Who is Gabby Petito, the woman who mysteriously disappeared?

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Petito, 22, has documented her country-wide travels connected Instagram, TikTok for the past 2 years

This undated photograph provided by the North Port Police Department shows Gabrielle "Gabby" Petito. Petito, 22, vanished portion connected a cross-country travel successful a converted camper van with her boyfriend. Investigators accidental she past contacted her household successful precocious August 2021, erstwhile the mates was visiting Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park. Much of their travel was documented connected societal media accounts that abruptly ceased. (Courtesy of North Port Police Department via AP)

You’ve astir apt heard the sanction Gabby Petito successful caller days.

The 22-year-old blogger has documented her country-wide travels connected Instagram and TikTok for the past 2 years.

What happened?

However, connected a caller cross-country travel with her important different Brian Laundrie, Petito disappeared.

Recent reports revealed that astir a period earlier her parents filed a missing persons report, Petito and Laundrie, who unrecorded successful Florida, were pulled implicit by the Moab Police Department successful Utah adjacent the entranceway to Arches National Park.

Police video shows the mates getting into a insignificant scuffle that began erstwhile Laundrie climbed into the van with soiled feet.

The assemblage camera video shows Petito visibly upset erstwhile an serviceman approached them.

This constabulary camera video provided by The Moab Police Department shows Gabrielle Gabby Petito talking to a constabulary serviceman aft constabulary pulled implicit the van she was traveling successful with her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, adjacent the entranceway to Arches National Park connected Aug. 12, 2021. The mates was pulled implicit portion they were having an affectional fight. Petito was reported missing by her household a period aboriginal and is present the taxable of a nationwide search. (The Moab Police Department via AP)

“We’ve conscionable been warring this morning. Some idiosyncratic issues,” Petito says, adding that she suffers from obsessive-compulsive upset that affects her behavior.

Police determined Petito was the aggressor, but Laundrie called it a squabble, and yet said helium did not privation to property charges.

After her past known interaction with household successful precocious August, Petito vanished from the country of the Grand Teton National Park successful Wyoming, authorities said.

Laundrie returned to the couple’s location connected Sept. 1 alone.

Who is Petito?

Petito is primitively from Blue Point, New York, according to her backstage Facebook leafage and published reports, and attended Bayport-Blue Point High School.

Petito and Laundrie were puerility sweethearts connected Long Island earlier moving from Blue Point successful 2019 to unrecorded with his parents successful North Port, astir 34 miles southbound of Sarasota, Florida.

Her Instagram relationship officially revealed that the 2 were an point successful 2019.

The couple’s archetypal cross-country travel was successful a Nissan Sentra, but erstwhile that travel was done, they decided to downsize their lives and question afloat time. That’s erstwhile they made the determination that a van would beryllium cleanable for their #VanLife, which she’s known to usage arsenic a tag connected societal media.

“We handcrafted our ain tiny van, a elemental 2012 Ford Transit Connect, utilizing abstraction with unsocial designs and features,” Petito wrote arsenic a caption for a YouTube video the mates posted. “Creating a abstraction for some creator look and region hiking. Thank you truthful overmuch for watching, and we anticipation you tag on connected our travel wherever the van takes us!”

Her Instagram relationship shows her traveling successful 2019 to Big Sur, California, Yosemite Falls, Pikes Peak, Colorado and Carolina Beach, North Carolina, to sanction a fewer destinations.

In July 2020, Petito shared connected Instagram that Laundrie had proposed. However, Inside is reporting that Petito’s parent said the 2 called disconnected the engagement.

The mates began their #VanLife successful 2021.

While much nationalist details astir Petito are scarce, her household has been unfastened astir their desperation to find their daughter.

Last contact

Gabby Petito’s parents told KSL-TV that the mates near Salt Lake City connected Aug. 24, headed toward Grand Teton National Park, wherever they judge the mates spent nary much than 2 days.

Petito’s mother, Nichole Schmidt, said that was the past clip she spoke to her girl implicit FaceTime.

“She seemed OK to maine astatine the time, different than I don’t cognize wherever the narration was going with the boyfriend,” Schmidt said of the mates perchance going done a unsmooth patch.

Petito’s past station connected Instagram was Aug. 25.

Now

North Port Police said astatine a quality league Thursday that the probe remains a missing persons case, not a execution probe, and that nary intensive searches person begun due to the fact that it’s unclear precisely wherever authorities mightiness look.

“We’re inactive trying to nail down geographic areas,” Chief Todd Garrison said. “There’s a batch of accusation we are going through. Our absorption is to find Gabby.”

Tara Petito (2L) and Joe Petito look connected portion the City of North Port Chief of Police Todd Garrison (not seen) speaks during a quality league for their missing daughter, Gabby Petito, connected Sept. 16, 2021 successful North Port, Florida. Gabby Petito disappeared portion connected a transverse state travel with her fellow Brian Laundrie and has not been seen oregon heard from since precocious August. Police said nary criminality is suspected astatine this clip but her fiance, Brian Laundrie, has refused to talk with instrumentality enforcement. Laundrie has beryllium identified arsenic a idiosyncratic of involvement but investigators are solely focused connected uncovering Petito. (2021 Getty Images)

The missing woman’s father, Joe Petito, besides appeared astatine the quality league to impulse anyone with cognition astir his girl to travel forward.

“What I privation from everybody present is help. Whatever you tin bash to marque definite my girl comes home. I’m asking you to help. Nothing other matters close now,” Joe Petito said.

Gabby Petito is 5 feet 5 inches gangly and astir 110 pounds, with blonde hairsbreadth and bluish eyes, constabulary said. She has respective tattoos, including 1 connected a forearm that reads, “let it be.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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