What Makes the Missing Gabby Petito Different?

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The search for 22 year old gabby potito, spans across the country. She was an aspiring influencer who hashtagged her van life on instagram. The inernet's role in solving it has raised many questions and sparked lots of discussion about various aspects of true crime.

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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