Death of Gabby Petito

However, over the years, we've made a few exceptions.

We covered Gabby Petito before she was found, and when my high school friend Steve Causey went missing in Florida last year, we covered that as well.

This episode isn't about somebody I know, but her story has really struck me.

Mom Takafla is a young mom who lives about 45 minutes from us.

negative.

Is it the Gabby Petito thing? No.

Close.

Close.

But the whole going to people's houses and, you know, I'm not a fan of any of that.

And if you remembered my coverage of the Gabby Petito case, I was pretty agitated when people would show up at the laundries house, even though I don't care for the laundries and I knew that they were in on it.

I just, I don't, I don't know.

Maybe I'm just a little old in that regard.

And today we are privileged to have a very special guest.

We have Nikki Schmidt, who is Gabby Petito's mom.

absolutely turned a family tragedy into a mission to change and a mission to decrease domestic violence and increase awareness on dating relationships and red flags and coercive control and the dangers of strangulation.

Nikki, I cannot tell you how much it means to me that you have joined us today.

they need, you'll be there for.

Where can people volunteer, contribute to your nonprofit? Where do people go find you specifically?

They can visit us at GabbyPetitoFoundation.org. All of our socials are Gabby Petito Foundation.

And we don't do a lot of in-person events where people can come and volunteer in person.

in 2021 22 year old gabby petito set off on a cross-country road trip across america with her fiance brian laundry documenting their travels on social media along the way after gabby suddenly disappeared brian returned home to florida alone sparking a massive search for what captivated the world Her remains were discovered in Wyoming on September 19, and a post-mortem examination determined she had died from blunt force trauma injuries and manual strangulation.

Brian later died by suicide, leaving behind a notebook in which he claimed responsibility for Gabby's death.

The investigation revealed how photographs, phone records and digital evidence helped reconstruct her final days, turning a young woman's travel diary into a crucial report and record of her murder.

This is the case of Gabby Petito.

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I really...

So I'm getting emotional about all the domestic violence and I think reading about cases that are in court at the moment, particularly Sam Wood in Australia, it is really, really heartbreaking to hear this case.

And there's the whole world, all these issues of what happens when bad things happen to pretty people and how they get treated differently.

And I don't know if you remember the story about Gabby Petito.

who was the girl who was the, you know, living the van life with her, with her boyfriend out in the, you know, American West.

And he came home and she didn't.

Nobody wanted to talk to them saying, oh, is everything okay? They wanted to talk to them and say, you killed your mom.

And not talking, do you think talking would help? Now, I will say this, when Gabby Petito went missing, and I always say this, please refer to how the Schmitz and the Petitos acted in public because they were the poster children for how one should act.

But not everybody acts like that.

They begged for help.

The pain was all over their faces and in their voices.

And They wanted their daughter back.

And remember, because initially Gabby Petito was a missing person.

She was not a dead person.