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Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie are the new Bonnie and Clyde, claims bizarre video

Considering the possibility Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie have been working together, they are being compared to criminal couple Bonnie and Clyde

Investigators are doing everything they can to find Gabby Petito and her boyfriend Brian Laundrie. Now, there is speculation whether their disappearance was coordinated, with some likening the pair to notorious crime duo Bonnie and Clyde.

Petito, 22, has been missing for over a fortnight after embarking on a cross-country road trip with Laundrie, 23, who returned home without her and refused to cooperate with the police. Petito last texted her mom that she was at Yosemite, 800 miles away in California, on August 30 mentioning that there was a lack of signal. The latest update on September 16 indicated that the van she and her boyfriend used was last seen at Jenny Lake in Grand Teton national park on August 25, after which she has not been heard of. It was later reported that Laundrie, officially a "person of interest" in the case, had suddenly disappeared from his home on September 12.  

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We previously reported how netizens were wondering whether Petito was hiding in Puerto Rico, or that Laundrie had fled there with her phone after the hiking app AllTrails showed Petito's last location to be Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Now, considering the possibility that the couple has been working together, they are being compared to American criminal couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who traveled the country with their gang during the Great Depression and were known for their bank robberies.

While Bonnie and Clyde preferred to rob small stores or rural gas stations, their exploits eventually caught the attention of the mainstream press during the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934. The feared couple is believed to have murdered at least nine police officers and four civilians, and their legacy has been glamorized in several movies, including the 1967 film 'Bonnie and Clyde', and the 2019 Netflix original 'The Highwaymen', that depicted the law's pursuit of the infamous duo.

"So we might have a serial-killing couple on our hands... BONNIE AND CLYDE MEET GABBY AND BRIAN. Let's hope this is a misunderstanding," one Twitter user wrote, sharing a link to a bizarre YouTube video that originally made the comparison.

YouTuber Kappy's Kartel posited the theory in a speculative video about the timeline of events in the missing investigation. He theorized that this could be a Bonnie and Clyde situation considering Laundrie and Petito's multiple run-ins with the law, Laundrie's reluctance to cooperate with the police before going missing, the strange pitstops the couple took in various cities, as well as crimes allegedly committed in those areas during the period.

MEAWW previously reported how Petito's case echoed the disappearance of Elisa Lam, who went missing on January 31, 2013, four days after she arrived in Los Angeles from British Columbia, Vancouver on a solo trip. She would check in with her parents every day of the trip to let them know she was safe. On January 31, her parents didn't hear from her and contacted the Los Angeles Police Department. A search for Lam began at the infamous hotel, the Cecil, where she was nowhere to be found.

A couple of days later, a chilling CCTV surveillance video saw Lam acting strangely in the hotel's elevator, which is the last time she was ever seen. Click on the video below to see her final moments. Lam used to take medication for her bipolar disorder. She was first booked in a dorm room with other travelers at the Cecil but her inability to gel with others led to her shifting to a private room. On February 19 that year, her body was found floating in the hotel's water tank after a worker decided to check after guests complained of low water pressure and a weird taste in tap water.

Speaking of Petito, it's been reported that she struggled with anxiety and even endured an attack while on the trip. She and Laundrie fought each other and she attacked him believing he was going to abandon her. Petito, like Lam, used to FaceTime her mother thrice a week while on the trip. She shared several photographs from all pitstops she made while on the trip until the end of August which is when she last communicated with her mother Nichole Schmidt.