Gabby Petito update: A body was found in the area where officials were searching for missing 22-year
Source: CNN on MSN
A body was found Sunday in a national forest in Teton County, Wyoming, according to County Coroner Dr. Brent Blue.
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Authorities have been searching Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming for any evidence of 22-year-old Gabby Petito, whose family reported her missing September 11.
The FBI's Denver field office announced Sunday on Twitter authorities would hold a news conference regarding Petito's disappearance at 4 p.m. MT in Grand Teton National Park.
News of the discovery of a body comes as authorities in Florida also search for Petito's fiancé Brian Laundrie, whose family told police Friday they had not seen him since last Tuesday.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gabby-petito-update-a-body-was-found-in-the-area-where-officials-were-searching-for-missing-22-year-old/ar-AAOBgu0?ocid=uxbndlbing
I know this is not the news anyone was hoping to hear, but I assume most of you thought it was going to end this way. The story states there will be a press conference at about 4 p.m. MT.
SoFlaBro
(1,867 posts)Very sad news.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)ripcord
(5,081 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)That is why the boyfriend is hiding.
treestar
(82,383 posts)But there was Elizabeth Smart, who turned up alive.
iluvtennis
(19,756 posts)Cobalt Violet
(9,905 posts)Keep getting just about no media or law enforcement focus.
Bettie
(15,995 posts)they do anyone else except small children.
Not-white woman? No reporting.
Poor woman? No reporting (unless she is extremely conventionally attractive)
Fat woman? Nope, no reporting.
Middle aged/older woman? No reporting.
Even men are valued based on their looks and economic status: good looking rich guy? Lead story on every newscast, unless there's also a pretty blonde woman missing.
Older man? Poor man? Not-white man? No reporting.
It isn't right and it isn't fair, but it is what happens.
That said, I hope her family can get some closure, just as I hope the families of all the missing can find out what happened to their loved ones.
Not knowing must be torturous.
Cobalt Violet
(9,905 posts)Cobalt Violet
(9,905 posts)Renew Deal
(81,801 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,211 posts)SPRING 2015
APRIL 28, 2015 SAWIMAN
As Sara Baartmans case showed us, indigenous women have been objectified, appropriated, and fetishized since the beginning of colonialism in order to justify the conquering of lesser people. One of the biggest weapons used against native people during colonization was sexual violence against women. Since the aboriginals were viewed for the most part as dirty and without god any violence done toward them didnt count because they werent fully human. Indigenous women all over the world were taken and abused since the beginning of westward conquest, a trend that we can still see playing out in todays world, but many of this stories were never publicized. Baartmans story was overly publicized and exploited, but many other involving taken and murdered indigenous women were largely forgotten and unreported- a trend that can still be seen today.
Across North America, particularly we will look at Canada, the effects of these colonialist ideas still permeate how native women are treated and seen in society. Indigenous women are going missing and being murdered at a much higher rate than other women in Canada- a rate so high it constitutes nothing less than a national human rights crisis. Aboriginal women aged 25 to 44 are five times more likely to suffer a violent death than other women in Canada. And yet, these cases often go unreported in the media and are not given the same attention as white women who suffer the same. The media coverage of native women in Canada and the U.S. that is broadcast typically serves to reinforce stereotypes of native women. Kristen Gilchrist, a researcher on native women in media, found that a feeling of otherness permeates the coverage on missing and murdered native women, instead of feelings of united outrage and communal togetherness that is present in most stories on similarly situated white women.
More:
https://pages.vassar.edu/theirsorours/2015/04/28/lack-of-media-coverage-for-murdered-and-missing-native-women/
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Democrats have been concern about this genocide a very long time:
Missing and murdered Indigenous women
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) human-rights crisis disproportionately affects Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States, notably those in the FNMI (First Nations, Métis, Inuit) and Native American communities.[1][2][3][4] A corresponding mass movement in the US and Canada works to raise awareness of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) through organized marches; the building of databases; local community, city council, and tribal council meetings; and domestic violence trainings for police.[5]
MMIW has been described as a Canadian national crisis[6][7][8] and a Canadian genocide.[9][10][11][12][13] In response to repeated calls from Indigenous groups, activists, and non-governmental organizations, the Government of Canada under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau established a national public inquiry, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, in September 2016.[14][15] According to the inquiry's backgrounder, between the years 1980 and 2012, Indigenous women and girls represented 16% of all female homicides in Canada, while constituting only 4% of the female population in Canada.[16] The inquiry was completed and presented to the public on June 3, 2019.[14]
A 2014 report by the RCMP, titled "Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women: A National Operational Overview", found that more than 1,000 Indigenous women were murdered over a span of 30 years.[17] From 2001 to 2015, the homicide rate for Indigenous women in Canada was ales as high as the homicide rate for other women, representing "4.82 per 100,000 population versus 0.82 per 100,000 population."[18]: 22 In Nunavut, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and in the provinces of Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan, this over-representation of Indigenous most six timwomen among homicide victims was even higher.[18]: 22 The Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) has documented 582 cases since the 1960s, with 39% after 2000[19]though advocacy groups say that many more women have been missing in Canada, with the highest number of cases in British Columbia. Notable cases have included 19 women killed in the Highway of Tears murders, and some of the 49 women from the Vancouver area murdered by serial killer Robert Pickton.[10]
In the US, Native American women are more than twice as likely to experience violence than any other demographic. One in three Indigenous women is sexually assaulted during her life, and 67% of these assaults are perpetrated by other races.[20][21][22][23][24][a] The federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was reauthorized in 2013, which for the first time gave tribes jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute felony domestic violence offenses involving both Native American offenders as well as offenders of other races on reservations.[26] In 2019, the House of Representatives, led by the Democratic Party, passed H.R. 1585 (Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019) by a vote of 263158, which increases tribes' prosecution rights much further. The bill was not taken up by the Senate, which at the time had a Republican majority.[28]
More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_and_murdered_Indigenous_women
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Interior Department's New Unit To Investigate Missing And Murdered Native Americans
April 4, 20215:18 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered
LEILA FADEL, HOST:
Less than a month after taking office, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American cabinet secretary in U.S. history, announced the creation of a unit to investigate missing and murdered Native Americans. She made the announcement this past week, and the unit will be housed within the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The message - that the government needs to do more.
Haaland said in a statement, quote, "violence against Indigenous peoples is a crisis that has been underfunded for decades." And that violence is most acute for women. Native American women are the victims of murder at more than 10 times the national average. That's according to the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women.
More:
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/04/984290211/interior-departments-new-unit-to-investigate-missing-and-murdered-native-america
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MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN
Across the United States and Canada Native Women and girls are being taken or murdered at an unrelenting rate.
Facts About Missing And Murdered
Indigenous Women
There is widespread anger and sadness in First Nations communities. Sisters, wives, mothers, and daughters are gone from their families without clear answers. There are families whose loved ones are missingbabies growing up without mothers, mothers without daughters, and grandmothers without granddaughters. For Native America, this adds one more layer of trauma upon existing wounds that cannot heal. Communities are pleading for justice. However, the data to confirm the scope of the problem is elusive.
"The National Crime Information Center reports that, in 2016, there were 5,712 reports of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls, though the US Department of Justices federal missing person database, NamUs, only logged 116 cases."
. . .
Stereotypes about Natives Perpetuate Injustice
Due to the lack of tribal jurisdiction beyond reservation borders, Urban Indians receive less than adequate assistance when a loved one goes missing. America has written a stereotypical narrative for its First People: They are lazy, drug addicts, and alcoholics who rely on the government to survive.
Moreover, this modern stereo type was created through acts of colonization and cultural assimilation. Pre-colonization, Native societies traditionally revered and honored the sacredness of women. Women held positions of authority and did a large portion of labor within their camps, but the European colonists with patriarchal views took the women as slaves to the men. Soon, Native women had been victims of rape, violence, and submission. This mistreatment can be traced throughout Americas history. Natives were viewed as savages.
More:
https://www.nativehope.org/en-us/understanding-the-issue-of-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women
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wnylib
(21,146 posts)Response to Cobalt Violet (Reply #7)
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LiberalFighter
(50,477 posts)He will be in big trouble if the digital trail connects him.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)day from the tRump virus. Is this the shiny new object the press is dangling in front of us to keep us preoccupied? I'm not falling for it.
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)ironically, came to a tragic end. But a big part of her adventure was her companion in it, her boyfriend. That he may be implicated compels interest as a cautionary tale of the sort that millions
follow through life-time tv movies. Yes, your point is well taken, but not sure the press is doing
anything more than selling news.
honest.abe
(8,556 posts)Young Youtube star goes missing and boyfriend shows up 1000's miles away with her van and refuses to speak to police then disappears.
Not sure something like this happens every day.
LeftInTX
(24,541 posts)They can't cover every single person that has died.
But if you want, you can start your own youtube channel where you provide details about every single person who has died.
You won't have time to report anything else.
honest.abe
(8,556 posts)New statement from Laundrie family attorney:
Link to tweet
The identification of body has not been confirmed but seems they know its her. How?
Jedi Guy
(3,171 posts)Most likely they're assuming it's her based on that. While the boyfriend is surely the prime suspect, I'm not sure what prompts you to call the Laundries a "crime family." As of yet, the only one even suspected of illegal activity is the boyfriend. What crime do you think the rest of the family has committed?
honest.abe
(8,556 posts)Some are speculating they have mislead police on the "hiking in the swamp" story to give him time to get away to some other far off place perhaps to another country. That is a crime. Also if they knew the kid committed the crime I think there are laws against hiding that information.
LisaL
(44,962 posts)Remains are consistent with description of Gabby Petito.
honest.abe
(8,556 posts)Im just sick of the games the family is playing. It may be all legal but it stinks to high heaven.
Demobrat
(8,915 posts)If they knew anything and helped him in any way they are guilty.
Gore1FL
(21,027 posts)Demobrat
(8,915 posts)Who knows if they even told the lawyer the truth, whatever it is.
Gore1FL
(21,027 posts)It may be inconvenient, but rights are worth that inconvenience.
Demobrat
(8,915 posts)but not the right to protect a murderer. I believe the latter is what caused them to be referred to as a crime family.
Which, if they knowingly did that, they are.
Gore1FL
(21,027 posts)I am not sure why this takes this many posts, but, OK.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Just sayin'
Gore1FL
(21,027 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Taking legal advice, good or bad, also doesn't make one NOT a "crime family" either.
One can 'follow the advice of a lawyer' in certain regards, and then also NOT do so in other regards.
Also, a lawyer saying 'do this' doesn't automatically mean you're not breaking the law if you follow their advice. Lawyers can be 'wrong'.
Ergo, just because you're 'following the advice of a lawyer' doesn't mean you have NOT broken the law ... like, at all.
You don't know that a) everything they've done has been at the advice of a lawyer, nor that b) everything the lawyer said to do (and that they did) was necessarily 'legal'.
This is the disconnect some of are having with the syllogism you seem to be laying out.
honest.abe
(8,556 posts)Apparently the lawyer is a family friend who specializes in real estate. He may be out of his league here.
Gore1FL
(21,027 posts)honest.abe
(8,556 posts)Right?
calimary
(80,693 posts)And for the families - both hers and his.
I just feel so bad for them.
What a terrible month this will always be, for them.
on edit - As of this writing I have not heard any official confirmation one way or the other. Do we dare hold out hope?
LeftInTX
(24,541 posts)They will do dental records tomorrow.
FakeNoose
(32,328 posts)(link) https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215874949
Twitter: North Port Police now clearing the area in front of Brian Laundrie's house
Something is up.
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)Demobrat
(8,915 posts)rather than, say, roads out of town. They had some reason to believe he was there.
I wont be shocked if it turns out he was in the attic the whole time.
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)rollin74
(1,952 posts)rollin74
(1,952 posts)but not unexpected.
hope they find the fiancé soon
Mustellus
(328 posts)either get abducted and killed, or wind up as Fox News commentators?
Ladies of color... native American women.. disappear and don't get this kind of attention at all.
Cobalt Violet
(9,905 posts)FM123
(10,050 posts)Those. Three. Words.
Rocknation
(44,555 posts)Rocknation
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Response to erpowers (Original post)
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Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)LeftInTX
(24,541 posts)But, I don't know how much they can tell at this point?
I wish all cases had people who spotted a known van at a certain place like in this case. (Someone filmed her van right next to where she was located)
More cases would be solved more quickly.
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)Pretty obsessed to video every campsite you come across, but they did, and remembered where they saw her van, amazing, really
Cops would have had no idea where to zero in the search.
Demobrat
(8,915 posts)honest.abe
(8,556 posts)Like he "accidentally" ran over her while she tried to stop him from taking the van. That would explain alot of the weirdness of this case.
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)honest.abe
(8,556 posts)Perhaps he freaked out and thought he might be blamed but that's still a crime in my book.
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)I guess we wait for the autopsy
Of course if he choked her, there might not be evidence, according to police reports the soft parts of her body were eaten by critters or badly decomposed.
honest.abe
(8,556 posts)If he was in anyway involved I think that's a crime to not report it.
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)honest.abe
(8,556 posts)Link to tweet
According to reports the house has been declared a crime scene and the parents removed. They also called off the search of the swamp. They finally figured out the parents led them on a wild goose chase, as many of us thought.
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)honest.abe
(8,556 posts)Interesting they needed a battering ram. I wonder if the kid was holed up somewhere in the house and they used the battering ram to break a door down.
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)Cops brought coolers full of food and drinks, gonna be awhile
KT2000
(20,544 posts)of when they were pulled over. The cops said he was the victim, and he did have scratches. But I saw a sweet girl who was likely pushed to her limit. He was amped and over-explaining while he was smiling. I detected a little more mental illness than OCD. I thought it was strange that the cops took him to a hotel and had Gabby drive in the van somewhere to sleep for the night. She was already traumatized. Both just too young.
LeftInTX
(24,541 posts)The condition was blacked out in police reports.
I'm thinking it might have been ADHD because it appeared the word had 4 letters
honest.abe
(8,556 posts)You can see part of the "a" and the "y" in one of blacked out words. They also missed one "anxiety" occurrence in the lower part of the report.
jmbar2
(4,828 posts)Tragic situation
Demobrat
(8,915 posts)I suppose its easy to say.
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)Glad she was found.
Demobrat
(8,915 posts)She wasnt necessarily killed where she was found.
Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)It awful to think about.
She might have been moved.
I am sure it will be closed casket.
Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)She was left to die or was already dead.
Peace for her family.
Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)I had a couple of union jobs where Iived out of the back of my truck.
I had a shell on the back and I made a nice camper out of it .
Bed and everything.
I had a full size truck.
Still only room for one person.
Her van was not much bigger then my camper shell.
When you start putting stuff in it gets even smaller.
You have to live minimal.
Just what you need.
Two people in small van would be hard to deal with.
I bet they were on each other nerves.
I was fine in my camper but there was only me.
Rest in Peace.
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)Of course if he's hanging from a tree that wont help
Demobrat
(8,915 posts)would there be anything left to find?
What a damn shame this whole thing is.
Shanti Shanti Shanti
(12,047 posts)Demobrat
(8,915 posts)Of course he could be down in Mexico by now too.
csziggy
(34,119 posts)By Jason Hanna, Madeline Holcombe and Leyla Santiago, CNN
Updated 5:15 PM ET, Tue September 21, 2021
North Port, Florida (CNN)Autopsy results have confirmed that the remains found Sunday in the Bridger-Teton National Forest are those of Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old woman who disappeared while on a trip exploring national parks with her fiancé, according to the FBI in Denver.
The FBI tweeted that Teton County Coroner Dr. Brent Blue ruled the death a homicide in his preliminary findings.
"The cause of death remains pending final autopsy results," the FBI said, while saying Petito's fiance, Brian Laundrie, is a person of interest.
"Anyone with information concerning Mr. Laundrie's role in this matter or his current whereabouts should contact the FBI," Special Agent in Charge Michael Schneider said.
Before Petito disappeared while on a cross-country van trip with her fiancé, her conversations with her mother appeared to reveal Petito had "more and more tension" with Laundrie, a police affidavit for a search warrant indicates.
More: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/21/us/gabby-petito-brian-laundrie-update-tuesday/index.html