Where Are Gabby Petito's Parents Now? All About Their Lives Nearly 4 Years After the YouTuber's Death — and Why They Think They'll Never Get 'Justice'

Mar. 15, 2025

“I don’t like the word ‘closure,' " Joe told PEOPLE in June 2024. “You’renever going to get closure over the lossof a child. There will always be a hole in your heart that’s never going away.”

A few months later, Nichole echoed Joe’s remarks: “We’renever going to feel like we have justice.”

“I think what hits me is it’s been three years now since the last time I heard her voice or seen her, and that’s really hard," she told PEOPLE in October 2024. “There’s just nothing we can do to make us feel better, but what we can do is continue on with her legacy.”

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“You can’t describe it,” he said. “There’s nothing you can do. You can’t control anything.”

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He added that now that a few years have passed, “it’s much easier to get through the day,” but each of them still has their “hard days.”

“Then we’ll call up, and talk to one another, and get grounded, and then go back,” Joe said. “We all are in it together. And the more we help, the more it makes us feel better.”

“She always wanted us, all four parents, to live together under one roof,” Tara said, adding that she talks to Nichole almost every day.

“She sends us butterflies and rainbows,” Tara told PEOPLE in June 2024. “We’ll see her initials. She’ll send me signs, and I start texting them. As I’m texting them to Nichole, Nichole is getting the same signs.”

Tara added, “She’s always with us.”

Each of the foursome has a role in the foundation. Nichole, who was formerly a teacher’s assistant, has since become a full-time volunteer and president of the organization created in her daughter’s memory.

Joe, a warehouse store chain manager, also works closely with the foundation specializing in their policy and legislation efforts.

Jim, a fire and rescue administrator, focuses ondomestic violence awareness trainingfor first responders. Meanwhile, Tara, who formerly worked in real estate, now spends her time as the foundation’s administrator.

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source: people.com