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Serial Killers & Murderous Minds

MURDEROUS MINDS: The Murder of Gabby Petito Pt. 1

Serial Killers & Murderous Minds

Crime House

True Crime

4.5713 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie looked like the perfect influencer couple—young, in love, and chasing adventure. But behind the Instagram posts was a dark and dangerous reality. In Part 1, we trace the beginning of their relationship, the red flags everyone missed, and the psychological unraveling that ended in murder.

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0:00.0

Hi, Crime House community. It's Vanessa Richardson. Looking for another Crime House original podcast to add to your rotation, you will love Clues with Morgan Absher and Kalyn Moore.

0:12.8

Every Wednesday, Morgan and Kalin dig into the world's most notorious crimes, clue by clue, from serial killers to shocking murders.

0:21.5

They follow the trail of clues, break down the evidence, and debate the theories.

0:26.3

It's like hanging out with your smart and true crime-obsessed friends.

0:29.8

Listen to clues on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:47.3

Music. or wherever you listen to podcasts. Social media allows us to be more connected than ever.

0:52.3

You can stay in touch with old friends, see what that random person you met on a cruise ship

0:57.6

is up to, even follow someone you've never met before.

1:01.5

Thanks to social media, we're able to enjoy each other's brightest moments, things like

1:05.9

engagements, kids, exotic travels, but also it allows us to mask our darkest tragedies.

1:14.8

If you were one of Gabby Petito's followers in the summer of 2021, you would have seen a happy,

1:21.0

bubbly, smiling young woman. By all appearances, she was just another aspiring influencer,

1:27.2

traveling across the United States

1:29.0

in a van with the love of her life, Brian Laundry.

1:34.1

But that was only part of the story.

1:36.2

There was a lot that Gabby didn't share.

1:38.8

And as her follower count grew into the millions, people all over the world were desperate to learn more about her

1:47.0

because they wanted to help solve her murder.

1:52.0

The human mind is powerful. It shapes how we think, feel, love, and hate, but sometimes it drives

2:11.4

people to commit the unthinkable. This is Killer Minds, a crime House original. I'm Vanessa Richardson.

2:18.7

And I'm Dr. Tristan Ingalls.

2:20.5

Every Monday and Thursday, we uncover the darkest minds in history,

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