This is Brian Laundrie's mum's 'burn after reading' letter

The parent of Brian Laundrie, the antheral who killed his fiancée, Gabby Petito, and aboriginal himself successful 2021, wrote to her lad saying she would assistance him "dispose of a body" oregon "bake a barroom with a record successful it" to assistance him successful jail, according to a transcript of the undated letter.

"I conscionable privation you to retrieve I volition ever emotion you and I cognize you volition ever emotion me. You are my boy. Nothing tin marque maine halt loving you, thing volition oregon could ever disagreement us. No substance what we do, oregon wherever we spell oregon what we say- we volition ever emotion each other," Roberta Laundrie wrote successful the letter.

"If you're successful jailhouse I volition cook a barroom with a record successful it. If you request to dispose of a assemblage I volition bring amusement up with a shovel and garbage bags," it says, with an evident transverse retired implicit the connection 'bring'.

"If you alert to the moon, I volition beryllium watching the skies for your re-entry. If you accidental you hatred my guts, I'll get caller guts."

Roberta Laundrie has said the missive was written earlier her son's travel with Petito, and 1 of her attorneys released a connection saying it was "in nary mode related to Gabby," though Petito's household has challenged those assertions.

The envelope containing the missive said "burn aft reading" and was recovered from Brian Laundrie's backpack erstwhile his remains were recovered successful October 2021.

The missive besides quotes from Romans successful the Bible.

"Nothing tin abstracted us; not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not threats, not adjacent sin, not the thinkable oregon unthinkable tin get betwixt us," it reads.

The afloat connection of the missive was revealed astir 2 years aft the young mates acceptable disconnected connected a cross-country trip, intimately documented connected societal media, that ended successful tragedy.

Brian Laundrie came location from the travel without Petito and disappeared respective weeks later.

Petito's remains were recovered astatine Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest successful September 2021 and her decease was ruled a homicide by manual strangulation.

Before taking his ain life, Brian Laundrie wrote successful a notebook helium was liable for her death, according to the FBI.

The missive was the taxable of a proceeding Wednesday successful which Petito's parents argued it had relevance to their suit brought against Brian's parents and erstwhile lawyer for affectional distress.

The Petito household argues that Laundrie's parents and their lawyer knew that Petito had been murdered and knew the determination of her assemblage erstwhile they issued a connection connected September 14, 2021, astir the hunt for Petito.

That connection astatine the crux of the lawsuit said, successful part, "it is our anticipation that the hunt for Miss Petito is successful, and that Miss Petito is reunited with her family."

The justice has not yet ruled connected the admissibility of Roberta Laundrie's letter.

After a lengthy back-and-forth successful court, some parties agreed that a confidentiality bid was not indispensable to support the missive nether seal erstwhile Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court Judge Danielle Brewer determined the missive could beryllium applicable to the lawsuit and the plaintiff lawyers should astatine slightest get a copy.

In court, Petito household lawyer Patrick Reilly argued the missive was important successful their suit against the Laundrie family.

"As we each know, the missive references burying a body, bringing a shovel and burying a body," helium said.

"Those are transgression acts, by the way, that Roberta Laundrie has said she would commit."

The Laundries person argued successful tribunal filings they had nary work to the Petito family.

In a connection from Roberta Laundrie's attorney, Steven Bertolino, she said the missive was written anterior to the fatal travel and she encouraged radical to work it successful its entirety.

"I genuinely loved my son, and simply wanted to convey to him however overmuch helium meant to maine and however overmuch I loved him," she said.

"I americium definite radical usage phrases each the clip to explicit to their loved ones the depths of their love. Although I chose words that I thought would beryllium impactful with Brian fixed our relationship, the missive was successful nary mode related to Gabby," she said.

"I inquire that you work it successful its entirety, and recognize that the missive contains different phrases too those highlighted by Pat Reilly for sensationalism and to bolster his case," she added.

She has said likewise successful tribunal documents, saying the missive was meant "to scope retired to Brian portion helium and I were experiencing a hard play successful our relationship".

However, the Petito household said Laundrie's connection is "self-serving".

"The missive is undated, and portion Roberta Laundrie has suggested it was written earlier Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito near connected their trip, a tenable inference is that it was written aft Gabby Petito was murdered, and is grounds that the Laundries and Attorney Bertolino were alert of Gabby Petito's demise erstwhile the connection astatine contented was released connected September 14, 2021," the Petito household responded.

"We look guardant to having a assemblage find erstwhile the missive was written astatine the clip of trial," the Petito household added.

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