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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCampers drove by Gabby Petito van - Spread Creek Dispersed Camping Area Aug 27
Tonight I was editing our video with footage from August 27th 2021 at around 6:00pm from the Grand Tetons area. It was in Spread Creek Dispersed Camping land.
We passed by a white van and both Kyle and I recognized that they had Florida plates (we are from Florida too) and wanted to stop to say hi, but the van was dark and it didnt look like there was anyone there. So we kept going. We eventually left and parked up front in the gravel area.
Today I got a comment from someone on Instagram saying please tell your 10k followers about finding gabby!
I didnt think much of it, I knew we were in the Tetons area around the 25th but wasnt sure which day.
Tonight, I was editing our Sunday video and it was of our August 27th footage. I opened Facebook and saw that @fettisonthemove had tagged me in a story asking me to check all my videos from the 25th-27th of August. I leapt up and ran to my laptop. I watched the rest of my footage and sure enough, her van was in the video.
We saw the National Park Service Post an update that they were looking at activity in the Spread Creek Area of the Tetons. The reason why I am sharing this, is because when we left to go up to the gravel lot, we got a message from someone on Instagram saying they saw us drive through the Spread Creek Area and are now following us, watching our videos. We have our logo on the back of the bus with social media stickers. I thought that if other people in the area that day saw us and started watching our videos, they may watch this one and realize that they too may have seen Gabby Pepito or Jason Laundrie in the area that day and could lead investigators to find Gabby
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JanMichael
(24,846 posts)Or tickytocking? Is it 50 percent?
Taking constant videos of my day, dressing the part, make up, set control, lighting, would probably make me homicidal too.
Sounds like 24/7 theatre instead of travelling for the sake of adventure.
I guess Frommers doesn't need to hire professional travel writers anymore.
Donkees
(31,078 posts)Link to tweet
bobnicewander
(791 posts)for trying to be helpful
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)Crazy shit going on in the woods I tell ya
Treefrog
(4,170 posts)They seem never to just be enjoying what theyre seeing - theyre looking through the phone the entire time instead of actually experiencing whats happening.
Tree Lady
(11,370 posts)Taking so many pics my mind wasn't there, so I have learned to just do a few then be in the moment.
Treefrog
(4,170 posts)I noticed this years ago when video cameras came out.
Sympthsical
(8,928 posts)If I go somewhere scenic, on vacation, etc. I spend a minute taking pics, then spend the rest of the time walking around and exploring/taking it in.
I want pictures to remind me of a memory, not to be the memory.
Can a professional travel writer let you know in just about real time the following conditions:
Road conditions
Bear activity
Flowers blooming?
River levels for fishing? Game activity for hunting?
Berries ripe?
Trails open or crowded?
In this case the blogger may have helped solve a crime!
Welcome modern age! Dont fret its wilderness out there without Wi-Fi tho
We back country camp in remote areas that professional travel writers probably never heard of.
But we get info from IG and YT
Example this summer we set out to camp in a remote mountain area. The backroad to get in was closed due to a rockslide. Without YouTube we would not have known
jeffreyi
(1,934 posts)Wingus Dingus
(8,049 posts)In this case, it's helpful, but I get the sense that everyone under 35 thinks they can and should be famous.
JI7
(89,172 posts)Depending on how popular someone is on social media they can make a lot of money this way. They can get thousands just to mention a product in one post.
It's gone beyond even just personal attention seeking.
Joinfortmill
(14,233 posts)Treefrog
(4,170 posts)Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)...and recent double homicide involving store worker at a Utah co-op where Petito had a physical fight with fiancé
Police in Utah are investigating a potential link between 'van-life' woman Gabby Petito's disappearance and the murder of a woman who worked at the Moab co-op where Petito and fiancé Brian Laundrie had an explosive fight.
Six days after Petito and Laundrie had a physical altercation at Moonflower Community Cooperative, store worker Kylen Schulte, 24, and her wife Crystal Turner, 38, were found dead and partially undressed where they had been camping.
Schulte and Turner told friends about a 'creepy man' that had been bothering them and that 'if something happened to them, that they were murdered.' On August 18, their bodies were found at a campsite in the La Sal Mountains, an hour away from Moab.
SharonClark
(10,005 posts)Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)Treefrog
(4,170 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)Its like the Zapruder tape or Bigfoot pics
Dreampuff
(778 posts)Did you report your sighting to the authorities in Wyoming or to the authorities in Florida? The news reports have already stated there was another couple from Florida who saw them and their van. They also took notice because of their license plate. It can't hurt to let them know even if you don't have a lot of info because one never knows what could be relevant.
I hadn't heard that they had already solved the murders of the couple who were found in that same area. The last I knew is they were still looking for a correlation.
It gets stranger as it progresses since he is now supposedly missing and they are doing a huge search for him and yet, his attorney released a statement saying he is fine and is in hiding, but his parents have filed a missing persons report.
In Utah, it was listed as a mental health situation and that neither had taken their meds. She looks like she has severe anxiety, if not bipolar, too, but who can tell from a short video? On that video, she does see she has OCD but it just appears to be more than that. My thoughts anyway.
What mental illness does he have since he was also supposed to be on medication? This is at least their second cross-country, long trip so who is paying the bills for them?
Treefrog
(4,170 posts)I hadnt heard they solved the murder of the women. Do you have a link to that?
Edit to add: the FBI is investigating the murder, but no one has been arrested as yet.
Dreampuff
(778 posts)Senior moment here.
I have not heard the other two murders were solved or that it wasn't correlated. Sharon Clark has it on her post and I was wondering what she had read or heard.
Treefrog
(4,170 posts)And that the FBI is working on it. The whole thing is so weird and wild.
Donkees
(31,078 posts)honest.abe
(8,556 posts)Last edited Sun Sep 19, 2021, 12:07 PM - Edit history (1)
working on her blog and he was camping alone. He was hitchhiking and told this to the people that gave him a ride.
Kind of an odd place to park the van if she was staying there full-time working and the fact nobody was there and it appeared be simply parked with no apparent activity. More fuel to fire that he is hiding something.
Treefrog
(4,170 posts)But did he come back in it? It was her van and that would be very bad.
He came back to North Port with her van. He came back to his parents house, where they both lived . I believe the police have gone through it, but I'm not sure about some of the local stories I have been hearing on the news. Just as an example, they are searching for him in a huge wooded area because his parents reported him missing and yet his own attorney had issued a statement saying he is in hiding and he is fine.
Treefrog
(4,170 posts)Hes probably left the country.
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honest.abe
(8,556 posts)They havent said they found anything but I suspect they have.
Dreampuff
(778 posts)This story is a couple of days old, but there are other links with this. WFLA has also been running a lot of Stories on it.
I don't live in North Port so I'm not sure what they use for reliable sources.
Treefrog
(4,170 posts)Terrible.
Goodheart
(5,264 posts)so, ok...
I just answered my own question by a wikipedia search.
A woman disappears and this merits special attention why? Because she had a youtube channel? People disappear all the time.
Donkees
(31,078 posts)and refused to answer any questions.