The statement also acknowledged the reality of what happened to Petito at Laundrie’s hands: “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.”

Brian Laundrie's parents, whose son killed his fiancée, Gabby Petito, on a cross-country trip in 2022, are speaking out after the release of American Murder: Gabby Petito, a new three-part Netflix documentary on the case,

Brian Laundrie's sister says she hasn't spoken to her parents in two years amid fallout from a new docuseries that reveals text messages between her and her mom that shows them joking about how police let Gabby Petito's killer slip out under their nose before ultimately killing himself in a park nearby.