Young couple goes on van tour of US, boy comes back with van - no girl (1 Viewer)

[EGLSShin]

I feel bad for the Laundrie parents, they're not charged with anything, they have a right to remain silent. There is currently no evidence that the Chris and Roberta aided and abetted their son. People seem to think we have mob justice in this country, people seem to think its cool to throw trash onto their lawn or walk up to their screen door and whack it whilst yelling at them. While I think they have acted strange during this whole ordeal, there is still the lack of evidence tying them to anything. Who knows what Brian told them when he got back on Sept 1st about Gabby, he had a very long time to craft a narrative of lies on his 36hr drive back from the 30th to Sept 1st.

You can't just charge people with a crime without having evidence of them committing said crime. It is scary reading some of the twitter, youtube and reddit comments from people who say, "ARREST THE PARENTS" on what charge though? Are the parents sketchy? Hell yes they're sketchy but being sketchy isn't a crime and they have not found any wrong doing by them up till this point.

 

[Madmarsha]

Brian's dad is a person of interest, since he gets filmed cutting the grass, getting gas, and going shopping. Anything Chris Laundrie does, is interesting to the media.

Gabby Petito: Parents head to Wyoming to be reunited with daughter's body: LIVE UPDATES

The grieving parents of Gabby Petito are heading to Wyoming, where their daughter was found, to recover her remains just one day after a Teton County coroner announced she died of manual strangulation.

www.foxnews.com

Well, I mean, we have been literallly watching grass grow for the last couple of weeks.

 

[HoustonSaint68]

I feel bad for the Laundrie parents..... Are the parents sketchy? Hell yes they're sketchy...

Totally on board with the rant about mob justice and assuming criminal guilt, but in no way am I capable of feeling bad for them. As opposed to, say:

Boys, 11 and 14, accused in armed robbery, arrested after parents return them to crime scene

An 11-year-old boy and a 14-year-old boy were arrested for armed robbery after their parents brought them back to the scene of the crime, New Orleans police say.

www.nola.com

 

[Madmarsha]

I feel bad for the Laundrie parents, they're not charged with anything, they have a right to remain silent. There is currently no evidence that the Chris and Roberta aided and abetted their son. People seem to think we have mob justice in this country, people seem to think its cool to throw trash onto their lawn or walk up to their screen door and whack it whilst yelling at them. While I think they have acted strange during this whole ordeal, there is still the lack of evidence tying them to anything. Who knows what Brian told them when he got back on Sept 1st about Gabby, he had a very long time to craft a narrative of lies on his 36hr drive back from the 30th to Sept 1st.

You can't just charge people with a crime without having evidence of them committing said crime. It is scary reading some of the twitter, youtube and reddit comments from people who say, "ARREST THE PARENTS" on what charge though? Are the parents sketchy? Hell yes they're sketchy but being sketchy isn't a crime and they have not found any wrong doing by them up till this point.

Those people last night knocking on the door and then lingering around in the driveway were essentialy breaking the law by trespassing. Even Dog when he went up to the door and knocked the other week lingered around the perimeter of the house was trespassing. I understand the pent-up need to DO SOMETHING because I feel it, too. But to now treat these people as if they're "less than" and asking them where their empathy is for Gabby's family shows the same lack of empathy and inability to put yourselves in those parents' shoes.

No matter what they know or don't know, THEY didn't ask for this and they didn't stop being human beings. I guess it's okay to think that and to not feel bad for them (because I don't), but it's not okay to exact mob justice as you said.

 

[Yatman]

why are so many so captivated by this particular homicide(s)?

why are so many expecting a payoff so quickly, given fed le track record?

why do so many believe they're owed some sort of explanation?


/curiousity

 

[HoustonSaint68]

But to now treat these people as if they're "less than" and asking them where their empathy is for Gabby's family shows the same lack of empathy and inability to put yourselves in those parents' shoes.

It's a fine line, isn't it? Usually, my reaction in these cases is to think just how horrible it must be for the perpetrator's parents -- that TED talk by the mother of the Columbine kid just crushes me. But for them to not reach out to Gabby's family from the very beginning is inhuman.

Of course, there is a right way to do that through the appropriate intermediaries -- you can never really know what the victim's families prefer in such situations. But it's hard for me to imagine any reasonable explanation for their actions (or lack thereof). Blood is just that: a liquid substance that keeps us alive. It is not a reason to ignore another parent's pain, and that's not mutually exclusive with protecting their son's legal rights.

 

[HoustonSaint68]

why are so many so captivated by this particular homicide(s)?

why are so many expecting a payoff so quickly, given fed le track record?

why do so many believe they're owed some sort of explanation?


/curiousity

Human - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

J/k, it's a very interesting question indeed, and some interesting clues are contained in the very pages of this thread. We are an interesting, confounding species and culture indeed.

 

[Madmarsha]

why are so many so captivated by this particular homicide(s)?

For me, it's partly the National Park part. I am always attracted to stories involving NPs. The other part for me is that she was attempting to document this whole trip as a vlog so there's so much that's VISUAL about it that's compelling.

why are so many expecting a payoff so quickly, given fed le track record?

Because no one expected him to run in the first place let alone be gone this long.

why do so many believe they're owed some sort of explanation?

It's the American Way.

ETA: Also, the ID Channel is a huge thing.

 

[sammymvpknight]

I feel bad for the Laundrie parents, they're not charged with anything, they have a right to remain silent. There is currently no evidence that the Chris and Roberta aided and abetted their son. People seem to think we have mob justice in this country, people seem to think its cool to throw trash onto their lawn or walk up to their screen door and whack it whilst yelling at them. While I think they have acted strange during this whole ordeal, there is still the lack of evidence tying them to anything. Who knows what Brian told them when he got back on Sept 1st about Gabby, he had a very long time to craft a narrative of lies on his 36hr drive back from the 30th to Sept 1st.

You can't just charge people with a crime without having evidence of them committing said crime. It is scary reading some of the twitter, youtube and reddit comments from people who say, "ARREST THE PARENTS" on what charge though? Are the parents sketchy? Hell yes they're sketchy but being sketchy isn't a crime and they have not found any wrong doing by them up till this point.

My empathy for the parents of a murderer is impossibly low.

 

[HoustonSaint68]

My empathy for the parents of a murderer is impossibly low.

Oh, wow, really? In all cases? Do you have kids?

I don't ask any of those questions aggressively in the slightest -- just really curious at your position. You can't imagine how absolutely horrifying it must be to have raised someone who has done that?

 

[sonicboom]

I feel bad for the Laundrie parents, they're not charged with anything, they have a right to remain silent. There is currently no evidence that the Chris and Roberta aided and abetted their son. People seem to think we have mob justice in this country, people seem to think its cool to throw trash onto their lawn or walk up to their screen door and whack it whilst yelling at them. While I think they have acted strange during this whole ordeal, there is still the lack of evidence tying them to anything. Who knows what Brian told them when he got back on Sept 1st about Gabby, he had a very long time to craft a narrative of lies on his 36hr drive back from the 30th to Sept 1st.

You can't just charge people with a crime without having evidence of them committing said crime. It is scary reading some of the twitter, youtube and reddit comments from people who say, "ARREST THE PARENTS" on what charge though? Are the parents sketchy? Hell yes they're sketchy but being sketchy isn't a crime and they have not found any wrong doing by them up till this point.

Agreed. On the other hand, they did bring this upon themselves, considering their actions with Brian, and the disappearance of Gabby. You just don't hide under a rock, when a woman that lives with you is missing. That's psycho!

Well, I mean, we have been literallly watching grass grow for the last couple of weeks.

There could be clues of Brian's location in the grass. lol. If no clues come, we get to see some really cool recreational vehicles.

 

[Madmarsha]

It's a fine line, isn't it? Usually, my reaction in these cases is to think just how horrible it must be for the perpetrator's parents -- that TED talk by the mother of the Columbine kid just crushes me. But for them to not reach out to Gabby's family from the very beginning is inhuman.

Of course, there is a right way to do that through the appropriate intermediaries -- you can never really know what the victim's families prefer in such situations. But it's hard for me to imagine any reasonable explanation for their actions (or lack thereof). Blood is just that: a liquid substance that keeps us alive. It is not a reason to ignore another parent's pain, and that's not mutually exclusive with protecting their son's legal rights.

I think you and I are on the same page. I agree the not reaching out AT ALL is nonfeeling. I don't think that's what a good person does and like you can't imagine an explanation for that. My example of empathy also stands for the Laundrie parents. They showed none towards Gabby's family. So do they DESERVE empathy? No, they don't. Doesn't keep me from having some -- some -- for them, though, because I AM a human being.

 

[HoustonSaint68]

My example of empathy also stands for the Laundrie parents. They showed none towards Gabby's family. So do they DESERVE empathy? No, they don't. Doesn't keep me from having some -- some -- for them, though, because I AM a human being.

Not a b.s. compliment -- I admire, envy that and strive for that. And while I sincerely believe in the glass houses and 'there but for the grace of God' approach, in all honesty the judgmental streak in me is a mile wide in a case like this.

 

[sammymvpknight]

Oh, wow, really? In all cases? Do you have kids?

I don't ask any of those questions aggressively in the slightest -- just really curious at your position. You can't imagine how absolutely horrifying it must be to have raised someone who has done that?

I do have kids. And if they murder someone (even the one with a learning disability)…I’d blame myself.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

Dog says he was told that he was a gentleman..