This family is unbelievable…
The tragic death of Gabby Petito at the hands of her fiance, Brian Laundrie, is back in the news again after the recent release of a new 3-part Netflix documentary, American Murder: Gabby Petito.
It’s a story that gripped the nation back in August 2021, when the 22-year old Petito went missing after a cross-country road trip with Laundrie. Laundrie returned home to Florida without Petito, and he immediately lawyered up and eventually disappeared himself, immediately becoming the prime suspect in her disappearance.
The suspicion only grew after Petito’s body was found in the Grand Teton National Forest in September of 2021, and it was announced that her death had been a homicide caused by strangulation.
Laundrie of course fled after going back home to Florida, while his parents Roberta and Chris refused to talk, setting off a month long manhunt that included Dog the Bounty Hunter, along with both federal and state law enforcement.
The search finally came to an end after Laundrie’s body was found by his parents in the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park in North Port, Florida. And along with his body, authorities also found a note confessing to the murder – sort of – claiming that Petito had fallen and injured herself and that she was “begging for an end to her pain.”
Investigators dismissed Laundrie’s story, noting that his admission didn’t match the evidence after ruling that Petito had died from blunt force trauma and strangulation.
Throughout the search for Gabby and Brian, his parents Chris and Roberta Laundrie refused to speak to the media or to police, and early on stopped taking calls from Petito’s family. It was also revealed that Brian Laundrie placed several calls to his mother before returning home, including one that lasted 55 minutes before Roberta Laundrie retained an attorney for her son.
Naturally that led many to the belief that the Laundrie family knew Petito was dead from the beginning and was covering for their son. And troubling portrait of Gabby and Brian’s relationship has also emerged both during and after the search for their bodies.
Bodycam footage from a police encounter when the couple was stopped in Moab, Utah days before the murder painted a troubling picture of the relationship, and the Netflix documentary contained a photo from minutes before that stop which showed Petito with marks around her eyes, leading many to believe that Laundrie was both physically and emotionally abusive. And text messages revealed during the Netflix documentary include one from Gabby to Brian asking him to stop yelling at her, and another from him getting angry about Gabby getting a job at Taco Bell.
The tragic case has led to increased awareness of the signs of domestic violence, and the Petito family has since launched a foundation in her honor to help victims of domestic abuse.
But according to Brian Laundrie’s sister, Cassie Laundrie…her brother was actually the victim of domestic violence.
After the release of the documentary, a post from an Instagram account apparently belonging to Cassie has gone viral. In the post from November 2024, Cassie Laundrie claims that she had told law enforcement and media about the violence her brother had allegedly suffered from
Now, there were no reports about Brian Laundrie being a domestic violence victim at the time of the search, and you would think the media would be all over that if it had been reported to them. But maybe she told them and they decided that it wasn’t credible, or sat on her allegations for some reason?
But folks in the comments clearly weren’t buying Cassie’s allegations:
“Has it ever occurred to you that the “dv” you witnessed was actually Gabby defending herself and having valid reactions to Brian’s abuse? Because all signs point to that being the case.”
“This is honestly why he thought he could kill someone and get away with it. Because people in his life like you who made excuses for his behavior instead of getting him help. You contributed to the outcome even if it is a little bit”
“Your brother killed someone. He is no victim. A 110 pound little girl, who witnesses saw being hit, whose phone records show your brothers manipulations is now no longer living because he chose to end her life. He could have broken up with her, and not gone on the van trip. But he chose to isolate her, and take her from this earth. May peace never be found for any of yall.”
“Your brother was the abuser. Gabby was not. Point blank period. There’s no “narrative” other than the one where you blindly believe your brother and enable his poor behavior.”
A post from this week after the documentary this week also claims that Cassie has not had any contact with her parents for two years, and claims that the Netflix series misrepresents what she told authorities:
Cassie Laundrie went with Brian and their family to a campsite in a Florida park on September 6, after Brian had returned from Florida in the couple’s van. But she has always maintained that she didn’t realize Gabby was missing until her parents filed a report on September 11, 2021.
