Brian Laundrie's notebook show he wrote 'I ended her life, I thought it was merciful'

I have to remember to remind my love ones that if I fall into a creek, to please take me to a hospital instead of strangling me.

Lol R1.

Strangely enough, I actually believe his story.

But clearly, he was mentally disturbed.

He couldn’t find his car so he couldn’t drive to the hospital. And there was no cell service. What was he supposed to do?

Why didn't I think of that?

Not kill her. And wait for morning.

Lying sack of shit

Liar.

Saint Brian.

R5, easy for you to say since you weren’t there. She would have been dead by morning.

If anything ever deserved this response, this line of BS does

I still think he’s out there.

R9 = Mrs. Laundrie

Her body would have had signs of trauma from a fall and it would have been clear that the injuries had happened before she died. Never saw any mention of this.

Not buying it.

Even in death he is a bad liar. Hope he makes good fertilizer.

Wait, people are actually believing this story?

What a lying sack of shit, just like all abusers/murderers.

What a loon.

He thought it was merciful? Did he think he was God? I think he's a liar, an abuser and a coward.

As I recall, we had psychos on DL who were convinced that he was innocent.

I loved how when this was all over the news we had countless posts that basically boiled down to "well she seemed really annoying and basic so maybe it's okay that he killed her". Classic DL

"Teton County". Teton means "Boob" in french. It should be renamed to "Boob County".

Haha R21.

The mountain range is called the "Grand Tetons," so whoever named them must have thought that the mountains looked like "Great Tits."

this would make a good movie.

Straight men are sick

[quote] this would make a good movie.

It would, but with this new revelation of the notebook, would they try to portray Brian Laundrie as a sympathetic character now?

With the final scene showing him crying and saying how much he loves Gabby, while he strangles her to death?

I don't think her family would be happy with that.

of course! drama! paradox!

It takes real commitment to plot to continue your lies and attempted cover-up after you've offed yourself. Most people probably wouldn't bother to plan that far ahead.

"And after I unselfishly ended her misery, I thought it best to bury her in a shallow grave, and hide the painful truth from Gabby's parents."

Lied himself into his own grave.

Poor girl, she looked so sweet. Sounds like this guy was trying to rewrite history.

And you know this because, R9? You weren't there either. You don't know that she would have been dead by morning. The medical examiners who performed her autopsy refute his claims. Even Laundrie himself, in his note (which you clearly believe. I don't), says he didn't know the extent of her injuries, and that he panicked and made a mistake in killing her.

All I can imagine is when the limited series gets made they are going to need to pull a Staircase and show all these different possible death scenarios, I look forward to this one and the owl attack one.

I thought she was hurt, so I fixed it. I killed her. -Brian

I don’t recall this approach in First Aid???

A similar thing DID happen with David Coughlin, so I suppose it's not out of the question. Very interested to know if the autopsy report lines up with what he claims. The fact that they had that domestic dispute call with police makes me highly dubious.

This also happens in Gerry, the Gus Van Sant film with Casey Affleck and Matt Damon.

We can poke a million holes in his little story. It reminds me of “The English Patient”, a little. Except the count didn’t kill his beloved.

R30, that's some mistake. I've made lots of mistakes in my life, but I never mistakenly strangled someone to death.

two spoiled lunatic brats. good riddance!

He was hawt!

R37 nothing of value was lost

Whoa this guy was insane!

I think they were both tripping on peyote and drama ensued.

He's hot.

There, I said it.

I heard she was in fact an annoying air head.

Totally came here to say "Sure, Jan."

Leaving satisfied.

This notebook was damage control. Brian was one of those guys who thinks everyone is stupid enough to believe his lies. He killed her in a rage, and he couldn't live with the consequences or the shame. He knew he was going to kill himself when he wrote this because he couldn't face jail or life as a hated murderer. His family also likely knew and couldn't deal. He wrote this lie to let his family off the hook so they could believe he wasn't a murderer, or at least pretend to believe and save face.

I wonder if while she was having the life choked out of her, she looked up at him and thought, “Well this has escalated rather quickly?”

[quote]He's hot. There, I said it.

DL, home of pathetically low standards.

He was pretty unattractive.

[quote]He's hot. There, I said it.

Have you seen him recently?

He looks exactly like a guy in high school who was picked on by the jocks. They would thump the back of his head if they were sitting behind him in class.

[quote] He looks exactly like a guy in high school who was picked on by the jocks. They would thump the back of his head if they were sitting behind him in class.

As the saying goes, "Hurt people HURT people."

I'm a little surprised he had the nerve to kill himself.

i don't think his future was looking very bright, R52, despite his valiant efforts to save Gabby by strangling her.

Is he the one who got ett by a gator?

Once you learn to sniff out a narcissist, it becomes impossible to miss how laughingly bad they are at lying for more than 10 secs. They're like toddler bad at telling stories because they need to be the victim and the hero AT ALL TIMES.

Anyway, fuck this murderer. I hope he botched his suicide and bled out slowly.

[quote] 'Fed up,' Gabby Petito's mom responds to Brian Laundrie's notebook

NORTH PORT – Gabby Petito's mother responded with a tweet calling for justice after Brian Laundrie said he killed Petito to take away her pain in his released notebook.

The Laundrie family attorney, Steven Bertolino, released a copy of the notebook to Wink News on Friday.

Laundrie disappeared on Sept. 14 after telling his parents he was headed to the Carlton Reserve, five days before Petito's body was found. His body was found on Oct. 20 after he committed suicide with a gun at the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park in North Port. His notebook was found in a dry bag near his body.

In the released eight pages, Laundrie describes his regrets and gave a confession to Petito's murder.

He said in the notebook that he killed her after Petito was suffering from extreme pain and cold after falling in a stream at the Teton Nation Forest in Wyoming.

"I ended her life. I thought it was merciful, that it is what she wanted, but I see now all the mistakes I made," Laundrie said in the notebook. "I panicked, I was in shock. But from the moment I decided, took away her pain, I knew I couldn't go on without her."

Petito's death was caused by strangulation, a Teton County Coroner ruled in October.

Nichole Schmidt, Petito's mom, tweeted "Fed up." along with a photo on Monday after the release of Laundrie's notebook.

"Narcissists rewrite history to escape accountability," the text in the photo said.

Petito's parents filed a negligence lawsuit against Laundrie's parents on March 10. A circuit court judge will decide if the lawsuit will be dismissed or not.

R50, you may be on to something.

I know someone just like that. He goes hiking and camping at a lot of the same places Laundrie camped out at. He even posts those smiling, smug headshot selfies with his partner with the canyons and mountains in the background and those toothy smiles, expensive mirrored sunglasses. Even those arm outstretched looking at the wonders of world, I'm so amazing, selfies.

He's a total narcissist. Not saying there's a connection, but he reminds me of Laundrie with those kinds of selfies he posts on Instagram.

When a loved one is in pain and you can't find an aspirin, you simply have to do *something*

Sgt Joe Friday: The suspect, Brian Laundrie, after killing his girlfriend, ended his own life. He was a lying sack of shit.

R57, years and years ago, someone summed up that type 'the neo-hippie sociopath', pretty well, in a thread about how New Age types can't be trusted any more than any other brand of asshole out there.

Something to the effect of 'they give away their old dog so they can go trek across south America.'

R34 In that case, the killer did not kill himself, though.

My favorite part about the Coughlin story:

"After days of hiking, the two became lost and dehydrated. Kodikian and Coughlin had only brought three pints (1.42 litres) of water and one pint (0.47 litres) of Gatorade.[2] One pint of water was used to boil hot dogs during their first evening in the canyon."

They boiled the hot dogs! They could have just roasted them - or eaten them uncooked, they're already fully cooked.

"He wrote that he chose to kill her after she injured herself from a fall in Wyoming."

If she fell at all, it was because he knocked her over! Seriously, I can see the murder happening that way, they've been fighting and he's been hitting her, and if he realized he's hurt her badly enough to require medical attention, he might well kill her rather than face the possibility of the truth coming out at the hospital.

If there was any pre-death injury at all, of course, and I don't recall one being mentioned in the autopsy report. Sick bastard was lying in his own fucking diary, trying to come up with a story that made him feel good about himself, which is all a narcissist ever wants.

Maybe he wasn't planning to kill himslef and he thought he could get away with it if he wrote something like that in his diary.

[quote]Gabby Petito's mother responded with a tweet calling for justice after Brian Laundrie said he killed Petito to take away her pain in his released notebook.

What more Justice could she want? He’s dead, Jim.

Did he draw pictures too?

I've seen the Tetons. I may not have understood the hazardous place she was, but other people would be nearby. He could have asked them to help her. Given a choice between staying with her and not getting help, or walking for ten miles seeking help, I would have walked.

Maybe I'm just ignorant.

[quote]Maybe I'm just ignorant.

His story is complete bullshit, R67.

[quote]I've seen the Tetons. I may not have understood the hazardous place she was, but other people would be nearby. He could have asked them to help her. Given a choice between staying with her and not getting help, or walking for ten miles seeking help, I would have walked.

Not if you murdered her.

[quote] He could have asked them to help her. Given a choice between staying with her and not getting help, or walking for ten miles seeking help, I would have walked.

Why bother with that?

It's just so much easier to choke her to death and be done with it.

All's well that ends well.

Maybe he thought St. Peter would consult his notebook and just not question it if there was a long line.

Wouldn't you know his parents are probably clinging to the lies in that notebook and weeping about their poor misunderstood son who "tried to do the right thing." He was obviously spoiled rotten by his parents who still think he could do no wrong.

Yeah, R72, you could smell the dysfunction wafting off of that family! The parents clinging to the belief that their spoiled monster could do no wrong, even after it became clear that he'd killed a girl they knew, the fat sister telling protestors she'd turn him in if she knew his location. A painfully obvious case of the only son being the "golden child", and spoiled into a monster.

I wonder what became of his parents, who as I vaguely recall, had a small business that depended on public goodwill.

The man had no looks at all; he was repulsive.

He was trying to English Patient himself but it didn't quite work out.

I've never seen the English Patient (nor do I want to). r75 for those of us who are ignorant, what does it mean to try and "English Patient himself" mean?

[quote] I may not have understood the hazardous place she was, but other people would be nearby.

There were so many people nearby that there was footage from a YouTube vlogger in the area who later realized they'd driven past the car Gabby and Brian had been traveling in, because it was parked right next to the road. In that YouTube footage you saw several vans and RVs in the area. It's what helped the police locate Gabby, because she turned out to be in a flat area, near a dry creek bed and not far from the road where the van had been seen.

He almost certainly could have walked back to the road and yelled "help" and gotten attention from someone.