The disturbing drawings, diary and weapons of Brian Laundrie

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By Jack Morphet And Ronny Reyes

Murderer Brian Laundrie poured his sick mind onto paper, scribbling notes about his 'mania' and scribbling skull charts with the words 'trust no one' and 'kill', new FBI files obtained exclusively reveal by The Post.

The writings and other evidence were photographed by the agency during a raid on the Laundrie family home after the body of Gabby Petito, the girlfriend he murdered, was found abandoned in a remote camping area of Wyoming in September 2021.

Brian Stewart, the Petito family's attorney, said he was shocked by 23-year-old Brian's scribbles and other chilling evidence recovered by officials at the Florida Laundromat before Brian was found dead by suicide in a local national park.

“In retrospect, this tells us that Brian suffered from mental health issues and was clearly a narcissist and manipulator capable of violence,” Stewart told the Post.

“It’s just scary,” he added when presented with the skull graphic and the rest of Laundrie’s writings, obtained by The Post under freedom of information laws.

In addition to the drawing, the FBI search also uncovered notebooks belonging to Petito, as well as hundreds of bullets, several magazines, and a bill of sale and manuals for Ruger .380 and Glock 49mm pistols.

Authorities also recovered a compound bow equipped with a scope, bolt-action rifle magazines, brass knuckles, a large wad of cash and copies of “The Watchtower,” an illustrated religious magazine published by Jehovah's Witnesses based in New York.

Laundrie also was in possession of Chuck Palahniuk's novel, “Choke,” about a con artist who pretends to choke on food to win sympathy checks from others.

Other books in Laundrie's possession were photographed hollowed out, apparently to allow him to secretly store electronic items or devices.

Among the most disturbing pieces of evidence were Laundrie's own private writings, which expressed her desire to commit suicide and self-immolation months before she began dating Petito.

“About a year ago, I fell into a sort of mania where I was punching holes in walls with my head, kicking paintings, tearing up everything I was working on, pouring water on myself. gasoline to burn alive, but I took the lighter. wet, I park in murderous country listening to Mac [unclear, but may be ‘DeMarco’] with a gun to his head, fighting alligators,” Laundrie wrote in his journal on October 26, 2018.

“I wanted to die and the weird thing is that nothing changed, but the [timer’s] burning out,” he continued. Under the mattress I am on is a loaded 357 magnum revolver.

“Pull the trigger and all my problems will be over.” »

The creepy diary entries were written about four months before Laundrie and Petito started dating, according to their Instagram accounts.

Two years later, Laundrie and Petito took a van tour across the country, detailing their escapades on social media.

However, things took a horrible turn and while Laundrie suddenly returned to her parents' home and Petito was reported missing. After a nationwide search, the 22-year-old's strangled body was found in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

Authorities confirmed she was killed around August 28.

An undated article in Laundrie's diary also describes a nightmare Laundrie had that seemed to concern Petito's departure.

“The ocean comes out of his blue eyes and the fire goes out. With just one word, the pain disappears. “Brian?” Laundrie wrote.

“Oh, how nice of her to say we should get together, but you know when you walk through that door she'll be gone forever again,” he added. “You (sic) back in the car, haunted by eyes you will never look at again.

“The pain still burns because you know it’s just tonight.” You wake up and your (sic) both free,” the entry concludes.

Stewart said the Petito family was unaware of these diary entries, but said that if Laundrie harbored a desire to hurt himself and Gabby when the notes were written, he did a good job of hiding it .

“We know he’s a manipulator who hid his intentions,” Stewart said. “It’s interesting to see all these notes, to know now how fatal these types of domestic violence situations can become. »