TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Nichole Schmidt, the mother of Gabby Petito, said the years after her daughter's death have shown how much of an impact she has had.

"I didn't think I was going to get emotional, but it's been almost four years, and we miss her very much," Schmidt said.

Petito went missing on Aug. 27, 2021 while on a cross-country trip with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. Wednesday marks the fourth anniversary of her initial disappearance.

The young woman would not be found until Sept. 19, 2021, when her body was found in the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

Authorities said Laundrie strangled her and left her body there. Laundrie confessed to the crime in a notebook found after he killed himself at the Carlton Reserve in Sarasota.

After Petito's death, her family created the Gab

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