The FBI recovered Brian Laundrie’s haunting notes and drawings from his family home, as the family of his murdered fiancee Gabby Petito sent a scathing message to her ‘brain’ mother.
Files obtained by New York Post showed that Laundrie had written about wanting to kill himself and self-immolate months before he started dating Petito.
“About a year ago I went into a kind of mania where I was breaking holes in the wall with my head, kicking paintings (sic), breaking everything I was doing, pouring gasoline on myself to burn myself alive, but I would get the lighter wet. , parked in murder land listening to Mac (unclear, but may be ‘DeMarco’) with a gun to my head, fighting alligators,” Laundrie wrote in his diary on October 26, 2018.
“I wanted to die and the strange thing is that nothing has changed, but the (timer) is running out.”
‘Under the mattress I’m on there is a loaded 357 Magnum revolver. “Pull the trigger and all my problems will be over,” she wrote.
Disturbing notes and drawings were recovered during a raid on Brian Laundrie’s family home after the body of his murdered fiancee Gabby Petito was found.
Brian had murdered Gabby in Wyoming on a cross-country road trip in 2021.
Two years later, Laundrie and Petito embarked on their fateful cross-country road trip, where it would later be revealed that he strangled his fiancée to death.
In an undated diary entry, Laundrie described a nightmare she had that appeared to be about Petito abandoning her.
‘The ocean flows from his blue eyes and the fire goes out. With a word the pain disappears. “Brian?” Laundrie wrote.
‘Oh, how sweet she is to say we should get together, but you know when you walk out that door she’ll be gone forever. You’re (sic) back in the car, haunted by eyes you’ll never look at again.
‘The pain burns even more because you know it’s just tonight. You wake up and you are both free,” Laundrie wrote.
Other items the FBI collected included hundreds of bullets, several magazines and a bill of sale and manuals for Ruger .380 and Glock 49mm pistols and a compound bow equipped with a telescopic sight.
The reading material found included copies of ‘The Watchtower,’ an illustrated religious magazine published by the New York-based Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Chuck Palahniuk’s novel, ‘Choke,’ about a con man who pretends to choke on food to earn money. sympathy checks from others.
Months before the couple began dating, Laundrie had written about his desire to kill and self-immolate.
Gabby’s family lashed out at Brian Laundrie’s mother for using words she wrote in a letter to her son to raise money for a domestic violence victim.
Gabby’s family lashed out at Brian Laundrie’s mother for using words she wrote in a letter to her son to raise money for victims of domestic violence.
Brian had murdered Gabby in Wyoming on a cross-country road trip in 2021. He later disappeared and, after a search, was found dead in Florida.
An undated letter from his mother, Roberta, had “burn after reading” written on the envelope and said she would “dispose of a body” if necessary because she loved him so much.
Gabby’s mother, Nichole Schmidt, and stepmother, Tara Petito, wore matching T-shirts with the word “burn after reading” emblazoned across the front of CrimeCon2024 in Nashville over the weekend. Fox News reported.
Schmidt accused Laundrie’s mother, Roberta, of being “the mastermind” who “torn her family apart” during a talk at the event.
“As for you, Roberta, and I’m calling you individually because you’re obviously the mastermind that destroyed your family and mine with your bad habits, I don’t see empathy in your eyes,” he said.
“No regrets in your heart and no willingness to take responsibility for your actions.”
The ‘burn after reading’ t-shirts are sold on the Gabby Petito Foundation website, where proceeds go to organizations that support locating missing people and provide aid to organizations that help victims of domestic violence.
Schmidt surprised the packed auditorium by saying, “I speak for myself when I say Brian, I forgive you.”
“I needed to free myself from the chains of anger and bitterness, and I refuse to let your despicable act define the rest of my life.”
Gabby’s mother, Nichole Schmidt (left), and stepmother, Tara Petito (right), wore matching T-shirts with the word “burn after reading” emblazoned across the front at CrimeCon2024 in Nashville.
Schmidt never had the chance to confront her daughter’s killer, who strangled her during a cross-country trip in 2021 and then committed suicide, leaving a note in which he confessed.
The Petitos sued Laundrie’s parents, accusing them of knowing their son had murdered Gabby and helping him cover up her death.
The Petito family was seeking compensation of at least $100,000 and hoped to hold Christopher and Roberta Laundrie accountable for their actions and decisions.
Petito’s remains were found in Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest in September 2021 and his death was ruled a homicide by manual strangulation.
On October 20, 2021, Brian Laundrie’s remains were found and it was later concluded that he had shot himself.
The FBI was later able to discover that he had written in a notebook that he was responsible for Ms. Petito’s death.