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Episode 293 - Gabby Petito: Isolated

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In December 2020 Gabby Petito and her fiance Brian Laundrie set off on a once-in-a-lifetime journey across the USA in their tiny little van. The trip was set to be packed full of starry nights and stunning vistas for countless happy memories, and also all the beautiful views needed to kickstart Gabby’s dream career as a travel vlogger.


But when Brian returned to his family home in August 2021 without Gabby, things went from living daydream to living nightmare. What followed was a search that spanned a vast expanse of wild terrain, and a social media search party like nothing the world had ever seen before.


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0:00.0

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0:15.4

I'm Sruti and I allegedly am Hannah. She is, I can confirm.

0:20.6

And this is Redhanded, which I almost forgot to say. If you are listening to this at the point at which it's being released,

0:30.0

we'll have just come back off tour. Or we will be in Mexico. Oh Mexico, a yiba. Enjoying our week of holiday after the tour.

0:38.8

Yep, because we are doing a lot of pre-recording. Yep, pre-tour. Yep, during that week, if you are not made of tequila, I don't want to know.

0:45.3

Exactly. But by this point, we will be having a great time, probably. And you are probably not going to have a great time

0:53.4

because it's one of those cases today. Unfortunately, but that's what it is. So let's do it.

1:00.0

Because today's story is one that most of you will already probably definitely know. It dominated headlines across the world for weeks.

1:07.6

It was a nightmare true crime case with 11 of social media virality that I don't think I had ever seen before.

1:14.6

I don't think I had either. Not before this case. It unfolded before our very eyes.

1:20.6

Trending number one on Twitter, TikTok and YouTube, it was a case that was like happening like it was some sort of true crime series

1:28.8

when people were keeping up with it. Every day brought new updates, people were obsessed.

1:34.4

And this case had twists and turns like no one could have expected. So let's get into it.

1:41.6

On 2 July 2021, 22-year-old Gabby Petito and her 23-year-old fiancé, Brian Laundry, left New York to head out on a four-month cross-country road trip.

1:53.0

They've been planning the trip for months. They were going to drive Gabby's white Ford van to the West Coast,

1:59.0

visiting as many state and national parks as they could on the way. And the pair were going to share every moment of their journey on social media.

2:07.4

With Gabby hoping that this trip would be the start of her exciting career as a travel vlogger.

2:14.0

And Brian, who was an outdoors guy through and through, was only too happy to join the party.

2:19.0

So they'd both saved up enough cash, quit their jobs, done up the van to look hashtag VanLivePintressPerfect, and they were ready to go.

2:27.1

The next six weeks of the couples trip, as documented on Gabby's Instagram, show a happy, smiley, young, beautiful pair enjoying themselves,

2:35.8

while exploring all of the stunning scenery of the US of A.

2:40.7

There was a lot of running across beaches, kissing under waterfalls and sunset camping shots.

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