Experts Agree Something Just Doesn't Add Up in Brian Laundrie Notebook

In the continuing fallout from the dramatic disappearance and death of Gabby Petito that grabbed the attention of the U.S. in the fall of 2021, the attorney for Brian Laundrie’s family released eight pages from Laundrie’s notebook last week.

There was something like a confession written in the notebook, which was found near Laundrie’s remains in a Florida nature preserve in October, but the released pages still have investigators asking questions, Fox News reported.

On Friday, the attorney for the family of Brian Laundrie released the pages, according to WINK-TV in Fort Myers.

In the journal, Laundrie claimed that his strangulation of Petito was actually an act of mercy and an “unexpected tragedy.”

Petito’s body was found in September in a wilderness area of Wyoming.

In the notebook, Laundrie claimed that he and Petito were “trying to cross” a stream when he heard “a splash and a scream.”

“I couldn’t find her for a moment, shouted her name. I found her breathing heavily gasping my name, she was freezing cold,” he wrote.

“When I pulled Gabby out of the water she couldn’t tell me what hurt. She had a small bump on her forehead that eventually got larger. Her feet hurt, her wrist hurt but she was freezing, shaking violently, while carrying her 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.”