Gabby Petito

Born

Gabrielle Venora Petito

March 19, 1999
Blue Point, New York, U.S.

Disappeared: August 27, 2021

Die dc. August 2021 (aged 22)
Teton County, Wyoming, U.S.

Cause of death: Blunt trauma and strangulation

Body discovered: September 19, 2021
Bridger–Teton National Forest, Wyoming, U.S.

Partner: Brian Laundrie (2019–2021)

Gabrielle Venora Petito (March 19, 1999 – c. late August 2021) was born and raised in Blue Point, New York. She had six younger siblings and half-siblings. In 2013, Petito and her step-brothers appeared in a music video to raise awareness about American gun violence in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. In 2017, she graduated from Bayport-Blue Point High School in Bayport, New York, where she met Brian Christopher Laundrie. From September 2017 to January 2019, she lived in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, working as a hostess and in the kitchen of a restaurant in nearby Wilmington. She applied to Cape Fear Community College, but did not attend.