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Inside Brian Laundrie’s parents’ lives as ‘pariahs’ — five years after Gabby Petito’s murder

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Gabby Petito was killed by her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, in 2021 (Picture: Netflix) It’s been over five years since aspiring American YouTuber Gabby Petito was killed by her fiancé, Brian Laundrie . The couple had not long embarked on a cross-country road trip from New York to California, which Gabby, 22, had been documenting for her growing audience online. Her life was tragically cut short when she was murdered in August 2021. Shortly after Gabby’s death — which authorities later determined was caused by manual strangulation and blunt-force trauma — Brian, 23, also disappeared. Brian’s remains were found in a Florida wilderness park in late October 2021, with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, and a notebook confessing to Gabby’s murder. His death was officially ruled a suicide. But while Brian never lived to face up to his crimes , his parents did. Roberta and Christopher Laundrie have faced years of allegations that they helped protect their son and stayed quiet as authoriti