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Gabby Petito‘s parents are accusing the parents of her killer and fiancé Brian Laundrie of going on vacation with him after finding out he’d killed their daughter – and where he’d left her body.
Joseph and Nichole Petito are amending their lawsuit against the Laundries to say that they went to Fort De Soto Park in the Tampa Bay area just days before Petito was reported missing.
‘They went on vacation knowing that Brian Laundrie had murdered Gabrielle Petito, it is believed that they knew where her body was located, and further knew that Gabrielle Petito’s parents were attempting to locate her,’ the lawsuit now says.
‘The allegations in the amended complaint may now conform to proper pleadings but they do not give rise to liability under the law,’ Laundrie family attorney Steven Bertolino told NBC News Friday.
‘Thus we are still confident the Court will dismiss the action.’
Gabby had embarked with Laundrie on a ‘van life’ cross-country road trip in July and had a brush with the law in August, when police in Utah responded to a domestic violence incident between the two
Christopher and Roberta Laundrie have denied all along that they knew Petito was dead or that they helped Brian flee
Joseph and Nichole Petito are amending their lawsuit against the Laundries to say that they went to Fort De Soto Park in the Tampa Bay area just days before Petito was reported missing
The Laundries are accused of taking son Brian to Fort De Soto Park just days before Petito was reported missing
In March, Bertolino called the initial lawsuit ‘baseless’ and ‘frivolous.’
Christopher and Roberta Laundrie have denied all along that they knew Petito was dead or that they helped Brian flee.
A trial is slated to begin in Sarasota County, Florida on August 14, 2023, by then two years after Petito was reported missing.
The case gained national attention last summer when Petito was reported missing in September after she and Laundrie, her fiancé at the time, embarked on a cross-country ‘van life’ trip , her then-fiancé.
A memorial for Gabby Petito outside their home was created in the wake of her death.
Laundrie’s remains were found north of the entrance to Myakkahatchee Creek, in the Big Slough Preserve, off an unpaved trail near a bridge where Brian’s parents said he liked to visit. It is four miles north of their home in North Port, Florida
The family was told by a district court judge in Florida earlier this year that they needed to amend the lawsuit to correct a ‘procedural deficiency.’
Laundrie then returned, without Petito, to his parents home in early September before leaving again two weeks later at which time he disappeared.
Days into the nationwide manhunt for Laundrie, authorities in Teton County, Wyoming found Petito’s remains; a coroner later determined she died by strangulation.
Then, in late October, after the monthslong search Laundrie’s remains were found in thee 25,000-acre Carlton Reserve in Sarasota County.
Medical examiners determined he died by self-inflicted gunshot and a notebook was found nearby, in which Laundrie claimed responsibility for Petito’s death.
Source: DailyMail
