shannon: gabbie petito wentmissr fiancÉ, brian laundrie. it quickly spread across social media and beyond. with detectives latching onto all the clues until her body was discovered and wyoming. in part of our series this month, laura ingle sat down with the police captain in charge of the independent investigation which provided critical warnings. good evening, laura. >> that's right, shannon, it came when two bystanders told police that they had witnessed a violent exchange between a young couple outside of a grocery store, a month before gabbie petito was found dead. police immediately searched out the pair drove off in a white van and pulled them over which led to them heavily examining body camera footage and it was seen around the world. the traffic stop. >> why wouldn't he let you in the car? >> i was brought in to determine into how they needed to handle the traffic stop. >> we talked with this captain of the police department. the independent law enforcement agency in utah which was closely examining the police handling's of the dom

petito in the days before police say gabby petito was murdered on the couple's cross-country road trip. >> mistakes and how they should have handled the incident. but to say that they failed gabby petito is to say that they are responsible for what happened. again, i will not blame those officers for what brian laundrie did to gabby petito. >> we take a closer look into the murder of betsy firrea whose husband was wrongfully convicted in her death. >> she's in prison and she was going to be in prison the rest of her life and i'm confident she's going to be convicted. >> the woman's friend stands accused of stabbing her to death in 2011 and framing her in the crime. >> organizers tell us this is the biggest convention organizers have seen. moving to a different city hoping someone somewhere will provide a critical tip that will help solve these cases. >> shannon: thank you very much. look forward to your upcoming report. what appears to be an unprecedented leak that could show the supreme court moving in the direction of overturning roe v. wade. you're looking live at the court tonight.

lifetime the network announcing it's green lighting a new movie called the gabby petito story. lifetime reports it will depict petito and her fiance's relationship one that ended in murder last summer, the couple embarked on a cross country road trip, van life, they called it a few months later, gabby's family reported her missing. her disappearance dominated news headlines. police later found her body in a national park in wyoming an tops report shows she died from strangulation weeks later, police found brian laundry's remains. he died from a gunshot wound to the head the fbi said he admitted to murdering petito in a notebook it's part of lifetime's initiative they call stop violence against women lifetime reports it's developing several films based on violence against women who may not have had the same media attention as gabby petito the network reports filming will start this summer in utah, the movie set to premiere later this year >> black unployment hits a pandemic era low, that's what's topping cnbc's on the money. >> the unemployment rate for black americans dropped t

well, the trial is set for the lawsuit filed by the parents of gabby petito against the parents of brian laundrie teal is the 22 year-old found dead in wyoming after going on a road trip with her boyfriend brian laundrie. investigators say laundrie killed petito and then killed himself. weeks later. now petito's parents are suing monitors. parents accusing them of knowing their daughter was dead. the trial has been set for august of next year in florida. the attorney for the laundrie's already filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, calling it baseless. coming up on the kron 4 morning news schools in several bay area counties are seeing a rise in covid cases are going to tell you. >> what they're doing to protect students. and the gilroy garlic festival is back. why one group stepped up to help host the garlic festival this year. and lawmakers in the biden administration are feeling the pressure as title. 42 expires later this month. we're going have a look at why lawmakers still concerned. we'll be right back. welcome back to the kron. 4 morning news here on this monday morning. may seco

meanwhile, the mother of gabby petito has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the parents of brian laundrie petito's mother seeking $30,000 for the cost of gabby's funeral burial and damages surrounding her death. petito's parents also filed a civil suit against the laundrie family in march. they claim laundrie's parents knew gabby was murdered and tried helping brian leave the country. the first americans museum and oklahoma is honoring missing and murdered indigenous peoples this month by shining a light on what they call the silent crisis. indigenous peoples disproportionately face higher rates of murder, violence and disappearance than any other ethnicities. brent skarky takes a look. >>supporters call it the silent crisis. indigenous women and girls go missing or are murdered at disproportionately high rates in the united states. according to the urban indian health institute, native women face rates of violence up to 10 times higher than the national average. today activists and organizers putting on a daylong event at the first americans museum to raise awareness and let oth

petito's mother is seeking $30,000 for the cost of gabby's funeral burial and damages surrounding her death. petito's parents also filed a civil suit against the laundrie family in march claiming they knew gabby was murdered and tried helping brian leave the country. take a look at this video. this was in oregon last night at about 5.30, police say that they got a call about a truck that was crashing into several cars. you can see in this video, the work truck going forward slamming into the cars, goes backward, slams into some more. then the y su view. the there is hit so hard that it's pushed up into the air. oh, my goodness. police have not yet identified this driver. they say that the person hit as many as 12 cars. they say the driver was hospitalized after this chaotic scene. no one else was hurt. >> stay with us. here on the kron. 4 news at 10 gas prices. they do remain high across the country. coming up, why the biden administration is defending their strategy to bring those prices down san francisco is making mental health more accessible for residents. >> details on the city'

that's 800-630-8900. >> gabby petito's mother has filed a lawsuit against the family of brian laundrie. the lawsuit seeks $30,000 in damages and trial by jury. laundrie died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head according to authorities. and her remains had been found in a wyoming campground. fbi determined that she had died by strangulation and that he had confessed to that in a note. and as a consequence of the conduct, and that they endured funeral and burial expenses and loss of possible future companionship and they received the summons and no responsibility to respond to. the laundrie family attorney said the lawsuit will likely not be defended and the petitos will have nothing gained more than a piece of paper that tells them what everybody knows which is that brian was responsible for gabby's death as indicated by the fbi. the lawsuit is in addition to an amended civil suit filed by gabby's parents in florida alleging that they know where her body was located and helped their son to evade police. bert lino has not been able to have that case dismissed. >>. griff: alex, than

gabby petito against the parents of brian laundrie petito's. the 22 year-old woman who was found dead in wyoming after going on a road trip with her boyfriend brian laundrie. investigators say laundrie killed petito and then killed himself. weeks later. now petito's parents are suing laundrie's parents accusing them of knowing their daughter was dead. the trial has been set for august of next year in florida. the attorney for the laundrie family has already filed a motion to try and dismiss that lawsuit, calling it baseless. back here at home, the oakland police department is getting 26 new police officers. the city canceled many police academy classes a few years ago. but in the wake of recent highly publicized crimes, local leaders demanded that opd reinstate the academy classes. oakland pd says they are still severely short-staffed and are actively recruiting. in the meantime, a man was stabbed early sunday in oakland. police say he died at the hospital. oakland city council president nikki fortunato bass responded to the stabbing in a state

there's now a trial set for the lawsuit filed by the parents of gabby petito against the parents of brian laundrie petito's. the 22 year-old was found dead in wyoming after going on a road trip with her boyfriend brian laundrie. investigators say that laundrie killed petito and then killed himself weeks later. now petito's parents are suing laundrie's parents accusing them of knowing that their daughter was already dead. the trial has been set for august of next year in florida. the attorney for the laundrie family has already filed a motion to dismiss this lawsuit, calling it baseless. happening right now, the city of pleasanton is in a stage 2 drought alert and that declaration by the city means new water restrictions and higher water rates. kron four's will tran has the details. the city of pleasanton is leaving it up to you to decide how much you want to pay for water. >> because over the weekend they went from stage one to stage 2. what does that mean for you? well, that means water will cost you a lot more than it did before this past weekend because of the ongoing drought. the city