Brian Laundrie wrote in a notebook that he left in the Florida swamp where he killed himself that he killed his girlfriend Gabby Petito, but he said it was an act of 'mercy,' according to a report on Friday.
“I ended her life,” he proclaims in the note, which was recovered by the FBI in October, according to Fox News.
“I thought it was merciful, that it is what she wanted, but I see now all the mistakes I made. I panicked. I was in shock.”
Laundrie said he killed Petito because he wanted to take her pain away after she hurt herself in the Wyoming wilderness, but he said he immediately felt bad about it after he did it.
“From the moment I decided, took away her pain, I knew I couldn’t go on without her,” he wrote.
Petito, a 22-year-old from Long Island, went missing while on a road trip with Laundrie. On September 19, his body was found strangled in a campsite near the Grand Tetons.
After Laundrie died, she went missing, which led to a nationwide search for the person who was thought to have killed her.
Laundrie died of a gunshot wound to the head that he gave himself in Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park near Sarasota. In the note, he said he was sorry and asked the authorities to be gentle with his family.
“Please do not make life harder for my family,” he scrawled in the notebook. “They lost a son and a daughter. The most wonderful girl in the world. Gabby I’m sorry.”
He added, “I am sorry to my family. This is a shock to them as well [as] a terrible grief.”
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