Gabby Petito said the ex was afraid of leaving Brian Laandrie, but scared: the new Doc
Days before her murder in the wyoming desert, Gabby Petito She told her ex -boyfriend to plan to leave Brian Laandrie, but was afraid he could react, the former was discovered in new documentation, which is the first project in the case that includes her friends and family.
“American Murder: Gabby Petito,” on Netflix reveals previously unprecedented text messages from the petit, Laundrie and other central figures in the case of a case, including the mother of the killer, Robert. He also includes new interviews with parents and stepfather, as well as the revelation of his former boyfriend Jackson and other close friends.
Film players Julia Willoughby Nason and Michael Gasparro, who are both directors and executive producers on the project, said they felt a great responsibility to solve her story carefully, in an interview with Fox News Digital, just before she was published.
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While their social media told one story, there was a dark side under the road trip Gabby Petito and Brian Laandrie, she was shown here at the “American Murder: Gabby Petito.” (Kindness of Netflix)
“It is really important to ensure that we have people who were directly involved in the fact that they are part of the doctor,” Gasparro said. “The family is at the beginning of this.”
Five parents saw their previous work and agreed to make them documents after the meeting personally. The family handed over their magazines, artwork-and SMS messages that discovered a dark layer below the relationship between the fifth and Laandrie in leadership to and during their journey.
“Looking at her textual messages with Brian for the first time, knowing that he killed her, she persecuted because it was like a manipulation … It was very subtle,” Nason said. “And I think we hope that this series can show the subtlety of intimate partner abuse, especially among young people.”
On that background, an exclusive new interview with his fifth previous boyfriend, Jackson, reveals that she wanted to escape and was afraid of what could happen if she left Laandrie.
“She wasn’t sure what she would do or what she could do,” Nason and Gasparro said.
Jackson, ex -boyfriend Gabby Petito from Brian Laundrie, shown on the set of “American Murder: Gabby Petito.” (Kindness of Netflix)
Days after the couple closely avoided arrest in a public incident about domestic violence in Moab, Utah, 12. August 2021Laandrie flew home in Florida and left the fifth in Salt Lake City.
While alone, Petito contacted his ex, Docuseries revealed. She confided in it that she wanted to leave the laundry, but was scared she could react.
Until August 27, 2021, Laundrie returned on a trip and the couple arrived in Jackson, Wyoming. Petito sent his ex -boyfriend again, saying that the name reminded her of him.
View from the entrance of the Bridger-Teton National Park in Wyoming on September 19, 2021, shortly after the remains of the Gabby Petito were drawn near the scattered camping campsite. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)
On the same day, witnesses told Fox News Digital that they saw the couple on cheerful piglets The Tex-Mex and Laundrie restaurant quarreled with women’s staff. While some experts speculated that the conflict was a catalyst for Laundria’s anger just hours before the fifth murder, the text message of the couple throws a new light on what happened from the inside.
“Ask the check and tell her that the smell got sick … Idk, chicken was not fine. I don’t really feel good … I’ll be min,” Petito Laandrie wrote.
“Okay. I got the check, should I wait for you, should I get a box?” he replied.
“I don’t want to pay for the food that got me sick.”
Witnesses said Fox News Digital to believe that Laundrie quarrels with the staff about money and said he left and returned four times.
Gabby Petito poses for Instagram photography at Bryce Canyon National Park. (Gabby Petito family)
Petito was last alive that afternoon that afternoon on the supervisory video in nearby whole foods.
She tried to call her ex, she revealed documentation, but he said she was at work and couldn’t be picked up.
In one of her last famous messages, she told her mom, Nichole Schmidt, so that she could better succeed in searching to become a video blogger from Van-Life, and that Laundrie dragged her down and agreed to camping in the forest that night as she slept in a van.
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“American Murder: Gabby Petito” began to flow on Netflix on Monday. Includes additional details, videos and photos that were previously known only to her family and FBI, as well as text messages between the fifth and her killer directly.
Separately, Fox News Digital got what the FBI said was that its final detection of washing materials was discovered by another unnamed witness of MoAb attack just two weeks before the fifth murder.
Brian Laundrie as seen in the recording of Bodycam published by the Moab Police Directorate in Utah. (Police Directorate MoAb)
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An unnamed man told the FBI agent that he saw the couple in Moab on August 12, 2021, while driving a family on a journey from Denver in Colorado, Las Vegas, Nevada. A white Ford transit van went through and thought he saw a man hit a woman. He was so worried that he pulled the turn and parked across the street to keep an eye on things.
The male in the van “” acted like a madman, “sporadically opening and slamming the door and walking around the van. He seemed to pray with the female and at one point he might have tried to hug the female but pushed her back. The male eventually pushed the female in The passenger side of the van, closed the door and entered the driver’s side, “according to FBI Records. The witness then said they both started crying.
Read FBI -s notes From the previously unknown MoAb witness
He said he was thinking about intervening or calling 911, but in the end he decided he would not. He called 911 earlier the same day after almost a collision on the road to the city. He said he contacted the FBI in September after he and his daughter saw the news of the fifth disappearance.
Five’s mother, Nichole Schmidt, said she did not know about this witness before and that she would be interested in talking to him.
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“[I] We would like to get to this person, “she told Fox News Digital.” I would love to ask questions. “
Based on the wide attention he attracted, Gabby Petito said she had already helped save lives, according to people who contacted her parents and told them that they were inspired to escape from violent relationships. At one point in a series of her friend Rose says she left her relationship.
“This is how the Foundation helps,” Gasparro said. “They have become a resource for such people.”
Chris and Roberta Laundrie at the Myakkahatchee Creek environmental park on the morning police discovered the scanish remains of their son. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)
After the fifth murder, her parents launched the Gabby Petito Foundation to advocate victims of domestic violence and Missing the person. They also lobbied for new laws to protect victims in at least three countries as well as Washington, DC
They are currently seeking the help of the public in resolving the suspicious disappearance of another woman from Redding, California.
Nikki McCain, 39, was last seen on May 17, 2024, driving a gray avalanche Chevy, according to the Redding Police Directorate. The vehicle, which carries the DP154ut California slab, was recovered more than a week later in the Teham district, but McCain’s place remains unknown.
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Nikki McCain disappeared in Redding, California, May 17, 2024. The Gabby Petito family invites anyone with information about reporting. (Police Directorate Redding)
Her husband is charged with the criminal offense of family abuse, false prison and criminal threats months earlier, judicial records show. This case was discharged in July because the missing victim could not testify.
“A lot of time, you can’t charge a guy if there’s no body,” Petit’s father Joe Petito told Fox News Digital. “We went through with Brian. They couldn’t accuse him because Gabby was not found.”
When she was, he slipped and killed himself, leaving behind a confession and suicide note in a waterproof bag, as Fox News Digital first reported.
“This is something that should be shouting from the roof: to help that family find it safe and healthy, or bring one responsible for justice, one of the two,” Petito said. “The fact that there is previous domestic violence is raising some red flags, but we don’t want to jump to conclusions.”
Shasta Sesto Sheriff announced a $ 30,000 award for information that helps them find McCain.
Everyone who has information is asked to call 530-245-6135 or e-mail send an email to the main unit for crimes at mcu@shastacounty.gov.
The press conference holds the Gabby Petito family in Salt Lake City, Utah, November 3, 2022. (Fox News Digital)
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“We have to allow the authorities to pay attention and see where they lead them, but there is any information, please appear,” Petito said.
Fox News’ Stephanie Nolasco contributed to this report.
If you or someone you know suffer from domestic violence, contact the national telephone line of domestic violence at 1-800-799-7233 (for sure).
