Video footage from a Whole Foods store in Wyoming shows the last moments Gabby Petito was ever seen alive.
Twenty-three-year-old Brian Laundrie confessed in a notebook before killing himself that he strangled his girlfriend, 22-year-old Petito, to death during the couple’s cross-country van trip.
The video, obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital, shows Petito and Laundrie shopping together on August 27, 2021, at a Whole Foods in Jackson, Wyoming. Laundrie is wearing a hat and sunglasses, and Petito has her arms crossed at times while browsing the store.
The pair would reportedly leave the store and drive to the campsite where Petito was strangled.
The footage could be from the same day Petito was killed, Fox News noted, citing an autopsy timeline and a civil lawsuit filed by Petito’s parents, which dates their daughter’s murder as August 27, 2021.
Never before seen video of Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie shopping at Whole Foods market in Jackson, Wyoming on August 27, 2021. This is the last time she is seen alive. They would leave the store and drive to the campsite where Petito was murdered. (Via Fox News Digital) pic.twitter.com/7KCDXFhjKM
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An autopsy in November revealed that Laundrie committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.
The FBI said last October that a recovered notebook from Laundrie included a confession from the 23-year-old that he murdered Petito.
“I ended her life,” he wrote, according to a copy of the notebook exclusively provided to Fox News. “I thought it was merciful, that it is what she wanted, but I see now all the mistakes I made. I panicked. I was in shock.”
Laundrie went on to claim that Petito had injured herself in a fall while they were visiting Wyoming and that he killed her to take “away her pain.”
“Rushing back to our car trying to cross the streams of spread creek before it got too dark to see, [too] cold. I hear a splash and a scream,” Laundrie wrote, adding that he carried her as far as he could but had to stop to make a fire to keep them warm when he couldn’t make it back to the couple’s van.
He claimed Petito “had a small bump on her forehead that eventually got larger,” and that she “continually made sounds of pain, laying next to her she said little lapsing between violent shakes, gasping in pain, begging for an end to her pain.”
Laundrie also referred to Petito’s death as his “mistake” and insisted that he was not ending his life “because of a fear of punishment but rather because I can’t stand to live another day without her.”
Ashe Schow contributed to this report.
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