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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

'VAN-LIFE GIRL' GABBY PARENTS SPEAK OUT as Boyfriend Hides Out at Parents' Home

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.2 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Nichole Schmidt, the mother of missing Gabby Petito, says she feels her daughter is still alive, but she admits that could be hope on her part. In the meantime, boyfriend Brian Laundrie still has not spoken to authorities. Stepfather Joseph Schmidt, who is in Wyoming working with authorities searching for Gabby, calls Laundrie's lack of action, an act of cowardice. Joining Nancy Grace Today:Nichole Schmidt - Victim's Mother Jim Schmidt - Victim's Stepfather Dale Carson - Criminal Defense Attorney (Jacksonville), Former FBI Agent, Former Police Officer, Author: "Arrest-Proof Yourself, DaleCarsonLaw.comDr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta GA www.angelaarnoldmd.com, Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women, Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Emory University, Former Medical Director of The Psychiatric Ob-Gyn Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital  Joe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Featured on "The Piketon Massacre: Return to Pike County" on iHeartRadio Mike King - Host: "ProfilingEvil" on YouTube, Former Police Officer (Ogden, Utah), Former Chief Investigator: Weber County Attorney’s Office, Former Chief of Staff: Utah Attorney General’s Office, Author: "Deceived, An Investigative Memoir of the Zion Society Cult", www.ProfilingEvil.com, Instagram/Twitter: @Profiling Evil, Garna Mejia [MEH-HEE-UH] - Reporter, KSL-TV in Salt Lake City (reporting from Jackson Hole, WY), Twitter/Instagram/Facebook: @GarnaMejiaKSL, ksltv.com

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0:00.0

I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new Cold Case Podcast, Zone 7.

0:04.1

We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized

0:09.1

experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on

0:13.6

to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.

0:18.0

We are going to solve these cases own air together. Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app,

0:25.2

the Apple Podcast app, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast.

0:29.8

I'm Joseph Scott Morgan. I was the youngest medical legal death investigator in the country.

0:34.8

The world that I inhabited gave me insight into things that most of the general public

0:39.6

can't even begin to imagine, always having to view the app normal in the context of the normal,

0:45.7

to make them make sense if you will. When all is said and done, I was the voice of the dead.

0:51.5

Listen to Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

0:57.2

or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:06.1

Gabby Petito, now called America's daughter. Where is she? How can we find her? Why are we not

1:15.7

getting answers from her boyfriend, Brian Laundry, who's safe and sound hidden away

1:22.1

to his parents' home in Florida? Why did he travel all the way back from we think,

1:27.6

why oaming without her? Why did he arrive in Florida around September 1st? But nobody knows,

1:35.8

Gabby's not with him. Where is she? Can she be found?

1:49.0

Joining me now, her mom Nicole Schmidt and stepfather Jim Schmidt,

1:54.0

Jim is there in Wyoming. He has flown out to look for her himself. I'm Nancy Grace.

2:01.4

This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and Sirius XM 111.

2:08.0

I want you to first hear a family statement. Let's start friends at Fox 4.

2:12.9

And a new statement from Petito's family reading,

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