The lawsuit contends that Laundrie told his parents on Aug. 28 that he had killed Petito, 22, his fiancee of about a year at the time. Her body was not found until September 19.
The parents of Gabby Petito claim in a new Florida lawsuit that Brian Laundrie told his parents before he returned home alone from in a converted van. The lawsuit filed Thursday in Sarasota County Circuit Court contends that Laundrie told his parents on Aug.28 that he had killed Petito,22, his fiancee of about a year at the time. Petito’s disappearance on the trip and the subsequent September 19 in a Wyoming national park became a national obsession, augmented by for Laundrie in a Florida nature preserve. The FBI concluded that — with whom he had previous domestic quarrels and violence — and that Laundrie fatally shot himself in the Carlton Reserve swamp after returning home alone September 1. The lawsuit contends that Christopher and Roberta Laundrie concealed that their son had confessed to the murder from investigators and Petito’s parents while the search for Gabby Petito was ongoing.
