Serialously with Annie Elise
248: Why Did Netflix LEAVE THIS OUT About Gabby Petito & Brian Laundrie?! | American Murder: Gabby Petito
Wed, 05 Mar 2025
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Chapter 1: What details did Netflix leave out about Gabby Petito's case?
Hey everybody, welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly with me, Annie Elise. Now, as you can see, this isn't releasing on our regular podcast release schedule. We are releasing this as a bonus episode because after I watched the Gabby Petito documentary on Netflix...
I found myself kind of just like seething with rage, not only at the dirty laundries and what vile, disgusting human trash they are, but because Netflix didn't include a really big key detail that I think is so important to this entire case and really sets up and illustrates the timeline of events and what the catalyst was in all of this. So I knew I needed to get my mic ready.
I needed to turn it on. I needed to jump on here, talk with my true crime besties and break it down for you because you guys like to know all of the details, the deep dives, the, you know, bits and pieces. And I just can't believe that Netflix didn't include this. And they also did a recent 2020 and it wasn't included on that either.
So much so that I was talking to my sister Amy about it and I was like, I'm going to make an episode on this because they didn't include XYZ. And I told her, she's like, what do you mean? Why wouldn't they have included that? That is insane to me. I was like, I know. So here I am. Gabby's case, Gabby Petito's case shook the world when she first went missing back in 2021.
And then it had everybody in even more uproar when it was revealed that her fiance, Brian Laundrie, was the one responsible for her murder.
But now, as I said, Netflix's American Murder, Gabby Petito, it came out and it does give you a much deeper look into what was really going on behind the scenes beyond this Instagram-worthy road trip of photos of van life and all these things because we're seeing uncut footage, we're seeing new pictures, we're hearing new testimony, and it really is a good documentary and gives you a better understanding and a full understanding of the case.
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Chapter 2: How did the relationship between Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie unravel?
As I mentioned, it dives into never-seen footage, text messages, interviews, and it really also, to me, and I'm sure many of you who watched it, it reveals something that is absolutely heartbreaking that we didn't even know before. And that was that Gabby was trying to leave Brian. She knew that things weren't right, and she was scared about how he might react, and she was looking for a way out.
But something that they didn't talk about, was how Brian went home to Florida after that Moab incident. After the Utah incident, the infamous body cam footage, he not only went to the hotel or the shelter place and stayed, but then he went back to Florida. And when he went back to Florida, that is when Gabby started pulling away. And
As I go through this, I'm going to kind of build out my timeline because to me it seems very crystal clear what happened and why this happened and what was the catalyst. But they didn't really go into details about that. And I think that that is very crucial in this.
Now what this docuseries also showed us, like so many issues when there is domestic disputes and dangerous situations, the most dangerous time for a victim is when they are trying to leave. And in Gabby's case, that fear was, of course, tragically justified.
So we're going to go through all of the new things that we learned through this docuseries and some of the stuff that I had learned years ago when we were researching this case that they didn't really touch on that, again, make the puzzle not only fit, but... It makes me more angry. It really does because I think that there could have been opportunity to intervene multiple times.
So we'll talk about that. So let's start with more of like the emotional abuse and the control that we didn't really see coming. Before this docuseries, a lot of people only saw the happy road trip version of Gabby and Brian. The Instagram posts, the YouTube vlogs, and everything really did look picture perfect. Piggyback rides, beautiful sceneries, them cooking together, them doing little things.
I mean, we all know what you see on social media isn't the true picture, right? But American Murder, Gabby Petito, it kind of flips the script. It showed us what was really happening behind the camera with all of the unedited footage. And through text messages, interviews, and that footage from Gabby's computer, a very different Brian Laundrie starts to come into focus.
One who was very controlling, very emotionally manipulative, and somebody who was constantly gaslighting Gabby. And here's what the documentary reveals about their dynamic. Brian constantly belittled Gabby. He'd make her feel like she was overreacting or that she was being crazy whenever she expressed concerns, just constantly gaslighting her. He also isolated her.
She had fewer and fewer people to talk to because Brian was controlling their environment, their finances, how they would spend their time on the road, what destinations they would go to, everything. Even when she was preparing for this road trip, working at Taco Bell, he started to lose control over her and over him trying to isolate her, and so he started to make that a problem.
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Chapter 3: What was revealed in the Moab police body cam footage?
She's apologizing repeatedly, all while Brian appears calm, collected. He's even joking with the officers, calling her crazy to them. And this is all despite a witness report saying that Brian had been hitting Gabby. What's going on? Why are you crying?
I'm just crying. We've just been fighting this morning. Some personal issues. I'm sorry that I'm so mean because sometimes I have OCD and sometimes I just get really frustrated.
And the flies here are like pretty intense so the flies have definitely been getting to her and then my feet are dirty and everything so I think that our little squabble started because we were hanging out at the coffee shop and when we got back to the van there was some dirt and stuff in the van.
We've just been fighting all morning and... And he wouldn't let me in the car before.
Why wouldn't he let you in the car? Because of your OCD?
He told me I needed to calm down.
We weren't physical before the point where I said, all right, let's just take a breather and, like, walk away for a minute. I'll lock the van up, and I'll go for a walk this way, and you can go walk that way on the block.
You don't trigger anything. She started hitting him. I was yelling at him, and then when he turned around, I said, I, like, kind of punched his arm, like, there's no situation.
The witness says, I never saw him hit her. I saw him shove her, but I couldn't tell if it was, an aggression against her or a defense against her. Unless the guy's screaming that he needs to go to jail and did something to this girl, it sounds to me like she is the primary aggressor. You've got three scratches on your neck.
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Chapter 4: Why was the Moab incident a missed opportunity for intervention?
She was taking responsibility, and so they said, okay, you know... We're going to put him in the shelter. They should have arrested her. They should have done something more to intervene if they truly thought that Brian was the victim here. Now, I want to talk about what happened after this Moab incident and something that they didn't really touch on much in the docuseries.
Because shortly after this body cam footage and after they were separated, five days after to be exact, Brian flew back to Florida. And this is all according to the family attorney, Stephen Bertolino. Brian flew from Salt Lake City to Tampa, Florida on August 17, 2021.
The reason he flew back was to obtain some items and close out a storage unit because he wanted to not waste money on the storage unit. He wanted to save money because he and Gabby were contemplating extending their road trip together. So he flew back five days after the Moab incident. Now, during this time, Gabby remained in Utah.
She stayed at a hotel, the Fairfield Inn and Suites, and this is near Salt Lake City Airport. It was later confirmed by hotel staff as well that she stayed there.
Now, while she was there without Brian for those days, she continued communication with her friends and her family, also confiding in them because it seems like now that she had a little bit of distance from Brian, she was starting to see the light. She was starting to realize that something here just was not right.
Additionally, on August 19th, while he's still in Florida, she posted a video on their YouTube channel, Nomadic Static. This video really documented their travels, but again, only from the rose-colored lens of everything. Just...
their perfect trip together and her posting this really did suggest to me at least that she was continuing to focus on their social media presence she really wanted to focus on content creation while he was away and like dive into that because as we know and as we learned from this documentary she was the only one who had any capability of editing he was he couldn't help in anything he couldn't help fund it he couldn't help edit he couldn't help give good vibes he couldn't help be nice like he was just a freaking loser through and through
So she's now on her own here in Utah for a few days, editing, pouring herself into the content creation, talking with friends and family, and starting to realize, like, this is kind of nice with him being away. I'm starting to, like, realize this isn't how I should be treated. And one of the most chilling details in this documentary is an interview that was done with Gabby's ex-boyfriend, Jackson.
because he says that just days before she was murdered, Gabby told him that she wanted to leave Brian, but that she didn't know how he was going to react, that she was scared. So this again showed that now that there was a little distance, she was thinking about things differently, a little more clearly, you could argue.
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Chapter 5: What did Gabby Petito do while Brian Laundrie was in Florida?
But this docuseries, it forced us to look at the truth. Social media is a highlight reel, masking real danger underneath it. And that's exactly what was happening with Gabby and Brian. Now, I talked earlier about this a little bit. But one of the most important things the documentary highlights is that the most dangerous time for a victim of this type of domestic issue is when they try to leave.
And that is exactly what happened to Gabby. Because she had reached out to people. She was thinking about leaving. And that is when Brian became even more unpredictable. And experts in this series kind of break it down like this. Abusers thrive on control. When they feel like they're losing it, they start to panic.
And this is going to become really key because I'm going to share with you what I believe was the catalyst of what made Brian snap. So this panic that they have can oftentimes turn into violence. And this is why so many of these cases turn deadly at the moment that the victim tries to leave because they just snap. It's terrifying, but it's true.
Gabby was in the most vulnerable position she possibly could have been in. And the system failed her. So let's talk about the boiling point, or what I believe to be the boiling point. So on August 27th, four days after Brian returned from Florida, Gabby and Brian were seen at two locations in Jackson, Wyoming.
And this is what I believe was the tipping point of everything because at this point, remember, she already had confided in her ex-boyfriend Jackson once that things weren't quite right, that she was feeling a certain type of way. She had a few days away from Brian. She was like, okay, like this isn't right. I'm editing. Then he comes back.
So it's before she can make any decisions or distance herself. But then a few days later, they go to Jackson, Wyoming. And while they're there, she sends a Snapchat to her ex-boyfriend Jackson saying, oh, this reminds me of you. I'm in Jackson too. Like, you know, whatever the context of that snap was.
Then we see the Mary Piglet's Tex-Mex restaurant because witnesses reported that around 1.11 p.m. the couple was here dining. During their visit, Brian was observed arguing with restaurant staff. Gabby appeared visibly upset. We also saw text messages that she was sending Brian from the bathroom. She was apologizing for his behavior. It was just things were brewing.
It's my opinion that he saw that she was in communication with her ex-boyfriend Jackson or had sent that snap and that this is what made him start to spiral. Because shortly after leaving the restaurant at approximately 2.11 p.m., surveillance footage then pictures them entering that Whole Foods.
But when it shows them pull up in the parking lot, you can visibly see Brian get out of the van and slam the door, already angry, already fuming. Then they spend about 15 minutes inside before returning to the van. So as we know, these sightings on August 27th are among the last known instances of Gabby being seen alive in public, and it's also her last known contact with her family.
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Chapter 6: How did Gabby Petito's situation escalate after Brian Laundrie returned?
Five days after the body cam footage until he left, and then four days once he returned and he killed her. It's just, had there been a little more time, like I said, and it's always easy to look back in hindsight, right? But had he been in Florida with that storage unit a little longer, maybe things would be different. And this documentary isn't just about revisiting a true crime case.
It's about learning from it because Gabby's story isn't just tragic, but it's a wake-up call. There are so many people in relationships like this, and many people don't make it out. The signs of coercive control, emotional abuse, the isolation, they were all there, but they were very easy to miss, especially when Brian and Gabby's life just looked so perfect from the outside.
So what do you take away? What are the big things? We always talk about generating awareness on this channel and how we can learn from it, how we can identify red flags. So what do we learn? Pay attention to the warning signs. If someone in your life is suddenly isolated, anxious, or constantly apologizing for their partner's behavior, you should check in on them.
And I'm gonna give a personal example here. Not that it's something that I noticed with a friend of mine or a family member, but something that happened to me. I was in a relationship when I was, how old was I? Let's call it 24 years old maybe, give or take, 24 or 25. And it was with someone who I had a history with, who I had been with years earlier and we were trying to give it another shot.
He was much older than me and he wanted total control over me. And I at first romanticized it. I was like, he just loves me so much. He just, I'm his whole world. Like he just wants to be with me all the time because we're so in love and this and that. And he doesn't want me to see other friends because he wants to be around me. He wants me to only be with him and his friends and this and that.
But over time, it got to the point where He wouldn't even let me work, literally. He would not let me go to work. And then when I started working remotely, he and I would bring my laptop to his house. And I would be like, okay, I just need to like have a couple hours. I have a little bit of work to do because I was doing more consulting stuff at that time. He would get mad.
He wouldn't even let me work on my laptop. And in the rare moment that he would, he would be sitting over me like watching me to where I almost felt –
guilty even trying to work when I was near him I felt like I couldn't he anytime like if my phone would go off and I got a text message and I grabbed it not like I was sitting there scrolling but like if I went to respond he'd be like you're always on your phone why are you always on your phone like who are you talking to what's going on to where I would start silencing my phone and like keep it away anytime I would go to his house because he would make me feel like I was doing something wrong like I
it was my fault that I shouldn't be talking on my phone. It almost made me feel like, and again, I'm sorry, I'm not, I didn't prepare how I wanted to say this, so I'm not explaining it very thoroughly or clearly, but It's like, it brings me right back there. He made me feel like I genuinely was doing something wrong to where I thought that I was being shady.
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