You'd said, Brian's home, the van's home. Gabby's nowhere to be found.

Gabby loves that van. Oh, yeah. She wouldn't have given that van up. Your heart sinks. It's an indescribable feeling in your body. And you don't sleep, you don't eat. From that moment on, it's nonstop.

The interview you'll only see here, all four of Gabby's parents together speaking out.

I said, I'm going to bring our daughter home no matter what. I'm not leaving there until I have her.

Two people went on this vacation. You can't keep chocolate in Utah. And only one returned. Everybody wanted to find Gabby Petito.

The whole world was looking for her. It was. It was everywhere.

We've gotten leads from 30 countries. Spotings throughout Florida, as far north as the Appalachian Trail. This urgent search for Gabby Petito. Where is Gabby?

Where is Gabby? The text messages you haven't seen, what do they reveal?

I looked at Brian and I said, You better keep her safe. And he was like, I will.

Were there any red flags that this was coming?

I'm going to get my phone type by my mom. I didn't get that phone call. I think she even realized, I need to get the hell out of this.

We believe if a proper lethality assessment was done, she would be here to be alive today.

Gabby Petito never goes outside. Hello, hello. Good morning. Now to a case making national headlines. Tonight, this urgent search for Gabby Petito. Gabby Petito. Search Search for a missing woman, Gabby Petito. Disappearance of Gabby Petito. The 22-year-old who vanished on a cross country trip with her boyfriend. Gabby's family and those in the community who know and care for her are hoping for answers about her whereabouts.

The family is devastated.

Every day that this goes on, they get more and more desperate.

Whatever you can do to make sure my daughter comes home, I'm asking for that help. There's nothing else that matters to me now.

If anybody just has any information, any information nation out there.

This girl right here, this is what matters. That is it.

It's a story that captivated the nation.

Wow, on this Gabby Petito case.

Dominating social media and news coverage, now the subject of new headlines with a just-released docuseries. American murder, Gabby Petito, is now streaming on Netflix.

You know what is my absolute favorite part about the van?

Gabby Petito's parents and their spouses, who raised her as a unit for so many years sitting down together as a blended family. Marking. The whole world was looking for her.

We would have went to the edge of the Earth to find her.

We really had hope. We really did, because there's a million different scenarios that could play out just the same. Hurt in the wilderness, bad reception, all that stuff.

But it would all end in tragedy.

We're not the same people we were before this happened. There was life before and life after.

Everyone knows this story. When people hear her name, what is it that you want them to think about? That she wasn't just a victim. She was a person.

She was an artist. She loved life.

She loved adventure.

Gabby was a really good person. She really tried to get the best or see the best in people.

Gabby's parents told me reliving these horrific days is hard.

We share it to help others. We do it because the more we do it, the more people send us emails. It's Gabby's story that touched us. Thank you for doing what you do.

Gabby gave us a platform.

We could go cry all day.

What is that going to do? We're going to use it to try to help others as much as possible.

Gabby Petito was raised with so much love. Her mom, Nicole, and dad, Joe, split up when she was just a baby, and they both remarried their spouses, Tara and Jim, become part of the parental unit, all raising her together.

It was always about her first, and we'll figure out the rest.

We worked together as a team, and now we're even closer than ever.

If there wasn't four of us, I don't think we would be where we are today. We all have different strengths We all have weak moments.

If I'm down, Jim will call me up, Tara, to sit by my side. Nikki, she'll call us up, and we pick each other up.

Let's talk about Gabby. What was she like as a little girl?

She was easy in terms of just going with the flow. She was always up for whatever we were going to do. In that respect, it was easy. Sometimes she'd get in trouble. It didn't happen. She was a kid after all.

I still remember the first time I saw her. I could tell you exactly what she was wearing. She had these pigtails, and she comes bouncing out, and it was the brightest blue eyes, the biggest smile you've ever seen. That was the way she was ever since she was little all the way on up. Larger than life, she was just always happy and just…

Physically tiny. She was an amazing artist. We had a large kitchen island, and she would spread her artwork all over the island and just make masterpieces.

Gabby is the oldest of six, a loving older sister to her siblings from both sets of parents.

She was a great big sister.

As she was. One of six.

That's a lot of siblings.

A lot of siblings.

Gabby and her family live in Blue Point on Long Island, just outside of New York City. By high school, Gabby has a big circle of friends. One of them is a boy named Brian Laundry. Do you remember the moment she first started talking about Brian?

They had known each other in high school as friends.

He was a year older, so he had graduated and gone on, and then Gabby continued through and it wasn't until after she graduated that they reconnected. That's when we started to hear more about Brian and came to the realization that they were going to be more than just friends.

That's a weird feeling, I'm of her dad's.

Well, I never liked anyone that wanted to date my daughter because no one was really good enough for her, in my opinion.

Do you like him? What do you think of him when you realized that they were romantically involved?

I liked Brian. I thought he was interesting. He was very soft-spoken. He would sit and do art with Gabby's younger sisters. He got along with TJ, her brother, and he just He seemed like a nice person.

I mean, respectful. Always came in, shook your hand. Was nice, just quiet. He was just a quiet person.

After high school, Gabby and Brian start dating. When things get more serious, they eventually make the decision to move to Florida to be closer to Brian's family. They move in with Brian's parents. When she mentioned she wanted to move to Florida, what did you guys think of that?

She wanted to. She was over 18. You can't stop them from doing something like that, right?

I said to her, Do it if you think you feel like you want to, but you can always come home. At that point, she was almost 20, so I couldn't tell her no, but she was looking for my advice I think she asked all of us.

I wasn't against her going.

I just was like, make sure you take care of you. You are number one.

You are the most important.

Don't rely on somebody else. Make sure you just take care of you. Yeah, we wanted her to be independent. Make sure you get yourself a job that you can pay for things.

I'm curious what your relationship with Brian was like at this point.

When they were in New York still, I would see him and talk to him quite often. But once they got down to Florida, that relationship was very limited. I was talking to Gabby almost every day, but not Brian. Same for us.

But soon, Gabby and Brian take a big step.

I thought it was weird that she didn't want to tell us right away.

We found out on Facebook.

She loved Halloween.

It's one of her favorites.

Remember the Halloween she painted her face? She painted her own makeup.

We're lucky we have a lot of memories. We're lucky we have so many pictures of her. I'm so happy that she took as many as she did because that's what we have. That's what we have now.

This is the outer banks, I think.

Yeah, I took that in the outer Banks. Is that the best picture? She was a ham for the camera, that's for sure.

Oh, she never took a bad picture.

And this is why photos are so important. Annoy the kids, annoy the friends, annoy the family. Take the photos because you never know then when that's all you're going to have.

Gabby and Brian are now living in North Port, Florida, with Brian's parents. Did she say anything about that relationship?

There were a few incidents. Never anything with Brian. It was always like she always felt weird around the parents. I thought about that a lot. I was like, I wonder what's going on with the parents. What's the relationship like? But she would always assure me that it was fine.

Gabby makes a new friend in Florida who shares her first impression of Brian in the Netflix docuseries.

Hey, little birds. We were all going to the beach together, and he just sat back there and read his book while Gabby and I hung out. It felt like a parent was watching us on a playdate. It was very weird, but he was very nice. I do remember coming home and saying to my mom, she's like, How was it? How was her boyfriend? And I was like, He's a really nice guy, but there is something off about him.

But in July 2020, after dating a little over a year, Gabby and Brian go on a camping trip and get engaged.

Brian asked me to marry him, and I said, yes. You make life feel unreal, and every day is such a dream with you.

Her parents say they found out when someone congratulated the couple on Facebook.

I'm an old-school person. As an old-school person, the one thing you do is you go up to the father of the person you want to marry, and you ask him for their hand in marriage, or a parent, ask him for their hand in marriage. That didn't What happened? We found out on Facebook. All of us, we did.

Were you surprised? I thought it was weird. Now, looking back, I thought it was weird that she didn't want to tell us right away. That's something you get excited about.

She wasn't.

Yeah, maybe she wasn't. She was, but she wasn't.

She was excited about the planning. I feel like she was like, Yeah, I can plan this wedding, pick out dresses. She started a Pinterest page.

She wanted to do a beach wedding and all this stuff. And then COVID happened, and it stalled all of those plans. We're like, Listen, we can't travel. Your grandparents aren't going to travel. So she put it on the back shelf for a while there.

While the wedding planning seems to be on hold, Gabby and Brian make other big plans. They're going on an an adventure road tripping across the country. They get a small van that they were outfitting for the trip.

I love the van. The van looked amazing. Everything looked pretty.

That van was her pride and joy. She was really, really proud of that And we saw it was done really, really well.

Gabby and Brian weren't the only ones inspired to take off in a van during the pandemic. At the time, van life, as it's called online, was exploding.

Van life is exactly what it sounds. It's living in often a restored van or school bus and having this nomadic lifestyle where you can travel all around the country. It was growing in popularity, largely through Instagram and YouTube.

As parents, as she's about to set out on this van life adventure, are you going like, How are you going to feed yourself? How are you going to wash? Are you thinking about all those details?

No, yes, 100% because it was crazy because we would go camping. We had a small little travel trailer. When she was younger, she hated it. There was bugs, there was sand, there was dirt, and she wasn't really big into it. As she started getting into that type of stuff, I'm like, Is this the same person? When she showed us the setup, we have this cooler that it plugs in. It's 12 volt. It can turn it into a freezer. Here's our portable sink inside. This is how the sink works. Here's a portable shower that catches rainwater. I'm like, You're doing all this?

The solar power.

Solar power to heat it and all this crazy stuff. So thought of everything.

And said that they had plenty of money saved up for it. She had been working up until right before they left.

We kept sending her money, too, though. That's just be real end of the situation.

I was not. I didn't send her money. Joe might have sent her money.

I would Apple pay her money, and then you would see, What's his Apple charge? And I'd be like, Oh, I guess I got hacked. I'll order a new bank card. So I think it was four times in a year I got to get a new bank card just to play it off.

Before heading out on the cross country trip, they come back to New York to go to her brother, TJ's high school graduation. She took him camping as a graduation gift, It was not even a birthday graduation gift because it was also his birthday.

But her, Brian and TJ, went on a camping trip. I think it was in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania. Then they came back, and not too long after that, they left. Yeah. Beginning of July.

When they set out on that adventure, what did you say to her before she left? Do you remember?

I was absolutely the luckiest one. I got to give her a hug goodbye, and it was the most amazing, Squeezy hug, and she was crying. And I said, Why are you crying? And she was like, I don't know. And I just was like, Maybe she's just so excited. Then I looked at Brian and I said, You better take good care of her. Keep her safe. And he was like, I will. This is very soft-spoken, I will. And I cherished that moment. That was the last time I had her in my arms.

Did you trust that they would be okay together?

I did. I did. I didn't want to worry. I knew she'd be okay. I mean, as a mom, I was worried a little bit. I said, You're going to be out on the road, the two of you alone. Just be careful. Be safe. Don't talk to strangers, all that stuff.

Gabby and Brian set off on their adventure with big dreams. She wants to be a vloger and begins to document her trip on social media.

So We are right outside Capital Reef right now because... You can't keep chocolate in Utah. Not in July. The way to live a sustainable life as a van lifer is to have millions of followers online. That's how you make money. So Gabby definitely wanted to be part of this community. She and Brian were posting it on Instagram, on YouTube, and they were documenting this journey for people on the Internet to essentially to engage with.

Was that what she wanted to do for her career? Was this her dream?

She was living in the moment, I would say.

I think it's something she wanted to do. I think she was looking at more as a hobby at the moment and see where it can go from there.

She always had that creative eye.

She always enjoyed taking the photos and the pictures.

We would go on vacation, and she had her GoPro, and she would take videos of us doing things.

I think that's something that she always really enjoyed to do.

Why not try to make it as a career? She had asked if we could get her a drone. Her grandpa, Stan, and I split that. We bought her the drone, and that made that video so much better. She was like a natural at that stuff. Brian's stretching, doing some morning yoga. When I look at Gabby's Instagram, I see her building her brand. She followed a lot of people who also were doing the Van Life thing, too. So it looks like she was following the formula for how to get successful there. Oh, my God. Living in a van is a struggle. It is not the beautiful picturesque life that a lot of internet creators painted out to be. Gabby and Brian were in a smaller van than I usually see people in.

I imagine that's a lot of pressure.

Any relationship has fights, but now you're in this tiny van, there's no place else to go. I don't know what you're supposed to do when you're in that environment. Like, Life on the road is difficult. You have to pivot a lot. It changes in a millisecond, and you have to be ready for that.

I'd like to report a domestic dispute.

Hey, we got a call about a male hitting a female and the two of them getting in this vehicle and taking off.

When did you see the video of her?

Let's go ahead and get you to step out of the vehicle.

Gabby and Brian are on the road. The photos flooding Gabby's social media accounts paint a picture of a couple blissfully in love. But in reality, it seems van life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Behind the scenes, Gabby and Brian would get into arguments. Okay. No, turn in back. They were struggling. They were not the cream of the crop van life creators. They were not going viral. They were really living hand to mouth. And so there was a lot of tension, you could tell, around that, it I was texting her a lot more like things like, Are you and Brian okay? Because I was worried about that dynamic being stuck in the van together 24 hours a day. You know what is my absolute favorite part about the van? The fact that we have this nice big open floor for you to keep your dirty feet. In those videos where he rolls his eyes, I never noticed that before. Seeing that really hit me. I was like, wow, that's who he really is. He showed his true colors.

But life in the van is about to go from minor annoyances to some far more serious problems.

They've been on this trip over a month. And then on August 12th, there is a phone call placed to 911.

A witness calls 911 to report a man with a beard slapping a young woman near a local grocery store.

Hi, can you hear me, sir? Yeah, I can hear you. Hi.

I'm calling. I'm right on the corner of Main Street by Moonflower, and we're driving by, and I'd like to report a domestic dispute in Florida with a white van.

Essentially, when police respond to domestic violence calls. It is typically messy, where you might have a witness who sees a piece of it.

What were they doing? We drove by and the gentleman was slapping the girl.

He was slapping her?

Yes, and then we stopped.

They ran up and down the sidewalk talk. He proceeded to hit her, hopped in the car, and they drove off.

Within minutes, one of the responding officers spots Gabby's white van with its distinctive black ladder.

Driver is showing some obscure driving, possibly intoxicated.

Currently doing 45 miles an hour. Zone through here is 25. Oh, subject just hit the curb.

Body cameras worn by the Moab police capture a traffic stop that will eventually go viral. They only after she went missing.

Developing tonight in Utah, a new glimpse of 22-year-old Gabby Petito and her boyfriend, Brian Laundry. Now there's body cam video that shows the moments after police were called.

That video is out. Here it is.

What's your guys' names? Gabby. Brian. Okay. What's going on? How can you cry? I'm just crying. We've just been fighting this morning. Some personal issues.

It was a long day. We were camping yesterday and camping got a lot of supplies and stuff.

I'm sorry, I hit the bump there. I was distracting him from driving. I'm sorry. Can I get you to step out of the vehicle for me, ma'am? Yeah. The August 12th incident when they got pulled over. That day was a pivotal moment in that relationship. We didn't have all the facts. We had no idea how it really played out.

Gabby's family was stunned to see these images of her. They were released without any warning.

I was in Wyoming out there looking for her, and there was a news reporter who had said, Hey, just an FYI, there's some camera footage coming out of Moab from when they were there. And so I remember texting back home, not knowing fully what it was.

When did you see the video of her?

When everybody else did. We were glued to the television watching it.

I haven't.

You haven't watched it?

I won't watch it. I read the transcript, I won't watch it.

Do you want to tell me what's going on? Yeah, I don't know. It's just, some days, I have really bad OCD, and I was just cleaning and straightening up back to the man before, and I was apologizing to him and saying, I'm sorry that I'm so mean because sometimes I have OCD, and sometimes I just get really frustrated. I'm not mean towards him. I just I guess my vibe is like, I'm in a bad mood. Why wouldn't you let you in the car? Because of your OCD? He told me I needed to calm down. I'm perfectly calm. I'm all the time. He really stresses me out. This is a rough morning.

When questioned by officers at the scene, Brian downplays the incident and chalks it up to a disagreement.

When Tell me, what's going on?

She just gets worked up sometimes, and I try and really distance myself from her.

I locked the car and I walk to late from her. I think our little squabble started because we were hanging out at the coffee shop, and when it got back to the bin, there was some dirt and stuff in the van.

I moved our food around. I haven't even called this really.

There's a few little things, just little relationships.

I don't think it's a good relationship.

I've been married for over five years now.

There's a lot of little things.

The interesting dynamic is that Brian Laundry is really calm, and there's such a discrepancy that it's almost an intentional way to discredit her experience. I was just saying I'm sorry if I'm in a bad mood. I'm just really stress. I I had so much work. I was doing a huge morning. So I've been building my website, so I've just been really stressed. He doesn't really believe that I could do any of it. So that's been like a... I don't know. He's like, I don't know. We just been fighting all morning.

For about an hour, police question Brian and Gabby in an attempt to figure out what was really going on. Remember, the 911 collar reported seeing a man with a beard slapping a woman.

So There's two people that came to us and told us that they saw him hit you.

Well, to be honest, I definitely hit him first.

Where did you hit him?

I slapped him in the face. You slapped him first?

I'm going to shut up. How many times did you slap him?

I don't know. I was really frustrated with me, and he walked me out of the car and told me to go take a breather, but I didn't want to take a breather.

When questioning Brian, police notice minor injuries on his face.

You want to tell me about those scratches on your face?

She had a cell phone in her hand.

That's why I was pushing her away. I said, Let's just take a breather, and let's not. We're not going anywhere. Let's just calm down for a minute.

We see if she got her a third call.

Can I see your hand?

Gabby admits she hit Brian first. Police now have critical decision to make.

Gabby, this is a very, very important question.

How you answer this question is going to determine what happens next.

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Sitting Being in the back of that Utah police car, Gabby Petito is visibly anxious and upset.

According to both Gabby Petito and Brian Laundry, it was Gabby and not Brian, who was the initial aggressor.

I don't want to try to defend myself by saying, I pushed her away. She gets really worked up. There are relationships in which women are aggressively violent toward men, but in the vast majority of domestic violence situations, the men are the aggressors, and the women in public, when questioned about it, especially by law enforcement, will often take responsibility for it out of fear that the aggressor, the man in their relationship, will be more angry if they don't.

Tell him what happened.

Tell him if you don't mind. As police continue to question Brian, he describes how he says Gabby hit him.

So you pushed her and she hit you? She was...

It wasn't like a push, and she jumped. She was already... She was already... I don't want to... She was already swinging..

You got three scratches in your neck. You got one on your left side of your neck. You got one on your face here, and you got four-wheel.

Well, Brian is speaking to police, and anxious Gabby is in the back seat of that police car.

Again, I believe that was the pivotal moment. I think that was the moment when she even realized I need to get the hell out of this. How can I do it on my own? She didn't want to ask us for help.

But she asked for her mom in that. You see that in the video.

There's a spot in the documentary, and she says, Can I got my phone so I can call my mom. Get my phone, then call my mom. Then I didn't get that phone call. Because maybe at that moment, maybe she would have told me what was going on.

While While Gabby did not speak to Nicole during the stop, she did speak to her dad, Joe.

She called me during the traffic stop.

What did she say?

It was her fault. And you told her it's fine. I'm going to be on the next plane to come get you. And she said, No, it's my fault. We didn't have the information. We didn't have all the other information. That she was being slapped and all this other stuff prior. We didn't have any of that information. We didn't have any of that. What happened? What was going on?

She never told me about their fight in Moab, but I've seen her that upset before because of him.

Now, police on the scene have a decision to make.

Ryan, unfortunately, in the state of Utah, state legislature doesn't give us discretion on his charges when it comes to a domestic assault.

And your own companion have made it clear that she was the primary aggressor and that she was striking you and you would receive injuries.

So at this point, you're the victim of a domestic assault. I don't want that.

Even if you didn't want to pursue this, we don't have a choice.

Now, the problem with her being the primary aggressor is in an instance of domestic assault, be it a male or be it a female, we shall arrest.

She appeared to be the aggresor, and she said she was the aggressor. Now, do I believe that? No. But the police can only go on the evidence they are given.

After discussing the situation, one of the officers goes over to speak with Gabby.

So when you watched this video, what I saw was a bunch of police officers trying to sort this out, and they appeared to be compassionate towards both parties.

Look, I'm going to speak to you frankly. I have a daughter almost your age, and I'm looking at you not so much like a suspect, but also as a victim in the sense that stuff you did today that contributed to this, because you both contributed to this, is as a result of your inability to cope with the anxiety and the stress that you're having. Normally, we take people to jail, but he's trying to work it so you can just have the van.

I don't want to be separated.

You're going to have anxiety?

Yeah, I don't know. We're a team, please. There's no us? What is it? No, we're a team, please. He's going to give me so much anxiety. Can we just have a driving ticket? The very best thing I can do is call my supervisor and see if I'm missing something here.

Gabby admitted punching him first. The technical requirement under Utah law is that this be done with an intent to cause some harm or inflict pain. So as they examine the evidence in the case, they ask that specific question when she's in the back of the police car.

David, this is a very, very important question. How you answer this question is going to determine what happens next.

When you slapped him those times.

Were you attempting to cause him physical pain or physical impairment? Was that what you were attempting to do to him?

No.

I was trying to get him to stop. That doesn't sound to me like she attempted to injure him. Those officers were heading down the path of making an arrest, and they changed direction.

Remember, while Gabby was unable to contact her mom, Nicole, she did speak to her dad during that traffic stop.

She talked to the officer and says, he's going to let me go. It's fine. It was just a big misunderstanding, and that was that. And I didn't have the video, and I didn't talk to the police or anything, and I had to take her word for it. And I'm like, all right, listen, I understand misunderstandings happen, especially when you're in a small confined space. I get it how a disagreement can come about.

All right, Gabriele, you want to step out for me?

Police decide not to arrest Gabby. Instead, they separate the couple for the night.

Gabby gets to leave in the van while Brian, seen by the police as a domestic violence victim, is taken to a hotel for the night.

I'm giving him a ride over to the hotel, okay? So Everything's going to be okay. Will it be a far drive for me to get him in the morning? I'm just curious. I'm not going to tell you where he's going to be at tonight. Like I said, I want you guys to be separated. If I had had that opportunity at that moment to speak to her, I think because she was in the back of the police car, she would have said more to me. Then after thinking about it too long, later on calling me and telling me it was just a bad day. I just had a rough day. I was stressed out. Brian and I are fine. Now that video is the truth. We have the truth.

Brian and Gabby were told to stay away from each other for 24 hours.

Too many times, women who are at risk They want to go back to their abuser, and then they end up getting killed.

The very next day, the couple is back on the road. And what happens next will spark a nationwide search. Developments tonight. A missing woman. Desperate for answers.

She expected the outcome.

The video shows an idyllic cross country trip. Gabby Petito launches her vlog, Nomadic Static.

All the chocolate mounted.

It's a river of chocolate.

You can't keep chocolate in Utah. Not in July.

But she showed us the video like it was an awesome video. I enjoyed it. We all enjoyed it. I couldn't believe she made something like that.

I think our plan for today is to just hang out here in the tent. She seemed a little stressed, but other than that, she was loving every moment. It, visiting all the national parks, and doing things that I've never done.

Surfing the sand dunes in Colorado. That's cool, man.

On the other side of the video camera, things seem to be melting down.

I've been covering the Gabby Petito case since day one. We do know that on August 27th, at Mary Piglet's restaurant in Jackson, Wyoming, witnesses reported a lot of screaming, him yelling at the restaurant staff, going in and out of the restaurant. He was really angry. That's the best I can describe it. He was just very visibly angry. And in that moment, Gabby reminded me a lot of how she seemed in that body cam video of the cop. She just seemed distraught. She seemed really upset. She was emotional. She was crying. Please, it's going to give me so much anxiety. Then people saw them get into this van and leave.

The last time Gabby was seen was August 27th the surveillance tapes at a Whole Foods grocery. Her parents didn't see it until much later.

I was watching the body language in that video, and it just didn't look right. He slams the door to the van. They walk in. She's got her arms crossed.

Just her body movements and not being close together, stuff like that. You can see the differences. It screams confrontation.

Looking back, Gabby's post that last last week of August seem a little off. Later, Internet slews combed through every post, offering opinions and coming up with theories about what happened.

I do believe that going forward, these massive cases will find more ground on social media. They want to solve these cases. Gabby, in the photo, has perfect hair after being on a trip for two months in a van. And she's holding a pumpkin and writes Happy Halloween, which is odd because it was posted on August 25th. So in Gabby's latest Instagram post, her roots are not there, especially in comparison to some of them before that.

Were these posts put online by Gabby? They seem like they aren't new photos.

Something isn't right. To her mom, Gabby's text start to sound odd as well, like one about her grandfather.

The text message to her mom read, Can you help Stan I just keep getting his voicemails and missed calls. Stan is her grandfather's name.

And what's weird about that is that Gabby never called her grandfather by his name, Stan. The last contact that Gabby's mother has from her daughter is August 30th. She gets a text that says, only no service in Yosemite, which is strange because it's so brief, but also they weren't going to Yosemite.

Nicole thinks maybe Gabby and Brian have changed their plans, but it almost sounds like Gabby isn't sending the text herself. Is Brian sending the text?

I questioned it, but then I thought there was fires out that way. Maybe they had to reroute. Maybe Brian did send the text. Maybe she's driving the van. I had all these reasons as to why maybe it was from her. But that was the last text I received, and every I'm like, Gabby, Gabby, Gabby, and I'm getting nothing. Then I'm like, Let me check social media. There's got to be something. Nothing. I called Joe. I said, I'm worried. He hadn't heard from her.

You guys are texting each other, calling each other.

Oh, yeah, we did anyway. I just started calling every hospital and National Park I could to see if I could find out where they are. Maybe it's just bad signal.

Were you talking to Brian at this point? Did you reach out to him?

None of them would talk to us.

I sent a text to Roberta and Brian and I got no response from either one. Same.

I even went as far as I'm going to call the cops. Usually when you hear someone's going to call the cops, you wouldn't be like, What are you... Let's see what's going on here. And, no.

The potatoes have no way of knowing that. While they are trying to find Gabby, Gabby's van is on the move. But Brian is the only one in it.

He has driven it all the way from Wyoming back to Florida When the police go to the laundry home...

Hi, sir. I apologize. I have to detect him on the phone.

The potatoes are staggered by what they hear. Is Gabriel here?

No, she's not here.

Okay. Brian is inside. Gabby Gabby has disappeared.

I said, Don't talk to strangers. Little did I know. It doesn't have to be a stranger. That's the evil person. Two people went on a trip, one person It's your turn.

This girl right here, this is what matters.

The interview you'll only see here, all four of Gabby's parents together speaking out. We didn't know where she would be. She could be somewhere in a hospital or a shelter.

Lights, cameras, Sarah's reporters. We are everywhere. Everybody wanted to find this woman. Suddenly, we have internet slews. There's a clue. That's probably the last location.

They didn't have that. We could still be looking today.

Where is Gabby? The protesters started gathering outside the laundry house. The truth always comes out. Where's Brian? Where's Gabby? I said he did something to her, and I know it.

There was a note. It was a letter. It said, burn after reading.

Hello, hello, and good morning. Brian's stretching, doing some morning yoga. The version of ourselves that we show online isn't always the full picture.

Gabby Petito has spent weeks crafting her posts. She's trying to become a van life influencer, traveling the country with her fiancé, Brian.

I love the van.

But in the back of that van, it seems tensions are growing. According to Gabby's friend Rose, who spoke in a just-released docuseries, American murder, Gabby Petito, now streaming on Netflix.

I think a big reason Brian didn't wanted to do the vlog is because I think he was worried that the truth of everything would be on footage. There's that possibility that he says the wrong thing or reacts the wrong way while she's recording. What is my absolute favorite part about the van? The fact that we have this nice big open floor for you to keep your dirty feet. Behind the scenes, Gabby and Brian would get into arguments. Okay. No, turn it back. I was texting her, Are you and Brian okay? Because I He was worried about that dynamic, being stuck in the van together 24 hours a day. But never in a million years do we think that he would harm her.

That didn't cross your mind? Yeah. At what point did it get, Wait, something's going on here. This doesn't make sense.

What didn't make sense is when we couldn't get in touch with her.

The Petito's call and text Gabby. What they don't know is that on September first, Brian in that little white van has driven back to Florida to his parents house alone.

The neighbor saw the van in the driveway. One of the neighbors told me, I did think it was strange that I didn't see Gabby. But what do I know? I'm just a neighbor here.

The laundry family is going about their business.

Neighbors told me that they saw Brian and his parents going for walks down the street, and then eventually, Brian and his parents went camping for a few days. They were camping at Fort DeSoto, which is our usual camping spot. Because it was Labor Day and the kids at school the next day, we just went for a couple of hours and we ate dinner and had some more around the campfire and left. There was nothing peculiar about it.

His sister said she didn't have any reason to ask about Gabby, and she had no idea that anything was wrong. It just never came up.

I'm frustrated that in hindsight, I didn't pick up on anything It was just a regular trip.

Ten days after they last hear from her on September 11th, the Petitos report Gabby as missing. And on that very day in North Port, Florida, the police go to the laundry Duffy's house.

North Port Police Department. Yes. How are you doing, sir? I apologize for bothering you. I have the detective on the phone. I'm not talking to anybody right now. You don't want to talk to us? Okay, she's on the phone. You don't want to talk to her now? No. Okay. When was the last time that you saw Brian and Gabriel?

Well, Brian is here.

Brian is here? Yeah, and that's when we were saying. And that's why they were saying? Yeah. We have an attorney. They've been calling. I don't know why. So my attorney is aware. They're calling. So I give you his number. Whose number? The attorney's number? Okay, I would like that, please. I can give it to the detective. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it. And just to let the detective know, is Gabriel here? No. She's not here. Okay. They said that Gabriel is not here. That's all they're saying, that his son is here, but Gabriel's not. They're not talking.

Brian's home, the van's home. Gabby's nowhere to be found.

And he has a lawyer.

And he's got an attorney.

And he's got an attorney.

To hear After all of that, Gabby loved that van.

Oh, yeah. She wouldn't have given that van up. Did you immediately just think something is not right? Oh, my God. I think I said he did something to her. I know it.

As shocking as it may seem, the laundries are under no legal obligation to assist or to talk to the Petitos.

Right now on ABC Action News, Desperate for Answers. The ever-expanding Search for Gabby Petito. Tonight, new developments in the nationwide search for a missing Long Island native Gabriele Petito.

In their desperation, Gabby's parents are grasping at straws.

Maybe it's just a hoax.

They're trying to get this YouTube video up.

So maybe it's just a hoax to try to get more followers.

I mean, your brain just goes and goes and goes. But in the back of your head, it's like he's not talking and he has a lawyer. That's always...

That just stuck right there. It's like, if something bad didn't happen, then he would have been talking.

I've never had to contact an attorney when my I thought I broke up with somebody.

And there's the van in the laundry driveway.

I'm not speaking to anybody.

We're not comfortable talking to anybody.

We're not an attorney, so that's that.

Okay. So the van is only registered to her, okay?

Yeah.

I'm not really sure.

Well, I'm going to tell you.

I'm telling you. The title on the state of Florida is it's only hers, so it's not supposed to be here. Okay. So I'm going to take a tow truck and get it.

Is a car in the It's my car.

I can move it.

I mean, so you don't have any issue with us taking the van? If that's what you're saying, you got to do, you got to do. But right now, I'm not speaking to her anymore.

You're without an attorney. We don't know what Brian knows. I mean, that's the bottom line. We're hopeful to talk to him. He needs to talk to us. We need to know exactly where he was, where she was, their last locations. Gabby's parents beg for information from her boyfriend. Police have said that deafening silence from Gabby's boyfriend, Brian Laundry, is hindering their investigation and search efforts. We would have went to the edge of the Earth to find her.

You just go into a hyper mode, and all we were thinking about was getting the word out to try to find her and doing what we had to do to try to assist in that. We had no idea that it was going to take the entire world by storm, and our focus was just on her at that point.

Did you feel that at the time? Did you know that it was ever everywhere.

It was hard not to because we would do interviews and they would tell us.

The police get a search warrant for Gabby's van. They don't find any evidence of a crime, but the FBI says something is missing. The mattress is gone. The laundry family lawyer gives only a statement that they hope the search for Gabby is successful and that Brian will remain silent on advice of counsel. Joe gives a press conference.

Would I What I need from everybody here is help. The goal is still not met, and that goal is to bring Gabby home safe. This is what matters. That is it. Anything else comes second to this.

Tonight, her boyfriend is now a person of interest, but he's not talking.

The new please for him to share what he knows.

It seems like a stalemate, but suddenly everything changes.

When we got that alert that Brian laundry was missing, my stomach dropped. I remember looking at my phone and not being able to believe what I was reading.

Now the laundry parents are searching, too. Brian Laundry has disappeared.

Where is Gabby? Where is Gabby? Where is Gabby? Where is Gabby? What do you know? What do you know?

Brian has vanished. Crowds start to gather outside the laundry home in North Port, Florida, demanding answers. Gabby has not been heard from in over two weeks. You were feeling pretty desperate then.

Nobody actually laid eyes on Brian. In. But his parents came to the door and said he was home. It was just chaos.

Your heart sinks.

It's an indescribable feeling in your body, and you don't sleep, you don't eat. From that moment on, it's nonstop. In the very beginning of this investigation at Brian's parents house, media was lining the street up and down. Be respectful of everyone's property, please. Northport police told us that they had been surveilling the house and had surveillance on the house during this time. But at some point, Brian left.

The laundry family says they don't know where their son is at this point, and they're hoping for him to come home safely.

We're going to turn next here to the search for that person of interest, Brian Laundry. That search intensifying tonight.

After Brian's parents tell Northport police he has gone camping in the Carleton Reserve, a massive manhunt ensues.

Numerous law enforcement agencies are involved in the search inside the Carleton Reserve. They're using drones, UTVs, ATVs, and they're searching a heavily wooded area. Seventy-five % of it is underwater. The Carleton Reserve is a 25,000 acre wildlife reserve. It is massive. And I can tell you from being there, it is a rough environment. We do know that Brian Laundry has quite a lot of experience camping.

Brian's sister, Cassie, says Brian is skilled in surviving outdoors.

He reads books about it, and it wouldn't surprise me if he could last out there a very long time.

Will authorities hunt for Brian in the Carlton reserve, Gabby's parents band together in their search for Gabby.

Gabby's parents try to stay upbeat.

A million things racing through your mind at that point. I just have no idea.

We've all said it. We're not naive to the fact that we thought. We really had hope because there's a million different scenarios that could play out just the same. Hurt in the wilderness, bad reception, all that stuff. Maybe they split up and she's just done with him doesn't want to tell us yet because she's really upset. You really try to rationalize any scenario.

You have that hope.

While there are initially many empty leads in Florida, something extraordinary unfolds.

One thing that happened immediately after this case blew up in the media and on the Internet was it opened up this broader conversation about missing women, and specifically missing Black and Indigenous women, and the lack of attention given to them. Gabby's case, luckily, has brought awareness to that. Let's stand up for missing a murdered Indigenous woman. It's really hard to talk about the missing White Woman syndrome in the context of this case because, of course, we care deeply, deeply about Gabby Petito. But at the same time, we have to recognize that we have an outsized compassion for young white women who are missing or murdered, and we have a negligence about brown women.

There is really a vast difference. Minorities do not get shared the same as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed white girl. They have family, they have friends, and they just want them found. Indigenous women go missing and are murdered at rates 10 times higher than the rest of the country. And it was, how can we help? What can we do to help elevate your voice?

Mary Johnson-Davis, Kimberlina Yellow hair, Sarah Nicole Graham.

Wyoming, the last place Gabby was seen, issued a report in 2020 that only 18% of Indigenous women's missing cases got media coverage.

There's a phrase in Indian country that when a Native American woman goes missing, she disappears twice. Voice once in life and once in the news. Laurianne Baufman, Wanda Faye Walker. Why do we have greater compassion in our hearts for Gabby Petito than we do for these other women? We have to really dig deeply to ask ourselves that question.

It's on all of you, everyone that's in this room, to do that. If you don't do that for other people that are missing, that's a shame. Because it's not just Gabby that deserves that. It is our belief, and we want others to be inspired to share people and try to be cognizant of those who do not look like you. 600,000 1,000 people go missing a year, half of them are people of color. So you know what? We have to share everybody.

Meanwhile, Brian has now been missing for weeks. The search going on.

A lot of the public forms the opinion that Brian Laundry has to be involved in Gabby Petito's disappearance. But police need actual evidence of criminal activity before they can make an arrest.

What would you say to them?

Nothing.

They don't deserve. They don't deserve anything. Earlier today, human remains were discovered, consistent with the description of Gabriele Gabby Petito. The cause of death has not been determined at this time.

Now, this is no longer a missing person's case. It would soon become a murder investigation. And amazingly, it's someone online who cracks the case.

When we found the footage, I'm like, Please Please, please keep recording. Please keep recording. Please be on here. And all of a sudden, we see this white speck getting closer and closer and closer. The search continues for Gabby Petito, Grand Teton National Park, where Gabby spoke directly with her family for the last time before she disappeared. Where were What we're at right now is the Grand Teton in Wyoming, just north of Jackson Hole on Spread Creek Road, which is the camping area that Brian Laundry and Gabby Petito were last camping at.

Once someone goes missing, you hope you have a starting point.

Where were they at last? When did you see them?

The quicker you get search teams out, the better. The reality is time's against you.

The urgent search for a missing woman, Gabby Petito.

Her family telling us they have no idea where she could be. Everyone wants to find Gabby, and now with social media, many are taking it upon themselves to track her down. The Internet slews get to work.

The fact that she randomly posted it on August 25th with just that caption, to me, is very suspicious.

We had no idea that it was going to take the entire world by storm.

Also notice that the capitalization is She never capitalized anything but the first word. It's a true crime story happening in real life, which you feel like you can participate in. People on TikTok were immediately going to scrutinize, Why is she posting with a pumpkin? Why is this video framed like that? They're getting into Gabby Petito's mind and trying to align themselves to find out what happened. They're looking at the body language. They are looking into the time stamps. They're creating creating a map of everywhere that they traveled in this van.

It just seemed like everybody came together as one because they had a mission to find her.

Then a new discovery on TikTok. As a young woman named Miranda Baker says she thinks the hitchhiker she picked up in her Jeep on August 29th was actually Brian Laundry.

My boyfriend and I came into the Tetons. That's when Brian had approached us and he said, Hey, I need to get a ride back to Jackson. He offered $200 to drive a few miles, and they thought that that was a little odd. He was really clean. For someone who had been hiking for multiple days. That did strike me as weird, and especially his backpack, it wasn't full. He said him and his fiancé were camping at a dispersed campsite near snake River. The biggest red flag is why would you go camping by your sofa multiple days is alone with just a backpack and leave your fiancé in your van. It just doesn't make sense. We were driving for 15 minutes, and I had brought up, Why are you going to Jackson Hole? And once I said Jackson Hole. That's when the energy shifted. He got very upset about that, said, Please let me out of the car. He got out of the car, and as Miranda Baker states, about 10, 15 seconds later, he was gone.

And after people spend days online pouring over countless posts, it is social media that helps find Gabby's body. There is video found of Gabby's white van in the Grand Teton Yeah. How did you find out about that?

I was out in Wyoming there, and they were getting a tremendous amount of tips. And so people started recognizing, Hey, I was in that area around that time. So they started going back and looking at their own photos and their own videos.

My name is Jenn Bethune, and I travel with my husband, Kyle, our three kids, and four dogs in our 1983 Silver Eagle bus. Our story is very intertwined with Gabby's story. We're YouTubers, and so we film all the time. It's the freaking Teton. She did not know at that time. They were just driving through the Teton National Forest, and this van is on the side of the road. It was crazy to us because it had Florida plates, and we're from Florida, and we were like, we can go hang out with them. But the van looked very dark. It didn't look like anybody was there. She doesn't think much of it until many weeks later. The FBI Denver Twitter account posted this, saying that they are conducting ground surveys at the Spread Creek Disposed Camping Area.

Without all that attention, Jen Bethune Bathune never would have noticed that white van in her own footage.

Crazy part about that video from the Bathune's is that for some reason the camera was rolling and it wasn't supposed to be. When we found the footage, I'm like, Please, please keep recording, please keep recording. And all of a sudden, we see this white speck getting closer and closer and closer. We both got goosebumps all over our body. We knew it was her van as soon as the footage passed by it. It was an insane pain feeling. At 12: 08 in the morning, I called the FBI.

After the Bethune alert the FBI, they post their video online for the world to see. And when When Abby's parents watch it, they call the FBI themselves saying, this, without a doubt, is their daughter's van.

It was assembly when we saw it. It gives you the heebie-jeebies, but at the same time, you're like, there was a clue. That's where the van was. That's probably the last location.

They were already in that area searching, but it's such a vast area out there. And that was just like that missing piece to say they were in the right place, and they didn't have that. We can still be looking today.

I think each of us that had tips and that had the sightings held a piece of the puzzle. So I think it was a community as a whole working together to bring Gabby home.

They could pinpoint exactly where that van was. I want to say within a day of that is when they found her.

Starting with breaking news, authorities found a body in the Major Teton National Park in Wyoming. There is breaking news in the search for Gabby Petito.

Just moments ago, officials say-Tonight, officials confirming they found a body near Grand Teton National Park that they believe may be that.

Earlier today, human remains were discovered, consistent with the description of Gabriele Gabby Petito.

And I said, You have to be sure.

And tragically, Jim is about to face an unimaginable task. That was the worst phone call of my life.

I don't know how we did that.

Since there are so many possibilities for what could have happened to Gabby, her parents decide to split up and help out with the different searches across the country.

We were told by the FBI, they wanted us to stay in Florida. Jim was like, I'm going to Wyoming. Nikki was in New York at the time. We were just really in all the locations where we needed to be.

We went to the edge of the Earth to find her.

Gabby Petito has been reported missing for three weeks. Gabby's parents are about to live a waking nightmare.

Jim had to make probably the... I mean, it's safe to say the worst phone call you've ever had to make. I don't even know how he made it.

I remember every waking moment of that day, September 19th, meeting with my FBI agent in the morning, kept getting phone calls asking about certain things. And finally, I got a phone call. They asked where I was, if I was close to the hotel. I said, Yeah, I'm a few blocks away. They said, You need to meet us there now. And at that The moment I knew it wasn't good.

On September 19th, the FBI announced that they had located remains just outside Grand Teton National Park in Bridger, Teton National Forest. Human remains were discovered, consistent with the description of Gabrielle Gabby-Petito.

They came in and they said, We found a remains consistent of your daughter. We won't know until we do a forensic autopsy, but you have to call your family. And there was another girl missing around the same time who fit her description. And I remember I was crying. And I said, You have to be sure. I have to be sure if I'm making this phone call, it remains consistent. What does that mean? It could mean it's not her. I said, You have to give me something more than that. And they did. They showed me pictures. I confirmed it was our daughter.

I don't know how we did that.

I got... Just hearing it, it's like you can't...

That was the worst phone call of my life.

I'm 2,000 miles away. I don't have my family with me. I can't hold her. I can't hold my other children. I said, I'm going to bring our daughter home no matter what. I'm not leaving there until I have her. I lost a big part of myself, part of us, our family that day.

We're not the same people we were before this happened. There was life before and life after.

We're lucky we have a lot of memories. We're lucky we have so many pictures of her. I'm so happy that she took as many as she did because that's what we have. That's what we have now.

Twenty-two beautiful years.

Through all of it, we still say it could have been worse. Really? Could have never found her.

Yeah, we could have never brought her home.

There's so many people that we know that have been searching for the loved ones for 5, 10, 20 plus years, and they always have that thought in the back of their mind that maybe they're still alive.

Once Gabby has been identified by Jim, there's an autopsy performed, and Gabby's death is ruled a homicide.

Tonight, breaking news in the Gabby Petito case, what the coroner in Wyoming has now determined. In the manner of death of Gabriele Leonora Petito, we find the cause of manner to be caused death by strangulation and manner is homicide.

It actually takes 5-7 minutes for somebody to actually kill another human being as they strangle him. So that is 5-7 minutes where somebody is face to face with their victim watching as they gasp her air, watching as their eyes fill up with blood. It is an incredibly gruesome, incredibly intimate form of homicide. The reason that's important is when you look at domestic violence homicides that involve manual strangulation. There have often been instances involving non-fatal strangulation. Where did he hit you?

Don't worry, just be honest. He grabbed my face. I guess. A lot of times, if you strangle your loved one, your partner, it gets strapped down to a misdemeanor.

Less than 90% of the people charged with felony strangulation in this country are ever charged and convicted of strangulation.

This is a vicious death by any interpretation. Now, all the energy that the public had poured into finding Gabby Petito is directed at finding Brian Laundry.

The nationwide manhunt for Laundry, still the only named person of interest in Petito's murder after he returned home from their cross country road trip without her.

Soon, there would be clues about what Brian is hiding. I ended her life.

I thought it was merciful that it is what she wanted, but I see now all the mistakes I made.

After a desperate, weeks-long search for Gabby Petito, her His body was discovered beside a stream bed near Grand Teton National Park. The cause of death, manual strangulation.

Where is Gabby?

Now that Gabby has been found, the focus turns to finding Brian Laundry.

According to the FBI, while Brian was driving Gabby's van back to Florida, it seemed as if he was trying to cover his tracks.

The FBI would later say he was attempting to receive law enforcement by sending text messages to and from Gabby's phone, as well as from Gabby's phone to her mother.

I was texting every day. I wasn't getting a response. And then finally, on August 30th, I get a text that says, We have no signal. We're in Yosimity. I had all these reasons as to why maybe it was from her, but that was the last text I received.

The search for Brian, first out West, then in the South, is now focused on an area in Florida not far from where his parents lived. A few weeks into the search, Brian's parents join the effort. They go into an area in the park that they had told police to search, but it had been underwater at the time. Shortly after, authorities find his remains.

Earlier today, investigators found what appears to be human Although it was personal items. This morning, the month-long manhunt for Brian Laundry ending where it began. The FBI using dental records to confirm the remains are his.

Among the materials belonging to Brian Laundry that authorities uncover was a letter from his mother. And it said, Burn after reading.

I remember the first time I read that letter, I had to read it three times because I was confused. I didn't understand.

And the letter reads, You are my boy. Nothing can make me stop loving you. If you're in jail, I will bake a cake with a file in it. If you need to dispose of a body, I will show up with a shovel and garbage bags.

It made me feel very uncomfortable, and I felt sick to my stomach. I was like, How is this even possible?

A lawyer representing the laundries has said the letter had nothing to do with Gabby Petito's death and had been written months earlier. Roberta Laundry would later say in an affidavit, the letter was a reference to a book she had given him called Burn After Writing, and it was intended as a way to bond with her son.

A month after Brian was found, the medical examiner released his findings from the autopsy. Brian died by suicide. He shot himself in the head.

The attorney for the Laundry family releases the actual pages from Brian Laundry's notebook. Now people can read for themselves what Brian Laundry says happened.

Gabby, I wish I was right at your side. I loved you more than anything.

And then it goes from this beautiful love letter to this very serious, scary situation.

Rushing back to our car, trying to cross the streams of Red Creek. Before it got too dark to see, too cold, I hear a splash and a scream.

Brian claims that he wasn't sure exactly where they were. He didn't think he could make it back to the van.

She said little, lapsing between violent breaks, gasping in pain, begging for an end to her pain. Brian says he killed Gabby as a form of mercy.

I ended her life. I thought it was merciful that it is what she wanted, but I see now all the mistakes I made.

The Petitos release a statement saying that they don't believe anything that's in this notebook. He was a there.

Nothing he said in those stories were true. He was a coward to the day that he died.

When you look back at all the stuff that happened, were there any red flags that this was coming?

Yes, there her, but we didn't notice him at the time.

Could you sense if he was controlling her?

So Gabby didn't come up to us and say, he's doing this. It's things that we would notice, again, after the fact. We can see that that pattern was part of that progression that she was in.

Since her death, Gabby's parents have uncovered communications between her and Brian that show the darker side of their relationship, shared as part of the new Netflix series. One of those This text from Gabby to Brian said, Don't try to control me because it only makes me mad. I love you so much, but it's the way you speak to me that hurts me the most. They also found a haunting letter that Gabby had written to Brian.

Brian, you know how much I love you. Just please stop crying and stop calling me names. You in pain is killing me.

Gabby's family says there were potential signs in their daughter's relationship that could have caused alarm bells to ring earlier. Gabby's parents established the Gabby Petito Foundation to help other parents recognize the signs of domestic violence.

There's so many versions of it, and a lot of people don't even know where to go when they're in it. Knowing what we know now, we see that progression that happened, alienation of friends and family.

Isolation.

But it's hard to pick up. But when you get a high-level view and you can see the path that it was leading to, and that's part that is hard for us.

That's one of the reasons why we started the foundation, the Gabby Petito Foundation, to teach others and other parents. There might be some tips that you could talk to your child about.

Try to let them know that you are there for them and that there are resources out there.

We get messages all the time from people saying, I didn't realize I was in a bad relationship or potentially violent relationship until I saw her story. I saw it. I got help, and I safely got out. And if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be here today.

But one thing that brought them a bit of peace.

That was therapeutic for us.

And the way Gabby Petito will be changing lives. How did you guys end up with the van?

When everything was done, the FBI asked us what we wanted to do with it, and we contemplated a few things. At the end, we were like, We just don't want the vibe to it. We had the van crushed. No one really knows that, but we did.

It's very therapeutic for us. Almost like when you go to one of those rage rooms and you get to smash things.

That was fantastic.

Gabby's pedo never goes outside.

I understand the laundry's lost the sun. And for that, they have my sympathy because I know how that feels, losing a child. You will never get over that. So my heart breaks for them for that. But that's the only thing my heart breaks court for them.

Since Brian will never be prosecuted for killing Gabby, the Petitos want someone held responsible.

The Petitos file multiple lawsuits. One of them is for wrongful death against Brian Laundry's estate. Months later, there is a settlement.

The family of Gabby Petito will be awarded $3 million in a wrongful death lawsuit against the estate of Brian Laundry.

An attorney for the Laundry said in a statement, Hopefully, this brings some closure to this one chapter of this tragedy.

Gabby's parents also file a lawsuit against Brian's parents, alleging their actions caused them pain and suffering. They allege Brian's parents knew that something was wrong, but didn't share that information.

In a deposition, Chris Laundry says that a frantic Brian called him from the road, said he needed a lawyer, but never said Gabby was dead, only that she was gone. Roberta Landry said she thought maybe Brian and Gabby had gotten in a fight.

Two years later, announcements by both families. The parents of Gabby Petito settled a civil lawsuit against the parents of Petito's former fiancé, Brian Landry. Both sides say they've reached an agreement to avoid a civil trial. The terms are confidential.

As for the Moab police, Gabby's parents file a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit against the department alleging negligence.

In filings, attorneys responded that while Petito's murder is tragic, only speculation supports the assertion that Moab could have changed history. Gabby's parents remain committed to seeking justice for their daughter.

The one thing we need more than anything else is don't make it just another cautionary tale. Use her situation and her story as a lesson of what can and should not happen. We've been a part of four law changes since this all happened.

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Two in Florida, one in Utah, and one nationally. It's her voice doing it, not us.

They take the call because of Gatti.

Because of her name. She did it, not us. She's going to continue doing it. She's doing more in her death than she did in her life.

The goal is to mandate that in domestic violence situations, police make a risk assessment and better collaborate with victim advocates.

I really think when it came to her and Brian, she saw the best in him. She looked at the good. That's who she was.

At Gabby's Memorial Service, Jim, alongside Joe, delivers a eulogy.

Gabby had a tattoo on her own that read, Let It Be. The title of a song from A Van Shee Love. There's a verse from that song that speaks to me. When the broken-hearted people living in the world agree, there will be It's okay to mourn for Gabby. It's okay to feel sorrow and pain. But we want to celebrate her and how she lived her life. We need to hold on to all those wonderful memories we shared with her because that will be the answer.

Let it be. So many broader ramifications to this story about all missing women. To that end, the Petito say they intend to use the $3 million they were awarded in a wrongful death lawsuit to fund the foundation named for Gabby. Meanwhile, we should point out a different lawsuit from the Petito family for 50 million against the Moab, Utah police has been dismissed. The family tells us they do plan to appeal.

That is our program for tonight.

I'm David Nior. I'm Deborah Roberts. From all of us here at 2020 and ABC News, good night.