Gabby Petito parents’ lawyer renews request for Roberta Laundrie’s ‘burn after reading’ letter to son

Lawyers for Joseph Petito and Nichole Schmidt, the parents of murdered vacation blogger Gabby Petito, renewed their quest Wednesday to get a letter that her suspected killer Brian Laundrie been given from his mother.

Petito’s mothers and fathers are suing Chris and Roberta Laundrie in connection with the killing, which they allege the mother and father knew about months before research teams recovered the 22-yr-old’s continues to be from a campsite in Wyoming.

The letter, which is in the possession of the Laundries, allegedly has an provide from Roberta Laundrie to lend her son a shovel. The Laundries, by means of their legal staff, have preserved that it was published prior to July 1, 2021, the start off of the day range for discovery documents Petito-Schmidt relatives attorney Pat Reilly had beforehand asked for.

Right after the court docket encouraged a revised discovery ask for, the new submitting seeks the letter exclusively, but the judge has not however ordered its launch.

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Brian Laundrie’s mom and dad, Chris and Roberta Laundrie, are noticed exterior their property in Sarasota County, Florida, on Oct. 19, 2022. (Mark Sims for Fox Information Electronic)

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“Mr. Reilly will send us a particular discovery ask for for the letter,” Matt Luka, the Laundries’ legal professional, told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. “Then, we will have the option to item.”

Reilly has claimed that the contents of the letter indicate it was published just after Petito’s slaying in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. 

Luka stated the decide will probably keep a hearing on the matter.

Gabby Petito in an undated photograph. (North Port Police)

The FBI released the take note in June 2022 to Steve Bertolino, the longtime Laundrie spouse and children attorney who is now also section of the lawsuit.

Investigators launched many other products to Bertolino at the time, like Brian Laundrie’s handwritten confession, uncovered in the vicinity of his remains at the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park located 10 minutes from his parents’ North Port residence on Oct. 20, 2021.

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Both equally Bertolino and Reilly at the time told Fox News Electronic that there were other files handed more than.

All those included what Reilly explained as a letter titled “burn off after studying.”

Brian Laundrie as witnessed in bodycam footage launched by the Moab Police Division in Utah. (Moab PD)

“I do not come to feel cozy summarizing the letter,” he explained to Fox Information Digital at the time. “The content material is pretty precise and very best browse when obtainable. If my perception as to the time it was prepared is exact, it exhibits that at least Roberta Laundrie understood of Gabby’s murder ahead of Gabby’s human body was situated. The relaxation of the notebook contained letters to his household.”

Roberta’s letter was undated, he additional, but “the material of the letter seems to indicate that it was created immediately after Gabby’s dying.”

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Chris and Roberta Laundrie are found in the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park in North Port, Florida, on the early morning law enforcement found their son’s skeletal remains. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Electronic)

Bertolino has maintained that the letter was prepared prolonged in advance of the murder, and prior to currently being named in the lawsuit, mentioned Reilly was making an attempt to “further more sensationalize” the circumstance and “getting unrelated remarks out of context.”

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Reilly did not immediately react to Fox News Digital’s requests for remark. 

Chris and Roberta Laundrie have not been billed with a crime in connection with Petito’s loss of life.