Newly released body camera footage of the Landry family's first encounter with police after Gabby Petite's disappearance in 2021 shows several red flags, according to a body language expert. However, she noted that her parents were wise to follow their lawyer's instructions.
“Their natural instinct is to protect themselves at first, just like Casey Anthony and George Anthony did,” Susan Constantine told Fox News Digital.
Body camera video shows Christopher Landry and Roberta Landry refusing to speak with Northport police, who at the time were assisting New York detectives in the early stages of searching for Petite. .
Gabby Petito's body camera shows Brian Landry's parents refusing to cooperate with police after filing a missing person report
Christopher Landry and Roberta Landry answer the door after police knock on Sept. 11, 2021, looking for missing Gabby Pettit. Her son had returned to her home in Northport, Fla., without her after the FBI said he killed her two weeks ago at a campground north of Jackson, Wyoming. (Hokko PD)
Constantine said parents' reactions could raise questions. Some people had doubts. But without what she defines as a “sequence of action” (three red flags across two channels within seven seconds), she would not condemn the interaction with police.
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“There's reason to be skeptical,” she said. “But you also have to think from a parent's perspective: What would you do if this happened to you?”
Constantine spends part of the week training West Virginia Supreme Court justices on how to spot a liar, and how to spot “liars, cheaters, scammers, predators, and criminals.” I also plan to publish a book about it.
He said he was right to suspect that the cleaners knew more than they disclosed, but he also said he was right to follow their lawyers' advice not to talk to investigators without a lawyer present. said.
Northport police recorded the encounter on September 11, 2021, the day Petite's mother, Nicole Schmidt, reported her missing in her hometown in New York. The video was just released through a public records request. Police towed Petito's van out of the dry cleaner's driveway.
“There's reason to have doubts. But you also have to think from a parent's perspective: What would you do if this happened to you?”
Mourners set up a temporary memorial to Gabby Petito on the lawn in front of a laundry in Northport, Florida, after her body was discovered in Wyoming. She was engaged to her son, Brian Landry, but Landry committed suicide, leaving behind a note in which he confessed to causing her death. (Michael Lewis/Fox News Digital)
Brian Landry drove her home from Wyoming, where the FBI alleges he killed Petito and abandoned her at a campground in the Bridger-Teton National Forest north of Jackson. There is.
The travel blogger's family found clues in dashcam footage of the area that helped authorities find her body.
In the wake of the killing, Petito's parents established a nonprofit foundation in her honor to support families of other missing persons and speak out against domestic violence.
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Brian Landry poses for an Instagram photo. He was Gabby Petite's ex-fiancé and the only suspect in her death after her body was found at the campground the couple shared in the Bridger-Teton National Forest north of Jackson, Wyoming. It became. (Instagram)
They have lobbied for federal legislation, some of which passed with bipartisan support, and others aimed at giving police more grounds and authority to separate victims from their abusers. Lethality assessment laws in Florida, Utah, and New York were also enacted.
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foundation Last year, he donated $100,000 to the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, please contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE).
