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Agence France-Presse

The fiancé of Gabby Petito, a social media influencer whose disappearance and death gripped America last year, confessed to her killing in writing before taking his life, the FBI said Friday.
Brian Laundrie killed himself amid suspicion about his possible role in the young woman’s death as the two of them took a cross-country road trip, filming themselves along the way and posting the videos online.
His body was found on October 20 in a nature reserve in Florida along with some belongings, including a notebook.
“A review of the notebook revealed written statements by Mr Laundrie claiming responsibility for Ms Petito’s death,” the FBI said in a statement.

New FBI Gabby Petito/Brian Laundrie timeline released here:https://t.co/WlfdkYGWlV
— Brian Entin (@BrianEntin) January 21, 2022

The FBI probe did not identify anyone else involved in the death of Petito, it said.
The 23-year-old Laundrie had disappeared in September, soon after police described him as a “person of interest” in the investigation into Petito’s death.
Petito’s family, after talking to the FBI, said they were convinced Laundrie killed their 22-year-old daughter.
“The quality and quantity of the facts and information collected by the FBI leave no doubt that Brian Laundrie murdered Gabby,” the family said in a statement released by their lawyers.
Gabby Petito’s fiancé Brian Laundrie found dead in Florida wilderness
The Petito case caused a huge media stir in the United States for weeks. Petito and Laundrie had left New York in July to tour the western United States in a van for four months after Petito quit her job.
For days, they published images on social networks in which they were seen smiling on what appeared to be an idyllic road trip.
But on September 1, Laundrie returned without his girlfriend to North Port, Florida, where they both lived with his family.
His attitude raised suspicions about his role in her disappearance, especially after he refused to answer police questions and then fled on September 13.

Petito’s body was found on September 19 in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park, and on October 12 police announced she had been strangled to death.
A video released in September by police in Moab, a small town in Utah, further raised suspicions around Laundrie. In the images, Petito could be seen crying in a car after police intervened in a dispute she had with him.
Petito’s story is all too common in a country where hundreds of thousands of people go missing every year.
But the non-stop media attention devoted to the case sparked controversy over the disproportionate attention paid to the disappearances of white women compared to those from minority groups.
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Gabby Petito’s fiancé confessed to her killing before own death, FBI says

Gabby Petito had been travelling with fiancé Brian Laundrie. Photo: Gabby Petito via Instagram

Police camera footage shows Gabby Petito talking to an officer and crying after police intervened in a dispute she had with Brian Laundrie. Their vehicle was pulled over near the entrance to Arches National Park in August. Photo: The Moab Police Department via AP

Widespread Gabby Petito coverage highlights ‘missing white woman syndrome’, US activists say

Gabby Petito was found in Wyoming earlier this week. Photo: Handout

In this undated photo provided by her niece Seraphine Warren, Navajo rug weaver Ella Mae Begay, 62, is shown. Begay is one of thousands of missing Indigenous women in the U.S. Warren is organizing a 150-mile walk starting at Begay's home in the Navajo Nation community of Sweetwater, Ariz., on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021, to draw attention to the case amid renewed calls to highlight missing people of color following widespread coverage of a white woman who disappeared in Wyoming. (AP Photo)

This undated photo provided by David Robinson shows his son, Daniel Robinson, in Arizona. The 24-year-old geologist went missing from a field site outside of Phoenix in June 2021. The disappearance of Gabby Petito, a white 22-year-old woman who went missing in Wyoming in August during a cross-country trip with her boyfriend has brought new attention to a phenomena known as "missing white woman syndrome." (Courtesy of David Robinson via AP)

Missing US woman Jennifer Caridad. Photo: Handout

A woman place flowers during a candlelight vigil for travel blogger Gabby Petito, whose body was discovered in a remote corner of the Bridger-Teton National Forest after travelling with her boyfriend, in Blue Point, New York, U.S., September 24, 2021. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

Mourners pay respects to murdered woman Gabby Petito at New York funeral home

Mourners at the funeral home viewing of Gabby Petito at Moloney’s Funeral Home in Holbrook, New York on Sunday. Photo: AP

A woman places flowers on a fence during Gabby Petito's memorial service in Holbrook, New York, U.S., September 26, 2021. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

A photo of Gabby Petito, included in a Facebook about her disappearance by the North Port Police Department in Florida, the lead agency in the missing person case. (North Port Police Department/TNS)

Gabby Petito strangled 3-4 weeks before body found, coroner says

A photo of Gabby Petito, included in a Facebook post about her disappearance by the North Port Police Department in Florida. Photo: North Port Police Department via TNS

FILE PHOTO: Gabrielle Petito, 22, who was reported missing on Sept. 11, 2021 after traveling with her boyfriend around the country in a van and never returned home, poses for a photo with Brian Laundrie in this undated handout photo. North Port/Florida Police/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 20, 2021, a makeshift memorial dedicated to missing Gabby Petito is located near City Hall in North Port, Florida. - Gabby Petito, the young woman who died on a road trip across the United States with her boyfriend that she had chronicled on Instragram and YouTube, was strangled to death, the local coroner said October 12, 2021. (Photo by Octavio Jones / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

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Brian Laundrie admitted responsibility in a notebook that was found near his body after he took his own life
The US woman’s disappearance while on a road trip with her partner had caused a huge media stir



Brian Laundrie admitted responsibility in a notebook that was found near his body after he took his own life.


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Gabby Petito’s fiancé confessed to her killing before own death, FBI says

Brian Laundrie admitted responsibility in a notebook that was found near his body after he took his own life The US woman’s disappearance while on a road trip with her partner had caused a huge media stir

Brian Laundrie admitted responsibility in a notebook that was found near his body after he took his own life

The US woman’s disappearance while on a road trip with her partner had caused a huge media stir