Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
Reportedly he was seen in North Carolina, but who knows?

There were also sightings in Montana and Canada at the same time, so obviously most of these are wrong.

The family camping trip in early September is curious. Why did they go? Clearly it wasn't to have some fun camping time. Were they scouting places for Brian to hide, not realizing it would become a huge national story? Were they afraid that perhaps law enforcement had their house bugged in some way (even though Gabby hadn't yet been reported missing), and wanted a place to talk which was clealry safe from being monitored? Were they gearing up to have Brian run off before Gabby was reported missing, and then he thought better of it and went home with them?

It's also possible that the camping thing was a way for them to buy and hide a getaway car for him, without looking too suspicious.

But there was some purpose for it.

I'm surprised he didn't simply leave the country at that point. There was no missing persons report, and he could have freely gone to any country which doesn't have a COVID travel restriction, and wouldn't extradite. There has to be some on that list. Maybe he thought at that point that they wouldn't find her body, and he could simply claim he left her because they had a fight, and someone else must have done something to her after that. Without a body, it could have been hard to disprove. However, now that the van was caught on video parked right by where she was killed, on the day she was last heard from, he's got all kinds of problems. Had this not become a nationally covered case, that video wouldn't have surfaced.
I meant to respond to this in earlier post. Yeah I agree there is something weird about that trip also. So much of this depends on when he told his parents that he killed her, and what story he gave them, and what they’re willing to do? He needs their financial help in a big way to disappear forever and that always leaves a trail.

These people aren’t young parents who are 43. They are more 60 Iirc.

I assume they don’t want to die in jail. I assume he didn’t just come home and tell them he killed her immediately. That’s not an easy conversation. You can help him around the periphery in ways that might not land you in prison for the rest of your life at 60, but you start shipping your kid to a non-extradition country and financing the whole thing, in Covid era, that’s going to leave a trail. I’m guessing he took awhile to be straight and they weren’t going to turn him in and would help some, but didn’t want to die in jail. Maybe I’m wrong and we will find they chartered him a plane out of the country, but it feels half assed.