Is anyone following this Gabby Petito missing person story?
As I understand it, a “van life” couple went on a road trip a month or two ago, and the missing person is thought to have been in Grand Teton National Park the last time she had any contact with anyone. The boyfriend/fiance returned (alone) from the trip, and has provided zero information to anyone about what might have happened. Florida police believe he’s hiding information, but they can’t really do any investigating, because there’s not really any evidence that a crime has been committed. There’s evidence of at least one domestic violance issue during the trip.
If this guy did kill her, it seems like an incredibly bold plan: take your fiancee on a road trip, kill her and hide the body somewhere remote, return without her and just straight up refuse to talk to anyone about her.
What makes this even more interesting is the possibility that there’s some small area in Yellowstone Park where it’s not possible to prosecute people for crimes committed there.
Add to that this incredible comment from the Jalopnik story:
This is a local case for me, so needless to say it’s gotten a ton of attention around here. I’ll eat my sock if the boyfriend isn’t guilty . Apparently they also crossed paths with two other people who went missing, he’s allegedly made edits to her Instagram posts to make their trip seem more dangerous presumably to make an accident look more likely, and he had also been reported to be reading a book about traveling the country in a van and killing people. I feel horrible for her family. She seemed like a very nice girl and he seems like a real weirdo.
A followup comment notes:
Those two other people who were “missing” were found dead of multiple gunshot wounds.
One of those two worked at the place where the argument in question above happened [referring to the domestic abuse event]
Just wild stuff.