A few days before the murder in the Wyoming wilderness, Gabby Petit told his ex-boyfriend that he plans to leave Brian Landry, but was afraid of how he would react. Friends and family.
Netflix's “American Murder: Gabby Petito” has previously unseen text messages from Petito, Laundrie and others at the heart of Petito, Laundrie and other figures, including Killer's mother Roberta I did. It also includes new interviews with her parents and fittings, as well as revelations from her ex-boyfriend, Jackson and other close friends.
Filmmakers Julia Willoughby Nathan and Michael Gasparo, director and executive producer of the project, had a heavy responsibility to carefully handle her story in an interview with Fox News Digital shortly before its release. He said he felt this way.
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While their social media tells one story, there is a dark side underneath Gabby Petit and Brian Landry's cross-country road trip, depicted here in “American Murder: Gabby Petty” . (Provided by Netflix)
“It's really important to make sure there are people who were directly involved in being part of the document,” Gasparo said. “My family is at the beginning of this.”
Petito's parents saw their previous work and agreed to make a docusary after meeting in person. The family handed over her magazines, artwork, and text messages revealing the dark layers under the relationship between the laundry.
“The first time I saw her text message with Brian and knew he had killed her, I knew it was bothering me because it seemed like an operation,” Nathan said. . “And I think we hope this series can demonstrate the sensitivity of intimate partner abuse, especially among young people.”
Contrary to that background, an exclusive new interview with Petit's former boyfriend Jackson said that she wanted to get away and was afraid of what would happen if she left the laundry. has been revealed.
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“She didn't know what he was going to do or what he could do,” he told Nason and Gasparro.
Jackson is Gabby Petit's ex-boyfriend before Brian Landry, depicted on the set of “American Murder: Gabby Petty.” (Provided by Netflix)
A few days after the couple avoided arrest in a public domestic violence incident held in Moab, Utah, on August 12, 2021, Landry flew home to Florida and left Petit in Salt Lake City.
On his own, Petit contacted her, but Docusary revealed. She confessed that she wanted to leave the laundry but was scared of how he would react.
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By August 27, 2021, Laundry had returned to road trips and the couple had arrived in Jackson, Wyoming. Petit once again texted her ex-boyfriend, saying that the town's name reminded him.
The view from the entrance to Bridge Teton National Park in Wyoming on September 19, 2021 is just after Gabby Petty's body was recovered near Spread Creek Dispersed Campground. (Michael Lewis/Fox News Digital)
That same day, witnesses told Fox News Digital that they saw the couple at the Merry Piglets Tex-Mex restaurant, and Laundry was discussing with female staff. Some experts speculate that the conflict is a catalyst for Laundry's rage just hours before Petty's murder, but the couple's text message brings new light to what happened inside. I got it.
“School your check and tell her that the smell made me sick… the chicken wasn't right. I actually don't feel good… I'll be in the middle,” Petchito said. I wrote it in the laundry.
“Okay. I've received the check. I need to wait for you. Do I need to go to the box?” he replied.
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“I don't want to pay for food that gets sick.”
Witnesses told Fox News Digital that they believe Landry is discussing money with staff, telling him he left and returned four times.
Gabby Petito takes Instagram photos at Blythe Canyon National Park. (Gabby Petit's Family)
Petit was last seen alive that afternoon in surveillance video at nearby Whole Foods.
She tried to call out her ex, Docusary revealed, but he said he was at work and could not pick it up.
In one of her last known messages, she tells her mother, Nicole Schmidt that Landry might do better in her quest to become a van life video blogger without dragging her in. He said he agreed to camp in the woods. At night when she slept in the van.
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“American Murder: Gabby Petit” began streaming on Netflix on Monday. This includes additional details, videos, photos, and text messages between Petito and her murderer previously only known to her family and the FBI.
Separately, FOX News Digital has obtained what the FBI said was the final disclosure of laundry-related material. The documents reveal another unnamed witness to a Moab domestic assault just two weeks before Petito's murder.
Brian Laundry is seen in body cam footage released by the Moab Police Department in Utah. (Moab Police Station)
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The nameless man told FBI agents who saw the couple in Moab on August 12, 2021 that they were driving their family on a trip from Denver, Colorado to Las Vegas, Nevada. He thought he had passed the white Ford Transit van and saw a woman slap her. He was so worried that he pulled a U-turn and parked across the street to look at things.
The man in the van “behaved like a “madman”” sporadically opened, knocked on the door, and roamed the van. He appears to be appealing to a woman, and at one point he may have tried to hold the woman, but he may have been pushed back to her, according to FBI records that the man finally put the female foot on the van assistant I pushed it into the seat and entered the door. After that, the witnesses said that both of them began to cry.
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He said he thought about intervening or calling 911, but ultimately decided not to. He had called 911 the day after the collision near the road to town. He said he and his daughter contacted the FBI in September after seeing news reports of Petit's loss of failure.
Petit's mother, Nicole Schmidt, said she had no knowledge of the witness before and was interested in talking to him.
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“[I] She told Fox News Digital. “I want to ask a question,” she said.
According to people who contacted her parents and said they were inspired to escape an abusive relationship, Gabby Petito's story already helps save lives thanks to the extensive attention it received. . At one point in the series, her friend Rose says she left her relationship.
“This is how the foundation supports,” Gasparo said. “They have become a resource for people like this.”
In the morning, Chris and Roberta Laundrie of Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park discovered ruins of their son's skeleton. (Michael Lewis/Fox News Digital)
After Petito's murder, her parents launched the Gabby Petito Foundation, defending victims of domestic violence and missing people. They have also lobbyed for new laws to protect victims in at least three states and in Washington, D.C.
They are currently seeking the help of the public to resolve another woman's suspicious loss disappearance from Reading, California.
Nikki McCain, 39, was last seen on May 17, 2024, and drove a grey Chevrolet avalanche, according to the Reading Police Department. The vehicle equipped with the California Plate DP154UT was recovered in Tehama County more than a week later, but McCain's location remains unknown.
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Nicky McCain disappeared on May 17, 2024 in Reading, California. Gabby Petty's family is urging anyone with information about her whereabouts to come forward. (Redding Police Station)
Her husband was charged with felony domestic abuse, false imprisonment and criminal threats several months ago, court records show. The incident was dismissed in July after the missing victim was unable to testify.
“In many cases, you can't charge a man without a body,” Petitto's father, Joe Petit, told Fox News Digital. “That's what we went through with Brian. They couldn't accused him because Gabby was not found.”
As Fox News Digital first reported, by the time she was there, he ran away and committed suicide, leaving a confession and suicide note in his waterproof bag.
“This is something to scream from the rooftop. Help her family find something safe and healthy, or hold her accountable for justice. “There's previous domestic violence that has been said. The fact is that they raise some red flags, but I don't want to jump to the conclusion.”
The Shasta County Sheriff's Office has announced a $30,000 reward for information that will help you find McCain.
Anyone with information can call 530-245-6135 or email major crime units at MCU@shastacounty.gov.
The press conference will be held on November 3, 2022 by the family of Gabby Petit in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Fox News Digital)
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“We have to have the authorities do due diligence and see where it leads, but any information that everyone has should come forward,” Petit said.
Stephanie Nolasco and Mitch Picasso of Fox News contributed to this report.
If you or someone you know is suffering from domestic violence, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (Safe).
