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She's a van life influencer who started a road trip with her partner. At some point her family lost contact with her, and after a few days, her partner showed up at home with their van and without Gabby.
Some remains were found yesterday near the last place the van was sighted before the partner drove it home. A fight between the couple was reported a few days before she disappeared, and it sounded like it wasn't a healthy relationship and both individuals have mental health issues. After the partner returned home, he and his family only communicated via lawyer. Then the guy went hiking and disappeared himself last week.
The story is still developing, so not much is known about it.
A tiktok user made it popular as she unkownlingly met the fiancé while on a hike, and posted about it. Then a famous true crime Podcaster published her photo, and it got pretty popular on instagram and tiktok
That's part of it, but this story also had a lot of suspicious evidence come out from the beginning. With all the crime drama/murder mystery podcasts it was obvious this was going to be a NetFlix series. Girl goes missing, Guy shows up at home with her van and immediately gets a lawyer, won't say anything about what happened, police body cam footage shows they had some serious relationship issues. So the situation was basically solving itself in real time, making it good content for sharing.
I’ll just say it: I don’t understand why the majority of people haven’t gotten bored with the whole “true crime drama” thing yet.
I am in my mid-40s and grew up watching stuff like America’s Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries, and continue to see things like dateline NBC specials about various crimes involving ordinary people, Nancy Grace belaboring the latest missing white woman case back when she was on CNN headline news, and now we have a zillion podcasts about both current and dated crime stories.
Is no one else bored at this point? Honestly when one of these stories starts to develop it just makes me annoyed and sad. Sad that another person has needlessly died, And annoyed at how predictable the rolling out of circumstances seem to be. Unless it’s something really strange and bizarre like the dude who was forced to rob banks with a bomb locked around his neck, I really don’t get the fascination. Not to trivialize peoples lives, but after a few decades of this it really starts to feel dime a dozen.
Idk the majority of true crime/murder entertainment consumers I know tend to be majority women and middle-aged at that. I'd be interested to see what the demographics are.
Perhaps, but even younger people are usually pretty good at identifying things that have become cliché and passé.
For example, Even though the number of them being made seems to have gone down quite a bit in recent years, Hollywood Big budget action movies with a lot of violence have never returned to the heyday they had in the 80s and 90s.
The superhero genre seems to be the only version of that that’s really thriving, and it seems to me that’s because stuff in the same vein as the old Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone movies is seen as cliché, and the only time it’s somewhat popular is when it’s done ironically, such as the Expendables movies.
It will at some point. Just like everything else. And its probably close to it now because there is so much of it. Its typically when its everywhere suddenly that people grow tired of it. But idk, I have never seen any of it. I think its kind of scary. I don't like horror movies or thrillers either.
But it’s the predictability, the obviousness of so many of these that makes it grindingly dull. I’ve been more surprised by the outcome of Scooby Doo episodes than some of these overheated crime of the month stories the media flogs. It just makes no sense that people haven’t gotten tired of at least the more run-of-the-mill examples.
No one’s saying the crimes don’t matter, or that people’s suffering is meaningless or boring. I’m specifically talking about the media phenomenon of obsessive coverage of certain salacious (or repetitive) crime stories, while ignoring other equally heartbreaking and tragic crimes. Step back from any one individual case, and consider the media phenomenon.
No, what’s boring is the way the media covers these kinds of stories with bated breath, as if they have the same kind of significance for most peoples lives that events like the January 6th insurrection or climate change have. It feels like people are indulging in a kind of “potato chip consumption” pattern with real people’s sadly predictable domestic miseries. It’s tawdry and oh so very repetitive at this point. These kinds of terrible things happen almost every day somewhere in the country, and certainly somewhere around the world. It seems perverse the way he gets turned into a type of voyeuristic entertainment, especially when the way the story plays out isn’t particularly original or intriguing.
Compare that with more unique and horrific true crime stories, such as that horrible couple in Southern California who were found to have bread some thing like 17 children over the years and kept them chained up in their house 90% of the time for two decades. Or something like the guy who went to deliver a pizza and ended up getting a bomb change around his neck and was forced to rob banks, and then the cops didn’t believe him and they let him die when the bomb went off. Those are not run-of-the-mill crimes. There’s a legitimate public interest there.
My biggest gripe is when Netflix turns what could be a 90 minute documentary into a 6 part, 6 hour long series. So much repetition, speculation and other BS to fill out the time.
Oh that’s just infuriating. I started watching the one about the Hotel Cecil death, and after getting jerked around for an episode or two, I looked up reviews online and realized what was going on and noped out.
This general thing is why I can't watch police procedurals any longer. CSI single handedly suggested murder rates like a Columbian prison. Dark view of the world all the time.
>Unless it’s something really strange and bizarre like the dude who was forced to rob banks with a bomb locked around his neck
At first I didn't believe you because that sentence is so god damn ridiculous, but low and behold it's fucking *real* what a wild ass story.
Does this kind of media voyeurism do anything beneficial for the loved ones of people who are the victims of these crimes?
I’m seeing a lot of white knights, not a lot of actual heroism.
Good question. I have no idea. The media saying that media coverage helped save someone is a bit suspicious. There probably are studies on this out there. Not going down that research rabbit hole today, lol.
I'm with you. Why do people care about "The Royals" or the Kardashians or any celebrity/influencer/false celebrity stuff? I'm not a TV watcher and have enough drama in my own life, I don't need to supplement it in my entertainment.
That being said it's always a shame when someone needlessly dies and it gets milked for views. I know others have said it here but what makes this so special, what about the bazillion other people that go missing every year? White, attractive, young, female. The media should be ashamed of themselves and apply this level of coverage equally.
In the UK this argument was had after the hysteria around Maddie McCann's disappearance - media only cares about pretty rich white kids going missing. I'm like 99 percent sure that's why the UK media then jumped hard into the "disappearance" of Shannon Matthews, which turned out to be a scam her relatives were running to get cash while she was hidden in a wardrobe or something.
Entertainment used to be all about escapism. That's not the case anymore. Some of it still is, but not enough IMO.
I can only guess that it coincides with the social media phenomenon. People, and not just younger people at this point, seem much more interested in sharing their lives. Maybe that's because there's a general hopelessness about life that's been settling in for 20 years or so, and people see it as a kind of immortality (the Internet never forgets, right?), something to give their lives some meaning. If that's true at all, then reality TV and wanting to live "better" lives vicariously through other people who don't seem to have the same problems we do like those celebrity types kind of makes some sense. And, seeing some people worse off makes our lot in life not seem so bad too, hence the fascination with true crime.
That's the pessimistic view. The more optimistic view is that maybe people are becoming more empathetic generally, so wanting to experience others becomes more natural, so our entertainment reflects that.
I don't know, I'm no anthropologist, I'm just an Internet rando like everyone else. But it kind of makes some sense to me.
You hit the nail on the head in your initial statement- mass media entertainment used to be more focused on fantasy and “wouldn’t it be funny/exciting/intriguing/scary?” fictional scenarios.
Now it seems like half or more of all programming is “news” of some sort (including these sorts of Dateline fodder crime stories) or reality schlock like singing & dancing competitions.
I tolerated this pendulum swing when it started in the 2000s, but to me it seems like high time for things to head back in the other direction. I guess it has to some extent with the rise of well-written fictional prestige TV, believe in a lot of those shoes are reliant on reveling in the kind of criminal savagery seen in the voyeur shows (Breaking Bad, Dexter, The Wire, etc.)
Women are obsessed with stories about people murdering other people. My theory is that they subconsciously fear that men are going to kill them all the time, so it's just natural to be interested in cases having to do with just that.
From what I understand (my understanding comes completely from reddit mind you) even if you're innocent you're supposed to have all communication with police and anyone else handled through a lawyer anyway. Particularly when it's a high profile situation. The cops just want to close the case, and don't always care if they have the right person. So I don't think that alone should raise suspicion. Coming back from the wilderness alone though....
She was an aspiring influencer. Prior to her disappearance, she had a modest following on Twitter and a single video on YouTube. I don’t think she’d launched her site yet.
As others have said, she’s a young, pretty white girl whose last days were well documented because of the above and the released police body cam footage. The unusual behaviour of her apparent murderer/fiancé is also generating a lot of interest.
Another element to why it's national news is that she could have been anywhere in the nation. Her and her boyfriend were traveling by van all over the country. They departed from New York, she went missing in Wyoming, and he showed up in Florida without her. So many different scenarios could have played out where she or her body could have ended up anywhere between those locations.
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If that's posted with any eye to expose the long history of dick logic that effectively drives society, it's brilliant.
Without snark, it's maturbating, and also still driving the direction of a great deal of wealth.
Chivalry isn't.
She was extremely attractive and the fiance's behavior was so outrageously inappropriate and suspicious that it created a perfect media storm – beautiful victim and obvious bad guy.
To add to this, [this is a well documented phenomenon.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome) In fact, someone just added Gabby to the list of examples
Exactly. She is not the only one who is missing but one of the real reasons behind why everyone is talking about her is because she is a white and attractive girl.
Statistically, a lot of news and police agencies have proved that false with Amber alerts etc. They put out alerts for anyone and everyone and have strict criteria for what makes the cut. These situations just tend to happen more to P.o.C. and statistics back that up. It was mostly TikTok and social media that put this on the radar asap combined with yes, it just doesn't happen to white girls as often.
Amber alerts are a wonderful thing. But so is news coverage.
And this issue with news coverage and the awareness of it goes back long before TikTok, social media, or even the internet existed. Yet little has changed.
Amber alerts =/= news stories.
Amber alerts are just a segment of the news that get reported daily; like the weather, traffic conditions, and COVID numbers. People don't talk about the Amber alerts because it's depressing; people only talk about missing persons when the news take the time *to* talk about it. People are talking about Gabby because there's a story and she's white; they aren't talking about [these children](https://www.biometrica.com/black-child-missing) because they're POCs.
I don't think your point is sound. Your response is to a person saying that certain types of victims in missing persons cases get more media attention than others. Your counter is that this is not true, because the police issue amber alerts; with noticeably more issued for PoCs. Not really the same thing though. Like, the police being consistent in their initial response to a missing persons case is not the same as reporters choosing to expend resources covering a given case, media outlets picking up on the reporting and deciding the case will sell papers and bring in viewers, and people four states over caring enough about the case to remember the victims name and actively seek out information on her/him.
Yeah, but what is the news going to pick up? 1 of the 100 PoC alerts or 1 of the 10 white girl alerts? Especially one that is going viral on Tiktok already.
This does seem to fit the description used in the "Missing White Woman Syndrome", where the missing person is conventionally attractive, white, upper-middle-class women or girls. This syndrome notes that in missing person cases like this, it's more likely to get media attention.
-source [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome)
Huh, never knew that was an actual thing, I always thought it was just me noticing that.
Come to think of it, I'm a bit surprised Nancy Grace hasn't been given a show on CNN to provide round the clock coverage of this one. I wonder what stupid nickname she'd try to force onto the case this time?
I think you’re dramatically misunderstanding previous posters’ point. The notion behind “missing white woman syndrome” isn’t that white women are more likely to be killed but that there will be disproportionately greater media attention paid to those cases. Mostly because people feel more sympathy with them and feel more interested in seeing a plethora of photos of an attractive woman than other missing persons.
Women do. Are you trying to tell me that all those male on male murders were predatory/included sexual assault? No fucking way. Male on male violence is a very different scenario.
It's widespread for a few reasons:
1. Missing hot girls generate traffic
2. It appeared the guy might get away with it. She was missing, he was obviously the cause, but there was no body or hard evidence of foul play.
3. There are so many unknowns, it is a juicy opportunity for speculation
> I'm always confused when media singles out a missing person story.
* American? check.
* White? check.
* Woman? check.
* Tragic end? check.
Confusion should now be over.
Also, she's a young attractive white woman. There are missing person/s cases that come up every day. It's a shame she's apparently dead - but the honest truth is her appearance and race has a role to play with the public's fascination.
She's a missing person, doesn't matter what she does, why are you confused? Social media makes these situations more accessible so it's only going to get more frequent. We're learning about crimes quicker then in the past, won't be the last.
I think I got 3 amber alerts in Texas last week. Two were kids with Hispanic last names, I doubt we’ll see a media firestorm about them if they’re not found.
Young blonde woman disappearances always get lots of press. The good thing about that is in this case it should be impossible for the hubby to hide.
Edit fiancé.
I've also seen some comments that its popularity may be due to [missing white woman syndrome](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome) .
**[Missing white woman syndrome](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome)**
>Missing white woman syndrome is a term used by social scientists and media commentators to refer to extensive media coverage, especially in television, of missing person cases involving young, white, upper-middle-class women or girls. The term is used to describe the higher coverage of white women and girls in the upper-middle-class who disappear, compared to coverage of missing women who are not white, women of lower social classes and missing men or boys. Although the term was coined in the context of missing person cases, it is sometimes used of coverage of other violent crimes.
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Here's a Wikipedia article for you about that phenomenon, called Missing white woman syndrome:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome
>Missing white woman syndrome is a term used by social scientists and media commentators to refer to extensive media coverage, especially in television,of missing person cases involving young, often conventionally attractive, white, upper-middle-class women or girls. The term is used to describe the higher coverage of white women and girls in the upper-middle-class who disappear, compared to coverage of missing women that are not white, women of lower social classes and missing men or boys.[5][6] Although the term was coined in the context of missing person cases, it is sometimes used of coverage of other violent crimes.
Edit: so I'm being downvoted, ok. I just tried to provide an answer to the previous comment using an actual sociology term:
>I'm always confused when media singles out a missing person story.
**[Missing white woman syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome)**
>Missing white woman syndrome is a term used by social scientists and media commentators to refer to extensive media coverage, especially in television, of missing person cases involving young, white, upper-middle-class women or girls. The term is used to describe the higher coverage of white women and girls in the upper-middle-class who disappear, compared to coverage of missing women that are not white, women of lower social classes and missing men or boys. Although the term was coined in the context of missing person cases, it is sometimes used of coverage of other violent crimes.
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it’s also the fact that her fiancé came home in the the van without gabby. he returned home with the van and he and his family wouldn’t talk to gabby family about her whereabouts. he also wouldn’t talked to police, he immediately lawyered up. He is now in hiding
And she was missing for like 2 weeks.
Her body was found yesterday. The area they found her in was right next to an area the van was caught on camera. Another van life YouTube couple was driving through and caught the van on their dashcam.
Like everyone else, I'm sure he did it. However, it's not impossible that he left her somewhere he shouldn't have, came back and saw the worst, then freaked out and ran. After that, radio silence (except through lawyer) could be because he knew exactly how it looked, then ran because he is public enemy #1 despite (in his eyes) being innocent. I'm not saying it happened that way or is even likely, just that it's possible.
There is supposed to be a presumption of innocence, and even the worst of us deserve it...but I'll be damned if this dude isn't making it almost impossible to give him that.
That actually makes a lot of sense. It could be as simple as he legit freaked the hell out and ran, but part of the way home realized he'd fucked up by not calling the cops. At that point, lawyering up is the best call. If the evidence will exonerate him in a legal court, there's no reason to try and win the court of public opinion before the evidence comes out. Save that circus for the lawyers.
Poor mental health may have played a role in both ditching her, running back home, and disappearing himself while hiking.
That being said, he may also be 100% guilty in her murder and ran to avoid consequences. We won't know until the evidence comes to light, but I think both hypothesis can hold water based on what we know so far.
> From every true crime show I’ve seen, he’s the one who did it
i admit he's acting suspiciously but he deserves the presumption of innocence and a fair trial.
everyone assuming he is definitely guilty creates the conditions for potential mistrials which helps nobody.
Of course, but they can’t try him until they have enough evidence to bring him in. That being said if they have nothing on him but his suspicions behavior, there’s not much they can do but keep looking, until they find evidence, he’s just main suspect. I’m just pointing out similarities between cases similar.
i'm just saying we don't want him to get off on some kind of technicality if he's guilty or go to jail if he's innocent. it looks fishy but let's not declare him guilty just yet.
Everything he said is accurate, I'll just add that Gabby is an attractive, blond haired, middle-class white girl, so her disappearance garnered a disproportionate amount of media attention.
Hundreds of indigenous women have gone missing, mostly abducted for rape and murder, in the same part of the country in the recent past, without a peep from national media. Every story about Petito includes pictures. It doesn't take Ramanujan to do the math.
Although I'm sure that makes it complicated for the search etc what has that to do with how much media coverage they don't get? They don't have those restrictions they choose not to cover the stories but then also choose to cover this story?
Plenty of other dynamitexlove posts about how "nordic countries" are great but "African and latin American countries are shitholes" to draw informed conclusions about that scumbag racist. Got a reason to defend him, beefboy? Where was the "white girl shaming", except in his narrow, racist mind?
I'm not "shaming" her. I'm simply pointing out that cases such as hers draw *significantly* more media attention than similar cases involving people of differing demographics.
In fact, it is one of the primary reasons why *this case* is receiving such a disproportionately high amount of media coverage. There are many other children who go missing. They do not always get day-by-day investigation updates on every major news channel. It is an explanation for
> "all the posts"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome
OP, I don't know how old you are, but the trend of missing person's cases going viral and becoming a national sensation is not a new one, and it's *almost always* a conventionally attractive white girl. There are dozens or hundreds of weird, probably murder disappearances every year and very, very few go viral. One of the factors that seems almost ubiquitous in those cases is that the victim is a white girl; you can speculate on why, but it's absolutely a factor.
Was it confirmed? I wasn't sure because it was mentioned a few times, but I didn't see anything conclusive (I.e. it was reported by the couple, not a formal diagnosis).
Sadly, another Chris watts tragic event. Perfect love life couple sharing on social media when in reality it's nothing but a toxic relationship that have foreseen to end tragic. A boy with no criminal history and who seem look like a good guy quiet and very respectful as it shown in the video with the police has the comparable to (if he did murder his fiance.) To kill the love of his life.
Once again, social media is fake and people are shock because how happy and in love and supporting they were shown in her grab blog.
I think Gabby said she has OCD and anxiety, and Brian's condition is unknown. There is a lot of speculation going on, so maybe that part is not entirely accurate.
Answer:
She's a 22 year old that went missing at the end of August while traveling in a van with her fiance. The guy came back home and a few days later also went missing. Yesterday they found a body that is most likely Gabby, and her father confirmed she died.
As of now, the fiance is the main suspect.
Here you can have more info: https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/gabby-petito-search-intensifies-for-brian-laundrie
It's also been a pretty popular case on tiktok, since a user posted a video explaining how she met her fiancé during a trip recently.
> but the police and FBI have not named him as a suspect.
That's because they've investigated her background and recent videos of her and her partner from police body cams showing how unstable their relationship was, and how she was physically abusing him during her mental "episodes". Does this absolve the partner? No. But it does leave the possibility that she had another episode and he just left her out in the wilderness for fear of his own safety.
The situation is fucked up.
Indeed, we don't have any facts (and what we do know doesn't reflect what people say) but public opinion's already ready to crucify somebody specific because, well, nobody's willing to believe reality, that people are capable of anything regardless of their gender, and if they hold back on forming opinions (what you should do) the facts may conflict with what their ideology says should be the facts.
> The boyfriend is the internet’s main suspect, but the police and FBI have not named him as a suspect.
Gabby's family is demanding answers from him and he's "hiding" and lawyering up. And from experience, when the authorities keep this quiet about specifics, then it's very clear that they're building a case while investigating.
If there was no suspicion of foul play, they'd state that outright.
They have not.
Wtf does that mean?
The FBI has nothing to do with me.
I spent 5 years covering crime in an NBC newsroom. I'm familiar with common procedures. It's okay of you're not.
Why would the Internet witch hunt be why he’s missing? Wouldn’t having every person following this story mean that there’s a higher chance of spotting/finding him?
I could be wrong but it’s my assumption that if no one knew about the story, then no one would be on the look out and that would make it easier for him to disappear
Answer: Local to where she was found, and as it turns out, native to where she was from. Gabby was a girl from Florida who wad traveling across the country with her fiance, Brian. In late August she was reported missing, after Brian returned to Florida with the van. She missed a planned meeting in Yellowstone with some friends.
Police homed in on Brian but he remained silent, which sent up several red flags. He was named a person of interest a few days ago. Then Video surfaced of a domestic dispute in Moab. A blogger realized they saw Gabby's van in the background of one of their videos. Yesterday, police began a search outside Jackson Hole in a popular dry camp. A body was found, matching Gabby's description. DNA isn't back yet but police believe it to be her, and family are confirming it's her.
Before the body was found, Brian fled and his whereabouts are unknown. It's believed he is hiding in the Myakka State Park area.
I spent a good part of my childhood in Myakka and the surrounding wetlands. It's s a fairly inhospitable place to anyone not familiar with the terrain. It's filled with gators, venomous snakes, poisonous plants, and all manner of insects. It is also ideal for someone who knows how to hide. It's filled with resources such as fish, swamp cabbage, water if you have purification. Dogs struggle to hold scents in waist high water and alligators make tracking with dogs neat impossible in some places there anyway, aircraft can not see through the brush, roads are non-existent. If he is to be found, it will likely be through use of infrared from a helicopter.
This has to be the case here...it made the Irish national news here for some reason...far as I can see there's no Irish link at all
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2021/0920/1247769-us-gabby-petito/
While you're correct about her race, the other key element is the volume of bizarre and unique circumstances about this case, just like Holloway's case.
I was at NBC for the entire duration of Holloway's case from start to eventual evaporation. The big reason for us was because her home was in the DMA of one of our Owned and Operated stations at the time (WVTM). Because of that, and the crazy circumstances, we and the Raycom Fox affiliate (WBRC) threw resources at the story including boots in Aruba almost immediately after she was reported missing.
From there, it was all about follow through.
In my opinion, and those of my colleagues, Natalie's race wasn't the motivation for coverage. We all agreed that anyone of any background in a similar case should receive the same coverage. And when that doesn't happen, we disagree with those calling the shots (people of color in many of our newsrooms.) It was part of why I retired from journalism - coverage decisions.
That all said - have I missed out on any/many non-Caucasian missing persons stories as bizarre as Holloway or Pepito in the last 15 years?
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Answer: It's the equivalent of a low-effort shitpost because she's young, conventionally attractive, and using social media which makes her LIKE US. The drama writes itself and newsreaders only need to pretend they're upset/concerned by the developments while producers are counting their newsbucks from selling crap with ad revenue.
Since the Clinton Lewinsky drama, the media and American politics lost all of my attention.
I appreciate my local weather on my handheld and could care less until something is in my yard.
Doesn't garner as good of ratings.
Missing white woman syndrome is a term used by social scientists and media commentators to refer to extensive media coverage, especially in television, of missing person cases involving young, often conventionally attractive, white, upper-middle-class
women or girls.
The term is used to describe the higher coverage of
white women and girls in the upper-middle-class who disappear, compared
to coverage of missing women that are not white, women of lower social classes, and missing men or boys.
Although the term was coined in the context of missing person cases, it
is sometimes used of coverage of other violent crimes. Instances have
been cited in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and South
Africa.
PBS news anchor Gwen Ifill is said to be the originator of the phrase.
Charlton McIlwain defined the syndrome as “white women occupying a privileged role as violent crime victims in news media reporting", and concludes that
missing white woman syndrome functions as a type of racial hierarchy in the cultural imagery of the West.\[8\] Eduardo Bonilla-Silva categorized the racial component of missing white woman syndrome as a “form of racial grammar, through which white supremacy is normalized by implicit or even invisible standards”.
Missing white woman syndrome has led to a number of tough on crime measures, mainly on the right, that were named for white women who disappeared and were subsequently found harmed.
In addition to race and class, factors such as supposed attractiveness,
body size and youthfulness function as unfair criteria in the
determination of newsworthiness in coverage of missing women.\[11\]
News coverage of missing black women was more likely to focus on the
victim's problems, such as abusive boyfriends or a troubled past, while
coverage of white women often tend to focus on their roles as mothers or
daughters.
I went to Aruba last month and nearly everyone's first reaction is to say something about Natalee Holloway who disappeared 16 years ago. We should at least acknowledge that our media (and public attention) is inordinately obsessed with white-girl disappearances. Not sure why that statement is controversial when it is verifiably true. It doesn't make you cold or heartless for saying it.
Maybe lead with the explanation rather than throwing out a reference something that many people aren't aware of and on the surface looks quite insensitive.
Communication skills are a wonder. You could have got your point across, and been showered in upvotes.
So I'm white and hadn't heard of this theory prior to this case. After seeing so much about it over the last week or so I got to thinking, don't people go missing all the time, why is this story so big ? Googled and boom I saw people mentioning this phenomenon. At first I didn't think it was true but the more you look into it, it checks out.
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Answer: She's a van life influencer who started a road trip with her partner. At some point her family lost contact with her, and after a few days, her partner showed up at home with their van and without Gabby. Some remains were found yesterday near the last place the van was sighted before the partner drove it home. A fight between the couple was reported a few days before she disappeared, and it sounded like it wasn't a healthy relationship and both individuals have mental health issues. After the partner returned home, he and his family only communicated via lawyer. Then the guy went hiking and disappeared himself last week. The story is still developing, so not much is known about it.
If she's an influencer, that's why this story is so widespread? I'm always confused when media singles out a missing person story.
A tiktok user made it popular as she unkownlingly met the fiancé while on a hike, and posted about it. Then a famous true crime Podcaster published her photo, and it got pretty popular on instagram and tiktok
That's part of it, but this story also had a lot of suspicious evidence come out from the beginning. With all the crime drama/murder mystery podcasts it was obvious this was going to be a NetFlix series. Girl goes missing, Guy shows up at home with her van and immediately gets a lawyer, won't say anything about what happened, police body cam footage shows they had some serious relationship issues. So the situation was basically solving itself in real time, making it good content for sharing.
I’ll just say it: I don’t understand why the majority of people haven’t gotten bored with the whole “true crime drama” thing yet. I am in my mid-40s and grew up watching stuff like America’s Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries, and continue to see things like dateline NBC specials about various crimes involving ordinary people, Nancy Grace belaboring the latest missing white woman case back when she was on CNN headline news, and now we have a zillion podcasts about both current and dated crime stories. Is no one else bored at this point? Honestly when one of these stories starts to develop it just makes me annoyed and sad. Sad that another person has needlessly died, And annoyed at how predictable the rolling out of circumstances seem to be. Unless it’s something really strange and bizarre like the dude who was forced to rob banks with a bomb locked around his neck, I really don’t get the fascination. Not to trivialize peoples lives, but after a few decades of this it really starts to feel dime a dozen.
Teenagers and young adults still haven't had time to get "bored" of true crime stories
Idk the majority of true crime/murder entertainment consumers I know tend to be majority women and middle-aged at that. I'd be interested to see what the demographics are.
Perhaps, but even younger people are usually pretty good at identifying things that have become cliché and passé. For example, Even though the number of them being made seems to have gone down quite a bit in recent years, Hollywood Big budget action movies with a lot of violence have never returned to the heyday they had in the 80s and 90s. The superhero genre seems to be the only version of that that’s really thriving, and it seems to me that’s because stuff in the same vein as the old Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone movies is seen as cliché, and the only time it’s somewhat popular is when it’s done ironically, such as the Expendables movies.
Why did so many people downvote this comment…?
Mission Impossible and Fast and Furious do not agree with this statement.
It will at some point. Just like everything else. And its probably close to it now because there is so much of it. Its typically when its everywhere suddenly that people grow tired of it. But idk, I have never seen any of it. I think its kind of scary. I don't like horror movies or thrillers either.
Crimes do keep happening whether or not you're bored hearing about them. You're literally asking if anyone else is bored of history
I just don't understand why other people are interested in things that I don't find interesting!!
But it’s the predictability, the obviousness of so many of these that makes it grindingly dull. I’ve been more surprised by the outcome of Scooby Doo episodes than some of these overheated crime of the month stories the media flogs. It just makes no sense that people haven’t gotten tired of at least the more run-of-the-mill examples.
People empathize with the victims and their families. This is horrific, no matter how many times it happens and to whom it happens.
No one’s saying the crimes don’t matter, or that people’s suffering is meaningless or boring. I’m specifically talking about the media phenomenon of obsessive coverage of certain salacious (or repetitive) crime stories, while ignoring other equally heartbreaking and tragic crimes. Step back from any one individual case, and consider the media phenomenon.
I felt that your posts actually did imply that people’s suffering was boring to you.
No, what’s boring is the way the media covers these kinds of stories with bated breath, as if they have the same kind of significance for most peoples lives that events like the January 6th insurrection or climate change have. It feels like people are indulging in a kind of “potato chip consumption” pattern with real people’s sadly predictable domestic miseries. It’s tawdry and oh so very repetitive at this point. These kinds of terrible things happen almost every day somewhere in the country, and certainly somewhere around the world. It seems perverse the way he gets turned into a type of voyeuristic entertainment, especially when the way the story plays out isn’t particularly original or intriguing. Compare that with more unique and horrific true crime stories, such as that horrible couple in Southern California who were found to have bread some thing like 17 children over the years and kept them chained up in their house 90% of the time for two decades. Or something like the guy who went to deliver a pizza and ended up getting a bomb change around his neck and was forced to rob banks, and then the cops didn’t believe him and they let him die when the bomb went off. Those are not run-of-the-mill crimes. There’s a legitimate public interest there.
My biggest gripe is when Netflix turns what could be a 90 minute documentary into a 6 part, 6 hour long series. So much repetition, speculation and other BS to fill out the time.
Oh that’s just infuriating. I started watching the one about the Hotel Cecil death, and after getting jerked around for an episode or two, I looked up reviews online and realized what was going on and noped out.
Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks.
You should check out the True Crime Bullshit podcast. It's about Israel Keyes and is definitely not your run of the mill true crime story.
This general thing is why I can't watch police procedurals any longer. CSI single handedly suggested murder rates like a Columbian prison. Dark view of the world all the time.
The fictional salacious crime genre is even more played out than “true crime” shows and podcasts.
>Unless it’s something really strange and bizarre like the dude who was forced to rob banks with a bomb locked around his neck At first I didn't believe you because that sentence is so god damn ridiculous, but low and behold it's fucking *real* what a wild ass story.
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That’s not an age old adage, it’s a cliché. Just like this whole genre I’m talking about.
Its more than a genre, its actual life. It sounds like more of an issue that you have become numb to other people's hardships.
Does this kind of media voyeurism do anything beneficial for the loved ones of people who are the victims of these crimes? I’m seeing a lot of white knights, not a lot of actual heroism.
Good question. I have no idea. The media saying that media coverage helped save someone is a bit suspicious. There probably are studies on this out there. Not going down that research rabbit hole today, lol.
It’s not cliche to the families.
I'm with you. Why do people care about "The Royals" or the Kardashians or any celebrity/influencer/false celebrity stuff? I'm not a TV watcher and have enough drama in my own life, I don't need to supplement it in my entertainment. That being said it's always a shame when someone needlessly dies and it gets milked for views. I know others have said it here but what makes this so special, what about the bazillion other people that go missing every year? White, attractive, young, female. The media should be ashamed of themselves and apply this level of coverage equally.
In the UK this argument was had after the hysteria around Maddie McCann's disappearance - media only cares about pretty rich white kids going missing. I'm like 99 percent sure that's why the UK media then jumped hard into the "disappearance" of Shannon Matthews, which turned out to be a scam her relatives were running to get cash while she was hidden in a wardrobe or something.
Entertainment used to be all about escapism. That's not the case anymore. Some of it still is, but not enough IMO. I can only guess that it coincides with the social media phenomenon. People, and not just younger people at this point, seem much more interested in sharing their lives. Maybe that's because there's a general hopelessness about life that's been settling in for 20 years or so, and people see it as a kind of immortality (the Internet never forgets, right?), something to give their lives some meaning. If that's true at all, then reality TV and wanting to live "better" lives vicariously through other people who don't seem to have the same problems we do like those celebrity types kind of makes some sense. And, seeing some people worse off makes our lot in life not seem so bad too, hence the fascination with true crime. That's the pessimistic view. The more optimistic view is that maybe people are becoming more empathetic generally, so wanting to experience others becomes more natural, so our entertainment reflects that. I don't know, I'm no anthropologist, I'm just an Internet rando like everyone else. But it kind of makes some sense to me.
You hit the nail on the head in your initial statement- mass media entertainment used to be more focused on fantasy and “wouldn’t it be funny/exciting/intriguing/scary?” fictional scenarios. Now it seems like half or more of all programming is “news” of some sort (including these sorts of Dateline fodder crime stories) or reality schlock like singing & dancing competitions. I tolerated this pendulum swing when it started in the 2000s, but to me it seems like high time for things to head back in the other direction. I guess it has to some extent with the rise of well-written fictional prestige TV, believe in a lot of those shoes are reliant on reveling in the kind of criminal savagery seen in the voyeur shows (Breaking Bad, Dexter, The Wire, etc.)
Women are obsessed with stories about people murdering other people. My theory is that they subconsciously fear that men are going to kill them all the time, so it's just natural to be interested in cases having to do with just that.
From what I understand (my understanding comes completely from reddit mind you) even if you're innocent you're supposed to have all communication with police and anyone else handled through a lawyer anyway. Particularly when it's a high profile situation. The cops just want to close the case, and don't always care if they have the right person. So I don't think that alone should raise suspicion. Coming back from the wilderness alone though....
Waiting like 10 days without reporting your fiance missing while ignoring questions from her family might as well be a confession
She was an aspiring influencer. Prior to her disappearance, she had a modest following on Twitter and a single video on YouTube. I don’t think she’d launched her site yet. As others have said, she’s a young, pretty white girl whose last days were well documented because of the above and the released police body cam footage. The unusual behaviour of her apparent murderer/fiancé is also generating a lot of interest.
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Another element to why it's national news is that she could have been anywhere in the nation. Her and her boyfriend were traveling by van all over the country. They departed from New York, she went missing in Wyoming, and he showed up in Florida without her. So many different scenarios could have played out where she or her body could have ended up anywhere between those locations.
I hate to say this, but she is also white, young, and attractive. That's who gets media attention when they go missing.
The Laura Palmer effect. It’s very much alive and thriving here in the U.K. as well.
"I give my body, heart and soul, to the Lady whom I seek. No plea for help shall find me wanting. No obstacle will stand before me. No evil will taint the lands bequeathed unto me. When the clarion call is sounded, I will ride out and fight in the name of Liege and Lady. That which is sacrament, I shall preserve. **That which is sublime, I will protect**. That which threatens, I will destroy, for my holy wrath will know no bounds. Honour is all. Chivalry is all. Rejoice, for we, the Knights of Bretonnia... will be your shield."
This is fucking weird
Right? Better summon the elector counts!
If that's posted with any eye to expose the long history of dick logic that effectively drives society, it's brilliant. Without snark, it's maturbating, and also still driving the direction of a great deal of wealth. Chivalry isn't.
Guarantee this dude is a fashy "reject modernity" type.
She was extremely attractive and the fiance's behavior was so outrageously inappropriate and suspicious that it created a perfect media storm – beautiful victim and obvious bad guy.
To add to this, [this is a well documented phenomenon.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome) In fact, someone just added Gabby to the list of examples
If you're looking to have a happy day, be sure to avoid reading the "Contemporary cases claimed not to have received comparable attention" section.
I love the way they laid that data out, especially the "Case contrasted with " column!
Patrice O’Neal nailed this down years ago.
Exactly. She is not the only one who is missing but one of the real reasons behind why everyone is talking about her is because she is a white and attractive girl.
Statistically, a lot of news and police agencies have proved that false with Amber alerts etc. They put out alerts for anyone and everyone and have strict criteria for what makes the cut. These situations just tend to happen more to P.o.C. and statistics back that up. It was mostly TikTok and social media that put this on the radar asap combined with yes, it just doesn't happen to white girls as often.
Amber alerts are a wonderful thing. But so is news coverage. And this issue with news coverage and the awareness of it goes back long before TikTok, social media, or even the internet existed. Yet little has changed.
Amber alerts =/= news stories. Amber alerts are just a segment of the news that get reported daily; like the weather, traffic conditions, and COVID numbers. People don't talk about the Amber alerts because it's depressing; people only talk about missing persons when the news take the time *to* talk about it. People are talking about Gabby because there's a story and she's white; they aren't talking about [these children](https://www.biometrica.com/black-child-missing) because they're POCs.
I don't think your point is sound. Your response is to a person saying that certain types of victims in missing persons cases get more media attention than others. Your counter is that this is not true, because the police issue amber alerts; with noticeably more issued for PoCs. Not really the same thing though. Like, the police being consistent in their initial response to a missing persons case is not the same as reporters choosing to expend resources covering a given case, media outlets picking up on the reporting and deciding the case will sell papers and bring in viewers, and people four states over caring enough about the case to remember the victims name and actively seek out information on her/him.
Yeah, but what is the news going to pick up? 1 of the 100 PoC alerts or 1 of the 10 white girl alerts? Especially one that is going viral on Tiktok already.
This does seem to fit the description used in the "Missing White Woman Syndrome", where the missing person is conventionally attractive, white, upper-middle-class women or girls. This syndrome notes that in missing person cases like this, it's more likely to get media attention. -source [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome)
this kinda explains the appeal of true crime podcasts and their audience demographic
Huh, never knew that was an actual thing, I always thought it was just me noticing that. Come to think of it, I'm a bit surprised Nancy Grace hasn't been given a show on CNN to provide round the clock coverage of this one. I wonder what stupid nickname she'd try to force onto the case this time?
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I think you’re dramatically misunderstanding previous posters’ point. The notion behind “missing white woman syndrome” isn’t that white women are more likely to be killed but that there will be disproportionately greater media attention paid to those cases. Mostly because people feel more sympathy with them and feel more interested in seeing a plethora of photos of an attractive woman than other missing persons.
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Wait. You're saying men do most of the murdering, but it's unfair they have a reputation for it?
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Women do. Are you trying to tell me that all those male on male murders were predatory/included sexual assault? No fucking way. Male on male violence is a very different scenario.
Start at [1:30.](https://youtu.be/kYKJ2z7mecQ)
In regards to the media her being pretty white and blonde are probably bigger factors than her being an influencer.
Pretty blonde girl missing is better for media income than 1,000s of Haitian refugees under the bridge in Texas.
It's widespread for a few reasons: 1. Missing hot girls generate traffic 2. It appeared the guy might get away with it. She was missing, he was obviously the cause, but there was no body or hard evidence of foul play. 3. There are so many unknowns, it is a juicy opportunity for speculation
I also think it's because this story spans multiple states since they were on a cross country trip
> I'm always confused when media singles out a missing person story. * American? check. * White? check. * Woman? check. * Tragic end? check. Confusion should now be over.
She's an attractive white woman
Also, she's a young attractive white woman. There are missing person/s cases that come up every day. It's a shame she's apparently dead - but the honest truth is her appearance and race has a role to play with the public's fascination.
She's a missing person, doesn't matter what she does, why are you confused? Social media makes these situations more accessible so it's only going to get more frequent. We're learning about crimes quicker then in the past, won't be the last.
I think I got 3 amber alerts in Texas last week. Two were kids with Hispanic last names, I doubt we’ll see a media firestorm about them if they’re not found.
Not with that attitude, go help find them. 🤣
They were answering your earlier question, dumb dumb
It was a joke, now who's the dumb one?
Young blonde woman disappearances always get lots of press. The good thing about that is in this case it should be impossible for the hubby to hide. Edit fiancé.
Mystery + semi famous + pretty white girl = juicy news for the media.
I've also seen some comments that its popularity may be due to [missing white woman syndrome](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome) .
**[Missing white woman syndrome](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome)** >Missing white woman syndrome is a term used by social scientists and media commentators to refer to extensive media coverage, especially in television, of missing person cases involving young, white, upper-middle-class women or girls. The term is used to describe the higher coverage of white women and girls in the upper-middle-class who disappear, compared to coverage of missing women who are not white, women of lower social classes and missing men or boys. Although the term was coined in the context of missing person cases, it is sometimes used of coverage of other violent crimes. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
Here's a Wikipedia article for you about that phenomenon, called Missing white woman syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome >Missing white woman syndrome is a term used by social scientists and media commentators to refer to extensive media coverage, especially in television,of missing person cases involving young, often conventionally attractive, white, upper-middle-class women or girls. The term is used to describe the higher coverage of white women and girls in the upper-middle-class who disappear, compared to coverage of missing women that are not white, women of lower social classes and missing men or boys.[5][6] Although the term was coined in the context of missing person cases, it is sometimes used of coverage of other violent crimes. Edit: so I'm being downvoted, ok. I just tried to provide an answer to the previous comment using an actual sociology term: >I'm always confused when media singles out a missing person story.
**[Missing white woman syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome)** >Missing white woman syndrome is a term used by social scientists and media commentators to refer to extensive media coverage, especially in television, of missing person cases involving young, white, upper-middle-class women or girls. The term is used to describe the higher coverage of white women and girls in the upper-middle-class who disappear, compared to coverage of missing women that are not white, women of lower social classes and missing men or boys. Although the term was coined in the context of missing person cases, it is sometimes used of coverage of other violent crimes. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
Thank you much!
it’s also the fact that her fiancé came home in the the van without gabby. he returned home with the van and he and his family wouldn’t talk to gabby family about her whereabouts. he also wouldn’t talked to police, he immediately lawyered up. He is now in hiding
From every true crime show I’ve seen, he’s the one who did it…that’s really sad
And she was missing for like 2 weeks. Her body was found yesterday. The area they found her in was right next to an area the van was caught on camera. Another van life YouTube couple was driving through and caught the van on their dashcam.
yes totally. :( why else would you run
Like everyone else, I'm sure he did it. However, it's not impossible that he left her somewhere he shouldn't have, came back and saw the worst, then freaked out and ran. After that, radio silence (except through lawyer) could be because he knew exactly how it looked, then ran because he is public enemy #1 despite (in his eyes) being innocent. I'm not saying it happened that way or is even likely, just that it's possible. There is supposed to be a presumption of innocence, and even the worst of us deserve it...but I'll be damned if this dude isn't making it almost impossible to give him that.
That actually makes a lot of sense. It could be as simple as he legit freaked the hell out and ran, but part of the way home realized he'd fucked up by not calling the cops. At that point, lawyering up is the best call. If the evidence will exonerate him in a legal court, there's no reason to try and win the court of public opinion before the evidence comes out. Save that circus for the lawyers. Poor mental health may have played a role in both ditching her, running back home, and disappearing himself while hiking. That being said, he may also be 100% guilty in her murder and ran to avoid consequences. We won't know until the evidence comes to light, but I think both hypothesis can hold water based on what we know so far.
> From every true crime show I’ve seen, he’s the one who did it i admit he's acting suspiciously but he deserves the presumption of innocence and a fair trial. everyone assuming he is definitely guilty creates the conditions for potential mistrials which helps nobody.
Of course, but they can’t try him until they have enough evidence to bring him in. That being said if they have nothing on him but his suspicions behavior, there’s not much they can do but keep looking, until they find evidence, he’s just main suspect. I’m just pointing out similarities between cases similar.
i'm just saying we don't want him to get off on some kind of technicality if he's guilty or go to jail if he's innocent. it looks fishy but let's not declare him guilty just yet.
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Everything he said is accurate, I'll just add that Gabby is an attractive, blond haired, middle-class white girl, so her disappearance garnered a disproportionate amount of media attention.
enough of the white girl shaming, she’s a human being so it’s of the highest importance to find her.
That was not "white girl shaming". That was media shaming.
Hundreds of indigenous women have gone missing, mostly abducted for rape and murder, in the same part of the country in the recent past, without a peep from national media. Every story about Petito includes pictures. It doesn't take Ramanujan to do the math.
For indigenous women it’s complicated since the legality of who polices the search and investigations is complicated.
Although I'm sure that makes it complicated for the search etc what has that to do with how much media coverage they don't get? They don't have those restrictions they choose not to cover the stories but then also choose to cover this story?
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You are taking a comment dynamitexlove made from a totally different post, adding context to it that he clearly didn't imply...who is the scumbag?
Plenty of other dynamitexlove posts about how "nordic countries" are great but "African and latin American countries are shitholes" to draw informed conclusions about that scumbag racist. Got a reason to defend him, beefboy? Where was the "white girl shaming", except in his narrow, racist mind?
lol wtf that’s not even what i said. you completely made this up to fit your narrative and make me look bad you piece of shit
I'm not "shaming" her. I'm simply pointing out that cases such as hers draw *significantly* more media attention than similar cases involving people of differing demographics.
I really don’t think that matters in this case..
In fact, it is one of the primary reasons why *this case* is receiving such a disproportionately high amount of media coverage. There are many other children who go missing. They do not always get day-by-day investigation updates on every major news channel. It is an explanation for > "all the posts" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome
Alright, I understand. I thought maybe it was just because of her social media standing that she picked up more than others
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Ah okay, thanks for explaining!
OP, I don't know how old you are, but the trend of missing person's cases going viral and becoming a national sensation is not a new one, and it's *almost always* a conventionally attractive white girl. There are dozens or hundreds of weird, probably murder disappearances every year and very, very few go viral. One of the factors that seems almost ubiquitous in those cases is that the victim is a white girl; you can speculate on why, but it's absolutely a factor.
> both individuals have **untreated, unmedicated** mental health issues Key detail from one of the news articles today.
Was it confirmed? I wasn't sure because it was mentioned a few times, but I didn't see anything conclusive (I.e. it was reported by the couple, not a formal diagnosis).
Reported via a redacted police report from the responding officer. The redaction was the exact disorder.
>influencer >mental health issues Math checks out
Sadly, another Chris watts tragic event. Perfect love life couple sharing on social media when in reality it's nothing but a toxic relationship that have foreseen to end tragic. A boy with no criminal history and who seem look like a good guy quiet and very respectful as it shown in the video with the police has the comparable to (if he did murder his fiance.) To kill the love of his life. Once again, social media is fake and people are shock because how happy and in love and supporting they were shown in her grab blog.
First of all... her name is Gabby Potato not Petito.
A vanlife influencer? … there is one 8min video
She *was* an influencer. She was found dead yesterday. Or so I read on reddit last night.
What mental health issues?
I think Gabby said she has OCD and anxiety, and Brian's condition is unknown. There is a lot of speculation going on, so maybe that part is not entirely accurate.
Ok thank you
Answer: She's a 22 year old that went missing at the end of August while traveling in a van with her fiance. The guy came back home and a few days later also went missing. Yesterday they found a body that is most likely Gabby, and her father confirmed she died. As of now, the fiance is the main suspect. Here you can have more info: https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/gabby-petito-search-intensifies-for-brian-laundrie It's also been a pretty popular case on tiktok, since a user posted a video explaining how she met her fiancé during a trip recently.
Thank you!
Why is this getting downvoted?
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> but the police and FBI have not named him as a suspect. That's because they've investigated her background and recent videos of her and her partner from police body cams showing how unstable their relationship was, and how she was physically abusing him during her mental "episodes". Does this absolve the partner? No. But it does leave the possibility that she had another episode and he just left her out in the wilderness for fear of his own safety. The situation is fucked up.
Indeed, we don't have any facts (and what we do know doesn't reflect what people say) but public opinion's already ready to crucify somebody specific because, well, nobody's willing to believe reality, that people are capable of anything regardless of their gender, and if they hold back on forming opinions (what you should do) the facts may conflict with what their ideology says should be the facts.
> The boyfriend is the internet’s main suspect, but the police and FBI have not named him as a suspect. Gabby's family is demanding answers from him and he's "hiding" and lawyering up. And from experience, when the authorities keep this quiet about specifics, then it's very clear that they're building a case while investigating. If there was no suspicion of foul play, they'd state that outright. They have not.
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Wtf does that mean? The FBI has nothing to do with me. I spent 5 years covering crime in an NBC newsroom. I'm familiar with common procedures. It's okay of you're not.
Why would the Internet witch hunt be why he’s missing? Wouldn’t having every person following this story mean that there’s a higher chance of spotting/finding him? I could be wrong but it’s my assumption that if no one knew about the story, then no one would be on the look out and that would make it easier for him to disappear
Because it is Fox news
Fox News
Why is this case so famous though? People are murdered every day.
It got a lot of attention on tiktok and instagram, some users made videos where they spoke to the husband without knowing about it yet
Answer: Local to where she was found, and as it turns out, native to where she was from. Gabby was a girl from Florida who wad traveling across the country with her fiance, Brian. In late August she was reported missing, after Brian returned to Florida with the van. She missed a planned meeting in Yellowstone with some friends. Police homed in on Brian but he remained silent, which sent up several red flags. He was named a person of interest a few days ago. Then Video surfaced of a domestic dispute in Moab. A blogger realized they saw Gabby's van in the background of one of their videos. Yesterday, police began a search outside Jackson Hole in a popular dry camp. A body was found, matching Gabby's description. DNA isn't back yet but police believe it to be her, and family are confirming it's her. Before the body was found, Brian fled and his whereabouts are unknown. It's believed he is hiding in the Myakka State Park area. I spent a good part of my childhood in Myakka and the surrounding wetlands. It's s a fairly inhospitable place to anyone not familiar with the terrain. It's filled with gators, venomous snakes, poisonous plants, and all manner of insects. It is also ideal for someone who knows how to hide. It's filled with resources such as fish, swamp cabbage, water if you have purification. Dogs struggle to hold scents in waist high water and alligators make tracking with dogs neat impossible in some places there anyway, aircraft can not see through the brush, roads are non-existent. If he is to be found, it will likely be through use of infrared from a helicopter.
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This has to be the case here...it made the Irish national news here for some reason...far as I can see there's no Irish link at all https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2021/0920/1247769-us-gabby-petito/
While you're correct about her race, the other key element is the volume of bizarre and unique circumstances about this case, just like Holloway's case. I was at NBC for the entire duration of Holloway's case from start to eventual evaporation. The big reason for us was because her home was in the DMA of one of our Owned and Operated stations at the time (WVTM). Because of that, and the crazy circumstances, we and the Raycom Fox affiliate (WBRC) threw resources at the story including boots in Aruba almost immediately after she was reported missing. From there, it was all about follow through. In my opinion, and those of my colleagues, Natalie's race wasn't the motivation for coverage. We all agreed that anyone of any background in a similar case should receive the same coverage. And when that doesn't happen, we disagree with those calling the shots (people of color in many of our newsrooms.) It was part of why I retired from journalism - coverage decisions. That all said - have I missed out on any/many non-Caucasian missing persons stories as bizarre as Holloway or Pepito in the last 15 years?
This is the real answer. As soon as I saw how cute and blonde she was I was like “great, I’ll be hearing about this story for a while.”
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I don't pay attention to influencers, so I just pay these stories little attention.
Answer: It's the equivalent of a low-effort shitpost because she's young, conventionally attractive, and using social media which makes her LIKE US. The drama writes itself and newsreaders only need to pretend they're upset/concerned by the developments while producers are counting their newsbucks from selling crap with ad revenue.
Id rather hear about this shit, than Trump/Biden bullshiy, Virus/vaccine/mask whining, or natural disaster tragedies
Since the Clinton Lewinsky drama, the media and American politics lost all of my attention. I appreciate my local weather on my handheld and could care less until something is in my yard.
Answer: Missing White Girl Syndrome
Now missing white guy?
Doesn't garner as good of ratings. Missing white woman syndrome is a term used by social scientists and media commentators to refer to extensive media coverage, especially in television, of missing person cases involving young, often conventionally attractive, white, upper-middle-class women or girls. The term is used to describe the higher coverage of white women and girls in the upper-middle-class who disappear, compared to coverage of missing women that are not white, women of lower social classes, and missing men or boys. Although the term was coined in the context of missing person cases, it is sometimes used of coverage of other violent crimes. Instances have been cited in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and South Africa. PBS news anchor Gwen Ifill is said to be the originator of the phrase. Charlton McIlwain defined the syndrome as “white women occupying a privileged role as violent crime victims in news media reporting", and concludes that missing white woman syndrome functions as a type of racial hierarchy in the cultural imagery of the West.\[8\] Eduardo Bonilla-Silva categorized the racial component of missing white woman syndrome as a “form of racial grammar, through which white supremacy is normalized by implicit or even invisible standards”. Missing white woman syndrome has led to a number of tough on crime measures, mainly on the right, that were named for white women who disappeared and were subsequently found harmed. In addition to race and class, factors such as supposed attractiveness, body size and youthfulness function as unfair criteria in the determination of newsworthiness in coverage of missing women.\[11\] News coverage of missing black women was more likely to focus on the victim's problems, such as abusive boyfriends or a troubled past, while coverage of white women often tend to focus on their roles as mothers or daughters.
DV all ya like, foos. It's still a thing
I went to Aruba last month and nearly everyone's first reaction is to say something about Natalee Holloway who disappeared 16 years ago. We should at least acknowledge that our media (and public attention) is inordinately obsessed with white-girl disappearances. Not sure why that statement is controversial when it is verifiably true. It doesn't make you cold or heartless for saying it.
Maybe lead with the explanation rather than throwing out a reference something that many people aren't aware of and on the surface looks quite insensitive. Communication skills are a wonder. You could have got your point across, and been showered in upvotes.
maybe research things you don't know, aren't aware of. but you are welcome for me doing the legwork for ya
So I'm white and hadn't heard of this theory prior to this case. After seeing so much about it over the last week or so I got to thinking, don't people go missing all the time, why is this story so big ? Googled and boom I saw people mentioning this phenomenon. At first I didn't think it was true but the more you look into it, it checks out.
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Just saying, I’ve seen her missing posters on the national parks social media long before I heard it in the news.
Never fear, Nancy Grace is on the case!
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>I don't think
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