FBI: Pojkvännen erkände att han dödade Gabby Petito
Brian Laundrie, pojkvän till Gabby Petito som försvann under uppmärksammade former i USA förra året, erkände i en anteckningsbok att han dödade henne. Det säger FBI i ett uttalande enligt amerikanska medier. Efter mordet tog Laundrie sitt eget liv och anteckningsboken hittades i närheten av hans kropp i Florida.
Polisen meddelar även att Laundrie efter att ha strypt Petito skickade textmeddelanden för att få folk att tro att hon fortfarande var vid liv. Enligt FBI är fallet nu avslutat.
– Alla logiska utredningssteg har avslutats i detta fall, säger Michael Schneider vid FBI i Denver enligt nyhetsbyrån AP.
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Fallet Gabby Petito
Wikipedia (en)
Gabrielle Venora Petito (March 19, 1999 – late August 2021) was an American who was killed by her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, while traveling on a vanlife journey across the United States together. The trip began on July 2, 2021, and was planned to last four months; however, Petito disappeared in late August.
After Petito went missing, Laundrie raised suspicion when he drove Petito's van from Wyoming back to his parents' house in North Port, Florida, and refused to talk about her whereabouts. He was deemed a person of interest in the case, and an arrest warrant was issued on charges of making withdrawals using Petito's debit card. Laundrie departed his home in Florida on September 13 and was reported missing on September 17.
On September 19, Petito's remains were found at Bridger–Teton National Forest in Wyoming. An autopsy found she was killed by manual strangulation. After a month of speculation around Laundrie's whereabouts and an extended search of the area around his Florida home, his skeletal remains were discovered in the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park on October 20. On November 23, it was announced that Laundrie died due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The FBI later found that Laundrie admitted to killing Petito in his notebook.The Petito case gained national attention due to the couple's social media activity, police body camera video footage, 9-1-1 emergency dispatch call recordings, and eyewitness accounts.
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