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Brian Laundrie's Notebook Confession Offers Interesting Details

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0:00 [Music] there is an update oh good in the brian laundry situation my bowl i don't even know who that is yeah yeah yeah gabby potatoes murderer thank you thank you thank there it is uh there was a notebook confession from him wow what do you mean like he carried a little journal yep so brian lodge said he wanted to take away gabby patio's pain in a journal entry written before he killed himself laundry and his fiancee petito had been driving around national parks in the u.s just catch people up in their van last august all the while documenting their trip on social media and there were

0:50 travel vloggers after petito's family didn't hear from the 22 year old for a couple of weeks they reported her missing on september 11th and her disappearance ended up becoming very viral laundry then disappeared on september 14th and petito's body was discovered on the 19th on the edge of wyoming's grand teton national park which the couple had visited a huge manhunt hunt culminated in the unearthing of laundry's remains on the october 20th in the carlton reserve wilderness park near the laundry's home along with the 23 year old's remains were a revolver a backpack and a notebook let me show a photo i googled grand teton national park it's beautiful have you been there no i want to where is it wyoming whoa wyoming is just this is a notebook with a picture it's got some nice penmanship it does actually it's very neat i thought people that were like younger than us didn't know how to write cursive that's not cursive that's not christmas it's like

1:41 italicized a little bit all right he doesn't buy it he's all right he checks out he's like whatever i'm not gonna die on this hill whatever oh my god photos of the notebook first published uh your show laundry confessing to gabby's killing which he said he did out of mercy quote that's a weird way to think of it quote i thought it was merciful that it was what she wanted but i see now all the mistakes i made i panicked i was in shock he went on to just also beating her ass too yeah stupid was that exactly what had happened well i think that's what the uh the police port said right they said that she hit him well i think it was just one incident oh was it wasn't she hitting him in the van they were all fighting with each other and i heard that he she would hit him but yeah they were they were fighting a lot but then the cops actually she they had said that she had hit like

2:32 they was admitted so that was the point that they should have split them up but they did yeah what did the autopsy say about her actual death strangulation i think yeah he like choked her out crazy oh geez which is wild he went on to describe her death as an unexpected tragedy claiming gabby got injured one night as they tried to cross a stream he said she had a small bump on her forehead that eventually got larger as well as other injuries and she was begging for an end to her pain oh bro he's he's nuts he added quote from the moment i decided took her pain away i knew i couldn't go on without her laundry finished the journal entry by expressing his hope that animals in the carlton reserve would tear him apart

3:23 he wrote i am ending my life not because of a fear of punishment but rather because i can't stand to live another day without her it just sounds like they got into an argument he freaked out got impulsive and killed her strangled her to death and then he had to imagine a different scenario so he could live with himself and then he killed himself they already certified this journal as real evidence like they know that some other random person didn't just throw it in there after the finding out about the case or something because i think they found it on him because he he was found dead in the uh they found his body in like a swamp or something right yeah oh it was on his head i think it was it's probably crazy that they just released it now you know that is good paper impact because it didn't like get soaked up nope no smudges so let's say uh just in the mind right of joe because we love that well you try

4:13 i'm gonna come on man i'm not gonna kill nobody like that that i love i kill a lot of other people but not people on that let's say you strangled her in a crime of passion and now you had to come up with another reason for why it happened why man she was a bro she was tripping all the time that's the reason you're going to jail no but people will understand them oh yeah you're right you're right they'll understand right away with no other details no other context justice okay i i think that i'd have to do the same thing because i wouldn't be able to live with myself i had to create a new story in my head i'd have to be like oh dude you're a bear cane man that bear like a bitter leg and then like she was in pain so like dude i don't know i had to throw over a cliff where's their bear bites your ankle no i don't know wouldn't that

5:03 be crazy if you were with someone in the forest and a bear actually showed up and strangled that person instead of biting it no one's gonna believe that you saw what happened and you're like especially if you swear yeah nobody's gonna believe me he's like a bear just grabbed her throat on joe yeah yeah it must have been circus beer how does he know to do that or if like you're you guys are around a campfire right with her and then you you lay your gun down and there's a chicken cuz and throws a acorn it hits the trigger and shoots her and they're like no one's gonna believe that i i did a shooter out of everyone that's how do you try to convince people squirrels [Laughter] the only thing you could do is replicate it so you'd have to like get a s███████ of squirrels a bunch of guns and drinks but then now you're gonna be admitted to a mental hospital exactly but and they're

5:55 like you just trained the squirrels to kill her that's the risk that's it and it's gonna be like your own dog that doesn't do tricks when you need it to you're like i swear to god this happened it's why don't you do it man why you did it earlier [Laughter] yeah that's what would be so funny about outlandish murders and then like dude if they really were like because i'm sure there's some some of them are out there right yeah there's gotta be yeah there's gotta be bear out there to strike the out of every animal and then just seize a person but it says she died of strangulation like just with an object or with hands or does it with the object with hands you know i don't know i don't know were there bear claws on the neck yeah you know what not not the autopsy i read i think i would spend the rest of my time trying to catch the bear so then if they all look the same you break them in for confessions tell

6:45 them what you did yeah it says she was killed by manual strangulation in the autopsy come on yogi what the dude all the side by strangulation of bear yogi bear specifically good luck getting a confession out of that bear yeah i'm like foreign the bear shows up at the station by himself turns himself in i have a confession to make i was the one dang that's pretty crazy it is crazy so you guys want to talk about anything else that's such a childish attempt though to like write a alibi like and just make a difference well at least it's kind of cool right because it puts some closure at least on the family's

7:36 part which closure that this dude was indeed an idiot yeah yeah and crazy the pump got bigger that we needed to yeah we need to get rid of this her pain like she twisted her ankle and it started swelling so i got a huge rock and smashed her head with it to end the pain like what the dude i decided after i was like it's not about the punishment i just can't go on without her she got a bee sting so i decided to nudge her off a cliff like that should be hella funny what if that should be fun if you're watching like an nba game and like a player trips and his ankles start swelling and he just goes kill me get that guy like so extreme in the pain within seconds he's like bro just just do me in man i can't take it he jams his finger he's like you killed me

8:28 when you hit your pinky toe on the corner of the bed oh dude it hurts i'm ready bro i dropped it i dropped my phone on my foot the other day i was like dude i'm gonna jump off a building because it's such a fun that's such a movie thing it's like normally people don't sustain an injury and then just process it and go you know what just kill me bro like that's it like that's the next level most of the time if you if it's that severe you're not even saying anything you want to just stay alive you're just going into shock was there proof of a contusion on her head yeah several oddly yeah was there proof of a contusion there were several please there were several uh brian laundry shaped fist marks dude it's so stupid this guy's for sure just we were clean and she got injured and i had to end the pain

9:18 what if everyone's like oh man that's what really happened crazy like who does he expect that's going to believe that he's a like first of all not to be the most evil person in the room do it i would have just put her back in the rv and just totaled the together yeah and just tried to get less injured and not killed and then went oh like you know by the time that he had already left this is like three days later and i left the body that's what i mean like that you strangle someone should put him in a car seat yeah go off the cliff or you could get her if she's already already banged her up or no not yet yeah she's done if you already banged her up then you gotta go look for a snake biter come on just buy the business he's gotta bite and then wrap the snake around the neck try to bite her and then the snake bites you too [Laughter] he's like oh then you're just both go kill me man

10:10 that's why that's why he committed suicide because he was already gonna die this one believed that i was gonna get eaten by the forced animals that's how stupid he is i like that he's like that deer's here just gonna take some time and that elk will eat me imagine how quickly you can process that you need to find a snake after killing someone what what snake [Laughter] real simple man real simple i do the german accents you do the snake accent [Music]

11:14 you [Music]

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