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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

FRIDAY NIGHT SPECIAL: SHOCK QUERY - DID KILLER BRIAN LAUNDRIE'S PARENTS KNOW GABBY WAS MURDERED?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

After weeks of speculation,  the announcement finally came. The Teton County, Wyoming, coroner, Dr. Brent Blue, released that Gabby Petito died by strangulation. Petito’s boyfriend Brian Laundrie quickly became a person of interest.  News broke of a domestic violence issue in Moab where Gabby was made to be the aggressor.  Brian Laundrie returned to his Florida home on September 1 without Gabby, but with the converted camper van the couple had been traveling in on their cross-country road trip. He used Gabby's money to fund his cross-country drive back. No one told the Petitos where their daughter was or where she went missing.  Then Brian Laundrie went missing himself. His remains were later found after he committed suicide, still with no news about Gabby.

Questions arose about what parents Chris and Roberta Laundrie knew about Gabby's disappearance and then death. The Laundries  were the subject of a civil lawsuit filed by Gabby Petito's parents, who alleged that the Laundries inflicted emotional distress by acting with knowledge of Petito's death and the location of her body, which the Laundries denied. In depositions related to the lawsuit, Brian's parents admitted Brian told them Gabby was "gone" and that he needed a lawyer, while denying they knew she was dead.  Gabby's dad Joe, and stepmom, Tara, joined Nancy Grace at Crime Con 2025 and in the studio, to discuss  how the Petitos learned of their daughter's death, as well as how they have dealt with the knowledge that Brian Laundrie's parents reportedly knew Gabby was dead and did not share the information.  The Petitos also share about their latest philanthropic project, the Laramie Project to provide a security fence for a Laramie domestic Violence shelter. 

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.8

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

0:10.8

Good evening, everybody. I'm Nancy Grace, and this is the Friday night special crime stories.

0:19.3

And tonight, shock query. Did killer Brian Laundry's parents, his mother and

0:26.3

father, no, Gabby Petito, had been murdered. Did they know that all along? Refusing to let her

0:37.3

parents know and launch a wild goose chase for their daughter?

0:43.3

Tonight, joining us Gabby Petito's dad and stepmom.

0:51.3

Not only are they analyzing what happened then, but wait until you hear what they are doing

0:59.4

now, what they are doing for other crime victims. It's amazing. I'm Nancy Grace. This is

1:08.5

Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us.

1:11.2

I just, I don't want to try to defend myself by saying.

1:26.1

And everybody pushed her way, she gets really worked up. And when she knows, she swings, and she had her cell phone in her hand. So I was just trying to push her leg right on. I was just really stressed this morning trying to get a lot of work done. And I was apologizing. I had thrown enough of stuff in the back, all our bags are back then. I was just apologizing.

1:44.4

I was like, I'm sorry that I get so stressed out.

1:48.8

Okay.

1:50.0

How in the world was Brian Laundry deemed the victim in that scenario?

1:57.7

Did you hear that?

1:58.7

How many times have women been victimized and the man says, quote, she really gets worked up?

2:09.4

Then you see Gabby, who was murdered, apologizing.

2:20.6

It, like, it's my fault because she threw something in the back seat.

2:33.8

Just so you know, the police pulled them over after reports had occurred of Brian Laundry beating Gabby Petito, slapping her in the face on Main Street.

2:39.2

Why am I emphasizing Main Street?

2:41.0

Because if he would do that on Main Street, what would he do in private, i.e., out in dispersed

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