Brian Laundrie Was 'Acting Like a Lunatic' Shortly Before Gabby Petito’s Killing, Witness Says

Mar. 15, 2025

The witness said he saw Petito and her fiancé Laundrie in Moab, Utah, as he and his family were traveling through Moab from Las Vegas to Denver.

The witness said that while driving he passed a couple with a van parked on the side of the road and believed he saw the man believed to be Laundrie slap a woman. He made a U-turn and parked on the opposite side of the road and said he observed the couple for 10 to 15 minutes.

According to the FBI documents, the man allegedly put his head between his hands, and “both passengers appeared to be crying.”

The witness told authorities he watched the couple from 4:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. — minutes before police encountered the couple.

The witness told authorities he considered intervening but decided against it because he had earlier called 911 when a truck almost ran him off the road.

He said he contacted the FBI in September after he and his daughter saw news reports about Petito’s disappearance and became confident “that the couple they observed in Moab were Petito and Laundrie.”

The 22-year-old vlogger, who wastraveling across the countryin a van with Laundrie, was reported missing on Sept. 11, 2021.

Her body was discovered at Spread Creek Dispersed Camping Area just outside of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, on Sept. 19, 2021.

Petito died from “blunt-force injuries to the head and neck, with manual strangulation,” according to aFBI Denverreport in January 2022.

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source: people.com