Gabby Petito murder: Brian Laundrie’s notebook confession revealed, 'I ended her life'

[mystery-ak]

June 24, 2022 2:27pm EDT
Gabby Petito murder: Brian Laundrie’s notebook confession revealed, 'I ended her life'

Gabby Petito was strangled at a Wyoming campsite while traveling cross-country with former fiancé Brian Laundrie

By Michael Ruiz , Stephanie Pagones | Fox News

Warning: The following is graphic in nature.

TAMPA, Fla. – EXCLUSIVE: The first public glimpse of a confession Brian Laundrie left in a notebook in the Florida swamp where he killed himself last year reveals his final words.

"I ended her life," reads the note, which the FBI recovered from the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park on Oct. 20, 2021. "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."

Laundrie wrote that he chose to end Petito's life after she injured herself when she fell in Wyoming. He also wrote: "From the moment I decided, took away her pain, I knew I couldn't go on without her."

Attorneys representing the Petito-Schmidt and Laundrie families met at the FBI's Tampa Field Office on Friday. Fox News Digital has obtained copies of the notes scrawled by Laundrie before he took his own life.



"Please do not make life harder for my family," the notebook states, "they lost a son and a daughter. The most wonderful girl in the world. Gabby I'm sorry."

Earlier in the note, he wrote: "I am sorry to my family. This is a shock to them as well [as] a terrible grief (sic)."

Fox News Digital tailed Laundrie’s parents to the park on the morning of Oct. 20, 2021, when they met a North Port detective and a member of the FBI and set off into the swamp for a look at where they believed their son had disappeared to weeks earlier. Extensive searches had been hindered by floodwaters until that point.

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[Free Vulcan]

Stupid, spoiled, narcissistic drama queens playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes.

[Kamaji]

That's a rather self-serving note.  However, it seems sufficiently clear that he did murder her, which should give some small, cold comfort to her family.

[mystery-ak]

His reasoning was she fell and got hurt and was in pain...ah...how about driving to the nearest hospital...just a thought.

[goatprairie]

His reasoning was she fell and got hurt and was in pain...ah...how about driving to the nearest hospital...just a thought.

yeah...it's actually pretty revealing. What he really meant to say was that he killed her and tried to get away with it. Drive to the hospital?  ....no way.....I mean who does that after an accident? Virtually everybody who doesn't cause another person's death aka homicide. You just kill the person who got hurt according to this yutz.

[Smokin Joe]

It makes you wonder if she had recovered from her injuries if he would have been implicated in causing them. Either way it sounds like a sad end for a couple of messed up kids.

[libertybele]

It makes you wonder if she had recovered from her injuries if he would have been implicated in causing them. Either way it sounds like a sad end for a couple of messed up kids.

Messed up indeed.  She got caught up with someone very sick and seems she was very emotionally dependent on him and so she stayed in the relationship.  He ended her life and his.  Very tragic.

I haven't been really paying attention but did her parent's take his parent's to court because they helped to cover for him? 

[Smokin Joe]

Messed up indeed.  She got caught up with someone very sick and seems she was very emotionally dependent on him and so she stayed in the relationship.  He ended her life and his.  Very tragic.

I haven't been really paying attention but did her parent's take his parent's to court because they helped to cover for him?

I don't know. Nothing the lawyers do at this point will bring either kid back, so it seems moot to me.

[mystery-ak]

Messed up indeed.  She got caught up with someone very sick and seems she was very emotionally dependent on him and so she stayed in the relationship.  He ended her life and his.  Very tragic.

I haven't been really paying attention but did her parent's take his parent's to court because they helped to cover for him?

They are in the process of suing his parents...and according to his notes his parents knew of Gabby's death when he came home....so now this notebook will him in their lawsuit..

[libertybele]

They are in the process of suing his parents...and according to his notes his parents knew of Gabby's death when he came home....so now this notebook will him in their lawsuit..

Ok. Interesting turn of events.  I think his parents are in deep trouble and with the notebook as evidence, I doubt they have any defense.