Brian Laundrie biography: 13 things about Gabby Petito’s boyfriend from North Port, Florida

Brian Laundrie was a white man from Florida, United States. He is Christopher John “Chris” Laundrie and Roberta Maria Vinci Laundrie‘s son and Cassandra “Cassie” Laundrie‘s brother.

Brian lived with his parents in North Port, Florida. He met Joseph “Joe” Petito and Nicole Schmidt‘s daughter Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito in Bayport-Blue Point High School in Bayport, Town of Islip, Suffolk County, New York, USA.

A self-described nature enthusiast, Brian wrote in his Instagram bio that he believed that bug bites are better than being brainwashed by the media. Here are 13 more things about him:

Brian Laundrie
Brian Laundrie
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  1. When he started dating Gabby in 2019, she moved with him in his family home in North Port. (a)(b)
  2. In July 2020, he proposed to Gabby and she said yes. In the same month, he hiked in Colorado, USA. (c)(d)
  3. On October 28, 2020, he took to Instagram to share photos of him and Gabby with a caption, “Never got around to posting these! I’d die just to watch all of our memories on repeat, never loved anyone as much as this girl.” (d)
  4. In April 2021, he and Gabby visited Blood Mountain in Georgia, USA. (d)
  5. On June 17, 2021, he and Gabby went to her hometown Blue Point, Suffolk County to attend her brother’s high school graduation. (a)(e)(f)
  6. On July 2, 2021, he and Gabby left from Blue Point for their cross-country camping trip. The couple travelled across the U.S. in her white 2012 Ford Transit van with a Florida license plate and spent time in Colorado and Utah, USA. (a)(b)(e)
  7. On August 12, 2021, a witness saw him and Gabby arguing over a phone while her 2012 Ford Transit van was parked near Moonflower Community Cooperative in Moab, Utah. The responding Moab City Police Department officers determined that insufficient evidence existed to justify criminal charges. He told one of the officers that Gabby tried to slap him because she thought he was going to leave her in Moab without a ride. That night, he stayed in a hotel while Gabby stayed with her van. (g)
  8. On August 17, 2021, he took a commercial airline flight from Salt Lake City, Utah to Tampa, Florida and on August 23, 2021, he took a return flight to Salt Lake City to rejoin Gabby, his family’s attorney Steven Bertolino said on October 5, 2021. On August 24, 2021, he and Gabby left Salt Lake City for Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, USA. On August 25, 2021, her 2012 Ford Transit van was spotted at the park. He and Gabby were at a Whole Foods store in Jackson, Wyoming, USA on August 27, 2021, the day she was murdered, according to a surveillance video released by the Town of Jackson Police Department on October 18, 2022. (a)(b)(h)(i)
  9. On August 29, 2021, he was hitchhiking in Colter Bay, Wyoming when he was picked up by Miranda Baker and her boyfriend and he offered to pay $200 for the ride before getting in the car, according to Baker. Less than 30 minutes after being picked up, he got out near the Jackson Dam near Alta, Wyoming. (j) 
  10. Between August 30, 2021 and September 1, 2021, he allegedly used a Capital One Bank debit card and personal identification number for accounts that did not belong to him for charges over $1,000. On September 1, 2021, he drove Gabby’s 2012 Ford Transit van back to North Port and stopped by his sister Cassie’s home. On September 10, 2021, the van was recovered at his family’s home. He stayed in Fort De Soto Park in Pinellas County, Florida from September 1-3, 2021 and from September 6-8, 2021, according to a tip Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman received on September 27, 2021. Cassie joined the family at the campground for a day on September 6, 2021, according to Bertolino. On September 11, 2021, Schmidt reported Gabby missing to the Suffolk County Police Department. (a)(b)(e)(g)(j)(k)(l)
  11. After Gabby was reported missing on September 11, 2021, he hired an attorney and refused to speak publicly about her whereabouts, according to her family. On September 14, 2021, he left their North Port home with a backpack to go to the T. Mabry Carlton Jr. Memorial Reserve near Venice, Florida, according to his parents. On September 15, 2021, the North Port Police Department named him a person of interest in the investigation and said he is not cooperating with authorities. On September 17, 2021, his parents summoned the police to their North Port home and told them that they had not seen him since September 14, 2021. (g)(l)(n)(o)
  12. On September 19, 2021, Gabby was found deceased at the Spread Creek Dispersed Camping Area in the Bridger-Teton National Forest on the east boundary of Grand Teton National Park, which is near the area where Baker and her boyfriend picked her up on August 29, 2021. On September 23, 2021, he was charged with unauthorized use of a debit card and an arrest warrant was issued for him. On September 25, 2021, Chapman announced he was entering the search for him. (j)(m)
  13. On October 5, 2021, his sister Cassie was interviewed on “Good Morning America” and said she does not know where he is and if she did, she would turn him in. On October 21, 2021, a comparison of dental records confirmed that the human remains found on October 20, 2021 at the T. Mabry Carlton, Jr. Memorial Reserve and Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park in North Port are those of him. He committed suicide by shooting himself in the head, the District 12 Medical Examiner’s Office in Sarasota confirmed on November 23, 2021. (p)(q)(r)
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65 thoughts on “Brian Laundrie biography: 13 things about Gabby Petito’s boyfriend from North Port, Florida”

    1. Disagree! My speculation is her non communication with family is intentional on her part for whatever reason. Obviously something occurred which ended their intended destinations and the boyfriend returned home which from what I’ve read was also her home as she had lived in Florida the past two and a half years. Appears the two families aren’t the best of friends but neither is saying anything bad about the other either. The mother has even slammed internet trolls who are focusing on the boyfriend telling them this isn’t about him. The boyfriends attorney made a public statement and I’m certain he has also been in touch with police. The police are saying at this point there is no indication of a crime having been committed. When this is all cleared up I think it will be revealed the disappearance was intentional and the boyfriend is at least in part knowledgeable of whatever is going on in Gabby’s mind if not where she is.

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      2. If you believe what you are saying Randy then you are a bigger idiot than Brian. Press conference today at 12 and her cell phone will pinpoint location of body and his will confirm it. He did it and hope he gets THE SHOT!!!

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      5. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, duh, probably a Duck. Your conspiracy theory has been proven to be way out in left field as of Sept. 19, 2021. Brian’s parents used his car and the Myakka park as a red herring while they enabled him to run and keep hiding. Another case of parents not teaching their children there are consequences for all of their actions, good and bad. That you need to face up and take responsibility for your own actions and not place blame for decisions you made.

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    2. cameras in gas stations will show she never got out of the car after a certain point. Obviously he did it as the love of his life is missing, he was probably the last one to see her, and he will somehow claim she fell off a mountain or was alive when he left her. If he had nothing to hide he would be more open. His stance has the police focused on him and he is about to have a very complicated life-until it ends. Oh-and for mom and dad of the perpetrator? That scumbag attorney that you think might get your loser kid off is going to change your style of living. You will go broke defending a non-defensible case. Don’t count on having any friends in the neighborhood and the cops will be watching you and your punk.When the body is found it won’t be more than 48 hours before he never sees the outside of a jail cell.

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    3. Both seem to be spoiled brats. Go on several cross country trips without any clear source of income? Have your father order uber eats to her location instead of driving to pick up on her own?Gabby and Brian were spotted fighting on August 12 in front of the Moonflower Co-Op, while Kylen Schulte and Crystal Turner went missing on August 13, just a day later. Schulte used to work at Moonflower Co-op as a cashier for four years. After she and her wife were found murdered, the Moonflower community mourned their deaths on social media.

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      1. She worked 50 hour weeks at Taco Bell to save up for the trip. Not to generalize here, but not a ton of spoiled brats chugging away at Taco Bell.

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    4. I think he’s is in another state by now and I he may be on higher ground in the mountains or three or four other states or 10 different cities or more cities near by but from the routes from the mountains are California Oregon Washington state Canada Mexico or New Mexico Oklahoma Arizona but their is something else he’s not traveling alone it’s maybe a female driver or male driver he maybe diskied as a female him self or look like some one famous I am out side the box looking in he may have Boughton a wig to so their a lot going on with this case I have seen dog the bounty hunter shows and I have learned a lot people he was looking for and I have solved cases at the age of 13 years old . And have high profile cases but what ever the case maybe the suspects always get caught at the end . And this goes to the dog

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    5. We know so much about their love story, their camping, their travel, their fun activities. What else have they done in life? High school, university, career, work, achievements? Apparently she worked in a fast-food joint before moving in to live with Brian Laundrie’s family at 18. No mention of Brian ever worked, he lived with his parents pretty well all his life.

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      1. I thought I heard she had a degree. And she was working as a nutritionist (according to her account given to the cop when they were stopped) It’s on the body cam video.

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  2. Quite strange. I do think he had something to do with her disappearance. How could he not? They were together the whole time. He drove home (clear across many states) without her. He never told anyone she was missing. That is the really suspicious part.

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  3. No, she was a popular youtuber. Something happened between both of them and I bet
    he is claiming it was an accident. His parents believe him and hired a lawyer to protect
    him. Reminds of a series I recently watched on showtime. Just a matter of time before
    they have proof. Video from a gas station or someone that saw the van parked.
    Search dogs are very good at tracking as hone in on the location. Brian won’t stay quiet for long.
    He drove over 500 miles knowing what happened to her. Why would he leave a woman
    he supposedly loved ? It had nothing to do with the parents.

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  4. B.S.

    He’s #1 SUSPICIOUS PERSON. PERIOD.
    THAT’S FROM MILLIONS OF DOCUMENTED PAST MURDER CASES.
    WHO WAS WITH THE VICTIM,
    WHO WAS IN VOLVED WITH THE VICTIM,
    WHO WAS MOST IN SUSTAINED CONTACT WITH THE VICTIM,
    WHO WAS MOST LIKELY HAD A CONCEALED REASON TO FOUL PLAY, &
    WHO NIW REFUSES TO SPEAK DIRECTLY TO THE POLICE AUTHORITIES, HIDING BEHIND MOMMY & DADDY & A LAME LAWYER ISSUING CANNED STATEMENTS ???

    THIS ISN’T THE BEHAVIOR OF AN INNOCENT PERSON,
    THIS IS THE BEHAVIOR OF SOMEONE DESPERATE TO HIDE THEIR HEINOUS DEEDS!
    FACE REALITY.
    REALITY IS ALL WE HAVE.

    ANYTHING ELSE IS JUST LIES!

    BRIAN IS NOT THE VICTIM!

    THE ONLY VICTIM IS GONE.
    HUMAN BEINGS DON’T JUST DISAPPEAR!!!

    YOUNG PEOPLE ARE BEAUTIFUL FOR A SHIRT PART OF LIFE,
    BUT THEY CAN BE INCREDIBLY NAIEVE AND TOO TRUSTING.
    THERE IS NEVER A PERFECT CRIME. THERE ISN’T ANY SUCH THING IN 2021 THAT HIGHLY INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE WON’T EMERGE. VIDEO CAMERAS ARE EVERYWHERE, WITNESSES CAN EMERGE FROM ANYWHERE, FINGERPRINTS, CELLPHONE LOCATIONS, CREDIT CARD USAGE DOCUMENTED, HAIR, BLOOD DNA ELEMENTS AND MANY OTHER TECHNOLOGIES WILL CLOSE IN ON THE PERPETRATOR(S) IN AN UNENDING NIGHTMARE OF THEIR VERY OWN MAKING.

    THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON TO PROVE YOUR MATURATION AS AN ADULT MAN OR WOMAN,….. IS

    “TO ACCEPT-FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN BEHAVIOR !!!”@aol.com

    WHAT YOU DO,
    THAT’S
    ON
    YOU.

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      1. I heard people that reply to this crap are in denial of fact fiction and a slew of other things and are thought of as small and type in LC

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  5. Once I read he said “bug bites are better than being brainwashed by the media” I thought this guy’s really bad news. Sounds minor but if he wore a tinfoil hat would you think that was minor?? As a father of a daughter the dad needs to have a 1 on 1 “conversation” and show him why talking is better than not talking. God bless the family

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  6. Hi, where did you find this information? Specifically regarding him telling the officer that she was worried he was going to leave her in Moab without a ride?

    -“He told one of the officers that Gabby tried to slap him because she thought he was going to leave her in Moab without a ride.”

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  9. I am feeling like he’s abusive, she links up at Moonflower cooperative in Moab with the female couple. They were the ones that called the police for their fight. I believe he did something to Gabby then came back for them. I believe he’s responsible for not just his fiancees disappearance but the murders as well. He knew his bald self wasn’t good enough for her and drove him nuts. And now he’s hiding in North Port at mommy and daddy’s I’m ready for a road trip

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  10. I am feeling like he’s abusive, she links up at Moonflower cooperative in Moab with the female couple. They were the ones that called the police for their fight. I believe he did something to Gabby then came back for them. I believe he’s responsible for not just his fiancees disappearance but the murders as well. He knew his bald self wasn’t good enough for her and drove him nuts. And now he’s hiding in North Port at mommy and daddy’s House

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    1. You made a good point. Yet I’ve never head that they linked up with the two gals who were murdered. I’m also wondering why Brian was hitch hiking. That’s a tough question to answer.

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      1. Because it is now realized that he flew to Florida and back on the 25th. To empty a storage locker? Hmm… he would not have had a car when he returned, and was hitching to get back to the van.

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  11. This sissy boy weirdo brian killed her. His defense will be she left him. He looker for her for hours maybe days but couldn’t find her. He never notified the police. He never notified the family. He just drove HER car back to FL Not normal. Not kosher. Not responsible. Very suspicious. If she was ‘just’ missing she would have been found by now and have contacted her family. If she had an accident and he was not responsible he would have attempted to get her help at that time. His actions are those of a criminal. She already told police she was afraid of him leaving her stranded on the road. His actions are those of a criminal. They need to check phone tower records to get more evidence of where he traveled . They need to see if he ever took the van into Yellowstone. I believe he disposed of her strangled body into one of the cauldrons where her body is and would be almost 100% unrecoverable and unidentifiable. Such a beautiful woman with a beautiful spirit is now filled with joy and living happy in the presence of the Lord. May her parents, siblings and friends find comfort and peace in the painful days ahead and may we all be protected from those that do the work of the evil one.

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  13. The BF defense will be that she scratched his precious little face.

    He killed her + possibly the couple who reported them.

    It’ll eventually come out. Too many witnesses that place them at specific areas.

    I’m just shocked that the police who attended didn’t recommend she fly home.

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  14. I don’t understand why both parents supported this trip when they knew they broke up and got back together like a bad habit. I am sure another fight broke out and there was some kind of physical contact that is why he was seen hitch hiking on August 29th. He was picked up and wanted to go to Jackson Hole. He was trying to leave and Gabby was not with him. He said he and Gabby were camping along the Snake River and Gabby was with the van during this time that is why he was alone without transportation. He was picked up at 5:30 pm and dropped off at the dam around 6 pm. He probably returned to the van and whatever happened maybe she went looking for him or he hurt her but he took the van and came home.

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  16. I now believe that the newlyweds could have been killed for calling the police on this young couple who were fighting. I do not trust Brian. If he can be silent while the family is worried, he is capable of great cruelty and has no conscience.
    His parents know things about him and yet they are the ones who were there when his malformed conscience was developing. Sorry but there is a lot to glean from what we see in silence and what we know about behavior.
    May God help Gabby Rest In Peace if she is dead. May God help this guy who is running away and who may have been gone running a longer time ago.
    I agree with another poster here that he knows he is unworthy of her and it really bothered him.

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    1. We’re now learning the male suspect is trying to escape, (aided by his parents & possible lawyer).

      I said from the start– this guy is guilty even with returning with her– who goes on a trip and comes back to hire a lawyer?

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  17. Are people of color allowed to refuse speaking with investigators when police and detectives are at mommy and daddy’s front door? Guess a knock on the door in certain Florida neighborhoods means “alrighty then” and nobody in the Florida home gets shot or roughed up. Utah responders seem just as oblivious to evidence right in front of their eyes. How many dead bodies has this scumbag family-created Laundrie cretin left in his murderous wake? Apparently another dead body may be found – the get-away van’s been dragged out of a Florida swamp. Hoping Brian’s a goner in that van, but that demise is too good for vermin like him. Rot in jail, then rot in Hell.

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    1. “Are people of color allowed to refuse speaking with investigators when police and detectives are at mommy and daddy’s front door?”

      Oh, F-NO! “You refuse, you dead”!

      It’s absolute BS that this hasn’t been commented on at all in the general Press??????? WTF?

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  20. […] Brian Laundrie, 23, of North Port, Florida, United States and Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito, 22, of Blue Point, New York, USA had their lunch at The Merry Piglets in Jackson, Teton County, Wyoming, USA between 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. on August 27, 2021. Also dining in the Tex-Mex restaurant at that time were Nina Celie Angelo and her boyfriend Matthew England. […]

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  22. […] Brian Laundrie, 23, of North Port, Florida, United States is accused of using a Capital One Bank card and using someone’s personal identification number to make unauthorized withdrawals or charges worth over $1,000 during the period Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito, 22, of Blue Point, New York, USA went missing. A federal grand jury indicted him on September 22, 2021. […]

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  24. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9990665/Mother-missing-Gabby-Petito-says-boyfriend-family-IGNORED-desperate-texts.html
    Read from the Daily Mail who talked to Gabby’s mom. The Laundries apparently got rid of all Gabby’s things in their FL home during the time they got that small truck camper, then went camping trip for 3 days, believe that was 9-3 thru 9-6/7.. Gabby’s mom was upset to hear about this as it happened before she finally was able to file a Missing Person form on her dtr, Gabby. And she got no further responses from Brian or his mom, Roberta., who still is an “office worker” in Suffolk County NY. However, she is not a lawyer or paralegal. She only holds a BA in business., and I believe she still works as office staff and made $50k for 2020. . And Brian’s parents started a business in 2015/16 “Juicer Services” that they incorporated in 2017. They sell & repair commercial grade juicers. The house in FL had been trashed by the time the bank got & sold it in “as is” for $120k. Other properties in the area went for twice that min., so after a lot of work, it’s now worth ~$300-310k or was.
    They know Brian is probably a part of Gabby’s death & I don’t know how they found his car rather easily& left it there for a couple days, then waited an additional day to supposedly file a missing person form on him 9-17, which is only 5-6d vs Gabby’s parents 10days as the NYPD May them wait til the 11th, but I believe Suffolk County took a report 9-2. Tho Brian returned to FL in the very early hrs of 9-1, when Gabby’s mom tried to get the police looking on 9-1.
    Yet the North Port PD didn’t verify Brian was in his parents home on 9-11. They just took the piece of paper with supposedly Brian’s lawyer’s name & number on it, from the mother. So this bought him more days to run, think like 9-10 days now.
    Fyi The Federal Arrest warrants are just for the use of Gabby’s Bank of America, ATM, card in WY and now in CO/Colorado.
    The forensics team did retrieve an external hard drive from the Transit Van and yest, the FBI went back to the Laundries to get some of Brian’s DNA & clothes.
    The forensic autopsy is still going on, as to exactly how Gabby died, as Brian could of let her get out of the van during an argument and then he just left her out there w/o anything. Not even her phone to call him to come back & get her.

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  32. I agree Mary. why is this incident so important?? in this time there have probably been hundreds of murders across the USA, (they happen almost every day in the urban centers) in the time the media has focused on this. also many thousands of manpower $$$ has been spent. yes it is sad and tragic, all death and murders? are.
    Then again she is a pretty white girl

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  33. Doesn’t matter now, they are both dead. And there are many reasons that he may have been grieving before her body was found are are completely normal and have nothing to do with “oh he killed her”.

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  34. Where did the Laundrie parents send that {meal) package and water and stops at two phone companies. Seemed to be in quite a hurry. Couldn’t they follow up on the mailing address.? I believe he is still out there. Waiting for mom and dad to send him package.

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