Gabby Petito Documentary on Netflix (Spoilers)

It is something I will watch. I am surprised that his parents haven't been charged with anything, but I am sure there are lots of details we don't know.

I binged it yesterday afternoon. I’ve seen another doco on this case, but this one had more information.
Many of the same questions occurred to me
Why did the Moab police leave her alone in the van and take him to a hotel ‘for safety’? What was safe about leaving a young woman out there alone? I get separating them for the night, but she should have been taken to the DV hotel, and maybe someone there could have helped her.
After the first doco I saw, I wondered about his parents. If my son came home in a GF’s van without her, I’d have had questions. From this show, it’s fairly clear that he told them what had happened before driving home - they sent a retainer to an attorney - but even so? As much as I love my kids, I’d like to think I wouldn’t cover up a murder for them. I do think they should be charged with something - obstruction, conspiracy to conceal, accomplice after the fact?

I also feel that so often, not enough is done to prevent these cases - no one acts when there are clear signs of violence and coercion. There also seems a reluctance to take missing young women reports seriously, and as stated in the show and by another person here, even more so in the case of non-whites. If Gabby hadn’t been a pretty blond, whose parents had the means to advocate for her cause, would we even know she went missing, let alone have found her?

I followed the case on a couple of YouTube channels as it was happening and I thought the doc was really well done and true to the case.

In my memory the Moab video came out before Brian was reported missing, so no one knew for sure what happened. There were reports( not in the documentary) of the murder of two women in a Moab campground around that time, so Gabby got all mixed up in that. IIRC.

I do remember when the Moab video came out that most people were shocked that LE did what they did.

I think it would be really hard to believe a child you raised would be capable of something horrific like murdering someone. And if I thought my child was innocent, you can bet I’d do anything to help protect them.

Even if they confessed to me, and I knew outright they were guilty, I think I’d still help them by hiring an attorney. I don’t think I would help cover anything up.

I hope I never have to find out for sure.

Exactly, I would hire an attorney first thing no matter what I knew because the police are not your friends in this situation. I would want my son to have the best representation possible even if I thought he did it. I can't imagine him hurting someone but you never know what can happen behind closed doors when emotions run high and there's an argument, a scuffle, an unintended injury, whatever. I'm not handing over my family to the police without an attorney and a warrant.

And yet in my mind it’s important about who went where because if Gabby had been taken to a DV place to spend the night she could have had the first chance to learn and understand that what she’d been experiencing was domestic violence in a safe environment away from Brian. That could have been the chance she needed to break away from him and it could have saved her life.

I was in a DV marriage for 7 years. When you are in it it’s like being brain washed. This was 32 years ago so a lot has changed since then, but it’s not easy to leave because your self esteem is shattered. It may look fine on the outside but it’s another story on the inside.

I haven’t watched the Netflix documentary yet but I will tonight. I have followed this story closely. I was so angry at those police when I watched the footage. These men are very manipulative and charming, and these police officers believed him hook, line and sinker. They should have know better.

I watched it this afternoon. I had the same questions as you all, plus, however beautiful Spread Creek was (and it was) I am amazed that the family scattered her ashes where her body was found. Surely they would want them scattered where she was happiest? I know I would.

I wondered that too! I’d never leave her where such horrific violence ended her life. I wish she was on that beach from her YouTube video. She was still so happy then. Did you see the “orb” in the photo? I wish we weren’t left with so many questions but I’m so glad many of my questions were answered in this one.

What a bright happy sweet girl she was, and you wonder what she could have become. And his parents are just as guilty as he is/was.

I saw a video on tik tok where someone was saying Brian's body was very decomposed and his uncle was his dentist and was the one to 'verify' it was Brian. But she was insinuating that she felt like Brian's parents faked his death and that body was not really him. Anybody else hear this?

This shocked me as well. My son just did his gun safety course in Canada and he was stunned watching this scene. 

I live in the South and I was still shocked. Unless they were on totally private land that he owned, but even then, you don't know what you're potentially shooting just riding in a car like that. That's so reckless and irresponsible. I don't know anyone who has a brain who would do that. My husband and I just looked at each other like what the fuck was that? I have questions.

I just watched this and I completely agree that his parents were complicit.

It’s one thing to say, “Hey, our son says they got in a fight and he came home without her and he probably shouldn’t have taken her van and abandoned her there but we don’t know anything else.”

It’s another thing to lawyer him up before he even gets home and literally not say a goddamn thing to either the police or her parents. If they in any way believed whatever bullshit story he gave them, they would have told that story to her parents or the police and stuck with it.

They knew he killed her, whether he told them or not.