Gabby’s Murder is a Sad Reminder of Domestic Abuse

Scott Snyder
4 min readOct 9, 2021

Intimate partner violence accounts for over 50,000 deaths yearly in the world

Gabby Petito during August 12th police interaction- Courtesy of Sky News UK

The picture shown above breaks my heart. A distraught Gabby Petito is shown crying uncontrollably, during police contact on August 12th in Moab, Utah. This is the much-talked-about domestic incident between Gabby and Brian Laundrie….the incident that preceded Gabby’s eventual death by means of…

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Scott Snyder

I live in Oregon. I’m a retired Police Officer and Forensic Child Interviewer. Writing and music are two of my passions.