Parents of Gabby Petito Sue Utah Police in a $50 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit

The parents of Gabby Petito have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the police department in Moab, Utah, where the slain travel blogger and her boyfriend Brian Laundrie were questioned about a possible domestic dispute weeks before she was reported missing.

The lawsuit, which was initially announced in August in a notice of claim before being filed Thursday, is seeking at least $50 million in damages.

“We feel the need to bring justice because she could have been protected that day,” Petito’s mother, Nichole Schmidt, said during a press conference Thursday. “There are laws put in place to protect victims, and those laws were not followed. And we don’t want this to happen to anybody else.”

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