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Gabby Petito’s Family Sue Brian Laundrie’s Parents (ft. Eric Nghiem)

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0:00 [Music] and in an update on gabby potito oh we never did a recap what was the last thing we had talked about the last thing we talked about was her just being missing no the encounter they found him he was missing he's dead now yeah did we talk about we haven't talked did he commit suicide is this what the story is about right no it's not that oh he shot himself did he yeah that's the forensic is that he went whoa they found him in a swamp right yeah well gabby potito's family is now suing brian laundry's parents oh what oh cause they knew because that was a suspicion they claimed that they wasted they claimed that they helped him like oh he's over there but they knew where

0:50 he was yep gabby peter's family are suing brian logie's parents accusing them of knowing he had killed their daughter before gabby's body was eventually found and trying to help him flee authority is that a civil or criminal suit what's the what's the legal difference on that one civil is like people-to-people criminal is when the government is charging you and that sounds simple yeah it sounds silly because it's the parents right civil's basically for money criminals basically for jail yeah this looks like a civil suit i see their 22 year old daughter and her fiance laundry 23 had been driving around national parks in the us in their van when she was reported missing by her family in september last year potato's body was later found on september 19th in grand teton national park in wyoming oh i'm trying to go there really is it beautiful it's beautiful that's where people die apparently oh okay wyoming's pretty nice though it's beautiful remember i was sending you like the the road trip yeah i want to do that one i want to go to yellowstone

1:40 and then it said you have to check out grand heaton right next to it because it's beautiful yeah there it is that's why they were there because weren't they they were travel bloggers right yeah that was their content so she she was uh the coroner revealed she had died of strangulation just catching everybody up laundry was a person of interest in the homicide of his late partner and went missing himself on september 14th laundry's body was found on october 20th and a forensic anthropologist determined the cause of death to be suicide the fbi concluded that laundry had strangled petito after a notebook containing confession to the murder discovered by his remains in florida's maya kahachi creek environmental park whoa and now potato's parents are now seeking at least 30 thousand dollars in damages from laundry's parents christopher and roberta laundry you know what's kind of scary is that like most the time they wouldn't uh pursue this if they didn't

2:30 have like good enough evidence there might be something in his confession in the book that puts the parents out that was my question for you is there anything what do you mean like he made he has a journal he he confessed like it's so dope that my dad was like helping me out yeah thanks dad my parents really do love me you know when they say blood is thicker than water they were the only ones that helped me get away i wanted to turn myself in but they said nah kill yourself somewhere else [Laughter] they do have to admit though that's some down-ass pair thanks for telling them i went left when i went too right about this case but i remember something saying that he was found or like one of his destinations after was at a campsite owned by his parents oh wow i think that's the same case right so like the parents definitely i mean of course the parents aren't guilty of the

3:20 initial crime but they were guilty of like hiding and abetting and oh that was the narrative the whole time that was the narrative is that they were hiding well you know i mean if you guys were parents would you give your kids up because i wouldn't i think it would depend if he choked out his girlfriend for you i would send my kid in bro yeah like i mean you have a son kill this girlfriend would you would and he came home he was like hey dad i can't believe what happened i ████ killed my girlfriend what do you do i'd be like how the ████ did you do it first because if it's i can't believe what happened i killed her it's like it's like i accidentally hit her with my car or something like that no he's like she pissed me off she's ████ so i strangled her ████ strangled her and you better hurry up dad because don't you hear that yeah if i already heard the wii u i ain't telling him to run no no it's like it's still like a good like 30 minutes get the ████ out of here dude

4:12 it's really far though really loud sirens outside credit what do you do do you try to help them get away or you turn them in or like what do you do wow that's hard it depends on how much time they're gonna do too because if if if it's a clear-cut casing they're going to probably go to jail for life i'd ask them if they want to off themselves or if they want me to do it wow okay so i don't think i would go there you lenny you hit him with the lennie vibe what if it was your best friend that was like hey i killed my girl help me with the body what would you say oh ████ first of all your my best friend's now asking me to become an accomplice yeah and that's ████ me but he but you guys might get away with it so just be guilt i don't know if i could do it really hear that mic song you're on your own mike that was the setup no because it was remember i don't know if you know this story there was a

5:02 dancer um who like she she was a dancer in la and then she moved to vegas she um ended up in a relationship with this cirque guy like a cirque du soleil dude watch out for them cirque du so he ended up killing her and then uh michael jackson won i forgot which one it was it sounds like a car kind of guy i like oh it might be a car kind of sounds more like a zoom and you do typically it yeah but he killed he killed his girl asked his best his roommate to help with the body and he his roommate ████ helped him whoa but did he did the roommate like help because of the awkwardness situation while also calling the cops like silently yeah you know what i mean no he didn't he was just a straight up ride or die homie but they did a lot of weird ████ they ████ they chopped her up they put her in cement in the bathtub jesus christ why is it always cement in the bathtub i don't know people think that ████ works yeah that's super dexterous yeah

5:52 that's if your homie comes and tells you right hey i killed someone please help me um and like let's say you go don't ████ talk to me don't even put me in this position and you cut off all contacts the fact that you now know but you don't report it are you considered a conflict or like you know are you can it be charged not if you call you guys run away the only way yeah ████ damn that's some good foresight so like as soon as you hear a crime if you don't report it you're technically guilty a little bit of something well like something like that no there's a charge with that right because it's um isn't there something where like if you tell your wife or your husband it's like that doesn't count in court because they can't testify against yeah there's that there's a thing if you're married you can't you can't force them to testify they can do it voluntarily but they can't before so that means if my son

6:42 comes to me and he's like yeah i'll kill this person help me i'd be like marry me right now yeah but if people do that marry me right now and then we'll talk because then you'll never know what the other person knows that solves that problem that's just how far that's the ride or die i gotta do you gotta hey there's some legal ████ to this first i'd rather just be gay so this lawsuit claims that they had quote full knowledge that gabriel potido had been murdered by their son alleging that they hid his this knowledge from authorities while the search was underway quote it is believed and therefore a averred that brian laundry advised his parents christopher laundry and roberto laundry that he had murdered gabrielle petito states a lawsuit on that same day christopher laundry and roberto laundry spoke with attorney steve bertolino and sent him a retainer on september 2nd 2021 oh that's the ████ thing the receipt

7:34 because they had already paid for a lawyer before the ████ thing was found out and i heard i heard they were also getting in trouble by the the state as well for ████ around with the resources of the search and they were once again like pointing in wrong directions so i heard that the state was trying to prosecute them as well so the legal filing goes on to say while joseph petito and nicole schmidt were desperately searching for information concerning their daughter christopher laundry roberta laundry were keeping the whereabouts of brian laundry secret alleging that they were making arrangements for him to leave the country damn oh wow christopher and roberta laundry exhibited extreme and outrageous conduct which constitutes behavior under the circumstances which goes beyond all possible bounds of decency and is regarded as shocking atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized community the lawsuit adds yeah man

8:24 this is also weird because we're not human enough to like know these situations until we get there but i think a best friend it's like that's one thing yeah but you're you're a kid your child is i don't know i think for my kid if if it's like a crime against like a person and i feel like it's justified i'd probably help him get away but if it's a crime against humanity i'd probably kill him that's what i said and people were like that's dark cause i'm like i'm like that's your okay so first of all but then now you have a crime on your head yeah it's fine my generation's dying is that double jeopardy no no no i think that's a double homicide pythagorean theorem i i i think like you know whatever you create it's your it's your responsibility right so if i create a human being and even though they have their own you know ideas and what they're gonna do and they

9:15 might be an absolute hitler and they'll go out there and do whatever but i feel like well i brought them in so maybe i should take them out and then so uh because i'll feel the guilt and responsibility of like maybe i didn't parent well maybe whatever it is uh ████ it you know maybe i should go to jail too maybe you'll feel the guilt and responsibility of killing your kid that too but but ultimately it's your party he's a hitler or if he or she lost their temper and murdered someone right then that to me is like a crime against humanity it's not something that it's like you know they it's like i'm gonna help you escape because it's like like let's say the laws after you and it's like one of those like in the movies where it's like oh ████ the government framed you or like something's happening and or like in self-defense you had to murder someone or whatever right and i'm like but the evidence is stacked against you

10:07 and only we know this secret it's like okay now i'm gonna send you to mexico you know what i will say though when i look at a court case like this if uh his parents lose the case and the only thing that happens to them is their fine 30 grand i'll ████ do it every time you know what i mean like if that's if that's really like the only thing at risk this is like the case study and you extrapolate every other situation after then it's like oh it's dirty g's yeah it's like i was like kill anybody you want i'll help you yeah exactly you know what i'm saying because that's your own kid too like i i do get that that's very emotional and very difficult and there's already like is my kid a good kid if he's a good kid i might try to help if he's a bad kid i might put him down whatever but at the end of the day you're like what's my personal risk for like trying to help my child a thirty thousand dollar lawsuit

10:57 ████ you take it yeah that's it does it run that way like how ████ up our justice system is actually you have 30 grand sit down ████ it 30 grand no big deal call it a day and like that's it that's for what they did you know if they if it comes out that's like rich molesters and stuff like that yeah that's true huh slap on the wrist you're free to go it's like that recent case with the ufc fighter who got revenge on the molester right so like the molester is probably not gonna do as much time as he does for for trying to uh protect his daughter yeah protect his daughter yeah and and that's i think that's what's weird the justice system is so like case by case that it just doesn't feel right when you see somebody that's like getting away with the slap on the wrist well the other person is like and the other person did it like a hundred times and it's probably gonna get away with a few years and the other person

11:47 was protecting the daughter is like put away from ████ life or some ████ that's crazy so how is that so this 30k that's in um reimbursement to the city for using its resources incorrectly based on their things this is i think this was just between the parents the two parents different yeah it says is now seeking 30 000 in damages from laundry's parents oh from the money they spent trying to find and like you think like because how they come about that number is very specific right like i'm sure there's a system that they have in place but it is like how do you come up with that number like why only 30 000 maybe they just have to show expense reports on what they spent trying to find maybe like i don't know they put money out for extra searchers or some ████ but then what i thought they would in a civil suit you can't do punitive or like pain and suffering and ████ like that that's only you can you can only do that in criminal or what i don't even know because then those are

12:38 the ones you're like how did you come up with that number where it's like oh like the damage emotionally yeah you killed my dog 50 million dollars yeah i don't know how they come up with punitive ████ pain and suffering that's crazy oh

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