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Heartbreaking request Gabby Petito made to boyfriend in letter before he killed her revealed
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Updated 11:52 18 Feb 2025 GMTPublished 18:02 13 Feb 2025 GMT

Heartbreaking request Gabby Petito made to boyfriend in letter before he killed her revealed

Gabby Petito's body was found in September 2021

Britt Jones

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Topics: Crime, News, Police, True Crime, US News, Gabby Petito

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Gabby Petito wrote a letter to her abusive boyfriend, requesting something from him before he later killed her.

The case of Petito’s death is something that shocked everyone who heard about it.

First, we learned that the 22-year-old had been reported as missing in 2021, and very soon, her fiancé Brian Laundrie would become suspect number one.

As the world watched and hoped to find her alive, when Petito’s body was found, and other incriminating evidence came out, the manhunt for Laundrie was immediately in action.

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22 year old Gabby Petito was murdered by her fiancé Brain Laundrie (Instagram/@gabspetito)
22 year old Gabby Petito was murdered by her fiancé Brain Laundrie (Instagram/@gabspetito)

However, after queries into his whereabouts were unfruitful, it was discovered that he had killed himself and left a letter behind in which he claimed she had become injured and died in his arms due to him putting her out of her pain.

But Petito’s own recollection of their relationship via a heartbreaking letter she wrote to her killer would reveal an important piece to the puzzle.

Documents released by the FBI shared part of more than 350 pages in which the plea was shown.

In her letter, Petito tells Laundrie that they are supposed to be a team and asks him to stop calling her names.

She wrote: “Just please stop crying and stop calling me names because we’re a team and I’m here with you.”

Laundrie later killed himself (Credit:Instagram/@Bizarre_Design)
Laundrie later killed himself (Credit:Instagram/@Bizarre_Design)

A month before her death on 12 August, police in Moab, Utah, responded to an incident which they said should have been considered a domestic violence call.

Then, the last person to have any contact with Petito would report an ‘odd text’ on 27 August.

Petito was later killed, with her body left in Wyoming, where the couple were on a cross-country trip in the summer.

At the time, she had been documenting their trip on YouTube and Instagram to Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest, the place her body would be found September 2021.

When her body was recovered, it was discovered that she had been murdered, and it was ruled a homicide by manual strangulation.

Laundrie, by this time, had already returned to his Florida home with the van they were in, alone and without her before going missing weeks later and fatally shooting himself.

The Petito and Laundrie families were embroiled in a dispute due to Laundrie’s mother, Roberta, writing him a letter which was found in his bag when his body was recovered.

In the letter, it notes that Roberta would even help him to dispose of a body should he need help.

Petito wrote Laundrie a letter asking him not to call her names  (YouTube)
Petito wrote Laundrie a letter asking him not to call her names (YouTube)

While Roberta claims that this was writer prior to his trip with Petito, the Petitos believe otherwise.

As obtained by CNN, a portion of the letter to her son reads: “I just want you to remember I will always Love you, and I know you will always Love me. You are my boy. Nothing can make me stop loving you. Nothing will or could ever divide us: no matter what we do, or where we go or what we say -- we will always Love each other.

“If you're in jail, I will bake a cake with a file in it. If you need to dispose of a body, I will bring show up with a shovel and garbage bags. If you fly to the moon, I will be watching the skies for your re-entry. If you say you hate my guts, I'll get new guts.

“Remember that love is a verb, not a noun. It's not a thing, it's not words, it is actions. Watch people's actions to know if they love you -- not their words.”

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