Slain US woman Gabby Petito asked partner Brian Laundrie to 'stop calling her names' in letter

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The FBI has released a collection of documents from their investigation of Petito's death in 2021.

, signaling tensions between the couple prior to the 2021 road trip that would end with Laundrie killing his 22-year-old fiancée.

While it's unclear when the letter was written, Petito references plans to work together on the van that they would later take on the trip, which ended late in the summer of 2021 with Petito's disappearance. She was found more than a week after her parents reported her missing, strangled in Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest. The coroner determined she had been dead for three to four weeks before being found.

Also included are scores of photographs of items recovered by authorities after the execution of a search warrant on September 20, 2021, including Petito's letter to Laundrie. The address where the warrant was executed is redacted, but the records indicate they stemmed from an investigation in North Port.

The incident – now at the heart of a lawsuit by Petito's parents against the Moab Police Department – occurred after a witness "saw Brian hit Gabby," according toThe footage shows Moab police officers talking to Petito and Laundrie, who admitted having a fight in which Petito said she struck her fiancé first. The officers let the couple go after they agreed to spend the night apart.

 

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