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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Van-Life Girl's 'Boyfriend' Named Person of Interest in Gabby's Disappearance

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.2 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Florida police now say Brian Laundrie, the boyfriend of missing Gabby Petito, is a person of interest in her disappearance. The 22-year-old woman mysteriously vanished while the couple was on a road trip. Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito and Laundrie, 23, embarked on a cross-country road trip this summer, but Laundrie returned to Florida. Petito's whereabouts are unknown. Gabby last spoke with her mother via FaceTime on August 23 or 24. Joining Nancy Grace Today: Joseph Petito - Victim's Father James Shelnutt - 27 years Atlanta Metro Area Major Case Detective, Former S.W.A.T. officer, Attorney, The Shelnutt Law Firm, P.C., www.ShelnuttLawFirm.com, Twitter: @ShelnuttLawFirm Dr. 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 Andrea Olson - EastIdahoNews.com, Twitter: @NewsWithAndrea TIPLINE: Suffolk County Police Department 1-800-220-8477  GoFundMe: "Help us find Gabby"

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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.

1:05.8

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

1:07.6

22-year-old Gabby Petito

1:17.8

Where is she? In the last hours breaking news in the search for Gabby Petito.

1:24.4

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

1:38.3

First of all, I want to introduce to you a very special guest joining us for those of you that

1:44.3

do not know him. Gabby's father, Joseph Petito, is with us. Mr. Petito, thank you for being with us.

1:51.6

Thank you. Mr. Petito, we have all a feel like we're searching for Gabby too. We will go through all

2:01.6

of the facts leading up to this moment, but in my mind there are two breaking issues right now.

2:08.9

Number one, we are learning of an August 12 incident in Moab, Utah, where someone called

2:18.7

police and police arrived at the location about an incident between Gabby, your girl,

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