New Gabby Petito Lawsuit Filing Reveals Brian Laundrie’s ‘Mental and Emotional Threat’ Weeks Before Murder

Lawyers for the family of slain travel blogger Gabby Petito, whose disappearance and murder captivated the nation for months in 2021, say they've uncovered evidence showing that her boyfriend and killer, Brian Laundrie, was an "emotional and mental threat to Gabby" in the weeks before her death.

The evidence was unveiled in a court filing late Wednesday – after the lawyers for Joseph Petito and Nichole Schmidt revealed transcripts of an interview between a Moab police officer who encountered the couple, and a Price police captain who conducted an independent review of the incident.

Roughly two weeks before Laundrie is believed to have strangled and bludgeoned Petito to death at a campsite in the Bridger-Teton National Forest north of Jackson, Wyoming, the couple was involved in a domestic violence incident in Moab, Utah, where witnesses told police they saw him hitting her in public.