New video footage has emerged showing Gabby Petito shopping with her fiancé and suspected killer Brian Laundrie at a Wyoming grocery store on the last day she was seen alive.
The security footage was obtained on Monday by Fox News and was taken on the afternoon of Aug. 27, 2021.
It shows Petito, 22, and Laundrie, 23, entering the parking lot of a Whole Foods store in a white Ford Transit van at around 2:11 p.m. before they step out of the vehicle and walk into the store.
Petito can be seen with her arms held across her chest while Laundrie, wearing sunglasses and a cap, keeps his hands in his pockets. Their visit to the store came shortly after the couple was seen at the Merry Piglets Tex-Mex restaurant in town. Fox News, citing witnesses, reported that Laundrie had appeared irate at the restaurant.
The video footage, which has no sound, shows that the couple spent roughly 15 minutes inside Whole Foods browsing through a number of items before leaving and heading back to the van that they had been using to travel across the country. They then sat in the vehicle for roughly 20 minutes before leaving the parking lot and pulling out onto Highway 89.
Petito’s body was discovered at the Wyoming national park on Sept. 19, roughly 30 miles north of the Whole Foods store. A coroner ruled that she had died by strangulation.
‘Utterly Intolerable in a Civilized Community’
Laundrie confessed to killing his girlfriend in a notebook found next to his body at Florida’s Carlton Reserve on Oct. 20 after being named the only person of interest in her death. His death was ruled a suicide.
Both Petito and Laundrie were originally from Long Island, New York, and set off on their road trip on July 2, 2021. They had been in regular contact with their parents while on the road and the two had been keeping family and friends up to date with their travels on social media.
Her family has since filed a lawsuit contending that Laundrie killed their daughter on Aug. 27, the same day they were seen at the Whole Foods store in Wyoming.
The lawsuit further alleges that Laundrie’s parents Roberta and Christopher knew about the murder and the location of her body after he confessed, but that the family went on vacation and did not inform investigators.
“In doing so, Christopher Laundrie and Roberta Laundrie acted with malice or great indifference to the rights of [Gabby’s parents] Joseph Petito and Nicole Schmidt,” the lawsuit claims, adding that such behavior is “shocking, atrocious, and utterly intolerable in a civilized community.”
Laundrie’s parents have denied that they knew anything relating to Petito’s death or that they helped their son flee while he was being sought by law enforcement as a person of interest in the case.
According to the FBI, Laundrie sent text messages from Petito’s cellphone to her parents and others after her death in an effort to pretend that she was still alive.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
From The Epoch Times
