Gabrielle Venora Petito (March 19, 1999[1] – August 27–30, 2021) was an American woman who was killed while traveling on a vanlife journey across the United States with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. The trip began on July 2, 2021, and was planned to last four months, when Petito disappeared in late August. After she went missing, Laundrie raised suspicion when he drove Petito's van from Wyoming back to his parents' house in Florida and refused to talk about Petito's whereabouts.