Brian Laundrie exchanged cruel text messages with a friend days after he choked his fiancee Gabby Petito to death on a cross-country road trip.
Brian Laundrie, 23, killed Gabby Petito on or about August 28 in Wyoming before he took his own life out of guilt and her remains were discovered in Grand Teton National Park on September 19.
However, he sent a string of text messages, seen by The Messenger, to a friend named Ben on September 4 and pretended everything was okay.
‘Trip was good,’ he wrote after he returned home to Florida. ‘Gab and I had fun. Tired now, gonna sleep for a week.’
The exchange of messages between Brian Laundrie and his friend Ben didn’t indicate anything was amiss.
‘We made a lot of content,’ he wrote in relation to the couple’s YouTube travel channel. ‘It was once in a lifetime.’
Gabby Petito spent the summer travelling with Brian Laundrie in a white van, recording their experiences before she vanished.
He returned to his parents’ home in Florida on September 1 without Gabby Petito and her family reported her missing on September 11.
Brian Laundrie was named by police as a person of interest in her disappearance.
Gabby Petito’s strangled body was discovered in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park shortly after.
Before he could be arrested, Brian Laundrie was discovered dead in Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park in Florida.
A notebook was discovered in which he admitted to killing her and claimed he did it to end her pain after she fell.
‘I ended her life,’ Laundrie wrote. ‘I thought it was merciful, that it is what she wanted, but I see now all the mistakes I made. I panicked, I was in shock.’
But days before Gabby Petito’s death, the couple were questioned by police in Moab, Utah after a member of the public contacted 911 and said they’d gotten into a physical argument.
Officers separated them for the night but no charges were filed.
Gabby Petito’s parents filed a $50 million suit against the Moab City Police Department for failing to arrest Brian Laundrie after they discovered Gabby Petito blooded and in distress following a fight days before her death.
The lawsuit cited transcripts of a discussion between a Moab police officer who pulled over the couple after receiving a call from Gabby Petito that claimed she was being attacked by Brian Laundrie.
Clearly, Brian Laundrie was a coward to have taken his own life. He should have owned up to what he’d done and given himself up to the police instead.
He didn’t take his life out of guilt, he took his life out of cowardice because he didn’t want to face the consequences of his actions, and his parents enabled this and they’re just as responsible as he was.
I still can’t believe that his parents got off scot-free. They enabled him, concealed him, deceived and misdirected police so that he could get home, and then pretended they didn’t even know he’d gone.
Brian Laundrie was a violent abuser and Gabby Petito was his prey.
She should have requested or pushed for him to be arrested that day. She definitely didn’t deserve what he did to her. They might have both been fighting with each other, but she didn’t deserve to die either.
She was clearly the victim of narcissistic abuse, and what abusers do is not just immoral, it’s callous and in this matter deadly.
The text to his friend Ben is even further proof that Brian Laundrie felt no guilt, but he knew the walls were closing in on him, and he knew he would never survive prison so he offed himself.
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