{"id":1741100,"date":"2022-11-16T11:47:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T16:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741100"},"modified":"2022-11-16T11:47:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T16:47:51","slug":"gabby-petito-killers-family-demands-apology-from-celebrity-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gabby-petito-killers-family-demands-apology-from-celebrity-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabby Petito Killer\u2019s Family Demands Apology From \u2018Celebrity Jeopardy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgabby-petito-killers-family-demands-apology-from-celebrity-jeopardy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741100&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The family of Brian Laundrie, the murderer of Gabby Petito, is demanding an apology from \u201cCelebrity Jeopardy!\u201d after the show featured a clue referencing Laundrie.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday night\u2019s episode, the show offered a clue to contestants Michael Higgins, Wil Wheaton and Joel Kim Booster that read, \u201cIn 2021, fugitive Brian Laundrie ended his days in Fla\u2019s Myakkahatchee Creek area, home to these long &#038; toothy critters.\u201d The correct answer was \u201calligators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire Laundrie family is appalled and concurs with all of the comments on social media on how distasteful this was. I believe an apology is due,\u201d Laundrie family attorney\u00a0Steven Bertolino told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2022\/11\/15\/brian-laundrie-family-rips-celebrity-jeopardy-clue-suicide-gabby-petito\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TMZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Laundrie committed suicide weeks after Petito\u2019s body was found, with her strangled in a campground near the Grand Teton mountains.\u00a0He left a note in which he confessed to killing his longtime girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>Social media\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11428171\/Fans-slam-Jeopardy-tasteless-clue-demise-Gabby-Petitos-killer-Brian-Laundrie.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abounded<\/a>\u00a0with outraged fans offering their condemnation:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJeopardy! just had the most absurd question I have ever seen in my life,\u201d one user said.<\/p>\n<p>Another added, \u201cThis is the most tasteless and insensitive answer I\u2019ve ever seen on any Jeopardy! What the hell were they thinking? Making light of that tragic situation is repugnant. Damn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the f***, Jeopardy! A Brian Laundrie question? Tasteless,\u201d one added.<\/p>\n<p>People were confused by the composition of the question as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat Jeopardy! question mentioning Brian Laundrie and the answer was alligators?? What the actual hell, that was so\u2026out of line. Not necessary! There was no reason to mention him at all,\u201d one social media user said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you no soul? I can\u2019t believe this question got past your lawyers,\u201d one person asked.<\/p>\n<p>In the note he left in a notebook, Laundrie claimed that Petito had slipped and fallen, \u201cbegging for an end to her pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ended her life,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI thought it was merciful, that it is what she wanted, but I see now all the mistake that I made. I panicked. I was in shock. But from the moment I decided, took away her pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Petito\u2019s mother Nichole Schmidt ripped Laundrie\u2019s explanation, writing on Twitter, \u201cFed up. Narcissists rewrite history to escape accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was his character, even in his last moments he wanted to make sure he looked like the good guy,\u201d Schmidt\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DPnegp1Za2E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> NBC\u2019s Today Show. \u201cThat\u2019s ridiculous. We know how she died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Riley, an attorney for the Petito family, reacted to Laundrie\u2019s claim that the killing was \u201cmerciful,\u201d calling it \u201cnonsense,\u201d adding. \u201cHe is writing a letter as though he wants people to feel sorry for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In late September 2021, as hundreds of mourners attended a service at a funeral home for Petito, her father\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/gabby-petitos-father-gives-eulogy-if-there-is-a-relationship-that-youre-in-that-might-not-be-the-best-thing-for-you-leave-it-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the audience<\/a>, \u201cIf there is a relationship that you\u2019re in that might not be the best thing for you, leave it. Now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/what-the-f-jeopardy-jeopardy-ripped-for-clue-referencing-gabby-petitos-murder\/\">\u2018What The F***, Jeopardy\u2019: Jeopardy Ripped For Clue Referencing Gabby Petito\u2019s Murder<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of Brian Laundrie, the murderer of Gabby Petito, is demanding an apology from \u201cCelebrity Jeopardy!\u201d after the show featured a clue referencing Laundrie. On Sunday night\u2019s episode, the show offered a clue to contestants Michael Higgins, Wil Wheaton, and Joel Kim Booster that read, \u201cIn 2021, fugitive Brian Laundrie ended his days in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1741103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1741103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}