Murder Plot Unravels: Influencer's Nanny and Husband Spill to Cops

When a live-in nanny becomes your accuser, the house of secrets tends to collapse pretty fast. That’s exactly what happened in the case against influencer Gabbie Gonzalez, who was arrested last week in Northern California on allegations of conspiracy to commit murder for hire.

The story starts messy and gets messier: Gonzalez and Jack Avery, a boy band singer, share a 7-year-old daughter named Lavender. What should have been a straightforward custody matter apparently turned into something far darker. According to court documents obtained by authorities, Gonzalez and her father, Francisco, became what one witness described as“obsessed”with securing full custody. The alleged problem-solving method? Making Avery disappear permanently—and cheaper to do it dead than to keep paying child support.

Enter McKenzie Ferry, Gonzalez’s former live-in nanny, who sounded the alarm back in 2021. Then there’s Cody Clayburn, Gonzalez’s estranged husband, who corroborated the story to investigators. Clayburn told the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department that Gonzalez and her father repeatedly expressed the sentiment that Avery’s death would solve their custody headaches. The FBI took the tip seriously enough to raid the couple’s Hawaii home in 2022 after Gonzalez and Clayburn married, seizing electronics and interviewing Gonzalez directly. But the feds ultimately decided the evidence fell short.

Enter the LACSD, who picked up where the FBI left off. After reinterviewing witnesses, they found enough to pursue charges. Arrests were originally planned for June during a custody exchange, but when Gonzalez stopped communicating with Avery, authorities accelerated the timeline. She was arrested last week as she attempted to board a flight in Humboldt County with her daughter. Francisco was arrested separately but hasn’t been extradited to Los Angeles yet and remains jailed in Florida.

What’s particularly striking is the moment after her arrest hit the news cycle: Cody Clayburn—her own husband—took to Instagram to share the story with a single, damning comment:“Karma.”That’s not the gesture of a man standing by his partner. It’s the sign of someone washing his hands clean and letting the evidence speak for itself. Gonzalez remains in Los Angeles County custody without bail, while the machinery of the legal system grinds forward.