Gabby Petito had begged her boyfriend Brian Laundrie to stop insulting her as she professed her love for him in a heartbreaking love letter sent before their ill-fated trip in 2021.
“Brian, you know how much I love you, so (and I am writing this with love), please stop crying and stop calling me names because we are a team and I am here with you,” Petito wrote in the undated letter included in a set of documents released by the FBI on Monday.
The 22-year-old travel blogger apologized for “getting upset over a silly piece of paper,” although it’s unclear what the argument was about.
“Yes, sometimes I can be a child, I know, but it’s because you give me this energy and I love you too much, so much that it hurts,” Petito wrote.
“So your pain is killing me,” he said. “I’m not trying to be negative, but I’m frustrated because I can’t do more.”
Gabby Petito, 22, wrote a heartbreaking letter to her then-boyfriend Brian Laundrie professing her love and begging him to stop insulting her.
The two took a cross-country van trip in 2021, when Laundrie killed Petito.
Petito then promised that when he returned from New York he would work with him on the van they would take across the country.
“We can work together on the van and now they are OUR dreams,” he noted.
“So I hope you understand that when I’m angry it’s because I love you too much,” Petito concluded.
Now stop crying!!! And come home and tell me that you love me with a big hug.
Laundrie would go on to murder Petito as they traveled across the country, leaving his body in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park, while he returned alone to Sarasota, Florida.
He would later disappear himself and be found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Petito apologized for “getting angry over a silly piece of paper,” although it’s unclear what the argument was about.
She promised him that when she returned from New York she would work with him on the van they would take across the country.
As the frantic search for the 22-year-old blogger continued, agents raided Laundrie’s parents’ home in South Florida, the contents of which they recently released in a nearly 400-page document on Monday.
Along with the heartbreaking love letter, the newly released evidence included drawings from Laundrie’s notebook.
One appeared to show a skull surrounded by the words “kill” and on another he repeatedly wrote the words “trust no one.”
Laundrie also wrote about his mental health problems, noting that at one point he was contemplating suicide and kept a revolver under his mattress.
In a diary entry, Laundrie repeatedly wrote “trust no one.”
“About a year ago I went into a kind of mania where I was breaking holes in the wall with my head, kicking pictures (sic), breaking everything I was working on, pouring gasoline on myself to burn myself alive, but I got the lighter. wet, parking 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.
In another 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.
Laundrie left Petito’s body in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park, while he returned alone to Sarasota, Florida, where he would later die from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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.
Near Petito’s body, officers also noted in an affidavit supporting a search warrant request for Laundrie’s home that they found two arrows and a “revolver speed loader containing ammunition.”
The FBI was later able to discover that Laundrie had written in a notebook that he was responsible for Petito’s death.
An attorney representing the Petito family. told the New York Post The documents prove that Laundrie “was clearly a narcissist and manipulator capable of violence.”