#387: Analyzing Gabby Petito's Murderer's "Confession" - Part 2

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🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Laura and Jim conclude their analysis of the "confession" written by Brian Laundrie about the death of Gabby Petito.

Here is the letter in its entirety.

“Gabby, I wish I was right at your side, I wish I could be talking to you right now. I’d be going through every memory we made, getting even more excited for the future. But [we] lost our future. I can’t [live] without you. I’ve lost every day we [could’ve] spent together, every holiday. I’ll never get to play with [illegible] again. Never go hiking with TJ. I loved you more than anything. I can’t bear to look at our photos, to recall great times because it is why I cannot go on. When I close my eyes, I will think of laughing on the roof of the van, falling asleep to the sight of [illegible] at the crystal geyser. I will always love you.”

“If you were reading Gabs’ journal, looking at photos from our life together, flipping through old cards you wouldn’t want to live a day without her. Knowing that everyday you’ll wake up without her, you wouldn’t want to wake up. I’m sorry to everyone this will affect, Gabby was the love of my life, but I know [adored] by many. I’m so very sorry to her family because I love them. I’d [consider] her younger siblings my best of friends… I am sorry to my family, this [is] a shock to them as well a terrible grief.”

“They loved as much, if not more than me. A new daughter to my mother, an aunt to my nephews. Please do not make this harder for them, this [occurred] as an unexpected tragedy. Rushing back to our car trying to cross the streams of [illegible] Spread Creek before it got too dark to see, too cold. I hear a splash and a scream. I could barely see. I couldn’t find her for a moment, shouted her name. I found her breathing heavily, gasping my name [illegible.] She was freezing cold. [Illegible] We had just came from the blazing hot national parks in Utah.”

“The temperature had dropped to freezing and she was soaking wet. I carried her as far as I could from the stream toward the car, stumbling, exhausted in shock, when my knees buckled[illegible] and knew I couldn’t safely carry her. I started a fire and spooned her as close to the heat. She was so thin, had already been freezing too long. I couldn’t at the time realize that I should’ve started a fire first but I wanted her out of the cold back to the car. From where I started the fire I had no idea how far the car might be, only knew it was across the creek.”

“When I pulled Gabby out of the water, she couldn’t tell me what hurt. She had a small [bump] on her forehead that [eventually] got larger. Her feet hurt, her [wrist] hurt but she was freezing, shaking violently. While carrying her she continually made sounds of pain. Laying next to her she said little, [lapsing] between violent shakes, gasping in pain, begging for an end to her pain. She would fall asleep and I would shake her awake, fearing she shouldn’t close her eyes if she had a concussion.”

“She would wake in pain, start her whole painful cycle again [illegible] She was furious that I was the one waking her. She wouldn’t let me try to cross the creek, thought like me that the fire would go out in her sleep and she’d freeze. I don’t know the extend of Gabby’s injuries, only that she was in extreme pain. I ended her life, I thought it was merciful, that it is what she wanted but I see now all the mistakes I made. I panicked, I was in shock. But from the moment I decided, took away her pain, I knew I couldn’t go on without her.”

“I rushed home to spend any time I had left with my family. I wanted to drive north and let James or TJ kill me but I wouldn’t want them to spend time in jail over my mistake, even though I’m sure they would have liked to. I am ending my life not because of a fear of punishment but rather because I can’t stand to live another day without her. I’ve lost our whole future together, every moment we could have [shared.] I’m sorry for everyone’s loss. Please do not make life harder for my family, they lost a son and a daughter. The most wonderful girl in the world. Gabby I’m sorry.”

“I have killed myself by this creek in the hopes that animals may tear me apart. That it may make some of her family happy.”

“Please pick up all of my things. Gabby hated people who litter.”

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0:00.0	A. Prime members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:07.0	Yeah, you know, right? It's interesting because we have this, what you said, novel approach, this case, right?
0:14.4	This intentional affliction of emotional distress, which requires extreme outrageous conduct.
0:20.4	And in here, that conduct that they're claiming is extreme and outrageous is too thin.
0:25.2	One, not talking, and two, the statement made by the attorney that they hope Gabi Petito has found.
0:32.6	All making that statement, knowing under their contention anyway, the mispetito has already died.
0:39.2	The problem with this is it relies on that assumption that Mr. Petito has already died and that the parents knew that she had died and where she was.
1:10.2	Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile. This is Jim Clemente, retired FBI Profile at Foreign New York City Prosecutor and writer producer of CBS's Criminal Minds.
1:24.2	And what we today is Laura Richards, Criminal Behavioral Analyst, former New Scotland Yard, an author of the book,
1:31.8	Cleasing Domestic Violence and Host of the Podcast Crime Analyst. I'm Lisa Zambetti, casting director, CBS's Criminal Minds.
1:39.4	And we are continuing. Jim and Laura are using a microscope to go virtually line by line through Brian Laundrie's quote unquote in inverted commas confession.
1:51.6	So why don't we just jump right back into it?
1:55.0	As we get to the next paragraph, if you read Lisa, you'll see he goes back in time.
2:01.6	When I pulled Gabi out of the water, she couldn't tell me what hurt. She had a small bump on her forehead that eventually got larger.
2:10.0	Her feet hurt, her wrist hurt, but she was freezing shaking violently. While carrying her, she continually made sounds of pain.
2:18.4	Laying next to her, she said little lapsing between violent shakes, gasping and pain, begging for an end to her pain.
2:28.4	She would fall asleep and I would shake her awake, fearing she shouldn't close her eyes if she had a concussion.
2:34.2	Marlowe.
2:35.2	All right. So again, we go back in time for some reason. He doesn't continue this chronological rendition of what supposedly happened.
2:48.2	He now goes back and tells us out of order that when he pulled her out of the water, she couldn't tell me what hurt.
2:56.2	The next sentence, he says, well, skip a sentence. She says, her feet hurt, her wrist hurt. She couldn't tell me, but she tells him.
3:08.2	So right there, he's contradicting himself.
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