Gabby Petito’s family want Brian Laundrie in jail for “the rest of his life”

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Monica Pop
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Brian Laundrie, who remains the sole person of interest in the murder of his fiancé Gabby Petito, is still on the run.

The case of Gabby attracted the attention of the entire country and everyone is following the case with eyes wide open hoping for her murdered to be caught and brought to justice as soon as possible.

Besides the police, John Walsh, of America’s Most Wanted, and Dog the Bounty Hunter are also helping in tracking Laundrie down.

Recently, one engineer named Dennis Davis claimed that he came across Laundrie while hiking and said he only realized he was talking to the suspect when he was already gone. He was asking for directions to California via backroads only, claiming he was trying to reach his girlfriend. The man looked skittish and lost. Davis also claimed that none of his calls was returned by the FBI.

Gabby’s body was found in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming on September 19. The coroner ruled the cause of death as homicide.

Prior to her missing, a footage of Gabby was taken by the police when the van she and Laundrie were traveling with was stopped. The footage was later released to the public but it painted Gabby as the aggressor of the two.

Another footage, taken by another police officer, which was an hour long, shows Gabby admitting she had been grabbed and hit by her boyfriend. Former attorney Happy Morgan has accused the department of a “cover-up” for failing to release this second footage. It was only shown to the public after he lodged a complaint.

Gabby’s parents filed a missing person report after their daughter failed to return home with her boyfriend. Laundrie returned by himself and refused to say where Gabby was. Instead, he hired a lawyer and later disappeared.

Speaking of that upsetting footage, Gabby’s mother, Nicole Schmidt, said, “I”m glad we got to see that reality because people aren’t what you see on social media.

“Even though that police video is hard to watch, I think it was a blessing to see that she’s a real human being and she was in pain.

“And I’m glad that she lived a really good life and she died doing what she loved to do. She was out there in nature camping. She lived her dream and I’m glad she got to do that.”

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During their appearance on Dr. Phil, the family pleaded for Laundrie to turn himself in. Nichole said, “I want to look him in the eyes.”

Gabby’s father, Joe Petito, added, “I want to see him in a jail cell the rest of his life where — he’s an outdoorsman — being in that concrete cell that he can’t go see those trees and smell the fresh air like that.”

He then said that he knows their daughter would have been happy seeing the family working together and being under one roof again.

“She’d be excited that we’re working together,” Joe said. “We’re doing this together. This is what she wants… She always wanted us to live in a big house together, you know what I mean? She loved all of us.”

The family have launched the Gabby Petitio Foundation hoping to help other missing persons and assist victims of domestic violence.

“If you gotta hashtag Gabby Petito to bring that story to the top, do it. Do it,” Joe said. “Do it now. There’s no reason not to. We’re not getting her back but maybe you can get someone back, and that would be awesome.

“And then let me know, because that would make me feel better that there’s not a meaningless death for Gabby.”

Rest in peace Gabby. We truly hope Laundrie would be brought to justice as soon as possible so that the family can get the closure they need.

Mother engulfed in flames after explosion crawled out and “put herself out of fire”

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Monica Pop
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A horrible accident left one mother fighting for her life. Charlie Anne Xavier was sanding a table on September 10, 2021, when the sanding machine exploded. She caught on fire but somehow managed to crawl out of the flames. Unfortunately, around 85% of her body suffered severe burns. It is a miracle she stayed alive.

So far, this mother of two had to undergo 11 surgeries and doctors’ prognosis are that it will take years to recover.

Her husband, André Xavier, spoke to WVIR and said that his wife “is beating the odds day by day.” He, however, is aware that the recovery would be a long and painful one, but he believes that Charlie would stay strong for her boys.

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The family started a GoFundMe page to help them with the medical bills and said that any leftover money would be later donated to other burn survivor victims in Charlie’s name.

The fundraiser says, “Charlie is a powerhouse. She’s the girl cheering the loudest, smiling the brightest, and laughing non-stop. She’s the first one there when something or someone is needed, and always the one who can make you smile and feel good about yourself after being with her. She’s a wife and a mother to two beautiful boys – a four-year-old and nine-month-old. She will heal and come home, and it’s our privilege to serve her now.”

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André shares updates on Facebook about his wife’s state and is grateful to anyone who sends their prayers for her recovery.

“I would like to share something about Charlie, since I met her 14 years ago, and since we have been married for 13 years, I don’t ever remember her complaining about her pain,” André wrote in one of his posts. “She was diagnosed with RA at age 17 months, so she knows pain all her life! And it is no different now, even though I can’t even fathom the idea of her current pain, she has not complained once!”

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He says Charlie is one hell of a strong woman. That, and the love for her children and husband is what makes her go forward and fight for her life every single day.

“I don’t have words to explain how incredible this is for me, the ability to suffer in silence it is something reserved for incredible souls and Charlie is an incredible human being and soul!” André continued. “I can confidently say, that my love for her has grown and shifted since the accident, I feel like my love now is almost a form of devotion, I have accepted this new role that has been assigned to me on our new life! I am devoted to take care of my beautiful wife and soul mate and our two adorable little boys.”

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We truly hope Charlie’s recovery would be a speedy one because she deserves to get on her feet and be with her family again.

Mom’s skin falls off after microblading procedure goes horribly wrong – she now wants to warn others of possible side effects

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Monica Pop
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New trends set by trendsetters influence many people to change the way they look. This doesn’t only apply on the way they dress, but the way their body and face look as well. Today, we witness many men and women getting fillers, applying permanent makeup, having their nails and lips done, and a lot more.

We do understand the urge to look better than we already do, but somewhere along the way, many of us forget to embrace their natural beauty and accept themselves the way they are.

One recent trend in the beauty industry is microblading eyebrows, which is basically a tattooing technique that helps enhance or reshape the appearance of the eyebrows.

A mother of three from Australia named Amanda Coats was looking forward to getting her new eyebrows not assuming things could turn wrong. After the treatment, she was advised to keep the area clean and avoid possible infections, which she claims she did. She went to bed happy and satisfied that night only to wake up the following morning and discover that her skin fell off.

“The next day I woke up and my skin had come off onto the pillow, it was red and swollen. I went to the doctor immediately because of the pain and severe swelling. It felt like something was eating away at my skin, my skin was peeling off. I was in so much pain,” the worried mom said.

“My eyes were so swollen I couldn’t drive – I couldn’t even take my children to school because of the swelling, the pain and the pus in my eyes.”

Scared and angry, she went to the hospital to ask for medical help which cost her $1,000. Later, she shared her story in hopes of preventing something similar from happening to other people. But as soon as the salon heard her story, they accused her of losing customers and sued her, saying what happened to her wasn’t their fault. They claimed Amanda was either allergic to the ink or she didn’t took proper care of the area around her eyebrows and caught an infection.

Her story was later featured in the popular television program The Doctors where doctors tried to figure out what went wrong in Amanda’s case.

Amanda urges people to do their homework whenever they try any sort of procedure. “I want to make sure no one has to go through what I went through and that’s the reason I’m speaking out,” she said speaking to Metro.

Take a look at the video below to learn more.

Humphrey Bogart’s son speaks of his father’s passing and how he’s keeping his legacy alive

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The cult hero of the American cinema and the actor who helped shape an era in the film industry, Humphrey Bogart, remains a true legend years after his death.

He was born on Christmas Day in 1899 in a wealthy New York family. His father was a surgeon and his mother, whom he later described as a hardworking woman who didn’t show much love, was a painter.

Before he started his stage career, Bogart served in the United States Navy at the end of World War I. He moved to film, but his appearances in the movies between 1930 and 1934 didn’t caught the attention of many directors and producers, so Bogart turned to the stage before he would finally make a name for himself; a name which stands for one of the most prominent actors ever. In fact, his career had such a deep impact on Hollywood that in 1999, the American Film Institute selected him as the greatest male star of classic American cinema.

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Most of the roles he played are part of films that are still considered classics. Just think of The Maltese Falcon and The African Queen.

In the iconic Casablanca, Bogart played the role of night club owner Rick Blaine and starred alongside stunning Ingrid Bergman. The number of movies handsome Bogart starred in is over 80 during the course of his career.

He was married four times, with his last wife Lauren Bacall, whom he considered the love of his life, staying together until his passing in 1957. The two had two children together, son Stephen and daughter Leslie.

Great Humphrey Bogart died of esophageal cancer. He had undergone a surgery but never recovered. Speaking of his last days, his wife wrote in her memoir how he started looking as a completely different person, with his hand and arm being “swollen to four times their normal size” and a “terrible black thing placed in his mouth to keep him from swallowing his tongue.”

According to his doctor, Michael Flynn, Bogart put his hand on the arm of wife Lauren Bacall and said “goodbye, kid,” and that was it.

His funeral was attended by over 3,000 people, with all the celebrities of the time being there to say their last goodbye, among which Audrey Hepburn, Judy Garland, Ronald Reagan, Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine, Marlene Dietrich and Errol Flynn.

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Humphrey’s Stephen Humphrey Bogart is a famous writer, producer, and businessman. Over the years, he spoke a lot of his father and what it is like being the son of the greatest American actor. Stephen was just eight years old when his father died and he wasn’t fully aware of the popularity his dad enjoyed.

Stephen recalls how his dad always put his family first and despite being busy filming, he would always find the time to be with his wife and kids. “He would take me down to the Santana,” he told Fox News. “Eventually, finally, when I learned how to swim, we would go out on the boat. I remember going to Catalina Island and swimming back to the Santana. I made it and he was very proud of me at that time because he knew that I knew how to swim. That kind of pride sticks with you.”

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He also spoke of the time he couldn’t go anywhere without paparazzi following his every step.

“They came at me like a gang of big kids, taking my picture without even asking,” Stephen wrote according to The New York Times.

“I didn’t want my picture taken anymore. But now at the church, after the funeral, I knew how to stop them, I thought. I would simply put my hands over my face so they couldn’t see me, and they would not take my picture.”

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Stephen is still doing his best to keep his dad’s legacy alive. He runs the page Humphrey Bogart Estate’s Facebook Page and is working closely with the Esophageal Cancer Action Network.

“It’s great films, great writing. He was an excellent, great actor and everything just sort of came together. It’s like being Elvis Presley’s kids. How do you quantify that? You can’t, really. It’s just an amazing thing to me and it’s an amazing thing that my mother and my father are my mother and my father. I mean, “oh you’re Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall’s kid?” I don’t think that way, but it is pretty amazing that somebody is their child and that that somebody is me,” he told Cinema Fanatic.

Thank you Stephen for keeping your father’s legacy alive.

Caitlyn Jenner goes makeup free and confirms what we all knew about her

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Monica Pop
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From the moment Bruce Jenner, the Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete, told the world he was transitioning into a woman, all eyes were on her. Today, 5 years after she came forward about how she truly felt about herself and her body, Caitlyn Jenner is still causing a stir. Some love her for being brave, others detest her for how she chose to live her life.

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Caitlyn, a father of five, including two of the sisters of the Kardashian clan, Kylie and Kendal, looks very feminine. Honestly, one can never tell she used to be a man.

However, in order to achieve that, she had undergone a number of surgeries, such as hairline correction, forehead contouring, and jaw and chin contouring. Before having the most important surgery of all, gender reassignment surgery, Caitlyn had her beard removed and got breast implants.

Wanting to be an inspiration for others who are afraid to confess how they truly feel about themselves, Caitlyn wrote a book, “The Secrets of My Life” where she wrote, “The surgery was a success, and I feel not only wonderful but liberated. So why even consider it? Because it’s just a penis. It has no special gifts or use for me other than what I have said before, the ability to take a whiz in the woods. I just want to have all the right parts.”

Throughout her journey of transitioning to a woman, Caitlyn came under the fire of many mean people who posted mean and hurtful comments, but she was able to overcome each and every obstacle that stood on her way to complete liberation and happiness.

The 70-year-old even took part in a reality show, the British version of I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here where she went makeup free and showed everyone how beautiful she truly is.

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Many say Caitlyn is doing all this for the fame, others say she’s an inspiration, and we say she’s a brave soul. What do you think of Caitlyn?

Shipwrecked mother saves her children’s lives by drinking her urine

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Monica Pop
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“The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother” – St. Therese of Lisieux.

Mother’s love and sacrifice are beyond comparison. Mothers are guardian angels who would go above and beyond for their children’s well-being and happiness and that is why they are the most special creatures on Earth.

The following story is about one mother who sacrificed her own life in order to save those of her two children.

40-year-old Mariely Chacón and her family went on a boat trip on September 3. Everyone was looking forward to that day which was supposed to be all about fun, laughter, and enjoyment. Unfortunately, it didn’t go as planned.

As they were traveling from Higuerote, Venezuela, to Tortuga Island in the Caribbean, the boat was hit by a huge wave and broke apart.

Chacón somehow managed to grab her two kids, 6-year-old son Jose David, and 2-year-old daughter Maria Beatriz Camblor Chacon and place them on a lifeboat. The nanny got on the boat as well.

They had already spent a long time floating under the hot sun before someone finally spotted them off the island La Orchila on the evening of September 6.

Search teams started a rescue mission right away but only managed to pick them up on September 7, around 2:10 p.m. Unfortunately, Chacón had been dead for several hours at that point. Her children were still clinging to her body.

The children and the nanny were rushed to the hospital where they were treated for dehydration and burns.

The little ones survived only becausetheir mother breastfed them and drank her own urine in an attempt to stay hydrated. Eventually, she died from organ failure caused by dehydration, according to The Sun.

The rest of the people who were in the boat at the time of the accident, including Chacón’s husband, Remis David Camblor, are still missing. Rescuers have little hope of ever finding them.

Chacón has been dubbed a hero for saving her children from certain death. May she rest in peace.

Hiker has “no doubt” the man he crossed paths with on deserted trail was Brian Laundrie

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Monica Pop
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Brian Laundrie remains the sole person of interest in the murder of Gabby Petito who was reported missing by her parents after she failed to return home following her trip around the country with her boyfriend, Laundrie. When he returned home alone, Laundrie refused to tell where Gabby was.

After they hadn’t heard from her in the days that followed, the parents filed a missing person report.

Gabby’s remains were found in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming on September 19 and a preliminary autopsy ruled the manner of her death as a homicide. However, the family will have to wait longer to know the exact manner in which she was murdered.

Laundrie refused to cooperate with the police and hired a lawyer. As the investigation proceeded, he disappeared and the FBI is searching for him ever since. The case of Gabby Petito attracted the attention of the entire country and authorities are urging anyone who has any information regarding the suspect’s whereabouts to come forward.

Besides the FBI, others offered their services too. Among them are John Walsh, of America’s Most Wanted, and Dog the Bounty Hunter, celebrity bounty hunter and former bail bondsman.

Dog the Bounty Hunter said that ever since Laundrie disappeared, he has been receiving information from the public but is not sharing it with the authorities as he’s carrying out an investigation on his own.

“We’re here at the island. This would be and could be the perfect spot for him to hide. Not too many people out here but there’s a lot of environmental things that we’re going to fight,” he shared on Twitter. “So here we go. The search now is really on. The search has just begun.”

In the meantime, an engineer named Dennis Davis who was hiking on a deserted road close to the Appalachian Trail in North Carolina said he crossed paths with Laundrie. At first, he wasn’t aware it was the man the entire country is trying to track down, but he later saw photos and realized it was indeed Laundrie.

“There is no doubt in my mind I spoke to Brian Laundrie — none whatsoever,” Davis was reported to have said, according to The New York Post. “Dog the Bounty Hunter’s daughter sent me an audio file of Brian’s voice and the voice was the same I heard.”

Davis said the man was acting skittish and was asking for directions to California via backroads only.

“He said ‘man, I’m lost.’ I said ‘what are you trying to find?’ and he said ‘me and my girlfriend got in a fight but she called me, told me she loves me, and I have to get to California to see her.’

“I said ‘well, I-40 is right there and you could take it west to California’ and he said, ‘I’m just going to take this road into California’,” Davis explained. “He was worried and not making sense.”

He said that the man he suspected to be Laundrie was driving a white or light-colored pick up truck and was wearing a dark bandana on his head.

“Obviously, as a father with a daughter, I want to do whatever I can to help the family find closure and get this guy off the streets,” Davis said.

However, although he made several attempts at reaching the FBI, none of his calls hasbeen returned so far.

“Law enforcement is probably getting millions of leads on this guy, but I am not some goofball out there doing drugs in the middle of the night, I am a highly educated professional,” Davis said. “And I know that was the guy. There is no doubt about it.

“We have this lead but no one’s doing anything, not even a phone call.”

We hope authorities will reach Davis and will investigate his claims. Hopefully, Laundrie will be brought to justice as soon as possible and Gabby’s family will get the closure they need.

Little girls offers to carry tired mother without hesitation

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Monica Pop
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When they are young, children’s hearts are so pure that we adults feel jealous for losing that purity ourselves over time. They do not know how to discriminate and don’t care how someone looks like or what color of the skin one has.

And yes, they know how to show their love for their parents, siblings, and other members of the family in different ways. Children are honest, at times even brutally honest, and they love things to be done their way.

The video below shows just how great kids are.

A young girl, around 4 or 5, and her mother are walking home from pre-k when the mom says that she’s very tired. In an attempt to see how her daughter would react, the mom asks for a shoulder carry.

Well, she probably expected from the young lady to say it’s a no no, but that’s not what happened. Instead, the girl agreed without hesitation, stopped, and took her position.

Needless to say, the mom started laughing both because it was funny and because her daughter is such a caring and loving child.

This video is definitely a must watch. Check it out below.

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