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FBI: Laundrie admitted killing Gabby Petito in notebook

WUSF | By Associated Press
Published January 23, 2022 at 11:12 PM EST
This Aug. 12, 2021, file photo from video provided by the Moab, Utah, Police Department shows Brian Laundrie talking to a police officer after police pulled over the van he was traveling in with his girlfriend, Gabrielle "Gabby" Petito, near the entrance to Arches National Park in Utah. Laundrie, the boyfriend of slain cross-country traveler Gabby Petito, took responsibility for killing her in a notebook discovered near his body in a Florida swamp, the FBI announced Friday.
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This Aug. 12, 2021, file photo from video provided by the Moab, Utah, Police Department shows Brian Laundrie talking to a police officer after police pulled over the van he was traveling in with his girlfriend, Gabrielle "Gabby" Petito, near the entrance to Arches National Park in Utah. Laundrie, the boyfriend of slain cross-country traveler Gabby Petito, took responsibility for killing her in a notebook discovered near his body in a Florida swamp, the FBI announced Friday.

The FBI says the boyfriend of slain cross-country traveler Gabby Petito admitted to killing her in a notebook discovered near his body in a swamp near North Port.

It was the first time the FBI placed blame for Petito's death on boyfriend Brian Laundrie.

a photo of Gabby Petito from her Instagram feed
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a photo of Gabby Petito from her Instagram feed

FBI officials also announced Friday that Laundrie had sent text messages to intentionally deceive people that Petito was still alive after he beat and strangled her in late August.

Petito's body was found in September at a campground near Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park.

Laundrie went missing soon after he returned home alone in September.

He was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the Carlton Reserve in October.

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