Crime & Safety
Brian Laundrie’s Parents Slam Netflix Gabby Petito Documentary
An attorney for Brian Laundrie's parents said a new Netflix documentary about Gabby Petito's death has "many inaccuracies," a report said.
SARASOTA COUNTY, FL — Days after the Netflix release of the documentary “American Murder: Gabby Petito,” the parents of Petito’s killer, her fiance, Brian Laundrie, slammed the film.
Steve Bertolino, the attorney for Chris and Roberta Laundrie, told The Independent that the three-part series, which debuted Feb. 17, contains “many inaccuracies” and “omissions of fact.”
Their son, Brian Laundrie, strangled Petito, his fiancée, to death in August 2021 at a Wyoming campground while they were taking a cross-country trip.
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The young couple, aspiring vloggers originally from New York, lived with Laundrie’s parents in North Port, Florida, before embarking on their “van life” journey during the summer of 2021.
After strangling her, Laundrie left her body at a campsite in Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest, where she was found nearly a month later on Sept. 19, 2021.
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Laundrie returned in her van to his parents' house in Florida. Multiple law enforcement agencies across the country undertook a massive investigation into her disappearance, while Laundrie refused to speak with them.
He later took his own life, shooting himself in the head in a Sarasota County park in September of that year.
His remains and a handwritten confession to killing Petito were found in October 2021. He left his confession in his notebook, claiming he strangled her out of mercy after she fell into a ravine and was injured.
Bertolino told E! News that the retelling of Petito's death was exactly what Laundrie’s family “expected.”
“One perspective depicted as the 'truth' as seen through their lens,” Bertolino said in a statement. “Each side believes their perspective is correct. Hard to see through the lens of the other with all the noise and distrust.”
He added, “The documentary contained many inaccuracies, incorrect juxtapositions of timelines, and misstatements and omissions of fact — perhaps deliberate to capture their 'truth,’ perhaps due to simple error. We all know Brian took Gabby's life and Brian then took his own, as well.”
He never specified what these inaccuracies with the documentary were.
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