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New surveillance footage appears to show Gabby Petito days before she was strangled to death

JACKSON COUNTY, Wyoming — New video has surfaced of Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie just days before authorities say Laundrie strangled the 22-year-old Instagram influencer to death.

Petito vanished while on a road trip with Laundrie through Colorado and Utah in 2021. She was reported missing by her mother on Sept. 11 after family members said they hadn’t heard from her since Aug. 25. She was found dead in the Teton National Forest in Wyoming on Sept. 19.

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New footage released by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department and obtained by CNN shows the couple in a Whole Foods in Wyoming on Aug. 27, 2021, according to CNN.

The new video has no sound, but shows the couple walking side-by-side outside of the Whole Foods, Petito with her arms crossed.

Inside the store, Laundrie stays close to Petito before briefly separating from her in the store before the couple walks back to their van in the parking lot.

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Petito’s mother told police that the last time she talked to her daughter was on Aug. 25, two days before the video at Whole Foods was captured. That was also the last time Petito posted on Instagram.

Laundrie came under suspicion after he returned to the couple’s Florida home driving Petito’s van but without her on Sept. 1.

Laundrie vanished in the days after Petito was reported missing and was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a swamp area near his Florida home. In a notebook found near his body, Laundrie confessed to killing Petito but claimed it was an accident.

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Days before the pair visited Whole Foods, on Aug. 12, a witnesses called police about a couple fighting on the side of the road in Moab.

Police tracked the couple’s van to the entrance of Arches National Park and conducted a traffic stop. Body camera footage from the encounter showed Petito crying to officers about the fight and claiming responsibility for it.

Neither Petito or Laundrie wanted to press charges and police arranged for them to separate for the night.

On the same day video showed the couple in the Whole Foods, Petito’s mother got a suspicious text from her phone in which Petito called her grandfather by his name, ‘Stan,’ which her mother thought was odd. The last text from Petito’s phone was sent on Aug. 30 and said, ‘No service in Yosemite,’ according to warrants.

Petito’s mother said she doubted the last message was from her daughter.