Fugitive Brian Laundrie Allegedly Forced Gabby Petito To Tell People They Were Engaged, Witnesses Recall 'Odd' Encounters
Oct. 14 2021, Published 2:11 p.m. ET
While questions about the type of relationship Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito had continue to raise concerns, witnesses who encountered the pair shortly before she was killed say something was definitely off between the couple.
In fact, two people are now alleging that they believe Brian forced Gabby to either mention their engagement to them or refer to him as her fiancé.
Sunny Mason, who works at a Wyoming ice cream shop called Victor Emporium, says she believes the traveling twosome stopped by her store on either Aug. 25 or Aug. 26. Victor Emporium is located just 30 miles from Grand Teton National Park, where the remains of the 22-year-old vlogger were found.
According to The Sun, Mason told a local news outlet that she remembered bonding with Petito over the flower tattoo on her left arm.
She said Petito had told her that she and her partner were on a cross-country road trip to visit different national parks, with Yellowstone being their next stop.
Mason told the outlet Laundrie's behavior during the exchange was "strange."
"It felt to me that he almost prompted her to tell me that she was engaged," she said. "We get a lot of engaged couples and it doesn't usually come up that way."
"It just felt kind of odd," she continued, "like it was a reminder to her to be like 'Ooh look, we're engaged.'"
Mason interpreted Laundrie's reaction to mean he was possibly feeling "slighted for her not talking about her engagement, or her not being excited [about it]."
