FBI reveals confession left by Gabby Petito’s boyfriend Brian Laundrie

• Brian Laundrie, Gabby Petito’s boyfriend, left a confession in his notebook before he killed himself.
• Months after the crime that shocked the United States, the FBI has revealed the confession that Gabby Petito’s boyfriend left behind.
• The authorities analyzed the notebook that Gabby Petito’s boyfriend had with him when he shot himself.

A tragic story that shocked America comes to an end. The FBI has revealed the confession that Brian Laundrie, Gabby Petito’s boyfriend, left in his notebook before taking his own life. The painful writing would close a wound that had been left open by a question whose answer everyone seemed to know, but had not been made official: Was he capable of killing her?

In his last words, Brian Laundrie admitted to killing his girlfriend, and ex-fiancée, Gabby Petito at a remote Wyoming campground, the FBI announced. This is based on entries investigators found in the notebook recovered along with his skeletal remains in a Florida swamp, according to FoxNews.

Authorities reveal the confession that Gabby Petito’s boyfriend left

Investigators found the confession in his notebook, which spent weeks underwater as flooding delayed recovery efforts. “A review of the notebook revealed written statements from Mr. Laundrie claiming responsibility for the death of Mrs. Petito,” the FBI revealed on Friday. It’s been about three months since Brian Laundrie’s body was found in Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park, about 10 minutes away from his parents’ home in North Port, Florida, Fox News reported.

The FBI said it ultimately found no one other than Brian Laundrie to be «directly involved in the tragic death of Gabby Petito.» In a statement, the parents of the aspiring Youtuber thanked the FBI and the state and local authorities that worked on the case.

Investigation into Gabby Petito’s boyfriend «leaves no doubt» about what happened

«We truly appreciate the diligent and thorough efforts of the FBI in this extremely complicated case,» they said through their attorney, Rick Stafford. «The quality and quantity of facts and information collected by the FBI leave no doubt that Brian Laundrie murdered Gabby.»

Fox News recalled that on October 20, Brian Laundrie’s parents, Chris and Roberta, left their home before dawn and headed to the swamp, where floodwaters had receded after covering the area for weeks. In the company of two law enforcement officers and a reporter from Fox News Digital, they returned to the area where, according to their attorney, they had been directing authorities to search since mid-September.

The investigation of Gabby Petito’s boyfriend

Chris Laundrie weaved through the brush and ended up tripping over a dry sack. The parents passed a few meters from where law enforcement deputies would find their son’s remains that same morning, said the Fox News report on Friday, January 21.

Authorities also found a revolver. And days later, a group of protesters who had been demanding answers about the situation from Brian Laundrie’s parents found Gabby Petito’s water bottle in the same place, the outlet reported.

The FBI took months to reveal the contents of Gabby Petito’s boyfriend’s notebook

Weeks passed before a coroner’s inquest into the decomposing remains concluded Brian Laundrie’s cause of death was suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. They confirmed his identity through dental records and DNA, Fox News reported.

And it took months for the FBI to reveal details about what Gabby Petito’s boyfriend’s notebook contained or to acknowledge that they had found the gun. Brian Laundrie’s parents, despite having the bag in their hands, did not know about it until the investigation was closed, according to their attorney, Steve Bertolino. The notebook has not yet been returned to the family, he said.

Did Brian Laundrie’s parents know what the notebook said?

«I don’t think they realized what it was when they found it at the time,» he said. At one point, they handed the bag over to a North Port detective, who told them about the human remains they found and sent them home. So, Roberta Laundrie wiped a tear from her husband’s eye and they left, Fox News reported.

When the FBI released its final statement in the case on Friday, January 21, investigators also said that Brian Laundrie had tried to trick them by having a fake text conversation with himself, using Gabby Petito’s phone. «The timing and content of these messages are indicative that Mr. Laundrie attempted to mislead law enforcement by giving the impression that Mrs. Petito was still alive,» the FBI said.

For the first time, authorities directly blame Gabby Petito’s boyfriend

The AP news agency reported that this is the first time that the authorities have directly blamed Brian Laundrie for the death of Gabby Petito. However, the boyfriend was always the main suspect in a case that shocked the country and even made international news.

Investigators also announced that Brian Laundrie, 23, had sent text messages to make it appear that Gabby Petito, 22, was still alive after beating and strangling her in late August, according to the statement released by the FBI in Denver and cited by AP.

The investigation comes to an end

«All logical steps of the investigation have been concluded in this case,» FBI Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Michael Schneider said in the statement. «The investigation did not identify any other individuals other than Brian Laundrie directly implicated in the tragic death of Gabby Petito,» he said.

AP recalled that the body of Gabby Petito was found on September 19 in a camping area near the Grand Teton National Park, in northwestern Wyoming. A coroner determined that she had died about three weeks earlier from “blunt force injuries to the head and neck, with manual strangulation.” Brian Laundrie returned to his home in Florida in September, but disappeared soon after. In October, his parents found an object owned by him in a nature reserve near his home. In subsequent searches, the remains of Brian Laundrie, a revolver, a backpack and the notebook were located, the AP report stated.

What exactly did Gabby Petito’s boyfriend write in the notebook?

The FBI did not specify exactly what Brian Laundrie had written in the notebook or in the text messages he sent to mislead the authorities. They only stated that the texts were sent from his phone to his girlfriend’s and vice versa.

“The primary focus of the FBI throughout the investigation was to bring justice to Gabby and her family. The role of the public in assisting us in this endeavor was invaluable as the investigation was covered by media outlets around the world,» FBI Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Michael Schneider said in the statement, according to the New York Post.

The post FBI reveals confession that Gabby Petito’s boyfriend left in his notebook before committing suicide appeared first on Mundo Hispanico