Speaker 1: Crime. Hello everyone, and welcome back to a minisode of
Speaker 1: Real Time Crime. And because this is real time, we
Speaker 1: are coming in hot with an update. I'm one of
Speaker 1: your host, Leo Lamar, and today I have with me
Speaker 1: also my wonderful co host, Teddy Mellencamp. Hi guys, Hi Teddy.
Speaker 1: And of course we have our friend and producer sitting
Speaker 1: in the corner, Dmitri. Did we add friends of that title. No,
Speaker 1: we're just a little amped up today, so we decided
Speaker 1: to throw friend in because we need you to really,
Speaker 1: you know, be on our side right now. Okay, guys,
Speaker 1: the update is that we have just found confirmation of
Speaker 1: Brian Loundry's dental records. So do you guys think that
Speaker 1: means his body is with those dental remains? Well, let's
Speaker 1: take it two steps back. They found skeletal remains yesterday.
Speaker 1: For those of you who are not in the know,
Speaker 1: today is Thursday the twenty one. Yesterday was Wednesday the
Speaker 1: twenty when they identified skeletal remains, which means the entire
Speaker 1: body had been decomposed and all they found were a
Speaker 1: pile of bones. They tented up in the reserve two
Speaker 1: different locations, so that leads us to believe that either
Speaker 1: they found evidence like his backpack in his notebook, which
Speaker 1: somehow we're perfectly preserved and dry for his family to
Speaker 1: find right right right line, we need to go back
Speaker 1: like that. But yeah, so so we're not sure if
Speaker 1: it means the bones were scattered or there was his
Speaker 1: backpack in his notebook in one area and the bones
Speaker 1: and the other. That information we're uncertain of. And of
Speaker 1: course there is a lot of rumor, uh situations happening.
Speaker 1: Of course, I've gone down to Reddit rabbit hole and
Speaker 1: every one saying that they found a skull and that
Speaker 1: he shot himself in the head. So that's also something
Speaker 1: to take note of. I'd be surprised if they found
Speaker 1: a gun. But now let's take it back three more steps. So, Teddy,
Speaker 1: do you want to fill us in a little bit
Speaker 1: on how they were led to the skeletal remains of
Speaker 1: Brian laundry? Okay, Well, the first thing that I want
Speaker 1: to point out is Roberta and Chris have been followed
Speaker 1: mercy like NonStop. They can't even go to the grocery
Speaker 1: store without media following them. But somehow they were able
Speaker 1: to get to the reserves without anybody seeing them get
Speaker 1: there the day the park opens to the public. After
Speaker 1: going to a T and T go on, they are
Speaker 1: able to get to the reserves, walk straight into the park,
Speaker 1: walk straight to the area and which they find the
Speaker 1: skeletal remains where I what I saw was that they
Speaker 1: found the bag, and that one of the other people,
Speaker 1: one of the other FBI detectives, found the notebook. And
Speaker 1: it just so happens that after all this time, they
Speaker 1: just walked right there and found it. So you're trying
Speaker 1: to tell me that after the FBI and several cadaver
Speaker 1: dogs five weeks in, no one was able to find
Speaker 1: any evidence until his parents hopped in a car and
Speaker 1: within one hour found all of the evidence and his remains.
Speaker 1: That's actually exactly what I'm saying. Leah, this is interesting, Teddy,
Speaker 1: this is interesting. Dmitre. I feel you, I feel your
Speaker 1: energy in the corner radiated. Really struggling with this whole
Speaker 1: thing because it's so outrageous. But did they not say
Speaker 1: that that part of the park had originally been covered
Speaker 1: with water? They did, Indeed, they said it was underwater.
Speaker 1: Now I have another question. If it was underwater, now
Speaker 1: it's suddenly not underwater. How did they know to just
Speaker 1: go there, and how did they know it wasn't underwater anymore?
Speaker 1: Which leads me to another point that has recently been
Speaker 1: brought up. So what we had always been told was
Speaker 1: that the Laundries didn't tell authorities that their son was
Speaker 1: missing until September. However, today their lawyer said that they
Speaker 1: alerted authorities on September. So my question is to you, guys,
Speaker 1: did Brian Laundry every really come home from that family
Speaker 1: camping trip, the one he went on with Cassie and
Speaker 1: the folks and never brought up Gabby. I do think
Speaker 1: that a lot of times there's too many moments of
Speaker 1: coincidences in murder cases where everyone and by everyone, I
Speaker 1: mean the lawyers want us to believe it's just a coincidence,
Speaker 1: and yet it seems odd. Oh it's like just with
Speaker 1: the Robert Durst case, Oh, he just happened to be
Speaker 1: in California when Susan Burman was murdered. California is a
Speaker 1: quote unquote big state. Let's say that this is him.
Speaker 1: Let's say that he did go home after the family
Speaker 1: camping trip, and that he did leave again, and that
Speaker 1: their story adds up most in my mind, what I'm
Speaker 1: thinking happened is they knew their son left, probably to
Speaker 1: go commit suicide, and that is why they were close mouth.
Speaker 1: They just let him go have his piece. That's why
Speaker 1: they weren't searching for him, because how what other way
Speaker 1: can you justify as a parent, why you wouldn't be
Speaker 1: looking for your son unless you knew his mental state
Speaker 1: was already to the point where you were assisted assisting
Speaker 1: him in suicide. It's interesting because I saw an interview
Speaker 1: between Chris Cuomo and their lawyer, Bertolini, and it was uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of tension. I think that they
Speaker 1: I think Chris had previously interviewed him, and the lawyer
Speaker 1: was kind of firing shots back at Chris during the interview,
Speaker 1: But essentially Chris was saying, how could you not send
Speaker 1: a search team for How could you not be part
Speaker 1: of a search team for your son? How could you
Speaker 1: not toly go looking if nothing, if your son did
Speaker 1: nothing wrong? And how could you not send condolences to
Speaker 1: Gabby's family? And how could you not want to go
Speaker 1: be part of that search if you know your son
Speaker 1: did nothing wrong and this is someone important in your life,
Speaker 1: And how come they never spoke to anyone, and you know,
Speaker 1: silence and running usually indicate guilt, and the lawyer is
Speaker 1: taking a lot of blame for it, and he's just saying,
Speaker 1: I told everyone to be quiet, I told everyone to
Speaker 1: do nothing. They just followed why I told him to do.
Speaker 1: Here's the part that's really and I just have to say,
Speaker 1: I'm just so mad right now. Like I feel upset,
Speaker 1: I feel angry. I want answers. I wanted to be
Speaker 1: able to hear from Brian Laundry. I wanted to know
Speaker 1: what really happened. And like the fact that it's ending
Speaker 1: this way, if it is ending this way, is heartbreaking
Speaker 1: for so many people. And I'm not even involved, and
Speaker 1: it's heartbreaking to me as a mother, So I can't
Speaker 1: even imagine how her family is feeling. Like this is
Speaker 1: the worst possible scenario. If this is the case, there
Speaker 1: is no justice. There's no justice, And I can only
Speaker 1: assume that his parents, you know, which at least not
Speaker 1: that this makes it okay, But if his parents knew
Speaker 1: that he was going out because he was struggling and
Speaker 1: he just needed to end his life, maybe that's why
Speaker 1: they didn't help versus you know, he was going to
Speaker 1: go into his life in prison, you know, whatever it
Speaker 1: was going to be. And you think that they they
Speaker 1: assumed that the FBI would just find him eventually. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't assume. I don't know how
Speaker 1: long it was taking. I don't know what his master
Speaker 1: plan was. I don't know how much it shared. I'm
Speaker 1: assuming they just knew that they were letting their son
Speaker 1: go out not in a good mental state. I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, allegedly, I remember that when he drove the
Speaker 1: car to the reserve and they came back to get
Speaker 1: the car and drive it back, I remember saying there
Speaker 1: was an I remember them saying there was a note,
Speaker 1: and I would just be interested if that was a
Speaker 1: true and my memory serves me right, and be what
Speaker 1: was on that note. But also if I think the
Speaker 1: thing that's kind of rubbing me the wrong way, besides
Speaker 1: the ease with which the parents found his body and
Speaker 1: the evidence, I think the thing that's rubbing me the
Speaker 1: wrong way is not only is there no justice for Gabby,
Speaker 1: but I feel like we have not been clued into
Speaker 1: all the evidence. And there has been so much media
Speaker 1: around this case, and yet there are still so many
Speaker 1: questions that are left unanswered, you know, and and I
Speaker 1: feel not that we deserve answers as well. You know,
Speaker 1: this isn't our niether, These aren't our children, These aren't
Speaker 1: our friends, these aren't our family members. We don't really
Speaker 1: know these people. But for better for worse, this story
Speaker 1: did Captiva in America and finding Gabby's body helped find
Speaker 1: nine other people in the area that had been missing,
Speaker 1: and that provided a lot of um answers for other
Speaker 1: families who were missing loved ones, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: and now I we still have a lot of questions.
Speaker 1: We want to know what happened. We want to know
Speaker 1: how he left her body. Um you know, if he
Speaker 1: left it so that it was easy for them to
Speaker 1: find her, if he tried to hide her body, if
Speaker 1: he was responsible for other murders, as many people are
Speaker 1: saying they think that he's a serial killer. They are
Speaker 1: curious to know, you know, is there still ink in
Speaker 1: his notebook? But if it was underwater, wouldn't the ink
Speaker 1: be gone by now? You know? There's just we have
Speaker 1: a lot of questions about the whole case, and it
Speaker 1: has been mysterious from beginning to end. So many plot
Speaker 1: points are missing. How did the FBI just let him
Speaker 1: slide from under the radar and leave the house, you know,
Speaker 1: when he was quote unquote under surveillance. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: just I think he was. I mean, I don't want
Speaker 1: to say it was handled poorly, but it just seems
Speaker 1: bizarre that they could just let him slip through their fingers.
Speaker 1: And let's also say this, let's say that this is him.
Speaker 1: What are your guys thoughts on Chris and Roberta. Do
Speaker 1: you think they now deserve the chance to to grieve
Speaker 1: or do you think and do you think the protesters
Speaker 1: should stop in front of their house or do you
Speaker 1: think media should be following them? Do you think they
Speaker 1: should be giving a statement? Like where are your heads
Speaker 1: in regards to this? I mean, because also something that
Speaker 1: we haven't really talked about is we don't really know
Speaker 1: Brian Laundry is like backstory, like what he has personally
Speaker 1: struggled with what we don't know, Well, we know he's
Speaker 1: struggled with anger issues and control issues, right, but we
Speaker 1: don't know what kind of mental illness or any of
Speaker 1: those types of things. We have no idea And because
Speaker 1: of his parents, the only thing that we know is
Speaker 1: that Gabby has talked about herself having O c D.
Speaker 1: She said that on which we don't even know is
Speaker 1: true or not, But she said that on um when
Speaker 1: they got both got pulled over. But we don't know
Speaker 1: where they both were mentally, and not that any of
Speaker 1: that justifies it, but we don't know the long time
Speaker 1: struggle that might have been occurring. I think if they
Speaker 1: tried to cover it, if they helped cover it up,
Speaker 1: then they're allowed a lot less than I would normally allow.
Speaker 1: Grieving parents will cover up him running away or covering
Speaker 1: up him committing suicide. What if they covered up any
Speaker 1: of this and made this more difficult for the FBI
Speaker 1: or whatever it may be, or helped him escape to
Speaker 1: do that, whatever it is, if they assisted and gave
Speaker 1: wrong facts or purposely by the way, while her body
Speaker 1: was out there before we had found it, they were
Speaker 1: not cooperating with anything. So if they are complicit, if
Speaker 1: they did know about some of this, they are allowed
Speaker 1: a lot less than I would normally allow grieving parents. Well,
Speaker 1: while we're in the middle of this conversation, I just
Speaker 1: received a text message and it says I feel like
Speaker 1: there's a conspiracy here and that his parents planted evidence literally,
Speaker 1: what does it say about our society that we all
Speaker 1: do not trust the FBI and that we think that
Speaker 1: there's a conspiracy. I mean, what do you guys think
Speaker 1: that there's a chance that this is just his teeth.
Speaker 1: He knocked him out and he's still on the go.
Speaker 1: We didn't We don't even know how many teeth. If
Speaker 1: it's a full jaw, no, but if it's just a
Speaker 1: couple of if it's a finger in a toe and
Speaker 1: a couple of teeth, we have questions. Yeah, here's where
Speaker 1: I have problem deciphering because I'm angry as a just
Speaker 1: as a human being, but as a father and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. I'm angry. And if he did what we
Speaker 1: think he did to Gabby with strangulation that I've been
Speaker 1: angry since that news came out because that is not
Speaker 1: to paint a horrible picture, but I'm sure we've all
Speaker 1: thought it. That is ending someone's life, watching them take
Speaker 1: their last breath as your control, right, so you're not
Speaker 1: allowed to go kill yourself after that. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: as cowardly as it can get. So anything would be
Speaker 1: would not surprise me at this point. Could this be staged? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Because everything is so weird, And granted it's not with
Speaker 1: the FBI doesn't os explanations and updates on on evidence
Speaker 1: and what they found in this net. So we're piecing
Speaker 1: it together with what we have and with TikTok and
Speaker 1: with Twitter and the news. So yes, it seems anything
Speaker 1: could be could be plausible at this point. Well, Redd
Speaker 1: told me they found a skull, but I haven't seen
Speaker 1: it reported on any mainstream news source yet that they
Speaker 1: found a skull. Have you guys seen that. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen it either, And I've been looking every like all
Speaker 1: the night there and I can't. Teddy is the best
Speaker 1: student that is like, kids, speak yourself. I'm like, guys, no, guys,
Speaker 1: even we're trying to schedule this podcast for right now.
Speaker 1: They're They're like trying to pick a time. I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is the best time for my kids schedule, guys.
Speaker 1: I can bribe them with iPad, I can really focus.
Speaker 1: I mean bribe them with iPads. They only get one
Speaker 1: hour a day, so I got to really figure out
Speaker 1: the right time. I feel like, if and when I
Speaker 1: have children by that time, I'll have to bribe them
Speaker 1: with n F T S. I'll be like, Okay, Mommy,
Speaker 1: we'll give you an n f T if you'll be
Speaker 1: quiet for an hour, because I don't even know what
Speaker 1: is an teddy. This is a story friend of day Oh,
Speaker 1: let's reel it back in. But um, I mean I
Speaker 1: could take us into the metaverse real now I can't.
Speaker 1: Is this cryptocurrency? I'm out? Yeah, back to your question,
Speaker 1: I'm having trouble deciphering. Like I. Part of me wants
Speaker 1: it to be a stage thing one. Obviously the drama
Speaker 1: of it is pretty crazy. But part of me wants
Speaker 1: it because I don't want him dead like that. I
Speaker 1: don't want him to get the easy way out. If
Speaker 1: he did this, then he he should have to face
Speaker 1: whatever it is he has to face. He should not take.
Speaker 1: He should not be allowed the easy way out. So
Speaker 1: part of me is angry in hopes that he's alive.
Speaker 1: I've never wanted somebody again. I know the lawyers are
Speaker 1: gonna have a field day with this if he he
Speaker 1: allegedly did this. If he did this, I think he
Speaker 1: should be alive. I've never wanted someone that I want
Speaker 1: dead alive more than I do right now. But I
Speaker 1: think we also just need so many more answers. We
Speaker 1: need you know, not only on him, but also on Gabby.
Speaker 1: We still don't even have a full toxicology report. We
Speaker 1: still don't know if there were traces underneath her nails anything.
Speaker 1: I think the question a lot of people are asking
Speaker 1: or what exactly were the remains? What exactly did they find?
Speaker 1: Because I think that would answer a lot of our questions.
Speaker 1: Right if they found a full skeleton, I think that
Speaker 1: would answer some questions. But if they just found, like
Speaker 1: I said before, a finger, a toe, a couple of teeth,
Speaker 1: that that doesn't feel good for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: It feels a little bit too coincidental. And I think
Speaker 1: everyone wants to believe that there is a much larger
Speaker 1: story of play and that there's thing darker happening. Here,
Speaker 1: is something a little more sinister, and you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm deeply disturbed by this. And I can
Speaker 1: only imagine the documentarians who are just getting ready to
Speaker 1: release their Netflix talks about this. But I think that
Speaker 1: with every murder case, there's a conspiracy allegedly allegedly, no,
Speaker 1: but that's true, right, Like with a Lisa Lamb and
Speaker 1: the Hotel Cecil everyone, you know, there were it could
Speaker 1: have been someone inside the hotel who murdered her, or
Speaker 1: the manager, or she could have played the elevator game
Speaker 1: that was a Korean game that took you to another dimension,
Speaker 1: or right, everyone has a conspiracy versus the truth, and
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of times in these sorts
Speaker 1: of cases, we don't get to know the full truth,
Speaker 1: and we never will know the full story. And so
Speaker 1: if Brian is actually dead, we will never know what
Speaker 1: happened that day. But but sometimes conspiracies are away for
Speaker 1: us to avoid what the truth really is. And the
Speaker 1: truth is sad, and the truth is hard, and sometimes
Speaker 1: the truth is just the truth that this was a
Speaker 1: sick individual that took somebody's life and then took his own.
Speaker 1: That could potentially be the story. I I tend to
Speaker 1: think that that's true. I think that conspiracies help us
Speaker 1: avoid the truth. I know that my favorite conspiracy is
Speaker 1: that all men in Los Angeles are undateable and that's
Speaker 1: why no one will date me um instead of the truth,
Speaker 1: which is that I have issues I need to look at.
Speaker 1: You know, is there anything else we need to cover
Speaker 1: before we clear out today? Because if not, I know
Speaker 1: Daniel is going to say we went too long. So
Speaker 1: we know that we found remains and that this area
Speaker 1: had previously been underwater because the swamps, the levels of
Speaker 1: water there rise and fall all the time, and that
Speaker 1: it's super humid, super hot, super muggy, and that there
Speaker 1: are alligators infested in the area. There are snakes there,
Speaker 1: so I mean that could be part of the reason
Speaker 1: why the remains are skeletal. And they didn't find any tissue,
Speaker 1: because is it possible that he was eaten by animals?
Speaker 1: But so an alligator spits out the bones? Next week
Speaker 1: with Teddy and alligators, I mean, I don't have the answers.
Speaker 1: I'm not a gator expert. Well, we'll get back to
Speaker 1: you guys on that next week as well. Something to
Speaker 1: think about sometimes, something to really wrap your head around
Speaker 1: as you're going to sleep tonight. I think that we
Speaker 1: can end knowing that on this minisode we are getting
Speaker 1: partial remains and partial closure. We feel as if we
Speaker 1: don't have all the answers, and that's partially because a
Speaker 1: lot of us are attached to this narrative and we
Speaker 1: don't want the story to end like this, but we
Speaker 1: may not get the story that we wanted. We're going
Speaker 1: to get the story that has happened, so more we'll
Speaker 1: be revealed. I'm sure we will talk about it again
Speaker 1: on the next podcast episode. This has been real time crime,
Speaker 1: and we'll see you for a full episode next week.
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