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Mother Knows Death, starring Nicole and Jenny and Maria Kuk. Hi, everyone. Welcome to Mother Knows Death.

Today's episode is going to be very heavy and just a little bit different than any

kind of episode we've really ever done here on Mother Knows Death.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and we're going to talk to our friend Jim

Schmidt. Jim is a former firefighter who now travels the country, educating first responders

to help both recognize and prevent domestic violence. You may have seen Jim in the news over the

past few years because his daughter, Gabby Petito, was murdered by her fiance, Brian Laundry.

Jim is a co-founder of the Gabby Petito Foundation, and today we're not only going to talk to

Jim about Gabby's tragic ending, but also what their family went through

over the past few years and what he's been going through. And we're hoping that we could just

bring some awareness to domestic violence today. So before we get started today with Jim's interview,

we're going to give you a brief overview of Gabby's story for those of you who are unfamiliar.

Yeah, because, you know, sometimes when we have guests on, we have to interrupt them to clarify some

details and we want them to just be able to speak freely and not have to keep interrupting what he has to say.

So we'll just give you the basics of this case.

So basic background is Gabby was a travel vlogger in her early 20s from New York,

but she had been living with her fiancé Brian Laundry at his parents' home in Florida.

They had met in high school only dated for about a year before getting engaged.

So they were really young in their early 20s.

So together they went around in a white camper van and documented their travels for social media.

And this case kind of goes back to 2021 when everything went downhill.

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