The internet makes everyone a Sherlock Holmes

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Forget private investigators. YouTubers are much better criminal sleuths.

That is one of the lessons of the Gabby Petito case, a tragedy that began when a young woman’s parents reported her missing after her fiance, Brian Laundrie, returned home from the couple’s Western road trip without her. Police have since found Petito’s body, abandoned in Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest, and are trying to find Laundrie, who disappeared sometime this past week.

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