Gabby Petito was an American woman, who was killed by her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, while they were travelling across the United States in a van. On September 19, 2021, she was discovered dead.

Gabby Petito was not pregnant at the time of her death, contrary to popular belief. The autopsy results disprove online theories that Petito was pregnant before her death.

Gabby Petito was born in Blue Point, New York, and raised there. She was the oldest of six children and half-siblings.

Gabby Petito graduated from Bayport-Blue Point High School in 2017 where she met Brian Christopher Laundrie.

Gabby Petito lived in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, from September 2017 to January 2019, and worked as a hostess and in the kitchen of a restaurant in Wilmington. She applied but did not attend Cape Fear Community College.

Petito was attempting to establish herself as a social media travel influencer and planned to share her travels with her followers.

According to The New York Times, she had been working as a pharmacy technician to save for her trip