According to body camera footage, Gabby Petit told police that her “downer” fiancĂ© didn’t think she could make it as a travel influential person.


A still image of a police body camera showing Gabby Petit outside a police car on August 12. She looks upset.

Gabby Petit outside the police car on August 12th. MCPD

  • She was cross-examined by police about a month before Gabby Petit was reported missing.

  • After Petit and her boyfriend were pulled, she told officers he was a “downer.”

  • Petito said he didn’t believe he could start his career as a travel blogger.

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About a month before she was reported missing, Gabby Petit tearfully told police officers that her boyfriend didn’t believe in her dreams.22 years old who disappeared Attracting the attention of people all over the worldWas handed over in Utah on August 12th. She told police that her boyfriend, Brian Laundry, was a “downer” because of the new release. Body camera image..

“I just quit my job to travel all over the country, and I’m about to start a blog, a travel blog, so I’m building my website,” Petito said by Utah police. You can hear what you’re saying in the released recording September 16th. “I’m really stressed and he really doesn’t believe I can do anything.”

Police officers in the city of Moab, who pulled Petito and Laundrie, instructed Petito to leave the couple’s van and stand a few feet away to answer the question. Petito explained that he quit his job as a dietitian and recorded a cross-country road trip with Laundrie.Interested person“With the disappearance of Petit.

Petito was reported missing on September 11, ten days after Laundry returned to North Port, Florida by van without her.Laundry ever since Refused to talk to authorities about PetitoDespite the police and her family begging him to help him find her.

Petito’s disappearance has received widespread attention as he has recorded and posted road trips on Instagram and YouTube. “Van Life” travel vlog With Laundrie under the name Nomadic Statik.

Officer in Moab on August 12 Consider charging Petito In domestic violence after she said she slapped Laundry in the middle of a dispute and hit him again while they were being pulled. Police refused to prosecute Petit after saying she did not intend to physically hurt or hurt the laundromat. Petito said Laundrie needed to settle down first and stopped her entering the van early.

“I was trying to keep him from telling him to calm down,” she says in the footage.

In a later police report, police described the incident as a “mental health crisis,” with Petit in Van and Laundry in a hotel room, choosing to separate the couple overnight.

Petito and Laundrie have been together for over two years when she disappeared. They started dating in March 2019 and moved to Florida together. Therefore, Laundry proposed in July 2020. Petit’s mother, daughter and Laundry talked to the outlet. Canceled their engagementBefore going on a road trip in July, they felt they were too young to get married.

Laundrie representatives did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.

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