In letter, Gabby Petito asked her boyfriend who later killed her to stop insulting her, FBI documents show

Gabby Petito wrote a letter to the abusive boyfriend who would later kill her, asking him to stop insulting her, documents released by the FBI in the 2021 murder case show.

Petito in the letter, part of more than 350 pages of documents released by the FBI, tells Brian Laundrie that they are supposed to be a team.

“Please stop crying and stop insulting me because we are a team and I am here with you,” said Petito, who was 22 when Laundrie killed her and left her body in Wyoming, in the handwritten letter. The date of the letter was not immediately clear.

Laundrie, Petito’s fiancé, killed her while they were on a cross-country trip in the summer of 2021, which she documented on YouTube and Instagram.

Attorneys who represented the Petito and Laundrie families in the past could not immediately be reached early Tuesday morning for comment on the documents released by the FBI.

A search and the mystery of what happened to her gained attention after Laundrie returned to his Florida home in the van they were in – without her.

Petito’s remains were found in September of that year in the Spread Creek Dispersed Camping Area in Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest.

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A month earlier, on August 12, police in Moab, Utah, responded to what a later study found should have been treated as a domestic violence call involving the couple. A person reported a A “strange text” on Aug. 27 was the last contact anyone had with her, according to the documents.

Laundrie later committed suicide and admitted he was responsible for Petito’s death in written statements found in a notebook near his body in a Florida nature preserve. He shot himself, the medical examiner ruled. Petito had been strangled, a Wyoming coroner determined.

Other documents in the FBI file, some of which are redacted, include evidence logs and photos of mundane objects like books, sneakers and backpacks.

Some documents detail reports from people who thought they saw Petito at gas stations in Utah.

Petito’s disappearance was the subject of intense media coverage. There has also been criticism of the amount of media coverage and attention given to a missing young white woman, compared to other missing people.

Petito’s parents recently said they want to encourage the public to pay more attention to other missing people, whose families also want their loved ones to return.

“There’s no demographic, no race, no country that hasn’t helped us and so we’re going to try to do the same and give that back to them,” Petito’s father, Joe Petito, said. at Tampa’s WFLA, an NBC affiliate.

The family shares information about other missing people on their website and hopes more awareness will be given to other missing people.