Nancy Grace on the internet sleuth phenomenon & Gabby Petito | Variety & Rolling Stone Truth Seekers Summit
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00:00When you started, there were no such thing as intranet sleuths who will crowdsource, you know,
00:07trying to either exonerate or solve a crime.
00:11What do you think of that phenomenon?
00:13I think it's incredible.
00:14You like it?
00:15It's amazing.
00:17Everyone will likely remember the name Gabby Petito.
00:21If it had not been for Red, Blue, and Methane, I think was their handle,
00:29they happened to be out in dispersed camping.
00:33Okay?
00:34I'm a big camper, but dispersed camping, that's a whole other thing.
00:37You're out there in the middle of nothing with the animals.
00:40They were out in dispersed camping, and they saw a white transit van,
00:45and they had seen or listened to a podcast or something and went,
00:49wow, that looks like Gabby Petito's van.
00:51If it had not been for those, as you call them, intranet sleuths,
00:55we wouldn't to this day know what happened to Gabby Petito.
01:00And, you know, I still have night terrors, and Keith, my fiancé's murder,
01:08still affects me to this day, how I raise my children, the whole thing, everything.
01:14It never goes away.
01:17Can you imagine if her parents had never known what happened to her?
01:24By the time they ever found, like, her T-shirt or some article of clothing,
01:28animals would have torn her apart.
01:30There would be no way to figure out anything.
01:34All they'd have is, hey, this T-shirt looks like the one Gabby used to wear.
01:38So without that intranet sleuth tipster, that case would never have been solved.
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