Gabby Petito’s family has launched new social media platforms dedicated to finding missing persons.
“We’ve converted our original #findgabby page on FB into a missing persons page”, father-in-law Jim Schmidt tweeted on Wednesday. “We are also extending it to Twitter and Instagram. A work in progress, but we are committed to helping find the missing.
A week after Petito was found dead in an undeveloped campground along the border of Grand Teton National Park in September, his family started The Gabby Petito Foundation, to give “resources and guidance” to those looking for loved ones.
“It’s hard. We’re still grieving and it’s going to be a long process, I know that. I think starting the foundation is a way for us to grieve and get through this,” Petito’s mother said. , Nichole Schmidt, at the Florida WFLA last month.
“Some mornings I wake up wanting to save the world and I know I can’t do it but I’ll die trying. And that’s Gabby’s legacy.
The compelling search for the 22-year-old Long Island native has been in the headlines for weeks as countless missing persons cases have been uncovered in what some critics have called a racist double standard.
Petito’s boyfriend Brian Laundrie, 23, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a Florida swamp in October after another title dominating manhunt.
The two had traveled across the country visiting national parks until Petito disappeared, and Laundrie drove her van to her parents’ Florida home before disappearing amid heightened surveillance.
