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Good morning, and thanks for joining me for Rise in Crime.

Your morning caffeine hit, all about crime.

I'm Mama Jules.

And let's jump off with a quick story today involving Gabby Petito.

Okay, remember, that's the 22-year-old

Gabby Petito and 23-year-old Brian Laundry. They were the ones traveling across the country in a

converted camper van. They were vlogging, documenting their entire journey for their social media

accounts, and I should specifically say for Gabby's social media account. Well on August 12th

of 2021 police in Moab, Utah stopped the couple after receiving a report of a man slapping a woman.

Now if you'll remember in that video, which is actually very lengthy, Gabby is seen upset. She has swollen eyes from crying and she's got a

mark on her left eye. And then there's Brian and he's kind of more calm and subdued. Well, once Gabby

was calmed down, she was, I would call it reluctant to answer law enforcement's questions.

And that's totally understandable.

If she's in an abusive relationship, she is going to be reluctant.

So here, let's just listen to about a minute or so of the police body cam footage from that time.

I'm saying, I'm sorry that I'm so mean because sometimes I have OCD and sometimes I get really

frustrated.

I'm not like mean, I just like, I guess my vibe is like, I'm like in a bad move.

You want to do me a favor?

Let's go ahead and get you to step out of the vehicle.

All righty. Come on over here. You're not in any trouble right now. So tell me what's going on?

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