New Gabby Petito Texts Reveal Brian’s Obsession & Final Moments Before Death

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2025

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

15 days before the murder. “Hello, I would like to report a dispute. I saw a gentleman slapping the woman.” The police chase after the van life YouTuber couple in their white, sprinter van. By the end of the hour long investigation of questioning both Gabby and Brian - the two police officers step off to the side to figure out what to do next. One officer tells the other - “Too many times women who are at risk want to go back to their abuser. They don’t want him charged. They don’t want him to go to jail. Then they end up getting worse and worse treatment and then they end up getting killed.” The officers decide not to press DV charges….against Gabby. They believe she is the primary aggressor. In 2 weeks Gabby Petito will be murdered. And the only person that might know where she is - goes missing. Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com

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0:00.0	Bada Bing, Bataboo.
0:03.0	15 days before the murder.
0:05.6	August 12th, 2021, dispatch in Moab, Utah.
0:09.4	They get a phone call.
0:10.7	Hi, I'd like to report a domestic dispute.
0:13.6	Okay, what are they doing?
0:15.3	We drove by, and the gentleman was slapping the girl.
0:18.3	He was slapping her?
0:19.7	Yeah, and then we stopped. They ran up and down the
0:22.3	sidewalk. He proceeded to slap her, hit her, hopped in the car, and then they just drove off. Okay,
0:28.1	you said that the car was a white van. It's like one of those smaller Ford Transit white vans.
0:33.3	You could probably fit a mattress in the back. Officers get notified. Find the white van, stop the white
0:38.7	van, figure out what's going on inside the white van. When they find this little car on the highway,
0:43.9	it's going 20 over the speed limit. It's hitting the curbs. Clearly something is going on inside that car.
0:49.9	Moab police officers, they turn on their lights, the van pulls over without incident, and when
0:55.5	the officer walks, body cam on, to the passenger side of this car, they see a very young couple,
1:02.9	like 22 years old.
1:04.5	They see a young blonde girl in the passenger seat, Gabby.
1:07.9	She's very distraught, which makes sense.
1:10.4	Someone just reported that her boyfriend
1:11.7	was chasing her down the sidewalk, slapping her. Meanwhile, the driver, the guy's name is Brian.
1:17.2	It's her boyfriend. He leans closer to the steering wheel so that he can look at the officer
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