The boyfriend of murdered young traveler Gabby Petito, who was considered a “person of interest for the investigation“on the murder of his fiancée, committed suicide by a bullet in the head, according to the lawyer of his family.
Brian Laundrie’s remains were found on October 20 in a Florida nature reserve. The 23-year-old refused to answer investigators’ questions, creating doubt in public opinion about his possible role in the assassination, before disappearing.
The body of Gabby Petito, 22, whose disappearance caused commotion beyond US borders, was found on September 19 near Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. According to the autopsy, she was strangled.
Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito had left New York in July for a trip supposed to last four months and whose stages, in the grandiose settings of the national parks of the American West, were regularly shared on Instagram and YouTube, through photos and videos. .
But the young man with the shaved head had returned earlier than expected – and alone – on September 1, when Gabby Petito’s parents had not heard from her since the end of August. A video released in September by police in Moab, Utah, had heightened the disturbance over the young man’s personality.
“She gets angry sometimes“, he declared in particular to the agents, called for a marital dispute, while Gabby Petito appeared in tears, in a car.
The media coverage given to the disappearance of the young woman had fueled the debate on the attention given to the disappearances of white women, considered disproportionate to the cases of people from minorities.
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