How to Find a Gabby Petito

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A couple who had been vacationing in the grand tetons on august 20 seventh, remembered that they had captured video footage of a van on the side of the road. They went back and they found viteo footage of this van that was quickly identified as being potitos. On september nineteenth, authorities announced that they had found a body that they believed matched the description of gabby petito.

Vox’s Aja Romano explains why the internet stopped what it was doing to find one particular missing person.

Today’s show was produced by Victoria Chamberlin and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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