Gabby Petito doc filmmakers on unsettling murder — and her ‘cry for help’

nypost.com:

became a media sensation in 2021. Now, a new Netflix documentary is revisiting the murder — and revealing new details. Called “American Murder: Gabby Petito,” the three-part docuseries premieres Feb.

17 and was exec-produced and directed by filmmakers Julia Willoughby Nason and Michael Gasparro, who also did the docuseries “Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal” and “Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets.” “The fact that we were able to have access to the family was super important,” Gasparro told The Post. “We were filming the Murdaugh documentary at the time,” he said, when they were told: “The Petito family wants to tell Gabby’s story.

There’s been a lot of stuff that’s done. They haven’t really participated in anything….And, that’s something Julia and I have been doing for a while.”The documentary includes interviews with Petito’s parents, friends, siblings, cops and FBI agents who found her body and searched for Laundrie.

Gabby’s ex-boyfriend, Jackson, who she dated before Laundrie, also appears and reveals she contacted him shortly before her murder as a “cry for help.”“I have a plan.