The story starts on TikTok. First, with all the things that don’t make sense.

After Gabby goes missing - the only person that knows where she might be is her fiancé Brian Laundrie. But he’s now missing.

He goes missing for a month straight - before his body is found in a local park in Florida… by his parents. The FBI have been searching for over a month, reportedly spending over a million taxpayer dollars - and his parents find his remains within an hour?

What about his mom’s “Burn After Reading” letter?

She writes that if he needs to bury a body she will bring a shovel.

Or the fact that his remains are completely skeletonized?

These are the things that lead people to believe…there is no way Brian Laundrie is actually dead.

The conspiracy being that he faked his death and is now getting away with murdering his fiancee. But how could that even be possible?

Could he really be living in a bunker under his protective parent’s house? How would they be able to pull something like his off? Is there any truth to the conspiracy? What does the Laundrie family know?

15 days before the murder.

“Hello, I would like to report a dispute. I saw a gentleman slapping the woman.”

The police chase after the van life YouTuber couple in their white, sprinter van. By the end of the hour long investigation of questioning both Gabby and Brian - the two police officers step off to the side to figure out what to do next. One officer tells the other -

“Too many times women who are at risk want to go back to their abuser. They don’t want him charged. They don’t want him to go to jail. Then they end up getting worse and worse treatment and then they end up getting killed.”

The officers decide not to press DV charges….against Gabby. They believe she is the primary aggressor.

In 2 weeks Gabby Petito will be murdered.

And the only person that might know where she is - goes missing.

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2 people are rushed into the emergency room. The doctors and nurses don’t ask questions - they have one objective in mind. Save these people.

Both are suffering from stab wounds. Sadly, only 1 of them will make it. 8 year old, Haneul, is deceased from multiple stab wounds to her neck, back, and chest.

The 48 year old woman however, is alive.

The nurses try to piece together what might have happened with the little information they have. The older woman is a teacher. The 8 year old girl was attacked in her elementary school.

Perhaps, a knife wielding madman snuck into the school and attacked the little girl. Perhaps, the teacher tried to protect her student but was stabbed in the process. It will be difficult to tell the teacher that her student that she presumably tried to protect - did not make it.

But when the teacher wakes up - the nurses don’t know how to handle the situation anymore. Because… she is laughing.

She is giggling.

She killed 8 year old Haneul and she is seemingly happy. Content. Giddy with excitement.

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