Gabby Petito Asked Brian Laundrie To 'Stop Calling Me Names': Letter

FLORIDA — An emotional Gabby Petito penned a handwritten letter to fiancée Brian Laundrie and expressed her love for him sometime before she was killed at the hands of Laundrie in 2021, newly released federal documents of 366 pages show.

Fiancées Petito and Laundrie, aspiring vloggers originally from Long Island, 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. He later confessed to the killing in a handwritten note before taking his own life.

Page 134 of the documents released by the FBI include a letter from Petito to Laundrie, a letter she said she wrote "with love." The documents, which show evidence photos and accounts from witnesses who claim to have seen or spoken to Petito, were shared by NBC News.

It is unknown when Petito wrote the letter.

"You know how much I love you. Just please stop crying and stop calling me names because we're a team, and I'm here for you. I'm always going to have your back. ... and I just love you too much, like so much, it hurts," Petito wrote.

In the letter, she makes mention of returning from New York and said Laundrie being in pain is "killing" her.

"I'm not trying to be negative, but I'm frustrated there's not more I can do," Petito wrote.

A frantic Laundrie called his parents up to 20 times two days after Petito's death. During the calls, the 23-year-old told his parents that Petito was “gone” and he needed a lawyer, Patch previously reported.

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After Brian's calls, his parents asked another attorney, Steve Bertolino, to send their son $25,000 so he could retain a Wyoming-based law firm, but the Laundries maintained in court that they did not know what had happened to Petito at the time.

Laundrie took his own life in September 2021, shooting himself in the head in a Sarasota County park.

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.

Petito's remains were found in September 2021 in Spread Creek Dispersed Camping Area in Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming, NBC News reported.

Laundrie and Petito's families reached a confidential settlement in a civil lawsuit filed in Sarasota County, avoiding a trial, Patch previously reported in February.

Nicole Schmidt, Petito's mother, said in early June that she forgives Laundrie but could not bring herself to forgive his mother and her "evil ways."