Gabby Petito’s mom told vlogger ‘not to trust anybody’ before her doomed cross-country road trip with Brian Laundrie
GABBY Petito's mother told her not to trust anybody before she set out on her doomed road trip with her fiance Brian Laundrie.
Mom Nichole Schmidt shared her agony at losing in a heartbreaking interview as the manhunt for drags on.
"I told her to be careful, be safe," she told . "To be aware of your surroundings. Don’t trust anybody."
The mother said that while she was concerned about Gabby's safety, she .
"It felt safe because she was with Brian and I felt like she would be OK," she said.
"I thought he would take care of her."
Three months later, Schmidt has a very different view of Laundrie, calling him a "coward" who deserves to be locked up for life.
Gabby and Laundrie were two months into their road trip when she vanished sometime around August 27 in Wyoming.
Brian quietly returned home to Florida alone in Gabby's van on September 1 but failed to alert police or her family that she was missing.
Gabby was eventually reported missing by Schmidt on September 11, three days before after allegedly telling he was going camping.
A coroner confirmed she last week amid a , who is considered a person of interest in Gabby's death.
'LOCK HIM UP'
Schmidt repeated calls for Laundrie's capture in her 60 Minutes interview, saying: "He is a coward. I just want to get him in a cell for the rest of his life
"I don’t want to say he is insane or anything, he went home, he’s hiding, he used her credit card.
"The last thing I said to her, my very last sentence was 'I love you.' And her last sentence to me was ‘I love you too,'" he said.
of Blue Point, Long Island, New York, over the weekend.
On Sunday, a fundraiser was held for the Gabby Petito Foundation set up after her death to help families with missing loved ones.
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