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(Los Gatos, CA) — Netflix has released a documentary about the 2021 murder of Gabby Petito. In the film, it’s revealed that Petito called an ex-boyfriend hours before her death. She disappeared in 2021 before her body was found in Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest and an autopsy concluded that she died by homicide. Her fiancé Brian Laundrie was eventually revealed to be her killer and died by suicide in Florida months after Petito was killed.
The new three-part docuseries shows never-before-seen text messages, police body cam footage and excerpts from Petito’s journal. Director Michael Gasparro said the revelation that Petito called her ex surprised him, saying, “We didn’t know she had reached out to him during a vulnerable time.”
Brian Laundrie’s parents are slamming the docuseries as full of inaccuracies. Their lawyer complained to TMZ and the U.S. Sun that “American Murder: Gabby Petito” is told through just one lens, that of the Petito family. However, the film’s producers say Laundrie’s parents refused to participate.
Gabby, an inspiring video “influencer” who was from Suffolk County, New York, was on a cross-country trip with her boyfriend Brian Laundrie when she went missing in August 2021. Laundrie, who was 23, returned home to Florida to his parents’ house and then he disappeared. Gabby’s body was not found until a month later in Wyoming. His skeletal remains were found in a Sarasota creek with the FBI determining that Laundrie was responsible for Petito’s death because of a confession written in his notebook before he took his own life.
