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Gerrard Kaonga
A call between Gabby Petito and her ex-boyfriend which took place before her death has revealed in the recent Netflix documentary about her murder.
Gabby Petito’s story has been brought back into the spotlight thanks to the three-part Netflix documentary, American Murder: Gabby Petito, dropping on the streaming site.
The aspiring YouTuber and her fiancé Brian Laundrie were on a dream cross-country trip across the US back in 2021, but this journey wouldn’t have a happy ending as Gabby would eventually go missing a few months into the trip after her parents stopped receiving text messages from her.
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When authorities began their investigation into her disappearance, Brian would also go on to vanish after he'd returned home to his parents in Florida.
Her remains were eventually located on September 19 in Spread Creek camping area in Wyoming, where an autopsy would reveal that she'd died by 'blunt-force injuries' to her head and neck and 'manual strangulation'.
Police would later find Brian's body a month in Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park in October 2021, where medical examiners concluded he'd taken his own life via a self-inflicted gunshot to the head.
Alongside his body, a notebook was also discovered where he 'confessed' to the murder of Gabby.
In the documentary, it was revealed that Gabby had reached out to her ex-boyfriend, Jackson, during the trip.
On August 22, she texted him: “Hi, I'm sure I'm the last person on the planet you want to hear from. I would really love to talk to you. I'm only alone until tomorrow."
They later had a phone call, which he described as a 'cry for help', as he added: "I think she wanted to get away but just didn’t know how to do it. I think she wasn’t sure what he would do, or what he could do."
He continued (via The Mirror US): “I got the vibe that she may still need somebody to talk to after we hung up, so I was like, 'Hey, if you do need to talk again, let me know, it's okay, I'm okay with that'."
Jackson also said that Gabby hinted at an argument she'd had with Brian and was determined to leave her partner.
"She kind of hinted the fact that they had got into an argument a little bit, she said, 'I have a plan, I think I want to leave him. I'm gonna do it, I have to figure out when I'm going to do it'." he said.
"From the sound of her voice and the way she was saying it, I think that she wasn't sure of what he would do or what he could do. I think she was wanting to get away but just didn't know how to do it."
On August 27, Jackson said he got another call from Gabby - as well as a Snapchat saying that she was in Wyoming - but was unable to pick up due to his work commitments.
"I think back on the fact that maybe if I did answer that phone call, I could have helped or there could have been a different outcome." he said (via The Independent).
The documentary, American Murder: Gabby Petito is available to stream now on Netflix.