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Family Of Gabby Petito Files Notice Of $50M Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Police Family Of Gabby Petito Files Notice Of $50M Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Police
Family Of Gabby Petito Files Notice Of $50M Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Police The family of Gabby Petito has filed a notice of a $50 million lawsuit against a police department in Utah, accusing it of negligence in the 22-year-old Long Island native's death.  Petito, age 22, of Blue Point in Suffolk County, was strangled and beaten to death last year in Wyoming by her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, also from Blue Point, but who relocated to North Port, Florida.  Laundrie, labeled a person of interest in the case by the FBI, later took his own life.  When his remains were found in a remote Florida nature reserve, a notebook was also discovered in which he confessed to t…

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Gabby Petito's Body Was Found In Isolated Area Near Where Van Was Parked, Parents Reveal Gabby Petito's Body Was Found In Isolated Area Near Where Van Was Parked, Parents Reveal
Gabby Petito's Body Was Found In Isolated Area Near Where Van Was Parked, Parents Reveal Gabby Petito's family reported in a new interview that the 22-year-old's body was found in an isolated area a short distance from where her van was seen parked. The Long Island woman's remains were discovered in a Wyoming national park on Sunday, Sept. 19, eight days after her family reported her missing. She had been traveling across the country in her van with her 23-year-old fiancé, Brian Laundrie, before her disappearance. Laundrie returned to his parents' home alone in Petito's van, on Wednesday, Sept. 1. Petito's stepfather, Jim Schmidt, said in an interview with Dr. Phil that was t…

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Missing New York Woman Body-Cam Video Sheds New Light On Relationship Missing New York Woman Body-Cam Video Sheds New Light On Relationship
Missing New York Woman Body-Cam Video Sheds New Light On Relationship A just-released body-cam video of police interacting with a missing New York woman and her boyfriend puts a new light on their relationship. Long Island native Gabrielle "Gabby" Petito, age 22, who was last known to be in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming in late August, was reported missing to Suffolk County Police on Saturday, Sept. 11, by her mother after last being heard from on Monday, Aug. 30. Her boyfriend and traveling companion Brian Laundrie, age 23, was named a person of interest in the investigation by authorities in North Port, Florida, where the couple temporarily lived and…

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by Kathy Reakes