Gabby Petito’s parents have added the Laundrie family lawyer to an ongoing civil lawsuit against the parents of Brian Laundrie, Christopher and Roberta Laundrie.
Petito, a travel blogger and aspiring social media influencer, disappeared shortly after departing her native Long Island, New York, for a cross-country vacation on July 2, 2021, with fiancé Laundrie. Her parents, Joseph Petito and Nicole Schmidt, grew worried when Laundrie later returned to his parents’ Florida home Sept. 1 without his bride-to-be. They reported her missing a few days later.
Law enforcement officers spanning multiple agencies searched alongside volunteers for more than two weeks before they found Petito’s body at a campground near Grand Teton National Park in northwestern Wyoming. Medical examiners ruled the cause of death was homicide by strangulation.
