Body Found in Wyoming Park ‘Consistent With the Description' of Gabby Petito - FBI confirmed - Brian Laundrie still missing, FBI searched his home

Well, I stand corrected, I guess. I do think it's a drop in the bucket, like a comparing transexuals in the 1920s to the troons of our century. Just because it existed doesn't mean that it's the cultural and political force that it is in 2021. Do you think it's become insanely popular and prevalent in the last 10 years? That's how I feel.

I still think there's something new these days; maybe it's just the political movement of "the government should _____!!!" I feel like, at least that's new.

We're in full agreement. You're just explaining it from a different angle.
My grandfather has a stack of those True Detective magazines in the garage, he always took some with him when he went to spend the day at the beach. They were sensationalist and lurid, an image of a pretty girl with huge bewbs tied up or gagged on the cover. You think its new because of the yt spergs. It's not.
 
My grandfather has a stack of those True Detective magazines in the garage, he always took some with him when he went to spend the day at the beach. They were sensationalist and lurid, an image of a pretty girl with huge bewbs tied up or gagged on the cover. You think its new because of the yt spergs. It's not.
People have always been fascinated by true crime, whether it was the “penny dreadfuls” of the 1800’s/direct trial transcripts published in newspapers to the True Detective/Weird Stories books in the 50’s (I think) and then the rise of the recognized serial killer (not mass murderer or spree killer) came after that.

OJ was massively publicized with trial and media, but I’m pretty sure Ted kill all the women Bundy was the first one with a televised trial.

Unless there was an insurance policy or something to be gained materially or abuse before this, I’m guessing at crime of passion if he did it.
 
My grandfather has a stack of those True Detective magazines in the garage, he always took some with him when he went to spend the day at the beach. They were sensationalist and lurid, an image of a pretty girl with huge bewbs tied up or gagged on the cover. You think its new because of the yt spergs. It's not.
Ok, that's interesting.

Was the photo of the real victim? Was the book about a real person who was unremarkable, and was murdered in an unremarkable way? Without much mystery at all about who did it?

I'm not saying you're wrong; I wasn't there. But this subculture feels very new.
 
Ok, that's interesting.

Was the photo of the real victim? Was the book about a real person who was unremarkable, and was murdered in an unremarkable way? Without much mystery at all about who did it?

I'm not saying you're wrong; I wasn't there. But this subculture feels very new.
It’s not.
Pictures of the victims of Jack the Ripper were published in one of the largest newspapers of London, for ID purposes of course but they were definitely dead and definitely upsetting to look at.
 
It's officially a homicide. Although, only the mentally challenged would have predicted otherwise.

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This is heartbreaking. What is even worse is that the killer is still on the loose, potentially targeting Brian. Luckily the gentle giant was smart enough to go into hiding and use his vegan camping skills to evade the serial killer.
 
Ok, that's interesting.

Was the photo of the real victim? Was the book about a real person who was unremarkable, and was murdered in an unremarkable way? Without much mystery at all about who did it?

I'm not saying you're wrong; I wasn't there. But this subculture feels very new.
It's not new, just more accessible. You used to have to wait a few years - maybe even a decade - for some journalist who followed the case, or maybe a detective who worked it to sit down and write a book on a given subject.

So not only did you need to wait for that, you also needed the patience to sit down and read the thing. Whereas now, either someone does an FOI for a police interview or the police release it themselves to showcase their handywork and you can just stick it on as background noise.

TV documentaries usually just did an hour for a case, so again the accessibility was different.
 
Ok, that's interesting.

Was the photo of the real victim? Was the book about a real person who was unremarkable, and was murdered in an unremarkable way? Without much mystery at all about who did it?

I'm not saying you're wrong; I wasn't there. But this subculture feels very new.
I read some, they were real, almost always about a young woman or couple that were found murdered. I remember a few about young women being murdered in Europe, mostly Germany or Belgium. And yes, they were ordinary people who met a bad end. some were famous, like the Toolbox Killers but quite a few were unsolved and I'm sure many still are.

Most were written in a noir detective style. The magazines had different names like Detective Crime Stories, True Criminal Tales, etc. There were a few photos but most of the time there were none. I sort of skimmed through them when I was hiding in the garage from some boring family event so I don't remember much about them.

I just remembered more than a few of these stories were about the East Bay Rapist aka Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., because I'm from the Bay Area and it was scary such things were going on near me.
 
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He killed her. Probably not on purpose but he killed her regardless. Dude's a fuck and will either be eaten by gators or become Tyrone's fleshlight in prison. Win/Win situation.

To all of the people sperging out over true crime, while yes discussion of crime has been a thing for centuries, its only become popular away from mainstream cases and in its current form in the last 20 years or so. The increase in discussion/story/blog style YTer's and tik tokers in the past few years is whats causing this recent explosion of interest.

Imo this case only blew up because of its social media prevalence due to these very things. Murders/missing people happen all the time but this one was particularly intriguing, at least to the smoothbrains who live their lives on tik tok.

Fuck Reddit
 
I think you guys will see in the coming months and years how different of a monster this is than simply some people enjoying to watch shows like Forensic Files or 20/20. Hopefully I'm completely wrong and it's just normal.

Nigga where were you for Jonbenet Ramsey, Natalie Holloway, Caylee Anthony, Stacey Peterson and Travis Alexander?
 
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Fuck Reddit
I’m enjoying how ‘go back to reddit’ is the best zinger some users have so far. Which is just an autistic iteration of Reddit’s ‘go back to /pol/, stormfront, insert random conspiracy forum here, etc.’ The fact that other people might have a differing opinion is making them collectively lose their goddamn minds.

Edit: Also to the newer users who are going through and disliking entire posting histories across threads, don’t do that. The rating system here is different than Reddit and you’re being too obvious.
 
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I think the issue is, if Brian knows what he's doing that all his clothes will be burnt to a crisp and that van will be in the bottom of a lagoon or something. He has an opportunity to dispose of a lot of incriminatory evidence - let's how his not too bright...
His clothes maybe. But if none of the actual murder action occurred in the van, it isn't really incriminating that DNA from both of them is going to be in it unless it's blood or something.

Also he might be hiding specifically because his own body has evidence on it, like nail scratches or bites, and he's hoping they heal enough they can't be detected before he gets caught or turns himself in.
 
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His clothes maybe. But if none of the actual murder action occurred in the van, it isn't really incriminating that DNA from both of them is going to be in it unless it's blood or something.
No DNA alone isn't going to be particularly convincing given they have both been travelling together - blood absolutely will be though.

If we speculate about how she died a little bit, if he beat her to death in a fit of rage then it's hard to see how he could have done so without getting blood on himself. Even if it was away from the van, it would be difficult - although not impossible - to prevent blood transfer into the van. The steering wheel, radio, seatbelt and keys would be a few areas he would need to touch. Luminol - or whatever the modern iteration is - is so sensitive these days, if there is any they will find it.

Plus, who knows there could be other evidence of abuse which while it wouldn't amount to evidence of homicide could go build the case for the prosecution. There's a lot forensics can do, and I only have a passing understanding.

If she's only been dead a weak, and she scratched him in self-defence, then his DNA will still be under her nails. If that's the case, he's probably fucked - I mean he could argue she scratched him during sex etc, but I don't think that's going to be to be particularly convincing.
 
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its only become popular away from mainstream cases
Ain't that a contradiction in terms?
Anyway there's only so much hay you can make out of unremarkable cases. I'm sure we have a historical bias here with cross-market stories, especially if you confuse that with all markets merging thanks to the internet. This one has a couple things going for it: there's the unfolding narrative/mystery and hiker-lost-in-park aspects (the fun of which is everyone tripping over themselves to suspect murder, but turn out differently half the time) which were enough to sell it before they found a body, we should keep that in mind.
 
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