Watch Gabby Petito’s ‘Van Life’ video she posted just one week before her murder

Everyone is reliving Gabby Petito’s tragic death once again after the new American Murder documentary on Netflix.

The 22-year-old was killed by her boyfriend Brian Laundrie in August 2021 while they were living in a van and travelling across the United States.

She planned to document their travels on YouTube, but sadly only published one video titled “Beginning Our Van Life Journey” before she was devastatingly killed in Wyoming.

The video is still on her channel Nomadic Statik and details the start of their trip. It was posted on August 19 and Gabby is believed to have died on August 27, just eight days later.

Credit: Nomadic Statik/YouTube

“A glimpse into our van adventures! After our first cross country trip in a little Nissan Sentra, we both decided we to wanted downsize our lives and travel full time, but trying to fit everything for two people into the tiny little trunk of the car, also spending way too much on gas, food, and Airbnb, was not the road to take,” she wrote in the caption.

“We quickly realized we had to come up with a solution if we wanted to continue traveling and living nomadically, so that’s why we handcrafted our own tiny van, a simple 2012 Ford transit connect, utilizing space with unique designs and features. Creating a space for both artistic expression and distance hiking.”

The vlog begins with them exploring Santa Monica Beach in Los Angeles. It mainly consists of clips of pretty scenery as she hadn’t plucked up the courage to talk to the camera much yet.

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Gabby was keen to make the video look really professional, even using a drone to get high-quality scenic shots. There are also loved-up clips with Brian which are particularly heartbreaking now we know what happened to her.

Around half way through, she speaks to the camera for the first time, saying: “Hello hello and good morning. It is really nice and sunny today. It’s only ten o’clock in the morning but it rained all afternoon yesterday. So, me and Brian just got up, got ready and made the bed in the tent. I think our plan for today is to just hang out here in the tent.”

The video ends in Utah’s Capitol Reef National Park with a tour of their van. Watch the full thing:

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Featured image by: Nomadic Statik/YouTube