ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The families of Gabby Petito & Brian Laundrie have reached a $3 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed after authorities concluded he strangled her during a cross-country trip in August 2021.
The settlement was signed Thursday by Sarasota County Circuit Judge Hunter W. Carroll. A lawyer for Petito’s parents said whatever money is received will go to the Gabby Petito Foundation dedicated to locating missing people & curbing domestic violence.
“The Petito family lost their daughter & they were also denied the opportunity to confront her killer,” said attorney Patrick Reilly. “No amount of money is sufficient to compensate the Petito family for the loss of their daughter, Gabby, at the hands of Brian Laundrie.”
The lawsuit claimed Laundrie was liable for damages because he caused her death. A separate lawsuit, still pending in Sarasota, claims Laundrie’s parents wrongly concealed that he confessed to killing Petito before he returned home in September 2021 to Florida from their trip out West in a converted van.
Christopher & Roberta Laundrie denied that claim.
Petito’s disappearance on the trip & the subsequent discovery of her slain body Sept. 19, 2021 became a national obsession.
His remains were found there in October 2021 & investigators say he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound & left a note confessing to Petito’s slaying.
The Petito family has also filed a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit against police in Moab, Utah, where the couple got into a physical altercation but were allowed by officers to resume their journey despite clear danger signs of domestic violence.
Petito & Laundrie were engaged to be married.
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