Gabby Petito, who was touring the United States with her fiancé Brian Laundrie, was strangled to death in a relationship marred by anger and violence. In September 2021, Laundrie returned to his parents' home without Petito. After a grueling search for their daughter, Petito's parents discovered that Laundrie had left her ten days before her disappearance. He was identified as a suspect in her murder. A week later, two bodies were found in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Once it was confirmed that one was Petito's, the manhunt for Laundrie began. A month later, the FBI confirmed that Laundrie had taken his own life in the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park.
In 2017, 17-year-old Juan Luis Lagunas Rosales was killed following his rise to fame as a "narcoyoutuber" in northern Mexico. After threatening the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) in one of his videos, he was gunned down a month later. His death became one of the most widely discussed on the internet, marking one of the first cases of an influencer being murdered.
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