reporter: it is a hard day for many reasons. as the investigation continues, we have learned that gabby petito s remains have still not been released by the fbi and are currently in wyoming. and while that was a difficult decision for her stepfather jim schmidt who was there during search efforts to leave without her, the family says with the uncertainty, it was important to grieve together as a family and hold a service in her honor. we have the prayer card. it was handed out to attendees, and it has the words from one of gabby s tattoos she had on her arms that reads let it be with the words lift up your hearts and share with me the memories that will always be. and this long island community is a tight one and gathered friday to hold a candlelight vim jill in her home vigil in her hometown of blue point. we just want to support this family, standing behind this family. reporter: and gabby s
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Let’s say that I’m looking to get away with murder. (Sure, it’s a strong metaphor, but you’ll get the idea.) … If I have a cute, fuzzy, smiley face pillow and in a reckless fit of rage, use it to suffocate someone, does it still count as a crime? I’d surely imagine so. Do I get a pass because the weapon of choice is an otherwise beneficial, sweet, rather life-affirming object? I’d expect not.
If my hateful violation of another is covered in gooey sweetness, is it any less heinous, any less destructive? Of course it isn’t.
had a personal relationship. not everyone would have a prayer card inside their cell. you re allowed so few things, to think this is one of the items you re carrying with you, it really must have been meant a lot to you. pizzi says he never met goodell and they were housed in different units, but he did once see goodell in the jail from a distance. the way vivianna described david to me that he was a big, tough guy. he didn t seem like a tough guy to me. in my eyes, i didn t see him hurting nothing, not even a fly. he was like a mouse to an elephant. david s a coward. he s a piece of [ bleep ], you know? he was wrong for what he did. but not everyone would agree with pizzi s description of goodell. coming up, david goodell gets a visit from the mother of a former girlfriend. but first he swung on me and then we just got to fighting and picked up a hammer and hit him about
she was in her car. that was 23 days before the homicide. david goodell kept pictures in his cell of the woman he admitted to tormenting and strangling to death. his former girlfriend, vivianna tulle. why? because sometimes i get a messed up thought, i like to remember her in a happier sense, you know. yeah, i miss her. but, you know, what happened happened. and that s what it is. goodell never expressed remorse in any of our interviews with him, but another inmate, louis pizzi was broken up over the murder. he was supposed to have seen vivianna the night she was killed. the only thing i have left of vivianna is this prayer card. i went to the wake and it was pretty upsetting to me. i didn t i couldn t even go
killed. the only thing i have left of vivianna was this prayer card. i went to the wake and it was pretty upsetting to me. i didn t i couldn t even go in the whole way. i was in the back of the line when i seen her faith, i broke down in tears and, you know, i ran out of there. every time i look at it, you know, i feel like i want to cry. but i hold it in and i pray. my exact saying to her was, you know, you still want to chill tonight? and she said, i can t, i m not around, with a sad face. i didn t ask, are you all right or what was going on. that s why i kind of felt like it was my fault, you know? i felt like i should have asked. i didn t think nothing of it. word spreads fast in the jail. people know who we re filming and i m sure word got back to luis pizzi that we were filming david goodell, so i m sure he must have been felt compelled to tell us that he knew vivianna and they had a real relationship.