GABBY Petito made plans to leave her abusive fiancé, Brian Laundrie, days before he killed her, a new documentary has revealed.
Gabby Petito, 22 years old, expressed her fear to her ex-boyfriend, Jackson, about how her now-deceased boyfriend, Laundrie, might react to their breakup while they were traveling together during their ill-fated road trip in the summer of 2021.
Her last communication with Jackson was on the day of her disappearance, sparking a nationwide search that came to a tragic end when her body was discovered in the wilderness of Wyoming.
A new Netflix documentary series, American Murder: Gabby Petito, is shedding light on the final days of Petito’s life, presenting previously unreleased texts, diary entries, and videos provided by her loved ones.
The series also includes the first-ever interview with Jackson, who dated Petito before she started her relationship with Laundrie, 23, in March 2019.
Jackson revealed Petito texted him one night while she was separated from Laundrie.
Laundrie had flown back to Florida for a few days after cops were called on the couple in a disturbing domestic violence incident in Moab, Utah, on August 12, 2021.
“Hey I’m sure I’m the last person on the planet you want to hear from,” Petito texted Jackson on August 22, 20221.
“I would really love to talk to you. I’m only alone until tomorrow.”
The former couple ended up calling and talking for hours, Jackson told docuseries creators Julia Willoughby Nason and Michael Gasparro.
After their phone call, Jackson told Petito he was available for more conversations because he “got the vibe that she still might have needed someone to talk to after we hung up.”
Jackson said Petito then “hinted” that she had gotten in an argument with Laundrie.
She then made a haunting vow to her ex that she was working on a way to end things with Laundrie.
“She was like, ‘I have a plan. I think I want to leave him. I’m gonna do it. I have to figure out when to do it,’” Jackson explained.
“And that’s when I was kind of like, ‘What are you talking about? What do you mean you have a plan?’
“From the sound of her voice and the way she was saying it, I think that she, like, wasn’t sure 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.”
