the fire first, I'm sorry that I ended her suffering, blah blah" but he forgets to mention that she was dying because he had just strangled her and she was gasping for air.. That she fell into the creek because she was trying to run away from him. But he's sorry and he hopes the animals eat his body so that the Petito's can be happy. Come to think of it, it is EXACTLY what Roberta and Chris are doing as well. It is 'understandable' that they want to protect their son by not speaking.. but the bigger picture, that they left the Petitos in the dark, knew exactly where Brian's body was, sent a note through their attorney saying that they hoped the Petitos find their daughter knowing full well she was dead.. that, they ignore. Confess to the smaller crimes and you can get away with murder.
The multiple referrals to not being able to live without Gabby, point to the fact she wanted to end the relationship with him, and that's what made him do it
Yeah. He’s delusional so one has to infer the truth. She was happy, confident and had goals. He was petty, small minded and holding her back. The multiple fights in public, he was escalating before he killed her.
Couldn't wait to hear you on this 🤗 Last sentence he said she hated people who littered. In fact he was the one who hated on people who littered. It seems that he used his "perfect environnemental standards" against her to control her in the relationship. That he says that at the end is very telling. She had slipped from his control and he reasserted after her death.
The van belonged to Gabby, which might be a source of dented pride to Laundrie. She was also the one doing all the work to gather followers to make the blog successful. I'm sure she attracted more 'positive' /complimentary attention and popularity than he did. I'm assuming Laundrie could compare her success path to his and developed resentment towards her for these things. Perhaps to the point where he was constantly low-level angry and critical of her and somewhat emasculated. What better dominance over her than to take her life.
I knew early on Brian was the "golden child" and Cassie the "ugly duckling". One could see Cassie was terrified to say anything for fear of alienating her parents. Frankly I see Roberta as wearing the pants in the family. Another Cindy Watts type imo.
I'm still wondering, as from the beginning; why did we never hear from high school friends (or not), or from ANYONE who knew some backstory on Brian. It's like he didn't exist as a person, until Gabby.
Great analysis! I found this letter hard to read...the constant shift in audience, focus on his own feelings, not taking responsibility etc. I believe he told his family and then told on himself when he said that they "were shocked". So sad and bizarre all the way around.
Thank you for your very helpful analysis, Peter! Such a tragic situation. I'm glad most of us can see through this charade which Brian tried to pull off with this bogus note. But because of your expert input, we now understand the nuts and bolts of why we sensed his fraud. Bless you!
Thank you for explaining to me why pieces of this letter are so disturbing. You said Brian's writing this letter to his mother- BAM that was a powerful statement.
Yesterday I thought...Peter Hyatt should look at this letter.👍🏼. Just popped up! I noticed the letter “I” is larger than than any other letter. Thanks for analyzing this Peter.
That note is like a mine.. whoever reads it will be left nauseated and angered by his detailed description of Gabby's injuries and suffering. He probably took a lot of pleasure fabricating his account of what happened, while knowing it could well bring further pain to her loved ones. Especially the part of mercy killing. Because Gabby would never need any rescue or relief if he wasn't around. He truly makes me sick
Talking about the “rushing” might be to recall and hide that he failed at a first attempt and she started running away from him. At that point he had to finish it.
The crossing of the stream sounds like the point of no return (rubicon) He wants to save her, but can't reach the other side. Then, she forbids! him to cross. So she made him do it, she gave him no other choice. The last lines seem very snide to me. Envisioning others would love to kill him. The torn apart by animals is a jab: a more flowery way of saying "I guess I'll just go kill myself". And as a last act to her, he "sweetly" asks others to pick up his littering, like he littered HER.
I feel the constant references to not being able to live without Gabby stems from Gabby telling him the relationship was over. Him being a spoilt child, so used to getting everything his own way, Hated the fact.
Maybe. And maybe they were in the stages of breaking up , but according to the steps and stages it takes for an abuse victim to be able to break fully free of an abusive relationship,’she was several stages away from this, and so would he be… another words, he wouldn’t have just accepted the “break up “ terms,’and she would give in to him also, I feel he would have done this much later in the progression of a breakup if that’s why - I think he lost it and went too far in his usually fight w her .
@@kate4biglittlevoices It looks like they possibly broke up after Moab when he went home and she stayed in the hotel. Hopefully something is said about whether he took the van and drove it home, leaving her without transportation, keys, possibly money and her phone.
Thank you Peter, great as always! To the note - it was 8 pages, but not his usual notebook, a new one with only this writing. Handwriting on the first page is chaotic, the others are very orderly. He went home after killing her, there is no way the parents didn't know what happened. Also, they must have realized his mental state. Still, they let him go into the nature preserve. One day later they collected the car. I believe one or two days later they reported a gun missing. Finally the parents found him, not LE. Notebook well preserved in dry-bag. I believe they knew that he was going to kill himself, and it could very well be that they prompted him to write the note, to provide an "explanation" that would make him look good, and appeal to the public to leave his parents alone. I'm not 100% sold that he wrote it alone, or at least was asked by parents to write it to make themselves look better.
Why do you think Bertolino released these 8 pages? Clearly he would want to help the Laundries, but how does this help them? It makes them all look so much worse than they already did.
@@ladyhawk5653 Yes agree, the first page seems like how someone would write when they don’t have a proper table to rest it on, whereas the subsequent pages are neater and more orderly as if he was sitting at a kitchen or dining table.
Watching your analysis is awesome! It confirmed some of my initial thoughts and helped me think of certain details in new ways. Thank you for breaking down his letter 📝
I have been asking, since the beginning, why we have never heard from schoolmates. Surely, there was a Brian Laundrie during his school years. There is this big void regarding BL, before the trip. I mean early on! He was 22. Tell me about him at age 16, for instance.
great job Peter I really liked how related who the audience was in this. much appreciated. when my daughter stopped in the other day. she broke down crying when I told her how important she is each of us and she valuable part of people in this world not just as a mother daughter but her roll she held in our society others appreciate and look up too her. her husband had a blanket, tarp, and a shovel in the trunk.the tow truck guy said he had never seen such a clean car. accept something strange in the trunk. I didn't want her to cry just realize shes important.
@@dsoule4902 she was on a 911 call when he was pulling her into her car. So the cops got him pulled over when they got out he took his own life in her car. She junked the car. They were married for 13 yrs I've never liked him because he was so mean. I don't think he was going to take their lives just hers.
I commented on another live after going through the letter and used all the skills I learned from you and came up with exactly the same analysis result as you have outlined here, even down to the hitting her with a rock, although this may be a bit inappropriate I have to say I'm chuffed I got it right thanks to your amazing teaching skills, Thank you Peter Hyatt. RIP Gabby Petito.
Thank you for this analysis. I think there is truth in the lies... talking about gasping, screaming his name, her hurting feet and wrists... " That is what she experienced when he beat her to death. Horrific.
IMO This monster wrote this to make himself feel better. I feel after he beat her he left her out there to die. All Gabby wanted was to get help and have her pain stop. When he heard her trying to get out( hearing groans and splashing)he went back out to make sure she didn't get to help. If he really cared he would of called for help but the coward did not. Sad that no one else heard her cries.
The interview with the Zav Girl, they never mentioned Brian Laundrie's dark drawings. He had an art book where he had it full with drawings of his interpretation of Hellboy. His drawings were all with knives, blood, and killing. He even portrayed himself and Gabby as both dark individuals with knives either after a killing or on their way to one. They were weirdly dark ghory strange warped looking entities. They would portray themselves as very dark saviors who murder. Brian also after killing Gabby, Brian flew home immediately and with his dad emptied the rental storage that Brian had. They saved few items of Gabby's clothing, but it wasn't much. It was portrayed as an emergency to shut the storage rental down in order to not pay the next payment. Then Brian flew back to where Gabbywas. His flights cost more and I could never understand that logic and not just wait until they got back which was cheaper.
So unreal this letter. When you feel remorse and want to unlive yourself you don’t try to show you are a good guy, to clean up your image. You hate yourself or the world. I wonder if he’s really gone, now… really appreciate your deep analisys
"Begging for an end to her pain" either means she was asking him to stop beating her up (allegedly), or was choking out something to make him stop strangling her (allegedly). Killing her was not the mercy he claimed it was, and claimed she asked for: she was pleading *FOR mercy from HIM*. I can well believe he did believe "she was asking for it," but only in the sense of an (alleged) abuser self-congratulating and self-soothing. I feel so bad for her. She was also totally failed by the last people who could have intervened on her behalf (LE). I would be totally unsurprised if he escalated significantly once he had her physically away from her support network and could also control her contact. 🎉Allegedly.🎉 In 🎉my opinion🎉, the Laundries were complicit. That whole "look here" thing was cause they wanted him back so they could give HIM a proper burial and kept having to wait till law enforcement "found him;" THEY got tired of waiting and "looked in the right spot by chance." What a fantastic coincidence. I'm sure it's "only" cause they knew some of his favorite spots in the woods, and not where he intended to go. What with picking up his car from the parking lot and all. Just a coincidence. 🎉Allegedly.🎉 But (continued from my opinion, see above) they didn't have the grace or mercy to help GABBY's family get their daughter back for the same thing. What's crucial for the gander to get wasn't worth giving to the goose. In 🎉my opinion🎉, Gabby deserved SO much better than that piece of trash, and that includes certain members of his family. Again, my opinion. Shout out to their legal representatives, if any of y'all are see my comment while retained, I know you're only doing a job. I would say you can't pick your clients, but you kinda can, since they're not at present entitled to free representation on this one.
Brian was a spoiled brat. His parents likely were getting him out of jams all his life. They are still attempting to do that even after his horrific crime. Brian was a malignant narcissist. Gabby may have wanted to leave. Brian killed her because that is what they do when they cannot get their way; they retaliate.
There is also a previous photo of him on a swing with his nephews. He has another bite mark on his right forearm. Gabby was fighting for her life. There was no accident.
Once he put visible injuries on her, Gabby had to die to prevent him being found out and jailed. He would not get help for her, because his violence would be evident. Poor Gabby 😞
He managed to pull a few extra punches with this letter. Some hatered toward Gabbie's family seeps through to me. They will suffer from his selfish words.
If he pulled her out of the water and carried her, he would also be soaking wet. His story doesn’t make sense. He knew he couldn’t go on without her, but he did. He lived after that. He drove all the way back, ran and hid from the police.
Can we get brian's toxicology report? He acted just like a spoiled brat and an addict, having violent mood swings when nothing went his way. He wrote a manifesto in order to have the last word; to end his life on HIS OWN terms. Many thanks for your review, Peter.
Everyone wants to be in a relationship these days. Both of them were not ready for that and it should be a lesson to the younger generation not to go jumping in feet first before you really get to know someone. All the children being abused and murdered these days by step parents and partners because the mother moves a guy in immediately. It's so sad and preventable.
When he said she was cold. Could he mean emotionally cold? Towards him? He essentially said Gabby suffered as she shook and made noise. He watched her die.
I will never forget the footage of Gabby on the police body camera. She seemed so tired and confused about what she was experiencing. It is confusing with a person like Brian right up until the moment they lose their temper completely. Then you see them clearly. It breaks my heart to think of her final moments. My heart goes out to all people who’ve been brutalised. I will never understand how a person can do this to another.
Peter, thank you for your thoughtful and valuable analysis, as always. I had to reach out and thank you for recognizing the perceived difference in value of the Laundrie children by the parents! This is something I’ve noticed since we were first introduced to Cassie as it was always so clear to me he was the golden child and it broke my heart for her, as a scapegoat child myself. I’ve never heard anyone else pick up on that before and I’m not at all surprised that you’re the one who identified that. It seems obvious he led a privileged and very different life than Cassie, he was part of the inner circle and it broke my heart to see her dragged by the media. It was always clear to me she really had no idea what was going on with them and had been kept on the periphery. I sincerely hope she frees herself from the family, or maybe she’ll now enjoy the benefit of 100% of their love as she’s always deserved. I was a rare case of a golden child turned scapegoat later in life resulting in my disinheritance and estrangement from what was left of my family when my Dad passed unexpectedly from the virus in 2020. Sadly we had reconciled, but he hadn’t updated his Will. I know I’m not the only one negatively impacted by the pandemic so I’ll leave it there. Thanks again for your analysis. You are brilliant and I enjoy your analyses always! Robyn
Imagine if you're Cassie and the Laundries are guilty of covering up for Brian and aiding and abetting him after his crime. Your brother is a murderer, and your parents are ok with that. She might be better off *out* of that family.
@@Terry-lh8cn you’re absolutely right. Most of the time with narcissistic parents, the child is better off without the parents! But that just makes it infinitesimally sadder 💔💔💔. I really wish I could reach out to Cassie, she has to feel completely alone. I know I have a hard time trusting anyone, I can only imagine how she feels!!!
They seriously did. Awful aholes in b f nowhere. No training. She would be alive if they listened to the 911 caller. He told them that he saw Brian slap her in the face. When I was in an abusive relationship my ex threw my purse across the parking lot and slammed me into a wall when I was trying to leave. A woman and her daughter were walking by and saw me, called 911. The cops showed up and arrested him immediately based on that witness report. This was in WA state over a decade ago. No idea how he wasn't immediately arrested.
Peter Hyatt is my very favorite analyst of all on you tube! I’m a huge fan.. I watch the Behavior Panel, many lawyers, interrogations … my only complaint is the av quality. Perhaps it’s my tv? I wish he would upgrade just a bit for his channel…. in addition to cranking out more analyses! 🙂 I watch and listen to some of his videos repeatedly. Fascinating! ☮️
Spoiled, mommas boy, didn't work, go to school, lives at home, still, he'd been heavy which is why they knew each other then they reconnected and dated. I'm sure like a lot of guys, they can't take directions or work for anyone. Everything attractive about Gabby, he also hates for it's everything he's not. Gabby had immense talent and was a worker, had goals dreams. I imagine he verbally put her down til she believed it herself. Control freak, jealous.
Do you think the books of Chuck Palahniuk influenced Brian Laundrie's mental state? We see them reading them..hear that they admire him... 'Choke', 'Snuff', 'Doomed', 'Damned', 'Diary', 'Lullaby', 'Rant'...along with Fight Club, a disgusting pile of works by a chaotic mind.
His "note" seems like a work of fictional non-fiction. The language, the style...not a life experience, like you said. The place where they were, there was nowhere to 'fall' from, the creek minuscule. He beat her up and could not carry her small body back to the van. [not the fictional 'car'] Shaking happens after you're beat to hell, she wasn't cold. He built a small fire for himself. You're right, this is about his suffering, his perception. How long, I wondered, did he let her lie there in the dirt and suffer? oh my!
Thank you Peter. Wonderful. I think this will be helpful for the Petito/Schmidt families who must have a need to know - even though upsetting I’m sure.
The thing I have a hard time understanding, is when people say abusers can pick a perfect victim out of a line. But what is the difference between a victim and a nice, decent person. If Gabby had met a nice guy, she had the character traits to be a wonderful partner. A lot of the people I know who were abused, were really well-balanced, good people before their abusive relationship. Sometimes, I think it is just bad timing and the confusion of trying to make something work because it's hard to believe that people this selfish exist in the world (the "if only I could get through to them we could be happy" scenario). Also being raised to be a well-adjusted person in itself makes you a mark in this messed up society.
Sociopaths play up the sympathy card and have a strong sense of entitlement as if they have special status. They don't handle humiliation at all. They look for naive, but mostly overly empathic people...ie healthcare workers. Unfortunately being a caring person without too much street smarts, makes you a prime candidate to be targeted.
Peter there is a point in which Brian say her hears a scream and a splash but hard to find her , see her. Something similar to that. I think he had beaten her to pieces hiked up the the showers called his parents by that time and as he was returning to the camp site didn’t expect she would have made her way back that far from where he had left her to die. Just a thought from how it is worded.
Great analysis, I learned alot. I am drawn by the comment that gabby was so thin... Do you think that he was controlling her food intake etc as part of his control and abuse? And when he says she calling his name, I'm guessing she was pleading with him but as a narcissist all he took from it was his own importance in that moment.?
The psychiatric community has given us great incite into the minds of these evil beings, with the knowledge they share online. And if you know one in person, it's not hard to see the traits in others. Great analysis. I don't believe it was his idea to commit suicide. And ...I think this novel, admits his parents knew.
As @daniellebois hints to, is it a metaphor? Because if so, in his version, BL wants to "Cross the Rubicon" and go back to the van (ie, get "back on track" on the road in their BL-controlled life together). But wait, she "fell" into the water. That was her own fault! Maybe she finally said no -- to crossing the creek, to staying with him .... and fell out of favor. Water can symbolize emotions in fiction/ dream analysis. BL sets his whole heroic scene around (this) emotional territory. IRL, for her, maybe she wanted to go home & to leave him. IRL, for him, he was losing control of her. Recall, he says "We were both afraid the fire would go out....by morning". (The fire was no longer burning). Recall a few days before they were in a hot place (his anger?) and now they were in a cold place (cold shoulder from Gabby?)...which turned to freezing!!. He couldn't change her "status" in their new situation. So he took control-- he ended it. And left her there. Yes, he had the last word. Unreal.
One thing to know about sociopaths, they all think they are good guys, they don't see themselves as having done something bad and they don't feel guilt. Even Al Capone thought he was a good guy, Dale Carnegie
I believe Brian made, what I thought was, a strange post on Facebook prior to these events. I think it was around the time of their engagement. I believe he posted something along the lines of “how much he loves Gabby and how he would be happy to die just so he could experience all their time together again”. Does anyone know the exact post and date? I am curious because he wrote something very similar in the suicide note. My theory after reviewing the letter was that they were washing off in the stream, possibly following an argument about dirt. In the van and that he struck out. When they encountered LE earlier on their trip, Gabby or Brian mentioned that the argument began in the morning, when Brian would not clean the dirt off his feet before getting in the van, and it continued to escalate. She was shaking and gasping for breath on the body cam footage when she was crying. She was in emotional pain. I believe boots were found at the crime scene near or next to gabby too, which also made me think they were originally paddling in the water. I originally thought he just snapped, but you have me convinced that he more than likely thought or fantasized about a murder/ suicide.
I have been waiting for Peters analysis because Peter is the best! I then found Steve Johnston and enjoy his analysis too. Great team guys thank you. The police had previously dealt with their fight after it was reported that Brian had been hitting Gabby but knowing she had to continue the journey she took the blame saying she had OCD. Gabby was upset that day because she had cleaned the van and Brian had said to the police that he had made a mess in the van. Gabbys parents said she liked things clean and tidy but had never been diagnosed with OCD. Living in a small van would demand tidy clean order. A little claustrophobic perhaps? In this letter Brian refers to Gabby not liking litter. Perhaps another argument started about his untidy attitude. He told the police their fight on the day of the traffic stop was about his bringing dirt from his shoes into the van that Gabby had cleaned. Gabby came across as beautiful and charismatic. Brian apparently did need medication for some type of personality disorder. He likely enjoyed the attention and fame Gabby was bringing to his life with her popular online blog. Some say it’s possible he felt able to reduce his medication. Barbara Butcher the forensic pathologist explained that Gabby had died by being throttled. Gabbys little bones in her throat were broken according to the autopsy. I sense she died slowly after being hit and throttled. Perhaps Brian is saying she fell to cover his tracks for her broken bones. He left her body, went home in her van, spent her $$$, cleared out their shared lock up and then returned. Perhaps he was hoping her body was a mere skeleton showing no bruises? There is phone signal in the region of the creek. The creek is shallow water. He could have got help. The mush respected Brian Entin from News Nation went to the creek last week to test phone signals and water levels. Did Gabby and Brian have ‘blazing’ fight that day when it was hot. Then on the way back to the van Gabbys little slender body didn’t withstand his blows? He had to finish her off to save himself. Typical narcissist writing that journal ( self absorbed) not realising this journal is rubbing the salt in the wounds for Gabbys families and loved ones, her siblings and friends. Gabby had been living with Brians family for approximately 2 years before this trip. They have behaved in a very cold hearted way towards their future daughter-in-law and her family. Absolutely heartbreaking. PS. Brian shot himself in his left temple but was right handed from the autopsy report I listened to. How strange? Did he really shoot him self or did someone else do it? Xxxx
Peter came through - thanks. I will add my impression of BL’s childhood trauma; I paid attention to the father’s body language in earlier videos. He looked strong and tough, like a solid block and very removed. He looks Big, military-trained. I imagined that he had over disciplined his scrawny bookish son and was physically abusive when his boy preferred to read and draw instead of playing sports (i.e. being tough like dad). I think this was a lifelong conflict between father and son. Their deep seated anger towards each other and anger from BL to his mother for not protecting him from dad’s temper turned into HIS need to control a smaller weaker person like Gabby. (She’s so Thin). This may sound trite but BL effectively eliminated his own weakness, smallness and lack of control when he killed her. What a hero……….He never saw Gabby as a real separate person - he used her as an extension of himself as a powerless victim. I suspect he’d known deep down that he’d have to end up killing her. Their whole trip devolved to a fatal resolution for them both; finally he was “in control” in his ability to eliminate his past & present self. P. S. I was with a man/child like this many years ago. I knew how screwed up his childhood was with a controlling irrational father. He acted and lived like BL. He charmed then brutalized weaker women. He damaged the women he had charmed but didn’t kill anyone. He deflected his rage by changing his personality and lifestyle and eventually turned it on himself via substances. His ability to survive around people and even entertain them kept him functioning until his 70’s. I credit his amazing stepmom.
Bc he didn't compose the note Van lifers are all "van" all the time. He got out of the country during the s'mores summit. Follow his parents for vacation spots.
@@dsoule4902 The note also said that Gabby got hurt in UT, but they were in WY when he killed her. There are a couple of things that make it sound to me that at the very least, he had a co-author.
It is interesting that he chooses to refer to the van as a car given that they were video blogging their ‘van life’. He does this at least twice in this letter. And, especially considering that he mentions “laying on the roof of the van” in the first paragraph of the letter. Why the difference?
Mr. Hyatt, I wish you would do a video on the Kiely Rodni case. Drugs/alcohol at the party where she seemed to disappear, & LE having difficulty with changing stories & little cooperation from participates AND the community, with no apparent real evidence found. Love & respect your fascinating insights & knowledge!
When the letter says she was gasping for air and trying to say his name, I think he's describing what happened when he strangled her. Embedded confession.
Good point
Like in Madeline M case analysis! That was fascinating!
Brian was jealous of Gabby. She was beautiful, popular & more talented than he. She was a better artist & had a real chance at becoming a successful social media influencer. That's why he called it "her little blog."
I'd be willing to bet that she didn't suffer anxiety until she met him.
I think so, too
@Be yes , just like when HE gets pulled over, and SHE is apologizing for the whole action - how many people can get the attention of the police , get pulled over for it, and have someone else nearly arrested for their own actions nearly while they get the red carpet.
I totally agree! 😑
@@kate4biglittlevoices Those cops pissed me off. And this was before she got murdred by him, I was in the comments saying how they missed so many red flags, and what they did wrong, while most in the comments section were praising the cops for doing a good job.
What stands out to me, is how Brian painted himself to be the hero who failed trying to save Gabby, then rushed home to save James & TJ from murdering him and having to spend time in jail. What a great guy who would even take his own life to satisfy their "misguided" lust for revenge. But of course, it would be done on his terms, not theirs, not the justice systems, and with him getting the final word. A desperate attempt at one final jab before the prosecution had a chance to blow holes in his ridiculous story and destroy his credibility. Something a narcissistic liar would rather die than to lose.
He is describing his act of strangling and beating her to death, but he reframes it as an accident, exposure to the elements and a mercy killing. How narcissistic do you have to be to lie in your suicide note? He couldn't stand the idea of everyone knowing his guilt, and he figures this will work because we are all a bunch of dummies compared to him.
They DID have enough to arrest him. They ignored the fact that what they fought over was him taking her phone from her. When you take property from someone by force, that is called ROBBERY and it is a felony.
He told them he took her phone because he didn't have one. That was a lie, but had it been true it is not an excuse and of course taking the phone was for control, which is a big part of DV.
I was trained in 19 freaking 88 that where you have a hysterical woman and a calm man talking about controlling or "caring for" her, you are likely looking at DV.
Their interview techniques were awful, they never got the actual story. I'm not saying their intentions were bad, but as retired LE, watching that video was very hard.
Not to mention the FACT that he was keeping her out of HER VAN, so she was trying to climb in through the window!
@@HomeGypsy exactly!
One of the LEO was/is a narcissist..
Their interviewing was bad.
A guy called 911 because he saw Brian slap her in the face extremely hard I don't know why that wasn't taken into consideration and he should have been arrested immediately
I just watched the police stop video again, and something struck me. What Brian does (and also did in his notebook) is that he admits to forgivable things.. "sorry I hit the curb, sorry I was going too fast.. blah blah" He makes himself so "truthful" by apologizing for little things that the police missed the point that he was a danger to Gabbie.
In the note, he does the same thing.. "I'm sorry that I didn't light the fire first, I'm sorry that I ended her suffering, blah blah" but he forgets to mention that she was dying because he had just strangled her and she was gasping for air.. That she fell into the creek because she was trying to run away from him.
But he's sorry and he hopes the animals eat his body so that the Petito's can be happy.
Come to think of it, it is EXACTLY what Roberta and Chris are doing as well. It is 'understandable' that they want to protect their son by not speaking.. but the bigger picture, that they left the Petitos in the dark, knew exactly where Brian's body was, sent a note through their attorney saying that they hoped the Petitos find their daughter knowing full well she was dead.. that, they ignore.
Confess to the smaller crimes and you can get away with murder.
Nice catch!
Wow, great comment! I think I’m gonna be thinking about that for a long time. Hadn’t even occurred to me. ☑️
Don Wells does the same thing.
Super good points 👍
NOT A TRAGEDY!! FUCK THAT!
The multiple referrals to not being able to live without Gabby, point to the fact she wanted to end the relationship with him, and that's what made him do it
Yeah. He’s delusional so one has to infer the truth.
She was happy, confident and had goals. He was petty, small minded and holding her back.
The multiple fights in public, he was escalating before he killed her.
Couldn't wait to hear you on this 🤗
Last sentence he said she hated people who littered. In fact he was the one who hated on people who littered.
It seems that he used his "perfect environnemental standards" against her to control her in the relationship. That he says that at the end is very telling. She had slipped from his control and he reasserted after her death.
These are his last words...which are also an afterthought from the different ink color.
The last sentence "Gabby hated people who litter". I think that is what started the fight. His last narcissistic jab and tell.
Cause he was trash she was throwing away
The van belonged to Gabby, which might be a source of dented pride to Laundrie. She was also the one doing all the work to gather followers to make the blog successful. I'm sure she attracted more 'positive' /complimentary attention and popularity than he did. I'm assuming Laundrie could compare her success path to his and developed resentment towards her for these things. Perhaps to the point where he was constantly low-level angry and critical of her and somewhat emasculated. What better dominance over her than to take her life.
Very true…without her he would have been an incel,living at home playing video games….ive not heard that he had anything going on in his life
I knew early on Brian was the "golden child" and Cassie the "ugly duckling".
One could see Cassie was terrified to say anything for fear of alienating her parents.
Frankly I see Roberta as wearing the pants in the family. Another Cindy Watts type imo.
Reminds me of the Eliott Turner case in the UK (who also killed his girlfriend). In his mother's eyes he could do no wrong.
I'm still wondering, as from the beginning; why did we never hear from high school friends (or not), or from ANYONE who knew some backstory on Brian. It's like he didn't exist as a person, until Gabby.
My take on them also.
@@sidstovell2177 we heard from one. Probably his only friend.
@@rhondasisco-cleveland2665 Would like to know more.
Great analysis! I found this letter hard to read...the constant shift in audience, focus on his own feelings, not taking responsibility etc. I believe he told his family and then told on himself when he said that they "were shocked". So sad and bizarre all the way around.
It was and it still is. Poor gabby's family a heart ache all this time. Her family just adored their daughter !
I recall the Laundry parents retained their lawyer before Brian got home, WHY? I believe because Brian called them after murdering Gabby
@@CarmenDL1 definitely, he was spoiled and he used his parents sympathetic approach to support his dysfunction, to the end.
Thank you for your very helpful analysis, Peter! Such a tragic situation. I'm glad most of us can see through this charade which Brian tried to pull off with this bogus note. But because of your expert input, we now understand the nuts and bolts of why we sensed his fraud. Bless you!
Typical narcissist
Thank you for explaining to me why pieces of this letter are so disturbing. You said Brian's writing this letter to his mother- BAM that was a powerful statement.
Yesterday I thought...Peter Hyatt should look at this letter.👍🏼. Just popped up!
I noticed the letter “I” is larger than than any other letter. Thanks for analyzing this Peter.
Steve Johnson is working on it, too.
Yes! Haven’t even started yet but I’m so happy you’re doing this. Thank you
That note is like a mine.. whoever reads it will be left nauseated and angered by his detailed description of Gabby's injuries and suffering. He probably took a lot of pleasure fabricating his account of what happened, while knowing it could well bring further pain to her loved ones.
Especially the part of mercy killing. Because Gabby would never need any rescue or relief if he wasn't around.
He truly makes me sick
Talking about the “rushing” might be to recall and hide that he failed at a first attempt and she started running away from him. At that point he had to finish it.
The crossing of the stream sounds like the point of no return (rubicon) He wants to save her, but can't reach the other side. Then, she forbids! him to cross. So she made him do it, she gave him no other choice.
The last lines seem very snide to me. Envisioning others would love to kill him. The torn apart by animals is a jab: a more flowery way of saying "I guess I'll just go kill myself". And as a last act to her, he "sweetly" asks others to pick up his littering, like he littered HER.
Yes - he’s still a hero by finally providing a meal for the animals.
Excellent point.
@@stellad4583 I love your interpretation, good insight on her wanting to end it, and him actually ending itm
@@PanicattheDiscourse Your comment got the wheels turning. Hoping it wasnt too much. 🤷🏻♀️
Excellent!
Been waiting for your input. Ty. Brian writes. "I'm sorry to my family" Peter says "for what? " ✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔
I feel the constant references to not being able to live without Gabby stems from Gabby telling him the relationship was over. Him being a spoilt child, so used to getting everything his own way, Hated the fact.
Maybe. And maybe they were in the stages of breaking up , but according to the steps and stages it takes for an abuse victim to be able to break fully free of an abusive relationship,’she was several stages away from this, and so would he be… another words, he wouldn’t have just accepted the “break up “ terms,’and she would give in to him also, I feel he would have done this much later in the progression of a breakup if that’s why - I think he lost it and went too far in his usually fight w her .
@@kate4biglittlevoices I think he knew it was over, the van tour had been a disaster, he knew she was too good for him.
If he couldn’t have her, no one could.
@@kate4biglittlevoices It looks like they possibly broke up after Moab when he went home and she stayed in the hotel. Hopefully something is said about whether he took the van and drove it home, leaving her without transportation, keys, possibly money and her phone.
Thank you Peter, great as always!
To the note - it was 8 pages, but not his usual notebook, a new one with only this writing. Handwriting on the first page is chaotic, the others are very orderly.
He went home after killing her, there is no way the parents didn't know what happened. Also, they must have realized his mental state. Still, they let him go into the nature preserve. One day later they collected the car. I believe one or two days later they reported a gun missing. Finally the parents found him, not LE. Notebook well preserved in dry-bag.
I believe they knew that he was going to kill himself, and it could very well be that they prompted him to write the note, to provide an "explanation" that would make him look good, and appeal to the public to leave his parents alone.
I'm not 100% sold that he wrote it alone, or at least was asked by parents to write it to make themselves look better.
Why do you think Bertolino released these 8 pages? Clearly he would want to help the Laundries, but how does this help them? It makes them all look so much worse than they already did.
I can’t believe his parents may not suffer any consequences. Brian and his stents have the weirdest relationship. Complete creeps
I Thot maybe the messy page was written the same night of the murder. The others written later to cover his guilt. ??
@@ladyhawk5653 I wish I could be a fly on the wall in that house before he went missing in the swamp!
@@ladyhawk5653 Yes agree, the first page seems like how someone would write when they don’t have a proper table to rest it on, whereas the subsequent pages are neater and more orderly as if he was sitting at a kitchen or dining table.
Watching your analysis is awesome! It confirmed some of my initial thoughts and helped me think of certain details in new ways. Thank you for breaking down his letter 📝
I have been asking, since the beginning, why we have never heard from schoolmates. Surely, there was a Brian Laundrie during his school years. There is this big void regarding BL, before the trip. I mean early on! He was 22. Tell me about him at age 16, for instance.
I can't be the only one who immediately thought of you when I saw the notes!
Steve Johnson has covered it, too. I was hoping both would!
Thank you so much for doing this Peter! As soon as I heard these notes were released I hoped you would analyse!
What significance do words scratched out carry?
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Very educational, for each of us.
Thank you for sharing your analysis with us Peter much appreciated.
Thank you, Peter. I love your voice and your ability to analyze statements. Amazing. ⭐️
great job Peter I really liked how related who the audience was in this. much appreciated. when my daughter stopped in the other day. she broke down crying when I told her how important she is each of us and she valuable part of people in this world not just as a mother daughter but her roll she held in our society others appreciate and look up too her. her husband had a blanket, tarp, and a shovel in the trunk.the tow truck guy said he had never seen such a clean car. accept something strange in the trunk. I didn't want her to cry just realize shes important.
You matter too ❤️
When/why the tow truck? Was her husband arrested? Did she leave him?
What’s going on with her husband???
@@MsTammi125 honey I'm old thank you
@@dsoule4902 she was on a 911 call when he was pulling her into her car. So the cops got him pulled over when they got out he took his own life in her car. She junked the car. They were married for 13 yrs I've never liked him because he was so mean. I don't think he was going to take their lives just hers.
Yes!! I knew you'd cover this! You're the streamers opinion / analysis I wanted to hear!
Amazing work Peter, thank you for this
I'm so glad you're covering this. 🤗
I commented on another live after going through the letter and used all the skills I learned from you and came up with exactly the same analysis result as you have outlined here, even down to the hitting her with a rock, although this may be a bit inappropriate I have to say I'm chuffed I got it right thanks to your amazing teaching skills, Thank you Peter Hyatt. RIP Gabby Petito.
Thank you for this analysis. I think there is truth in the lies... talking about gasping, screaming his name, her hurting feet and wrists... " That is what she experienced when he beat her to death. Horrific.
I hope her parents can hear this. Hard as it is, it validates their intuition of the events.
Rest in powerful peace Gabrielle Venora Petito 🙏
19 March 1999 ~
Late August 2021⚘
IMO This monster wrote this to make himself feel better. I feel after he beat her he left her out there
to die. All Gabby wanted was to get help and have her pain stop. When he heard her trying to get out( hearing groans and splashing)he went back out to make sure she didn't get to help. If he really cared he would of called for help but the coward did not. Sad that no one else heard her cries.
According to the autopsy she was strangled to death, so he didn’t leave her to die. He finished her off.
Thank you Peter.
Your talents in analysis are amazing!
Thanks, please continue as more info becomes available. I learn so much from you.
The interview with the Zav Girl, they never mentioned Brian Laundrie's dark drawings. He had an art book where he had it full with drawings of his interpretation of Hellboy. His drawings were all with knives, blood, and killing. He even portrayed himself and Gabby as both dark individuals with knives either after a killing or on their way to one. They were weirdly dark ghory strange warped looking entities. They would portray themselves as very dark saviors who murder.
Brian also after killing Gabby, Brian flew home immediately and with his dad emptied the rental storage that Brian had. They saved few items of Gabby's clothing, but it wasn't much. It was portrayed as an emergency to shut the storage rental down in order to not pay the next payment. Then Brian flew back to where Gabbywas. His flights cost more and I could never understand that logic and not just wait until they got back which was cheaper.
Brian flew home before he killed Gabby. This was after the Moab incident while gabby was in SLC, at a hotel.
So unreal this letter. When you feel remorse and want to unlive yourself you don’t try to show you are a good guy, to clean up your image. You hate yourself or the world. I wonder if he’s really gone, now… really appreciate your deep analisys
"Begging for an end to her pain" either means she was asking him to stop beating her up (allegedly), or was choking out something to make him stop strangling her (allegedly). Killing her was not the mercy he claimed it was, and claimed she asked for: she was pleading *FOR mercy from HIM*.
I can well believe he did believe "she was asking for it," but only in the sense of an (alleged) abuser self-congratulating and self-soothing.
I feel so bad for her. She was also totally failed by the last people who could have intervened on her behalf (LE). I would be totally unsurprised if he escalated significantly once he had her physically away from her support network and could also control her contact.
🎉Allegedly.🎉
In 🎉my opinion🎉, the Laundries were complicit. That whole "look here" thing was cause they wanted him back so they could give HIM a proper burial and kept having to wait till law enforcement "found him;" THEY got tired of waiting and "looked in the right spot by chance." What a fantastic coincidence. I'm sure it's "only" cause they knew some of his favorite spots in the woods, and not where he intended to go. What with picking up his car from the parking lot and all. Just a coincidence. 🎉Allegedly.🎉
But (continued from my opinion, see above) they didn't have the grace or mercy to help GABBY's family get their daughter back for the same thing. What's crucial for the gander to get wasn't worth giving to the goose.
In 🎉my opinion🎉, Gabby deserved SO much better than that piece of trash, and that includes certain members of his family. Again, my opinion.
Shout out to their legal representatives, if any of y'all are see my comment while retained, I know you're only doing a job. I would say you can't pick your clients, but you kinda can, since they're not at present entitled to free representation on this one.
Brian was a spoiled brat. His parents likely were getting him out of jams all his life. They are still attempting to do that even after his horrific crime.
Brian was a malignant narcissist. Gabby may have wanted to leave. Brian killed her because that is what they do when they cannot get their way; they retaliate.
Thank you Mr. Hyatt for this great insight.
Brian had marks on his arms from Gabby proving she fought him. Picture was taken of Brian at Desota Park with his nephews.
There is also a previous photo of him on a swing with his nephews. He has another bite mark on his right forearm. Gabby was fighting for her life. There was no accident.
Thank you for doing this. When I heard that LB left a note, I thought, I hope Peter Hyatt reads it & tells us what happened.
Thank you Peter! 😀 I learn so much from you!!
It is sadistic of him to have referred to his 'stuff' (knapsack with notes etc) as LITTER Gabby would hate.
I think it was his way of playing nice, (him saying "clean-up-litter") while "reminding" people that she was capable of hate, (hating litter).
Always replay here in Norway 🇧🇻 thank you🙏🙏
Fantastic Peter I was so excited to see you do this
Once he put visible injuries on her, Gabby had to die to prevent him being found out and jailed. He would not get help for her, because his violence would be evident. Poor Gabby 😞
Excellent training. Thank you so much!!!
Another great analysis from the master of SA
He managed to pull a few extra punches with this letter. Some hatered toward Gabbie's family seeps through to me. They will suffer from his selfish words.
If he pulled her out of the water and carried her, he would also be soaking wet. His story doesn’t make sense.
He knew he couldn’t go on without her, but he did. He lived after that. He drove all the way back, ran and hid from the police.
Drove all the way back in HER van, spending HER money that he stole.
Can we get brian's toxicology report? He acted just like a spoiled brat and an addict, having violent mood swings when nothing went his way. He wrote a manifesto in order to have the last word; to end his life on HIS OWN terms. Many thanks for your review, Peter.
Hes a NARCISSIST.
They are full of hate and guilt, no drugs needed.
Unfortunately, I don’t think there was enough of him left to do a toxicology analysis.
Everyone wants to be in a relationship these days. Both of them were not ready for that and it should be a lesson to the younger generation not to go jumping in feet first before you really get to know someone. All the children being abused and murdered these days by step parents and partners because the mother moves a guy in immediately. It's so sad and preventable.
Admire and respect you and your work.
Especially interview together with a v good doc. maker, Richard Hall, on a famous case.
Best wishes
Europe
Thank you so much of your incredible insight.
Excellent statement analysis.
When he said she was cold. Could he mean emotionally cold? Towards him? He essentially said Gabby suffered as she shook and made noise. He watched her die.
Approx 11 sec into strangulation kiniption Occurs
Simply the best! Thanks Peter.
Thank you for doing this. May Gabby Rest In Peace
I will never forget the footage of Gabby on the police body camera. She seemed so tired and confused about what she was experiencing. It is confusing with a person like Brian right up until the moment they lose their temper completely. Then you see them clearly. It breaks my heart to think of her final moments. My heart goes out to all people who’ve been brutalised. I will never understand how a person can do this to another.
So glad to hear from you Peter! I was just thinking I had not heard from you for a bit.
Peter, thank you for your thoughtful and valuable analysis, as always.
I had to reach out and thank you for recognizing the perceived difference in value of the Laundrie children by the parents! This is something I’ve noticed since we were first introduced to Cassie as it was always so clear to me he was the golden child and it broke my heart for her, as a scapegoat child myself. I’ve never heard anyone else pick up on that before and I’m not at all surprised that you’re the one who identified that. It seems obvious he led a privileged and very different life than Cassie, he was part of the inner circle and it broke my heart to see her dragged by the media. It was always clear to me she really had no idea what was going on with them and had been kept on the periphery.
I sincerely hope she frees herself from the family, or maybe she’ll now enjoy the benefit of 100% of their love as she’s always deserved. I was a rare case of a golden child turned scapegoat later in life resulting in my disinheritance and estrangement from what was left of my family when my Dad passed unexpectedly from the virus in 2020. Sadly we had reconciled, but he hadn’t updated his Will. I know I’m not the only one negatively impacted by the pandemic so I’ll leave it there.
Thanks again for your analysis. You are brilliant and I enjoy your analyses always!
Robyn
Imagine if you're Cassie and the Laundries are guilty of covering up for Brian and aiding and abetting him after his crime. Your brother is a murderer, and your parents are ok with that. She might be better off *out* of that family.
@@Terry-lh8cn you’re absolutely right. Most of the time with narcissistic parents, the child is better off without the parents! But that just makes it infinitesimally sadder 💔💔💔.
I really wish I could reach out to Cassie, she has to feel completely alone. I know I have a hard time trusting anyone, I can only imagine how she feels!!!
@@robynlayne1 Hoping her marriage is good and she has a support network of friends.
@@Terry-lh8cn amen 🙏🏼 ❤️
The cops on scene completely failed her.
They seriously did. Awful aholes in b f nowhere. No training.
She would be alive if they listened to the 911 caller. He told them that he saw Brian slap her in the face.
When I was in an abusive relationship my ex threw my purse across the parking lot and slammed me into a wall when I was trying to leave.
A woman and her daughter were walking by and saw me, called 911. The cops showed up and arrested him immediately based on that witness report. This was in WA state over a decade ago. No idea how he wasn't immediately arrested.
The cop giving her a hard time has been found to be a DV abuser.
Analysis and insights appreciated.
Peter Hyatt is my very favorite analyst of all on you tube! I’m a huge fan.. I watch the Behavior Panel, many lawyers, interrogations … my only complaint is the av quality. Perhaps it’s my tv? I wish he would upgrade just a bit for his channel…. in addition to cranking out more analyses! 🙂 I watch and listen to some of his videos repeatedly. Fascinating! ☮️
Spoiled, mommas boy, didn't work, go to school, lives at home, still, he'd been heavy which is why they knew each other then they reconnected and dated. I'm sure like a lot of guys, they can't take directions or work for anyone. Everything attractive about Gabby, he also hates for it's everything he's not. Gabby had immense talent and was a worker, had goals dreams. I imagine he verbally put her down til she believed it herself. Control freak, jealous.
Do you think the books of Chuck Palahniuk influenced Brian Laundrie's mental state? We see them reading them..hear that they admire him...
'Choke', 'Snuff', 'Doomed', 'Damned', 'Diary', 'Lullaby', 'Rant'...along with Fight Club, a disgusting pile of works by a chaotic mind.
His "note" seems like a work of fictional non-fiction. The language, the style...not a life experience, like you said.
The place where they were, there was nowhere to 'fall' from, the creek minuscule. He beat her up and could not carry her small body back to the van. [not the fictional 'car']
Shaking happens after you're beat to hell, she wasn't cold. He built a small fire for himself.
You're right, this is about his suffering, his perception.
How long, I wondered, did he let her lie there in the dirt and suffer? oh my!
He was compelled to control his exit narrative. Truth be damned.
Know what makes your feet and wrists hurt? Having tight restraints.
I have learned so much from you, thank you for the solid content. Please keep up the great work!
Thank you Peter. Wonderful. I think this will be helpful for the Petito/Schmidt families who must have a need to know - even though upsetting I’m sure.
Great insight Peter, much thanks for all your efforts to broaden our knowledge x
Thank you for your analysis. We learn so much with you. Thank you.
The thing I have a hard time understanding, is when people say abusers can pick a perfect victim out of a line. But what is the difference between a victim and a nice, decent person. If Gabby had met a nice guy, she had the character traits to be a wonderful partner. A lot of the people I know who were abused, were really well-balanced, good people before their abusive relationship. Sometimes, I think it is just bad timing and the confusion of trying to make something work because it's hard to believe that people this selfish exist in the world (the "if only I could get through to them we could be happy" scenario). Also being raised to be a well-adjusted person in itself makes you a mark in this messed up society.
Sociopaths play up the sympathy card and have a strong sense of entitlement as if they have special status. They don't handle humiliation at all. They look for naive, but mostly overly empathic people...ie healthcare workers. Unfortunately being a caring person without too much street smarts, makes you a prime candidate to be targeted.
Superb, instructive analysis. Very helpful and interesting. Thankyou Peter.
Peter there is a point in which Brian say her hears a scream and a splash but hard to find her , see her. Something similar to that. I think he had beaten her to pieces hiked up the the showers called his parents by that time and as he was returning to the camp site didn’t expect she would have made her way back that far from where he had left her to die. Just a thought from how it is worded.
Thank you. I’ve been waiting for this. Now for his mother’s letter…
Great analysis, I learned alot. I am drawn by the comment that gabby was so thin... Do you think that he was controlling her food intake etc as part of his control and abuse? And when he says she calling his name, I'm guessing she was pleading with him but as a narcissist all he took from it was his own importance in that moment.?
The psychiatric community has given us great incite into the minds of these evil beings, with the knowledge they share online. And if you know one in person, it's not hard to see the traits in others. Great analysis. I don't believe it was his idea to commit suicide. And ...I think this novel, admits his parents knew.
As @daniellebois hints to, is it a metaphor? Because if so, in his version, BL wants to "Cross the Rubicon" and go back to the van (ie, get "back on track" on the road in their BL-controlled life together).
But wait, she "fell" into the water. That was her own fault! Maybe she finally said no -- to crossing the creek, to staying with him .... and fell out of favor.
Water can symbolize emotions in fiction/ dream analysis. BL sets his whole heroic scene around (this) emotional territory.
IRL, for her, maybe she wanted to go home & to leave him. IRL, for him, he was losing control of her. Recall, he says "We were both afraid the fire would go out....by morning". (The fire was no longer burning). Recall a few days before they were in a hot place (his anger?) and now they were in a cold place (cold shoulder from Gabby?)...which turned to freezing!!.
He couldn't change her "status" in their new situation. So he took control-- he ended it. And left her there. Yes, he had the last word. Unreal.
Thank you Peter! I was hoping you would analyze this letter. Interesting!
One thing to know about sociopaths, they all think they are good guys, they don't see themselves as having done something bad and they don't feel guilt. Even Al Capone thought he was a good guy, Dale Carnegie
Thank you Peter 👍 🇬🇧
The mention of him being spoiled in that way, reminds me of Casey Anthony and her Mother.
I believe Brian made, what I thought was, a strange post on Facebook prior to these events. I think it was around the time of their engagement. I believe he posted something along the lines of “how much he loves Gabby and how he would be happy to die just so he could experience all their time together again”. Does anyone know the exact post and date? I am curious because he wrote something very similar in the suicide note.
My theory after reviewing the letter was that they were washing off in the stream, possibly following an argument about dirt. In the van and that he struck out. When they encountered LE earlier on their trip, Gabby or Brian mentioned that the argument began in the morning, when Brian would not clean the dirt off his feet before getting in the van, and it continued to escalate. She was shaking and gasping for breath on the body cam footage when she was crying. She was in emotional pain. I believe boots were found at the crime scene near or next to gabby too, which also made me think they were originally paddling in the water. I originally thought he just snapped, but you have me convinced that he more than likely thought or fantasized about a murder/ suicide.
Peter, you’re the only one I watched when it came the suicide letters. I chose not to watch other Chanel’s it’s very painful and sad, thank you.
I have been waiting for Peters analysis because Peter is the best! I then found Steve Johnston and enjoy his analysis too. Great team guys thank you.
The police had previously dealt with their fight after it was reported that Brian had been hitting Gabby but knowing she had to continue the journey she took the blame saying she had OCD. Gabby was upset that day because she had cleaned the van and Brian had said to the police that he had made a mess in the van. Gabbys parents said she liked things clean and tidy but had never been diagnosed with OCD. Living in a small van would demand tidy clean order. A little claustrophobic perhaps?
In this letter Brian refers to Gabby not liking litter. Perhaps another argument started about his untidy attitude. He told the police their fight on the day of the traffic stop was about his bringing dirt from his shoes into the van that Gabby had cleaned.
Gabby came across as beautiful and charismatic. Brian apparently did need medication for some type of personality disorder. He likely enjoyed the attention and fame Gabby was bringing to his life with her popular online blog. Some say it’s possible he felt able to reduce his medication.
Barbara Butcher the forensic pathologist explained that Gabby had died by being throttled. Gabbys little bones in her throat were broken according to the autopsy. I sense she died slowly after being hit and throttled. Perhaps Brian is saying she fell to cover his tracks for her broken bones. He left her body, went home in her van, spent her $$$, cleared out their shared lock up and then returned. Perhaps he was hoping her body was a mere skeleton showing no bruises?
There is phone signal in the region of the creek. The creek is shallow water. He could have got help. The mush respected Brian Entin from News Nation went to the creek last week to test phone signals and water levels.
Did Gabby and Brian have ‘blazing’ fight that day when it was hot. Then on the way back to the van Gabbys little slender body didn’t withstand his blows? He had to finish her off to save himself.
Typical narcissist writing that journal ( self absorbed) not realising this journal is rubbing the salt in the wounds for Gabbys families and loved ones, her siblings and friends.
Gabby had been living with Brians family for approximately 2 years before this trip. They have behaved in a very cold hearted way towards their future daughter-in-law and her family.
Absolutely heartbreaking.
PS. Brian shot himself in his left temple but was right handed from the autopsy report I listened to. How strange? Did he really shoot him self or did someone else do it?
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Peter came through - thanks. I will add my impression of BL’s childhood trauma; I paid attention to the father’s body language in earlier videos. He looked strong and tough, like a solid block and very removed. He looks Big, military-trained. I imagined that he had over disciplined his scrawny bookish son and was physically abusive when his boy preferred to read and draw instead of playing sports (i.e. being tough like dad). I think this was a lifelong conflict between father and son. Their deep seated anger towards each other and anger from BL to his mother for not protecting him from dad’s temper turned into HIS need to control a smaller weaker person like Gabby. (She’s so Thin). This may sound trite but BL effectively eliminated his own weakness, smallness and lack of control when he killed her.
What a hero……….He never saw Gabby as a real separate person - he used her as an extension of himself as a powerless victim. I suspect he’d known deep down that he’d have to end up killing her. Their whole trip devolved to a fatal resolution for them both; finally he was “in control” in his ability to eliminate his past & present self.
P. S. I was with a man/child like this many years ago. I knew how screwed up his childhood was with a controlling irrational father. He acted and lived like BL. He charmed then brutalized weaker women. He damaged the women he had charmed but didn’t kill anyone. He deflected his rage by changing his personality and lifestyle and eventually turned it on himself via substances. His ability to survive around people and even entertain them kept him functioning until his 70’s. I credit his amazing stepmom.
Thank you Mr. Hyatt. Why did he use the term car vs van, .......maybe distancing from acts that occurred in van?? Thank you
Bc he didn't compose the note
Van lifers are all "van" all the time.
He got out of the country during the s'mores summit. Follow his parents for vacation spots.
@@dsoule4902 The note also said that Gabby got hurt in UT, but they were in WY when he killed her. There are a couple of things that make it sound to me that at the very least, he had a co-author.
@@Terry-lh8cn thx. Good catch !!
It is interesting that he chooses to refer to the van as a car given that they were video blogging their ‘van life’. He does this at least twice in this letter. And, especially considering that he mentions “laying on the roof of the van” in the first paragraph of the letter. Why the difference?
Mr. Hyatt, I wish you would do a video on the Kiely Rodni case. Drugs/alcohol at the party where she seemed to disappear, & LE having difficulty with changing stories & little cooperation from participates AND the community, with no apparent real evidence found.
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You have been on RUclips for a while
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