An legal professional for Brian Laundrie’s household has launched handwritten pages from a pocket book as soon as owned by Laundrie through which he confesses to killing his fiancée, Gabby Petito.
“I ended her life,” Laundrie wrote within the pocket book, which was found close to his stays final yr following his dying by suicide, and was offered to media by legal professional Steven Bertolino. “I believed it was merciful, that it's what she wished, however I see now all of the errors I made. I panicked, I used to be in shock. However from the second I made a decision, took away her ache, I knew I couldnt go on with out her.”
Elsewhere within the message, Laundrie claimed that Petito sustained accidents whereas they have been each out within the wilderness, and that he tried to hold her again to their car, however was “stumbling” and “exhausted in shock.” He claimed that he set Petito down and she or he requested him to not depart her.
Laundrie additionally wrote that after he killed Petito that night time, he selected to drive from Wyoming’s Grand Teton Nationwide Park ― the place Petito’s physique was discovered in September ― to his mother and father’ house in North Port, Florida, so he may spend his last days along with his household.
“I'm ending my life not due to a worry of punishment however reasonably as a result of I cant stand to stay one other day with out her,” he wrote. “Ive misplaced our entire future collectively, each second we may have cherished. Im sorry for everyones loss. Please don't make life more durable for my household, they misplaced a son and a daughter.”
Laundrie, 23, was discovered lifeless from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Florida’s Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park in October. He’d been named the only particular person of curiosity in Petito’s disappearance, after he returned solo from a cross-country journey in the identical van the 2 had left in.
Petito, 22, was an aspiring life-style blogger and had been documenting the monthslong journey extensively on social media previous to her disappearance.
FBI officers stated in January that Laundrie had admitted to killing Petito within the pocket book, however the specifics of his assertion weren't made public till this week.
The pocket book can also be a focus in a civil lawsuit introduced in opposition to the Laundrie household by Petito’s mother and father, Joseph Petito and Nichole Schmidt. Within the go well with, they declare that Laundrie’s mother and father, Christopher and Roberta Laundrie, already knew the whereabouts of Petito’s physique throughout the early days of the investigation however selected to withhold that data. Earlier this week, the Laundries filed a movement to have the go well with dismissed.
A lawyer for the Petito household, Patrick Reilly, launched a press release to Folks on Friday saying it was “nonsense” for Laundrie to assert that Petito’s killing was merciful.
“He's writing a letter as if he desires individuals to really feel sorry for him,” Reilly stated. “I don’t suppose there's something that may make them really feel higher about it.”
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