A saddening new twist has happened in the on-going investigation into exactly what happened to Gabby Petito as new bodycam footage has surfaced that happened just days before her murder.
The National Park Service has publicly shared bodycam video showing U.S. Rangers on scene during the ominous traffic stop outside Arches National Park in August 2021 involving Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie, just weeks before her murder.
The videos, which were provided to Fox News Digital as part of a public records request and provide a glimpse of a female ranger’s efforts calming Petito down and urging her to distance herself from Laundrie’s abusive behavior.
According to the report, the audio is hard to make out, but Petito appears to vent her frustrations with Laundrie, who witnesses said struck her in public, then tried to drive off without her outside the Moonflower Co-op, a grocery store in the heart of town.
Throughout the encounter, however, she downplays Laundrie’s behavior.
Petito claims to have hit him first, taking the blame for his collision with the curb.
“He’s a lot stronger than me,” she adds, denying that she could have hurt him.
However, they shed new light on the incident as Petito spoke candidly with a female Park Ranger from the National Park Service, who was on scene at the same time as Moab police officers.
“The NPS videos will certainly be part of the relevant evidence in the case,” said Brian Stewart, an attorney from Parker & McConkie, which is representing Petito’s parents in their Utah lawsuit. “While the videos provide an additional perspective that may be helpful, they do not appear to contain substantively different information.”
The NPS said it would release transcripts at some point.