(NewsNation) — The household of Gabby Petito sat down with NewsNation’s Brian Entin to sermon the Netflix documentary astir the execution of their girl and however they’re moving to forestall younker home violence.
“When you ticker the documentary, retrieve that this is simply a existent person, this is simply a existent family, it’s a existent communicative and it’s existent life,” Gabby’s parent Nichole Schmidt told NewsNation. “It’s not conscionable existent crime. This tin hap to anyone. We ne'er successful a cardinal years thought this would hap to our family. That’s wherefore we’re trying to assistance radical truthful we tin forestall this from happening to them.”
NewsNation Senior Correspondent Brian Entin spoke with Gabby Petito's parents up of the merchandise of a Netflix docuseries astir her case. Watch his afloat study connected "Morning successful America" connected Monday starting astatine 6a/5c.
In July 2021, Gabby and her fellow Brian Laundrie went connected a roadworthy travel crossed America, but lone Laundrie returned to his parent’s location successful North Port, Florida.
Authorities said Laundrie killed Gabby and near her astatine the Grand Teton National Park successful Wyoming. Her assemblage would beryllium recovered weeks aboriginal successful mid-September, days aft Laundrie went missing successful the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park successful Florida.
Laundrie’s remains were recovered successful the quality sphere successful October 2021. Investigators said helium died of a self-inflicted gunshot coiled and near a notebook confession saying helium killed Gabby.
Gabby’s household volition stock their communicative successful “American Murder: Gabby Petito,” a three-part documentary acceptable to premiere connected Feb. 17.
“American Murder: Gabby Petito, a caller three-part documentary series, goes beyond the media frenzy to fto Petito’s household and friends stock her story," a news release from Netflix work successful part. "Illustrated with existent substance messages, video footage, and excerpts from Petito’s idiosyncratic journals, the bid captures the world of a young pistillate enmeshed successful an abusive narration down closed doors — adjacent arsenic she enactment connected a happy, “Insta-perfect” look for societal media.”