On Thursday, a lawsuit was filed by the parents of Gabby Petito. Joseph Petito and Nichole Schmidt filed in a Sarasota County Circuit Court. The lawsuit claims that Brian Laundrie told his parents he had murdered their 22-year-old daughter “on or around August 28th.” And that the Laundries hired an attorney on September 2nd.
Both Brian and Gabby were from Blue Point, New York. But they moved to his parents’ North Port, Florida home, in 2019. They became engaged on July 1, 2021.
The lawsuit claims that “Gabrielle Petito had hopes of becoming a travel influencer, a ‘van-lifer’ and document cross-country travels” on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. Gaby had a regular following before the trip turned deadly.
After her then-fiancée, Brian Laundrie, killed Gabby he returned to his parents’ home in Florida. On September 1st he came back alone from their ill-fated van-lifer trip in her converted van.
The mysterious disappearance and search for the young woman got widespread coverage. And the discovery of her body on Sept. 19 in a Wyoming national park was attributed to a live stream of a family of “van-lifers.”
