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[unsettling music playing]

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[indistinct chatter]

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[reporter] This breaking news
just moments ago.

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Authorities say Brian is also missing.

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[reporter 2] Dozens of protesters
descended on the Florida neighborhood

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where Brian Laundrie's parents
reside today…

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[reporter 3] …saying they're not gonna
leave until they get answers.

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Clear the road!

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A tremendous twist in this case.
We now have two missing young people.

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My first reaction when I saw
that Brian was missing was like,

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"No, he's not. He's running."

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[reporter 4] Nobody knows where he is.
Not police, not FBI.

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His parents say they don't know either.

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Experts have been asking is this someone

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who seems like they would
take their own life,

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or is this more like somebody
who would take off.

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[Tara] I mean, Gabby was still missing,

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and the one person
that was with her now is gone.

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[Nichole] It's turning from Gabby
to Brian,

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and I was still thinking, "I haven't found
my daughter yet. I need to find my child."

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[Loretta] The media shifted
their attention to Brian missing,

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but at this point in the investigation,

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we needed a body to prove a crime.

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We could not arrest Brian.

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Our sole focus became finding Gabby.

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[dramatic sting]

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[reporter] Still no word from authorities
about her whereabouts.

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[reporter 2] Authorities are asking anyone
who saw the couple to contact the FBI.

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[Kyle] We asked for the public's help,
and they more than responded.

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We began receiving

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around two to three hundred tips per day,
throughout the whole country.

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Today, someone posted
that they found a picture of Gabby

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in the background
of another person's tagged photo.

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[tense music playing]

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[Norma Jean] I was just scrolling
through my phone,

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and there was a TikTok post

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from a girl named Miranda.

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Hi, my name is Miranda Baker,
and on August 29th,

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my boyfriend and I picked up Brian
at Grand Teton National Park.

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I'm hoping this can help
someone identify him

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because I saw him from TikTok.

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I was thinking to myself, "That sounds
like the person that I picked up."

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So, I immediately I called
the Teton County Sheriff.

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[Matt] The last known location of the van

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was a critical piece of the puzzle for us
narrowing down our search area.

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I feel like it was, like,
the second week of September

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is when we started really
hearing something about Gabby.

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When you hear a nomad go missing,

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it… it spreads pretty quickly
in the community.

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Social media, it was everywhere.

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[woman] They haven't fully identified it
as Gabby…

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[Jenn] And we were paying attention
to the timeline.

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The FBI was estimating
the 21st through the 24th,

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and so we weren't even there at that time.

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[tense music playing]

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[Kyle Bethune] On August 27th,

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we were just looking for
a place to stay over the night.

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Our friends said,
"Uh, Spread Creek, go check it out."

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[Jenn] We came, we slept,
and then we went on our way.

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I was editing our YouTube video
from the Spread Creek timeline

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of August 27th,

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and I was sitting next to my phone,

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and I got this notification
from one of our RV friends,

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and they said, "Red White and Bethune,
check any footage you have."

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"The timeline has changed."

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I read the National Park Service post,

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and it said August 27th or 28th.

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All the color and blood
and life drained from my body

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because I was, like, "I have it."

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[music continues]

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[music builds]

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That's her van.

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That's Gabby's van.

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I said, "We're posting this."

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And I said,
"We got to get it out here, now."

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By the time we woke up the next day,
it was up over around a million views.

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I almost jumped out of my seat.
There's the van. They got it.

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[Kyle] I was at the forward command post
when we received the Bethune video,

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and it did appear to be
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Once I got to the spot
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I was able to look at the video
and see that the trees lined up,

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and the marks on the ground
where the camper van had been lined up.

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This allowed us to corroborate
the information that we already had

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from the phone companies,
to give us a much better search area.

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[dramatic sting]

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[Matt] On the second day of our search,

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we were focusing
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near the area where
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Horseback is a really good way
to search wilderness areas,

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so we had a horse team that was
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as well as our team on foot.

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All of a sudden,

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one of the team members saw what
they believed was a body of an individual.

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She was laying on her side.

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Uh, she was wrapped up in a sweater.

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The last time we had confirmation
that Gabby was alive was on August 27th.

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We didn't find her until September 19th.

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So between that time frame, we believe
she had been in that same position.

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In front of her was
a burn scar on the ground,

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as if somebody had tried
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but we didn't find
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Her boots were off,

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and they were next to her body
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She was not laying in a natural position,

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and it appeared
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that the crime scene had been staged.

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[helicopter rotors whirring]

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[Kyle] We had instituted a no-fly zone
over the National Park.

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However, there were
still news organizations

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that were sending helicopters
towards our search area.

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We needed to very quickly
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as well as Gabby's dignity.

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Later on, the coroner ruled
that Gabby's death was a homicide,

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as a result of blunt force trauma
and manual strangulation.

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[melancholy music playing]

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[Matt] It was

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just a lot of mixed emotions.

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I think we were all hoping
for a different outcome.

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The FBI supervisor went immediately
to inform the family,

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so that they would hear from us
and not from the national media.

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[music fades]

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[morose music playing]

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[Jim] The morning of the 19th,

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they told us that, uh, they… they had

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found remains
consistent with our daughter Gabby.

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And I said, "Are you sure?"

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"You… you have to be sure
because I have to make this call."

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He said, "I'm going to show you this,
and I don't want to, but…

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there's some stuff on here
maybe you can identify."

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It was Gabby…

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[quivering breath]

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…laying on the ground,

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on her left side in a fetal position.

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Just… Her hair, coming out of her hood
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[sobs]

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Just laying… [voice breaks]

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…laying there on the ground for weeks.

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In the wild.

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[shaky breath]

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Just left there
like she was a piece of trash,

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by someone who was supposed to love her.

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[sobs]

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And I collapsed to the ground.
And I had to pick up the phone…

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and compose myself

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and call Niki

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and get Joe on the phone
and Tara in a conference call

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and tell them, from 2,000 miles away,
that our daughter was dead.

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It was the worst phone call
I've ever made in my life.

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[deep breath]

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I remember on September 19th,
that I got a phone call

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that I'd never see my daughter again.

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[Tara] I don't remember anything.

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[inhales deeply]

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[exhales]

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It's the worst day

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of our life.

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[Joe] I think about
the last moments a lot.

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I'm sure she was… scared.

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And any time she was scared,
she would call me or Jim, you know,

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you or Niki.

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So.

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I don't know who she called out for.

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[music continues]

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[Nichole] I opened the back sliding door

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because the kids were
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and I said, "Everybody, come inside,"

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'cause I wanted
to be the one to tell my kids.

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[man] It was the worst feeling
I'd ever felt.

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I definitely broke down,
like, really hard.

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I… I don't honestly even know
if it's still, like, fully hit me.

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[Nichole] That was the first time
I saw the girls break down.

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[voice breaks] They knew their sister
was never coming home.

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[sniffling]

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[pensive music playing]

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[Rose] I got a text message
from a reporter.

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He said, "Did you see the news?"

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My heart sunk.

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And he said, "They found a body."

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And that was the first time in my life
that I could say I was truly speechless.

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I've never felt
something like that before.

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I think the worst thing is,
it's not even a loss.

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It's someone being taken.

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Somebody else decided
that they had the right

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to take somebody you love
out of your life… forever.

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Breaking news tonight
on the disappearance of Gabby Petito…

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[Jackson] I was watching a news broadcast,

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and they had a breaking news story
that they had found her body.

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I was devastated.

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She was my first love.

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[friend] When the news had broke

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that they had found her body,

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I just didn't know what to think of it,
you know.

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I just wanted to shut it off or wake up,

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like it was, you know,
a bad dream or something.

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[uneasy music building]

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[Kyle] Once we found Gabby,

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that really just
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We now have to start shifting our focus
to who is the suspect,

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and how do we start building
this evidence so we can

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prosecute this case down the road.

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We know that on August 27th,

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around one o'clock,

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Brian and Gabby were at a restaurant
in Jackson called Merry Piglets.

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While there, a female said she witnessed

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Gabby and Brian having
some sort of an argument.

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It looked as though
Brian was really upset.

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Pissed off, I would say. He was angry.

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They got up very abruptly and just like,
you know, walked out the restaurant.

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Gabby was really upset. She was crying.

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[Jackson] When I got the call on the 27th,

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I think back on the fact that
maybe if I did answer that phone call,

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I could've helped, or there could've been
a different outcome.

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[Kyle] After that,
they went to the Whole Foods

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where they were seen on camera.

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[music continues]

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Once they leave the Whole Foods,

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they begin to drive up
to the Spread Creek area from Jackson.

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Video taken by the Bethunes
show the white van on the side of the road

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between 6:00 and 6:30 p.m.

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[Jenn] As we passed by the van,

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it just looked super dark,
really closed up,

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and I think I just assumed
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or taking advantage of the outdoors.

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Around 7:15,

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she sends the last known
text message to her mother…

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[text tone]

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…speaking about how she could make
more money as a solo female van lifer.

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We were able to look back
and look at her usage of her computer.

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Around 8:30, she was moving
computer files around on her hard drive,

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so we believe she was alive
during that time

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because the files were video files,

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and this was consistent with
the patterns she had done prior.

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By the next day,

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we have no information
indicating that Gabby is still alive.

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We were able to look back
and look at all of her devices,

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like the phone and her computer,

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and at that point,
there was no more movement.

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The investigation found
that Brian killed Gabby

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and moved her body to where it was found.

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[music fades]

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[tense music playing]

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On the 28th,

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Brian had left from the Spread Creek area

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and had hiked up north
towards the Colter Bay camping area.

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Along the way, he was taking photos.

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Some of them were scenic,
but he was also taking a lot of pictures

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of bones of animals that were deceased.

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On the 29th,

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there was cell phone tower data
that showed at 1:20,

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he calls his mom, Roberta,
and has about a 55-minute call.

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His father then contacted an attorney.

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They continue having calls
back and forth with each other

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until about 3:30 in the afternoon.

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Information from the phone companies
show that as Brian is hiking,

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text messages are being sent
to Gabby's phone,

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which was back at the Spread Creek area.

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[text tone]

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Hi, my name is Miranda Baker,
and on August 29th,

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my boyfriend and I picked up Brian
at Grand Teton National Park.

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[Kyle] 5:55 on the 29th,

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Brian was picked up by Miranda Baker,

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and they began giving him
a ride south towards Jackson.

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At around 6:30 or 6:45,
Brian was picked up by Norma Jean,

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and she gave him a ride to the entrance
to the Spread Creek camping area,

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where he had left the van.

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[text tone]

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Text messages to Gabby's phone
are not read until Brian gets back

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to the Spread Creek area,
where Gabby's phone was left.

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[text tone]

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The activity between the two phones
was almost instantaneous.

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Brian was holding both phones
and talking directly to himself.

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It was apparent
that he was trying to create an alibi.

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[music continues]

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[Kyle] On August 30th, Brian departed
from Wyoming to travel back to Florida.

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A text message is sent
from Gabby's phone to her mother's phone,

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requesting that the mom
speak to the grandpa

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because the grandpa
had been contacting Gabby.

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He stops at multiple gas stations.

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Through credit card records,
we know that he uses Gabby's debit card

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to pay for gas.

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Also on the trip,
there's a Zelle transaction,

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from Gabby to Brian…

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that says, "Goodbye Brian,
I'll never ask you for anything again,"

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and transfers $700
from Gabby's account to Brian's account.

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And we know Gabby was deceased,
and this was Brian using multiple devices

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to send this to himself.

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What this did, is it goes
from him being a missing person,

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to now making him a federal fugitive.

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[Loretta] On September 23rd,

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a federal arrest warrant
was issued for Brian.

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[dog barking]

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[officer] This dude potentially
has a gun, right?

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[officer 2] Yeah.

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[officer] Last chance!
If you're in the shed,

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come out now, make yourself known!

299
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Breaking news. Authorities just issued
an arrest warrant for Brian Laundrie.

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[reporter] The FBI is asking the public
for help in finding him.

301
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We had over 4,000 tips generated
just to the FBI alone.

302
00:17:59,036 --> 00:18:01,246
[woman] Someone just showed me this
on YouTube.

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A person ducking up and down,
up and down on this video.

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00:18:06,794 --> 00:18:11,048
And a lot of people are saying that
it looks very similar to Brian Laundrie.

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00:18:12,049 --> 00:18:14,426
[man] The lady who took this photo
said he ran to the woods

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as a police car drove by.

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00:18:16,512 --> 00:18:20,474
[man 2] A possible sighting
of Brian Laundrie in Ocala, Florida.

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00:18:21,433 --> 00:18:26,063
[reporter] Dog the Bounty Hunter joined
the search for Brian Laundrie.

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[Dog the Bounty Hunter]
I know the kid knows me.

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Probably one of my fans.

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We get a scent of a trail…
We get a scent, he's done.

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[music fades]

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[Loretta] In order to find out
what happened next,

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we need to retrace Brian's steps.

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On the morning of September 14th,

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three days before Brian's parents
reported him missing to the cops,

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we learned that somebody
had left their car in the park

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for a substantial amount of time.

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[dramatic music playing]

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They reported that
to the North Port Police Department.

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They ran the plates, and it turned out

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it was the Laundries' car.

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00:19:09,273 --> 00:19:11,275
[pensive music playing]

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After learning about
the car being ticketed,

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the Laundries picked up the car
from the park and drove it back home.

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[officer] Is it this, uh, this Mustang?

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[protester] Where's Gabby?!

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00:19:25,873 --> 00:19:30,294
[Loretta] They informed law enforcement
that the park where the vehicle was found

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00:19:30,377 --> 00:19:33,463
was one of Brian's favorite places
to go hiking.

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[music fades]

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00:19:38,051 --> 00:19:42,222
We learned that Brian told the Laundries
that he was going for a hike

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to relieve some steam from the pressure
of the people in the crowd

333
00:19:47,436 --> 00:19:50,814
that had collected
outside of the Laundries' house.

334
00:19:50,898 --> 00:19:52,482
[protesters] We want answers!

335
00:19:53,609 --> 00:19:59,072
[Loretta] He had taken a backpack
full of hiking equipment, a tent, food.

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00:19:59,156 --> 00:20:01,408
They believed he was going to return.

337
00:20:01,491 --> 00:20:03,827
It wasn't uncommon for Brian to go hike

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00:20:03,911 --> 00:20:06,038
and stay out in the woods
for a couple days.

339
00:20:06,121 --> 00:20:07,789
[eerie music playing]

340
00:20:07,873 --> 00:20:12,044
It was for this reason that the Laundries
did not contact police about the car,

341
00:20:12,544 --> 00:20:15,797
because they were holding out
that he would return home.

342
00:20:15,881 --> 00:20:20,385
[reporter] And police are now admitting
they lost track of Brian Laundrie

343
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after they confused him for his mother.

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00:20:23,263 --> 00:20:24,306
[text tone]

345
00:20:27,809 --> 00:20:28,852
[text tone]

346
00:20:33,232 --> 00:20:34,191
[text tone]

347
00:20:35,776 --> 00:20:36,693
[text tone]

348
00:20:38,612 --> 00:20:39,571
[text tone]

349
00:20:41,531 --> 00:20:42,366
[text tone]

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[tense music playing]

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[Loretta] On September 18th,

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we began the search for Brian
in the park where the Mustang was found.

353
00:20:54,461 --> 00:20:56,505
It was not an easy search.

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00:20:57,172 --> 00:21:00,133
The Myakkahatchee and the Carlton Reserve

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essentially create one giant park.

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00:21:03,178 --> 00:21:07,891
It's approximately 40 square miles,
so over 20,000 acres.

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00:21:07,975 --> 00:21:10,018
You're gonna see the trail
once you get there,

358
00:21:10,102 --> 00:21:12,062
but this is gonna intertwine.

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00:21:12,145 --> 00:21:16,024
[Loretta] We collaborated with
our state and local partners.

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00:21:17,526 --> 00:21:20,404
We had volunteer agencies out there.

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00:21:20,487 --> 00:21:23,115
Team two is gonna be
half of Sarasota County.

362
00:21:23,615 --> 00:21:25,325
[indistinct radio chatter]

363
00:21:29,079 --> 00:21:31,999
Everybody wanted to be a part
of this search.

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00:21:32,082 --> 00:21:33,542
[drone buzzing]

365
00:21:35,252 --> 00:21:40,465
[Loretta] We had drones trying to locate
just any activity that we could see,

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maybe some wrappers on the ground,
maybe a heat signature.

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00:21:45,804 --> 00:21:49,349
We had dogs that were
picking up some scents,

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00:21:49,975 --> 00:21:54,354
but they were being attacked
by alligators.

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00:21:54,938 --> 00:21:57,733
We also had weeks of rain,

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so the park had completely flooded out,

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and the areas to be searched were
literally waist-deep or up to your chest.

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We had people walking through that
for weeks, trying to locate Brian.

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[music fades]

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On October 20th,

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the park managers opened
the park to the public.

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It had been closed
because of the flooding.

377
00:22:28,013 --> 00:22:30,015
[tense music playing]

378
00:22:31,016 --> 00:22:35,729
We were informed that the Laundries
were going to go to the park

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as soon as it opened
to try to locate Brian.

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00:22:41,401 --> 00:22:43,695
Law enforcement also went out there.

381
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[tense music continues]

382
00:23:05,509 --> 00:23:10,097
The Laundries began their search
approximately at 7:00 a.m. in the morning.

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00:23:15,435 --> 00:23:17,646
They knew where their son liked to hike.

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00:23:18,146 --> 00:23:20,273
They knew where
he liked to camp out there.

385
00:23:22,859 --> 00:23:25,779
There was so much tension in the air.

386
00:23:26,738 --> 00:23:27,948
They did not emote.

387
00:23:43,839 --> 00:23:46,466
About an hour into the Laundries' search,

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00:23:47,759 --> 00:23:51,054
Chris Laundrie found the waterproof bag
that belonged to Brian.

389
00:23:56,935 --> 00:23:58,728
Forty-five minutes after that,

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00:23:59,604 --> 00:24:01,314
Brian's remains were located.

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It was approximately a mile
from where he had parked his car.

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00:24:09,739 --> 00:24:11,408
His belongings were still there.

393
00:24:13,243 --> 00:24:15,162
His clothes were still there.

394
00:24:15,912 --> 00:24:17,664
His shoes were still there.

395
00:24:18,999 --> 00:24:23,587
But he had completely decomposed,
all the way down to the bone.

396
00:24:25,464 --> 00:24:28,633
The autopsy report later determined
that the cause of death

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was suicide by a gunshot wound
to the head.

398
00:24:35,515 --> 00:24:37,684
His parents found his remains.

399
00:24:37,767 --> 00:24:38,852
That blew my mind.

400
00:24:38,935 --> 00:24:41,354
I didn't even believe it.
I thought it was, like, fake news.

401
00:24:41,438 --> 00:24:43,940
I was like, "What do you mean?
This makes no sense."

402
00:24:45,025 --> 00:24:47,027
I was pissed off, to be honest.

403
00:24:47,110 --> 00:24:50,155
I just wanted… answers,

404
00:24:50,739 --> 00:24:56,286
and when we found his remains,
their answers went out the door.

405
00:25:01,791 --> 00:25:05,170
I know you have a lot of questions,
but we don't have all the answers yet.

406
00:25:06,046 --> 00:25:09,007
We are working diligently
to get those answers for you.

407
00:25:10,342 --> 00:25:11,551
[music fades]

408
00:25:11,635 --> 00:25:16,973
[Loretta] Inside the waterproof bag
were pictures of Brian and Gabby.

409
00:25:17,474 --> 00:25:19,476
[somber music playing]

410
00:25:23,104 --> 00:25:28,610
There was also a waterproof notebook
that Brian had written in.

411
00:25:28,693 --> 00:25:31,988
He wrote multiple letters to his family,

412
00:25:32,072 --> 00:25:35,158
mostly to say that he loved them
and to say goodbye to them.

413
00:25:39,579 --> 00:25:42,916
There was a story in there

414
00:25:42,999 --> 00:25:46,711
leading up to what happened to Gabby.

415
00:26:31,339 --> 00:26:32,716
[camera shutter clicks]

416
00:26:32,799 --> 00:26:34,801
[music fades]

417
00:26:36,886 --> 00:26:40,599
[Jim] Not one of the versions
of Brian's account was accurate

418
00:26:40,682 --> 00:26:42,642
by the findings of Gabby's autopsy.

419
00:26:42,726 --> 00:26:46,771
The sole cause of… of her death
was strangulation,

420
00:26:46,855 --> 00:26:49,858
and nothing remotely
or even close to what he said.

421
00:26:49,941 --> 00:26:51,943
[melancholy music playing]

422
00:26:52,027 --> 00:26:56,114
Brian wrote in his letters,
expressing wanting to come to New York,

423
00:26:56,197 --> 00:26:59,117
come to Long Island to confront me

424
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,411
and to confess what he did

425
00:27:01,494 --> 00:27:04,623
so that we could take care of him.

426
00:27:05,999 --> 00:27:09,169
I always found it odd
that he wrote in there,

427
00:27:09,252 --> 00:27:12,964
"Leave my parents out of this.
They didn't do anything wrong."

428
00:27:13,048 --> 00:27:17,302
[Rose] I think the Burn After Reading
letter from Roberta is disgusting.

429
00:27:17,385 --> 00:27:19,554
I personally love my mother,

430
00:27:19,638 --> 00:27:22,891
but I'd be very concerned
if she sent me a letter like that.

431
00:27:23,975 --> 00:27:26,019
[Tara] The first time we saw that letter,

432
00:27:26,519 --> 00:27:30,523
we were just so in shock and angry that,
how could she write…

433
00:27:31,983 --> 00:27:33,109
this letter?

434
00:27:33,193 --> 00:27:35,070
It's just disgusting.

435
00:27:35,153 --> 00:27:36,404
Made me sick to my stomach.

436
00:27:36,488 --> 00:27:37,489
[reporter] She told him,

437
00:27:38,531 --> 00:27:41,368
"I'll bring you a shovel
to help bury the body"?

438
00:27:41,951 --> 00:27:42,786
Wow.

439
00:27:43,828 --> 00:27:44,663
Wow.

440
00:27:47,332 --> 00:27:50,752
[Loretta] We still don't know the extent
of Brian's parents' involvement,

441
00:27:51,252 --> 00:27:54,464
but what we do know
is that on August 29th,

442
00:27:54,547 --> 00:27:56,883
Brian made a flurry of calls
to his parents.

443
00:27:57,842 --> 00:28:00,553
They contacted each other multiple times.

444
00:28:01,429 --> 00:28:04,724
We learned that he told them
Gabby was gone,

445
00:28:04,808 --> 00:28:06,142
and that he needed a lawyer.

446
00:28:07,185 --> 00:28:11,898
We found out Brian made
a frantic phone call

447
00:28:11,981 --> 00:28:14,776
to his parents that Gabby is gone

448
00:28:14,859 --> 00:28:16,611
and he needs help.

449
00:28:16,695 --> 00:28:19,906
[Loretta] At which point,
his parents wired money to a lawyer.

450
00:28:21,741 --> 00:28:24,744
[Jim] They contacted their attorney
and wrote him a big check

451
00:28:24,828 --> 00:28:28,748
and said that they didn't know anything
other than she was gone.

452
00:28:28,832 --> 00:28:30,458
We… we don't know anything.

453
00:28:30,959 --> 00:28:33,837
You're gonna throw $25,000
of your hard-earned cash

454
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,631
out on a lawyer from fucking Wyoming?

455
00:28:36,715 --> 00:28:38,800
And you're telling me
you didn't ask where she was?

456
00:28:39,884 --> 00:28:42,846
That's some bullshit.
I'll tell you that right now.

457
00:28:43,596 --> 00:28:46,057
[Jim] I don't think the amount of money
they paid their attorney

458
00:28:46,141 --> 00:28:49,352
would be for anything less
than to represent somebody for murder.

459
00:28:50,311 --> 00:28:51,688
[music continues]

460
00:28:52,814 --> 00:28:56,735
We knew at that point we weren't ever
gonna get remotely close to the answers

461
00:28:56,818 --> 00:28:58,236
that we were hoping for,

462
00:28:59,529 --> 00:29:02,157
because the only two people
that truly knew what happened

463
00:29:03,366 --> 00:29:04,617
are now both gone.

464
00:29:04,701 --> 00:29:06,703
[music fades]

465
00:29:14,294 --> 00:29:18,673
[friend] My image of Brian
has completely shattered.

466
00:29:18,757 --> 00:29:20,049
[sad music playing]

467
00:29:20,133 --> 00:29:21,968
He did something awful.

468
00:29:22,552 --> 00:29:24,012
There's no taking it back.

469
00:29:27,932 --> 00:29:29,309
I was Brian's friend,

470
00:29:30,101 --> 00:29:32,729
but I was also very close with Gabby.

471
00:29:34,731 --> 00:29:36,941
I think about her family nonstop.

472
00:29:37,025 --> 00:29:39,569
[sobbing]

473
00:29:40,612 --> 00:29:42,030
[Tara] You grieve every day.

474
00:29:42,739 --> 00:29:45,116
You can smile, the pain is always there.

475
00:29:45,658 --> 00:29:47,035
[inhales deeply]

476
00:29:47,660 --> 00:29:50,246
-It never goes away.
-It never goes away. [exhales]

477
00:29:58,463 --> 00:29:59,422
[music fades]

478
00:29:59,506 --> 00:30:03,718
Gonna visit Tetons and Spread Creek.

479
00:30:03,802 --> 00:30:05,428
Gonna go check it out.

480
00:30:06,137 --> 00:30:07,597
[hopeful music playing]

481
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:12,477
We decided as a family
that we all wanted to go visit the spot

482
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:13,686
where Gabby was found.

483
00:30:14,562 --> 00:30:16,648
We wanted to take Gabby's siblings.

484
00:30:17,357 --> 00:30:21,277
We also brought Jackson and Rose.

485
00:30:21,778 --> 00:30:26,533
As soon as I landed, the only words
coming out of my mouth was, "Oh my gosh,"

486
00:30:27,450 --> 00:30:29,369
because of how beautiful it was.

487
00:30:29,452 --> 00:30:31,454
[music continues]

488
00:30:33,748 --> 00:30:36,417
[camera shutter clicking]

489
00:30:39,170 --> 00:30:41,047
[Nichole] Here we are at Spread Creek.

490
00:30:41,798 --> 00:30:42,924
Beautiful day here.

491
00:30:44,300 --> 00:30:46,803
We're gonna make our way over to the spot.

492
00:30:48,012 --> 00:30:50,014
[indistinct conversation]

493
00:30:57,397 --> 00:30:59,357
[Nichole] Once we got to where Gabby was,

494
00:30:59,941 --> 00:31:03,152
you could feel her presence
and her spirit there.

495
00:31:04,487 --> 00:31:06,447
[Jim] I know. I know.

496
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:08,366
[TJ] I love you, Gabs.

497
00:31:17,292 --> 00:31:18,877
[woman] Fresh, new.

498
00:31:19,669 --> 00:31:21,796
[Nichole] It was just
such a beautiful moment.

499
00:31:26,092 --> 00:31:28,011
I brought Gabby's ashes.

500
00:31:29,387 --> 00:31:32,181
The kids all kind of walked around
and found different areas

501
00:31:32,265 --> 00:31:33,516
to throw Gabby's ashes.

502
00:31:34,183 --> 00:31:36,185
-[sister] Mom, we did it okay.
-[Nichole] All right.

503
00:31:36,269 --> 00:31:39,063
Gabby's younger sister and I
did ours together,

504
00:31:39,647 --> 00:31:40,857
and it was so hard,

505
00:31:41,649 --> 00:31:43,026
but it was so

506
00:31:44,319 --> 00:31:46,154
exactly what Gabby would want.

507
00:31:46,237 --> 00:31:48,239
[indistinct conversation]

508
00:31:49,616 --> 00:31:52,702
[Nichole] It was just really healing
to be with everybody and…

509
00:31:53,328 --> 00:31:57,206
We truly felt close to Gabby that day.

510
00:31:58,833 --> 00:32:00,752
I have a photograph,

511
00:32:01,252 --> 00:32:03,546
of a huge orb in the middle.

512
00:32:03,630 --> 00:32:06,215
I don't know if people believe in that,
but there's an orb there,

513
00:32:06,299 --> 00:32:08,134
and I know that Gabby was there with us.

514
00:32:08,217 --> 00:32:10,219
[music continues]

515
00:32:14,265 --> 00:32:15,934
[Jim] Although we lost Gabby,

516
00:32:16,017 --> 00:32:18,353
many other people have been saved
because of her.

517
00:32:20,438 --> 00:32:22,565
[Rose] We get messages saying,

518
00:32:22,649 --> 00:32:26,069
"Hey, Gabby's story is
what made me leave my boyfriend."

519
00:32:26,152 --> 00:32:28,863
"I got help, and I'm doing what I can."

520
00:32:28,947 --> 00:32:31,407
And it is beautiful and heartwarming.

521
00:32:32,325 --> 00:32:35,495
[Nichole] We started
the Gabby Petito Foundation.

522
00:32:36,037 --> 00:32:38,414
We wanted to bring attention

523
00:32:38,498 --> 00:32:41,709
to the dangers and the signs
of domestic violence,

524
00:32:42,210 --> 00:32:43,544
more awareness,

525
00:32:44,087 --> 00:32:45,213
prevention.

526
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,342
They're looking for help. "All right,
I'll go to the Gabby Petito website,

527
00:32:49,425 --> 00:32:52,261
the foundation page.
What do I do? I need help."

528
00:32:52,345 --> 00:32:54,764
And there is a literal help button
on that page.

529
00:32:54,847 --> 00:32:58,267
You can click on it, and it will guide you
to the right resources.

530
00:32:58,351 --> 00:33:00,353
[music continues]

531
00:33:03,940 --> 00:33:05,900
This story is unique,

532
00:33:06,401 --> 00:33:11,614
but I will tell you that there are so many
other people out there missing, and…

533
00:33:11,698 --> 00:33:12,782
[voice breaks]

534
00:33:15,785 --> 00:33:17,161
They are important too.

535
00:33:19,122 --> 00:33:21,290
So, my work is important.

536
00:33:23,251 --> 00:33:24,961
Victims' lives are important.

537
00:33:27,213 --> 00:33:29,716
[Nichole] I have spoke with many families

538
00:33:29,799 --> 00:33:32,844
who are still looking
for their missing loved ones,

539
00:33:33,428 --> 00:33:36,472
and that is heartbreaking.

540
00:33:36,556 --> 00:33:38,307
[reporter] Petito's story
has renewed debate

541
00:33:38,391 --> 00:33:40,184
about which cases get attention,

542
00:33:40,268 --> 00:33:43,813
and the media's seeming infatuation
with missing white women.

543
00:33:43,896 --> 00:33:45,606
Imagine the men, women, and children

544
00:33:45,690 --> 00:33:47,817
in the community
where Gabby Petito went missing

545
00:33:47,900 --> 00:33:51,779
who know that for the last ten years,
more than 700 Indigenous people

546
00:33:51,863 --> 00:33:54,282
have gone missing,
and nobody has said a word,

547
00:33:54,365 --> 00:33:57,243
and one missing white woman
turns up in their backyard,

548
00:33:57,326 --> 00:33:58,828
and the world pays attention.

549
00:33:59,412 --> 00:34:02,749
When I heard that,
my initial reaction wasn't a positive one.

550
00:34:02,832 --> 00:34:06,419
Saying Gabby's color was the reason,
you know, I was taken aback by that.

551
00:34:06,502 --> 00:34:08,629
This isn't saying
Gabby Petito is not important.

552
00:34:08,713 --> 00:34:11,841
What it is saying is that there's
an over-representation in media

553
00:34:11,924 --> 00:34:15,428
when white women go missing,
and an under-representation in media

554
00:34:15,511 --> 00:34:18,222
when Black, Brown,
and Indigenous women go missing.

555
00:34:18,306 --> 00:34:20,767
And then I started to look into it.

556
00:34:20,850 --> 00:34:24,645
The FBI had over 89,000
active missing person cases

557
00:34:24,729 --> 00:34:25,980
at the end of last year,

558
00:34:26,064 --> 00:34:28,941
and 45% of those were people of color,

559
00:34:29,025 --> 00:34:32,570
and only a fraction of those cases
were even covered on the news.

560
00:34:32,653 --> 00:34:34,113
[Mara] The media is very powerful.

561
00:34:34,197 --> 00:34:37,617
When everybody knows their face,
it makes a real difference.

562
00:34:37,700 --> 00:34:41,537
A domestic violence bill is sailing
through the Capitol with huge support,

563
00:34:41,621 --> 00:34:44,373
including the backing
of Gabby Petito's parents.

564
00:34:44,457 --> 00:34:46,501
You should not fear the ones you love.

565
00:34:46,584 --> 00:34:49,128
[reporter 2] Petito's parents
on Utah's Capitol Hill,

566
00:34:49,212 --> 00:34:52,256
speaking out in favor of Senate Bill 117,

567
00:34:52,340 --> 00:34:55,343
a bill that would require police
to ask 11 questions

568
00:34:55,426 --> 00:34:59,597
to determine if an intimate partner
is at risk of being hurt or killed.

569
00:35:00,515 --> 00:35:03,684
If this lethality assessment,
which I've immersed myself in

570
00:35:03,768 --> 00:35:05,853
over the last couple of weeks,

571
00:35:06,854 --> 00:35:07,939
had been used,

572
00:35:08,022 --> 00:35:10,191
I know in Gabby's case,
if it had been used,

573
00:35:10,274 --> 00:35:11,943
I believe she'd still be here today.

574
00:35:16,614 --> 00:35:18,616
[music fades]

575
00:35:20,243 --> 00:35:21,744
[poignant music playing]

576
00:35:22,954 --> 00:35:27,208
It's still hard for us to realize
that Gabby's gone, that she's not with us.

577
00:35:31,504 --> 00:35:34,715
I can only hope we've made her proud,
and she's looking down on us

578
00:35:34,799 --> 00:35:38,803
and saying, "Thank you for being my voice
when I couldn't speak anymore."

579
00:35:41,931 --> 00:35:44,725
[Nichole] Every time I get upset
about missing her,

580
00:35:45,810 --> 00:35:49,188
I hear her voice in my head say,
"Mom, I'm fine, stop." [laughs]

581
00:35:54,110 --> 00:35:57,029
She just wants me
to just have fun and live life,

582
00:35:57,530 --> 00:35:59,824
and it's a really important message.

583
00:36:02,994 --> 00:36:04,620
[Rose] Right before I met Gabby,

584
00:36:05,204 --> 00:36:08,499
I was in a abusive relationship.

585
00:36:09,083 --> 00:36:11,502
Gabby was the one
that convinced me I deserved more.

586
00:36:12,420 --> 00:36:15,882
I'm choosing to live my life because
it's what Gabby would want me to do.

587
00:36:17,175 --> 00:36:19,552
I think I'm doing good.
I think she'd be proud.

588
00:36:22,847 --> 00:36:24,473
[Nichole] Gabby really loved life.

589
00:36:25,725 --> 00:36:26,809
Biggest,

590
00:36:27,476 --> 00:36:28,394
fearless

591
00:36:29,103 --> 00:36:30,897
life you could live.

592
00:36:32,273 --> 00:36:34,442
And I was so proud of her.

593
00:36:35,276 --> 00:36:39,739
She's inspired us to be better every day.

594
00:36:40,573 --> 00:36:42,575
["Take My Hand" by Matt Berry playing]

595
00:37:11,854 --> 00:37:15,650
♪ So take my hand, we'll disappear ♪

596
00:37:15,733 --> 00:37:19,737
♪ To a pub that's not too far from here ♪

597
00:37:19,820 --> 00:37:23,741
♪ Though I don't know you
And you don't know me ♪

598
00:37:23,824 --> 00:37:27,745
♪ I just had to talk to you, you see ♪

599
00:37:27,828 --> 00:37:31,707
♪ The arrogance, a foolish move ♪

600
00:37:31,791 --> 00:37:35,711
♪ If you take a risk, your odds improve ♪

601
00:37:35,795 --> 00:37:39,590
♪ See, you don't know me
And I don't know you ♪

602
00:37:39,674 --> 00:37:43,636
♪ I'm not weird or queer, my aim is true ♪

603
00:37:45,012 --> 00:37:50,309
♪ Everybody I know these days
Is boring me ♪

604
00:37:51,811 --> 00:37:57,483
♪ Or ignoring me, but not you ♪

605
00:38:15,793 --> 00:38:19,672
♪ So take my hand, we'll disappear ♪

606
00:38:19,755 --> 00:38:23,759
♪ To a pub that's not too far from here ♪

607
00:38:23,843 --> 00:38:27,763
♪ Though I don't know you
And you don't know me ♪

608
00:38:27,847 --> 00:38:31,726
♪ I just had to talk to you, you see ♪

609
00:38:31,809 --> 00:38:35,730
♪ So say you'll come, please don't go ♪

610
00:38:35,813 --> 00:38:39,650
♪ You could be the one for all I know ♪

611
00:38:39,734 --> 00:38:43,696
♪ Well, I don't know you
Though I'd sure like to ♪

612
00:38:43,779 --> 00:38:47,742
♪ I can see the light, it looks like you ♪

613
00:38:47,825 --> 00:38:51,704
♪ So say you'll come, please don't go ♪

614
00:38:51,787 --> 00:38:55,833
♪ You could be the one for all I know ♪

615
00:38:55,916 --> 00:38:59,670
♪ Well, I don't know you
Though I'd sure like to ♪

616
00:38:59,754 --> 00:39:03,549
♪ I can see the light, it looks like you ♪

617
00:39:03,632 --> 00:39:04,717
[music fades]