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TAMPA, Florida – Brian Laudry presented his strangulation of Gabby Petito as an act of mercy and “unexpected tragedy” in a shocking, handwritten confession found near his remains in October and unveiled just Friday. Experts quickly set about analyzing his story.
He claims that she is “very shaky”, “chilling” and has obvious injuries before he killed her and set out on the road to his own suicide.
Longtime medical experts Dr. Michael Baden, Cyril Wecht and Brent Blue, the last of whom performed the autopsy on Petito, 22, in late 2021, spoke to Fox News Digital on Friday just hours after details of Laudry’s confession were announced. John Kelly, a criminal profiler and psychotherapist who has interviewed many killers, and Jason Jenson, a private detective, did the same. Landry, 23, scribbled eight notebook pages with notes he left before shooting himself and killing himself in a Florida eco-park.
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Brian Laudry (principal) and an inserted photo of part of the note Landry left behind (Michael Ruiz / Fox News Digital)
Fox News Digital was the first to announce the details of the note. Laudry wrote how he “interrupted her life” because “he thought it was merciful that this was what she wanted.”
“He was circling the confession on his toes. He wanted to present it as a murder at the mercy, “Kelly, the crime profiler, told Fox News Digital. “That’s the thing that annoys me more than anything.”
Laundrie claims that he and Petito were “trying to cross a stream” when they heard “splashes and screams.”
“I couldn’t find her for a moment, I called her name. I found her breathing hard, panting my name, it was chilling,” he wrote. “When I pulled Gabby out of the water, she couldn’t tell me what was hurting me. There was a small swelling on his forehead, which eventually became larger. Her legs and wrist ached, but she froze, trembling violently as she carried it. she kept making sounds of pain, lying next to her, she said a little, shifting between strong shakes, gasping in pain, praying to stop her pain. “
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He added: “I don’t know the extent of Gabby’s injuries (sic). But she was in a lot of pain.”
Kelly scoffs at this version of events: “He found her breathing hard and panting, so he decided to strangle her? “An unexpected tragedy is when you get in a car accident or you slip and fall and God forbid someone gets hurt really badly.”
Dr. Blue, a Teton County coroner in Wyoming, described Petito’s death as a homicide resulting from manual strangulation and blunt force trauma to the head and neck. He told Fox News Digital on Friday that he was limited in what he could discuss on the case.
“In any case, euthanasia is not legal in any country, everywhere. Euthanasia is murder.”
– Dr. Cyril Wecht to Fox News Digital
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“Under Wyoming’s law, all I can reveal is her name, her birthday, and the cause and manner of her death,” he said when he was received over the phone. The Coroner’s Office did not release the Petito autopsy report.
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Jen Bethune, who was in the Wyoming area at the time of Petito’s death, disputed Landry’s claims about the temperature. Bethune told Fox News Digital that the weather was around 40, instead of 38 degrees Fahrenheit, which Laundrie claims.
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“He is circling the confession on his toes. He wanted to present it as a murder by mercy. That’s the thing that irritates me more than anything. “
“John Kelly, a criminal profiler.”
Even if Petito had suffered hypothermia before her death, her remains would probably not have shown such signs, explained Dr. Wecht, who has not worked on the case and has not been barred from talking about it. If her body has been hypothermic or has been exposed to such low temperatures for an extended period of time, the forensic pathologist will probably not be able to tell unless the condition is “severe and prolonged.”
And even then, Wecht told Fox News Digital, the length of time it takes for the body to recover will also play a role. But Wecht said severe tremors were not a sign of severe hypothermia.
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Police in Moab, Utah, stopped Brian Landry on Aug. 12 after allegedly beating Gabby Petito in public. (Moab City Police Department)
“Hypothermia, in the beginning you will be hellishly cold … But then, when the hypothermia becomes significant, then you do not tremble, you do not move,” he said. “In fact, in surgery, they put patients in a hypothermic state. Everything is slowing down significantly.
“Laundrie could connect to another camper or call 911 in just a few minutes.”
“Jason Jenson, private detective.”
Both Kelly and Jenson, a Utah-based private detective investigating the case, also found it hard to believe the story of Petito’s fall into a shallow creek.
“He wrote this farcical story about her falling and injuring himself while crossing the Spread Creek, and he described how he couldn’t leave her,” Jenson said, calling it an “attempt to rewrite history.”
Gabby Petito in a photo without a date. (North Port Police)
He left her somewhere in late August. Search teams found her remains on September 19th.
Landry’s attempt to portray Petitto’s death as a murder by mercy, strangling her on the spot instead of dragging her to the car and going for help, made no sense, Kelly said.
“I don’t believe in all these things about accidents, because how can you say you love someone so much, you can’t go on without her, you love her so much that you’re ready to commit suicide like Romeo and Juliet?” Kelly asked. “She is injured and you will not go to her for help. And not only will you not do more, but you will not even announce that she has disappeared.
Gabby Petito, left, and Brian Landry are seen on camera footage released by the Moab City Police Department in Utah. (Moab City Police Department)
Dr. Baden, who was New York’s chief medical examiner and performed more than 20,000 autopsies in his five or more decades as a forensic pathologist, said there was some information, though not much, indicating signs of gastric bleeding in result of severe hypothermia.
“In general, hypothermia does not cause injuries that are easily detected at autopsy. There is some information that there may be minor bleeding in the stomach at very severe cold depths,” he explained. “But it’s in the weeds. It’s the weeds of forensic pathology.”
He also had no attachment to the case.
Gabby Petito poses for a photo on Instagram in Bryce Canyon National Park. (Gabi Petito’s family)
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If Petito had been injured, as Laudry claims he fears, such an injury would not have been apparent during the autopsy, Baden and Wecht said.
“Nothing will show in the brain,” Wecht said.
However, if so, Kelly said that based on existing signs of domestic violence, he thought it would be intentional.
“If she was hit on the head, it was by him,” he said. “I don’t think this is an accident.”
Gabby Petito Memorial in Florida. (Michael Ruiz / Fox News Digital)
Wecht has been involved in some of the country’s most notorious death investigations, including those involving President John F. Kennedy and John Bennett Ramsey. Baden has also been implicated in high-profile cases, such as the death of a financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“In any case, euthanasia is not legal in any state, everywhere,” Wecht added. “Euthanasia is murder.”
In addition to the limited details published about the autopsy, Laudry’s handwritten confession also sheds light on Gabby’s last moments – and his logic of murder.
Patrick Riley, a lawyer representing Petito’s family, told Fox News Digital in front of the FBI building that he could not comment on Friday. Family aide Richard Stafford did not respond immediately.
Laundrie’s parents, for their part, felt “terrible” on Friday, according to their lawyer Steve Bertolino.
Attorney Pat Riley left the FBI office in Tampa on Friday. (Michael Ruiz / Fox News Digital)
Even in his confession, an apparent apology, he runs away from responsibility.
“He said he ended her life,” Jenson said. “He can’t admit I killed her.”
Kelly, a criminal profiler, said the letter, along with Laudry’s past behavior on a police cell in Moab, Utah, and in an alleged fight with a waiter at Jackson’s restaurant shortly before Petito’s death, showed signs of extremely narcissistic personality disorder and sociopathic disorder.
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These events were also proof of a model, according to Jenson.
“The truth is, he killed her because he was a domestic abuser,” Jensen said. “He strangled her and he had done it before. The fact was suggested about their battle on August 12 in Moab. ”
A scene from one of Petito’s travel videos on the blog. (Gabby Petito / YouTube)
He then left her in the Wyoming desert, alone, and returned home to Florida in her van and spent his money. Before shooting himself in the head in one of his favorite local parks, he went camping with his family, spent time with his nephews, and ignored Petito’s parents as they desperately searched for information about her whereabouts.
“The only thing I give him credit for, in a sense, …
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