Chilling writings and drawings scrawled by Brian Laundrie with the phrases “kill” and “belief nobody” have been discovered amongst his issues at his Florida house, newly launched FBI information reveal.
Laundrie, 23, killed his girlfriend Gabby Petitio in August 2021 throughout a cross-country highway journey and dumped her physique in a distant space of Wyoming’s Grand Teton Nationwide Park. Her physique was present in September 2021 after an enormous search.
Weeks later, Laundrie was discovered useless in a close-by Florida reserve. He had a gunshot wound to his head and his loss of life was dominated a suicide.
Throughout a raid at Laundrie’s Florida house on the time, investigators discovered his disturbing writings and drawings, together with diary entries 12 months earlier than the killing, not too long ago obtained by The New York Publish.
Laundrie wrote about his mania, describing in disturbing element how he needed to pour gasoline on his physique and burn himself alive.
“A few 12 months in the past I went in to a sort of mania the place I used to be smashing holes within the wall with my head, kicking throug (sic) work, tearing no matter I used to be engaged on, pouring gasoline on myself to burn alive however getting the lighter moist, parking out in murderland listening to Mac [unclear, but may be ‘DeMarco’] with a gun to my head, wrestling alligators,” Laundrie wrote in his diary on October 26, 2018.
“I needed to die and the bizarre factor is nothing’s modified, however the [timer’s] working down. Beneath the mattress I’m on is a loaded 357 magnum revolver. A pull of the set off and all my issues will probably be over.”
Investigators additionally discovered tons of of bullets, a number of magazines, and a invoice of sale and handbooks for Ruger .380 and Glock 49mm pistols, and notebooks belonging to Gabby.
When the Petito household lawyer, Brian Stewart, was proven a few of the graphic drawings, he informed The Publish, “that’s simply scary.”
“On reflection, it tells us that Brian handled psychological well being points and was clearly a narcissist and manipulator able to violence,” Stewart added.
In one other diary entry, Laundrie describes a nightmare he had which gave the impression to be about Petito leaving him.
“The ocean pours out of her blue eyes and the hearth is out. With one phrase the ache is gone. ‘Brian?,’” Laundrie wrote.
“Oh how candy she is to say we should always get collectively, however you understand while you stroll out that door she’ll be gone ceaselessly once more,” he added. “Your [sic] again within the automobile, haunted by the eyes you’ll by no means look into once more.
“The ache burns recent as a result of you understand it’s simply tonight. You get up and your [sic] each free.”
Stewart mentioned the Petito household was unaware of the disturbing diary entries.
“We all know that he’s a manipulator who hid his intentions,” Stewart mentioned. “It’s attention-grabbing seeing all these notes, understanding now how these kinds of home violence conditions flip deadly.”
Additionally recovered within the raid was Chuck Palahniuk’s novel “Choke,” a guide a couple of rip-off artist who pretends to choke on meals to earn sympathy checks from others, copies of “The Watchtower,” an illustrated spiritual journal revealed by New-York primarily based Jehovah’s Witnesses and a slew of weapons together with a compound bow fitted with a rifle scope, bolt-action rifle magazines and brass knuckles.
In 2021, Gabby’s household had reported her lacking after she stopped FaceTiming with them as she repeatedly did.
Weeks earlier, Gabby and Laundrie had set off on a cross-country journey collectively, documenting their journey experiences as “van lifers” on their YouTube channel “Nomadic Statik”. However issues took a flip when Laundrie returned house to Florida with out her.
On September 19, 2021, investigators situated Gabby’s physique in Grand Teton Nationwide Park.
Laundrie himself had vanished from his Florida house as he got here below scrutiny following Gabby’s disappearance.
His stays have been later discovered within the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park in a Florida nature reserve on October 20. His loss of life was dominated as suicide together with his writing discovered close by.
Final weekend, Gabby’s mom, Nichole Schmidt, informed the gang at CrimeCon 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee, that she’s forgiven Laundrie however slammed the killer’s mom and insisted she “deserved to be forgotten.”
“I converse for myself right here after I say Brian, I forgive you,” Schmidt informed the viewers. “I wanted to launch myself from the chains of anger and bitterness and I refuse to let your despicable act outline the remainder of my life.”
She didn’t maintain again, nevertheless, when talking about Laundrie’s mom Roberta, in accordance with Fox Information.
“As for you, Roberta, and I name you out individually since you are evidently the mastermind that shattered your loved ones and mine along with your evil methods, I see no empathy in your eyes,” she mentioned. “No regret in your coronary heart and no willingness to take accountability in your actions.”
“You don’t deserve forgiveness. You should be forgotten,” she added.
Laundrie’s dad and mom informed authorities throughout deposition hearings that their son had referred to as them in an erratic state main them to be involved for Gabby’s security.
Nevertheless, Gabby’s dad and mom allege that the Laundries by no means reached out to them and ignored their efforts to speak with them.
Gabby’s dad and mom have alleged that the Laundries knew about her homicide and tried to hide it.
Regardless that his dad and mom denied data of the crime they’d despatched a $25,000 retainer to a protection legal professional. The Petitos settled a lawsuit towards the Laundrie household earlier this 12 months.
