The homicide of journey vlogger Gabby Petito is the topic of a Netflix documentary collection.
American Homicide: Gabby Petito paperwork the occasions main as much as Gabby’s demise, who was killed by her fiance, Brian Laundrie, in August 2021 in Wyoming whereas the couple had been on a highway journey throughout the US.
Following Gabby’s disappearance, Brian raised suspicion with police when he drove the couple’s van from Wyoming to his mother and father home in Florida. Brian, alongside along with his mother and father Christopher and Roberta Laundrie, all refused to cooperate with police to debate Gabby’s whereabouts. On September 13, Brian left his dwelling and was reported lacking 4 days later.
Gabby’s physique was discovered on September 19, 2021 in Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton Nationwide Forest. She was discovered to have been killed by blunt pressure accidents to her head and neck, and guide strangulation.
After an arrest warrant was issued for Brian, who was nonetheless lacking, his stays had been discovered a month in a while October 20 in Florida’s Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park, alongside a notice the place he admitted to killing Gabby. A health worker dominated Brian had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the top.
The place are Brian Laundrie’s mother and father and sister now?
Following the Gabby and Brian’s demise, Christopher and Roberta Laundrie have largely stayed out of the limelight. They’ve confronted no prison expenses.
Gabby’s mother and father filed a wrongful demise lawsuit in 2022 in opposition to Christopher and Roberta Laundrie, together with their lawyer, claiming they knew their daughter was lifeless earlier than she was discovered, and lied to them and the general public. The Laundries denied these allegations, and the lawsuit was settled in February 2024.
In a press release on the time, Gabby’s mother and father, Joseph Petito and Nichole Schmidt, mentioned: “All events reluctantly agreed so as to keep away from additional authorized bills and extended private battle. Our hope is to shut this chapter of our lives to permit us to maneuver on and proceed to honour the legacy of our lovely daughter, Gabby.”
Brian’s sister, Cassie, in the meantime seems to have an Instagram account the place she usually posts about suicide prevention. In a submit from February 2025, Cassie claimed she hasn’t had any contact together with her mother and father for “virtually two years”.
Have the Laundries mentioned something concerning the Netflix documentary?
The Laundrie household lawyer, Steven Bertolino, launched a press release in response to the Netflix collection a number of weeks after it debuted, claiming it contained “many inaccuracies” and “incorrect juxtapositions”.
The assertion (by way of Right this moment) reads: “The documentary was what we anticipated. One perspective depicted because the ‘reality’ as seen by way of their lens. Much like Republicans and Democrats preventing it out these days. Both sides believes their perspective is right. Laborious to see by way of the lens of the opposite with all of the noise and mistrust.
“The documentary contained many inaccuracies, incorrect juxtapositions of timelines, and misstatements and omissions of reality — maybe consider to seize their ‘reality’, maybe on account of easy error.
“Everyone knows Brian took Gabby’s life and Brian then took his personal as nicely. Let the mother and father of each Gabby and Brian mourn and keep in mind them in peace.”
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