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Hello buddies.
It’s been a heavy week.
In case you’ve been following the Gabby Petito/Brian Laundrie case, then you definitely sadly are conscious that on Tuesday afternoon of this week, the Teton County Coroner, Dr. Brent Blue, introduced Petito’s post-mortem findings. She died of murder by guide strangulation/throttling.
And ugh, that’s such a horrible sentence to kind.
To consider the unbelievable ache her household is in, realizing that she died in such a deliberate, horrible, and disturbingly intimate means, all I can do is provide up all my prayers to Jesus that He cowl them within the comfort that solely He can present as they grieve their daughter, and journey to Wyoming to retrieve Gabby’s stays, all of the whereas greedy for solutions on this unresolved case.
This case has turn into a media storm, as chances are you’ll know. Information stations and cameras staked outdoors the Laundries’ residence — as Brian has now been lacking for over one month, since Gabby’s preliminary lacking individuals report, and subsequent loss of life. “Canine the Bounty Hunter” has been on the case for a number of weeks, with digital camera crew in tow, looking for Brian – who could possibly be wherever on this planet.
And your complete world is invested find the perpetrator who killed “America’s Daughter.”
There have been quite a few “Brian sightings” from the Appalachian Path, to Ohio, to Seattle. His mother and father reported him lacking within the swampy Carlton Reserve – so there’s been an (unsuccessful) manhunt there for the final 3 weeks. There are conspiracy theories that he’s hiding in a bunker beneath his mother and father’ flower beds of their Florida residence. There are individuals who consider he’s fled to an natural co-op farm neighborhood in Central Amercia. And there are various individuals who consider that his household’s laywer, Steven Bertilino, is hiding him in a secure home someplace.
However all of the proof is seeming to level to her fiance, Brian, who she was touring in a camper-van throughout the nation with — and who returned residence to Florida on Sept 1 in Gabby’s van, with out her…ten days earlier than her mother and father reported her lacking, [which as we know now, is just a couple days after when the coroner reported her time of death].
As a Christian, I all the time like to present individuals the advantage of the doubt. I attempt actually laborious to not make a snap judgement, and to listen to individuals out. However sadly, with this case, it’s actually laborious to look previous the overwhelming proof that factors to Brian Laundrie. Particularly along with his mother and father’ stone chilly silence, and the truth that they “lawyered up” earlier than Gabby was even reported lacking.
However the greatest indication, is the alleged home violence that Gabby was struggling of their relationship. Earlier than Gabby’s disappearance, the 2 had been pulled over in Moab, Utah, after a 9-1-1 name reported Brian hitting Gabby on the road, outdoors of her van. Once they had been pulled over, – as many victims of DV do – Gabby (who was hyperventilating, uncontrollably crying and in a state of full misery) took the blame, saying she “hit him first.” However admitted that he had hit her, and grabbed her face — with an accompanying minimize on her face and bruise on her arm to show. (This cease was documented on body-cam footage from the law enforcement officials.)
I’ve, clearly, been very invested on this case. And I’ve been researching it in my *restricted* free time. There are some very insightful YouTube movies on the market, with interviews with former detectives, personal investigators, former FBI brokers, and many others – who’re all giving their ideas on the case. And these live-stream YouTube channels will all the time embrace a portion of the present the place viewers can name in, reside.
And each present, the telephone traces are simply flooded with girls, calling in, and sharing how they relate so personally with this case as a result of they, themselves, are survivors of home violence and abuse.
These girls are simply sobbing, sharing their tales, and sharing how they see themselves in Gabby, how shut this hits to residence, and the way helpful it’s to only have a spot to share their story – share what they went by means of, to individuals who care, who will pay attention, and have compassion.
As somebody who has been lucky to have by no means been by means of something like that, and who grew up in a loving, secure residence, I’ve been really astounded and gut-wrenched by the sheer quantity of the variety of girls who’ve needed to cope with such completely heinous and horrible abuse, within the place the place they had been imagined to really feel secure and beloved.
It breaks my coronary heart. But in addition, is so inspiring to listen to these girls who discovered a means out of a harmful scenario, took again their lives, and have become sturdy, courageous girls who overcome the worst scenario possible.
And with October being Home Violence Consciousness Month, I wished to honor these unbelievable survivors by opening flooring to them tonight. Like these girls on the live-stream movies I’ve been watching, I wish to provide a secure place so that you can, not solely share your tales, but additionally to share the way you overcame your scenario. What did you do? What did you concentrate on? What did you study from it? How is your life completely different now?
Everybody’s story is essential and deserves to be heard. And each.single.one. of us has needed to overcome one thing of their lives. For me, it was anorexia. And sharing my story, and providing perception into how I overcame these demons in my life has been so therapeutic for me, personally, and has turn into my on-line ministry, right here on this weblog.
So with that, thanks for anybody who chooses to share their weak and private story. Know that your voice is essential, secure right here, and we provide nothing however compassion, love and help.
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