GABBY PETITO: Top Risk Factors for Violent Relationships

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🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This episode was recorded on September 21, 2021, but we never shared it until now.

Gabby Petito's body was found 2 days before recording this episode. She had been strangled to death.

Host, Criminal psychologist Dr John Matthias, has worked for years with victims of domestic violence. In this episode he discusses the top risk factors for violent relationships.

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1:00.9	Petito's body was discovered by law enforcement two days before this episode was recorded. Gabby's
1:06.4	death deemed strangulation. She was the victim of domestic violence. Due to some audio issues,
1:11.4	we actually never released this episode until now, but Phil, it is so important. We're going to
1:17.2	go over the top risk factors for violent relationships backed by research. We hope you'll listen.
1:22.8	Do you want to tell us a little bit about what we're talking about today on your show? Yeah. So I really just wanted to
1:30.8	continue the discussion from last week. A lot of people ask questions about risk factors over the
1:36.1	week. A lot of people asked me, including one of my students that I had in supervision this past
1:41.6	week, asked me how I know what I know. And I mean, that's kind of a
1:45.8	big question. But I guess the simple answer is it's a combination of experience and book
1:51.8	knowledge or research, reading research, understanding research. So it's sort of a combination,
1:57.1	I guess, of book smarts and hopefully to some degree street smarts. And to that end,
2:02.6	I kind of want to share some of the research that I look at that helps me understand
2:06.7	domestic violence and in the case of like the Gabby Petito body cam footage, you know,
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