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The household of Brian Laundrie has damaged their silence concerning the Netflix documentary concerning the demise of journey vlogger Gabby Petito, whom authorities mentioned was killed by Laundrie on a cross-country journey in 2021.
The three-part documentary sequence “American Homicide: Gabby Petito” examines Petito’s life, disappearance and demise by means of interviews along with her household and associates and textual content messages, movies and excerpts from Petito’s private journals.
The Laundrie household lawyer, Steven Bertolino, shared an announcement with TODAY in response to the docuseries. Laundrie’s mother and father don’t seem as interview topics within the present.
“The documentary was what we expected. One perspective depicted as the ‘truth’ as seen through their lens. Similar to Republicans and Democrats fighting it out lately. Each side believes their perspective is correct. Hard to see through the lens of the other with all the noise and distrust,” he mentioned within the assertion.
“The documentary contained many inaccuracies, incorrect juxtapositions of timelines, and misstatements and omissions of fact — perhaps deliberate to capture their ‘truth’, perhaps due to simple error,” he continued.
“We all know Brian took Gabby’s life and Brian then took his own as well. Let the parents of both Gabby and Brian mourn and remember them in peace.”
TODAY.com reached out to the filmmakers for remark about Bertolino’s allegations of inaccuracies and misstatements within the docuseries, however didn’t instantly obtain a response.
Julia Willoughby Nason, one of many documentary’s administrators, informed TODAY.com in an interview earlier than the movie’s launch on Feb. 17 that her crew reached out to the Laundries in the course of the making of the docuseries.
“They didn’t want to participate, and we respect that,” she said. “This is a very difficult story.”
Petito disappeared in August 2021 throughout a cross-country van journey with Laundrie, who was her fiancé. A widespread search ended when her physique was present in a nationwide forest in Wyoming on Sept. 19, 2021.
A Wyoming coroner dominated her demise to be a murder by strangulation, in line with his feedback in a video shared by NBC affiliate WNBC in October 2021.
The Laundries believed their son left house Sept. 13 to go climbing, after beforehand telling police he left house Sept. 14 after they reported him lacking, Bertolino informed NBC affiliate WFLA through textual content message on the time.
