In letter, Gabby Petito requested boyfriend who later killed her to cease calling her names, FBI paperwork present

Gabby Petito wrote a letter to the abusive boyfriend who would later kill her, asking that he cease calling her names, paperwork launched by the FBI within the 2021 homicide case present.

Petito within the letter, a part of greater than 350 pages of paperwork released by the FBI, tells Brian Laundrie that they’re presupposed to be a staff.

“Simply please cease crying and cease calling me names as a result of we’re a staff and I’m right here with you,” Petito, who was 22 years previous when Laundrie killed her and left her physique in Wyoming, mentioned within the handwritten letter. A date for the letter was not evident.

Laundrie, Petito’s fiancé, killed her whereas the 2 have been on a cross-country journey in the summertime of 2021, which she documented on YouTube and Instagram.

Attorneys who represented the Petito and Laundrie households prior to now couldn’t instantly be reached for remark early Tuesday morning on the paperwork launched by the FBI.

A search and the thriller of what occurred to her obtained widespread consideration after Laundrie returned to his Florida residence with the van they have been in — with out her.Petito’s stays have been present in September of that yr in Unfold Creek Dispersed Tenting Space in Bridger-Teton Nationwide Forest in Wyoming.

A month earlier, on Aug. 12, police in Moab, Utah, responded to what a later evaluation discovered should have been treated as a domestic violence call involving the couple. An individual reported an “odd textual content” on Aug. 27 was the final contact anybody had along with her, the paperwork present.

Laundrie later died by suicide and admitted he was responsible for Petito’s death in written statements that have been present in a pocket book close to his physique in a Florida nature reserve. He fatally shot himself, the medical expert dominated. Petito had been strangled, a Wyoming coroner decided.

Different paperwork within the FBI file, a few of that are redacted, embrace proof logs and photographs of banal objects like books, sneakers and backpacks.

Some paperwork element studies from individuals who thought they’d seen Petito at gasoline stations in Utah.

Petito’s disappearance obtained intense media protection. There was additionally criticism over the sheer quantity of protection and a focus given to a younger lacking white lady, compared to other missing people.

Petito’s mother and father lately mentioned they need to encourage the general public to present extra consideration to different lacking individuals, whose households additionally need their family members returned.

“There wasn’t a demographic or race or nation for that matter that didn’t assist us and so we’re going to attempt to do the identical and provides that again,” Petito’s father, Joe Petito, told NBC affiliate WFLA of Tampa.

The household is sharing details about different lacking individuals on their web site, and are hopeful extra consciousness is given to others who’re lacking.

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