Brian Laundrie’s mother finally speaks out about ‘burn after reading’ note she wrote to son

Brian Laundrie’s mom claims the controversial letter to her son during which she supplied to “assist bury a physique” was written months earlier than he killed his girlfriend Gabby Petito and had nothing to do together with her homicide.

Talking out concerning the word for the primary time, Roberta Laundrie mentioned in a sworn affidavit that elements of the “quirky” letter — together with writing she “would carry a shovel to assist bury a physique” and inking “burn after studying” on the envelope — have been taken out of context, Fox 13 reported.

The letter has not been launched, nevertheless in December Patrick Reilly, an legal professional representing Petito’s dad and mom Joe Petito and Nichole Schmidt filed a movement to have it included of their civil lawsuit in opposition to the Laundries.

“This request actually would additionally embrace the word that Roberta Laundrie wrote to Brian Laundrie, [in] which she supplied to carry a shovel to assist bury the physique,” Reilly wrote to the Laundrie’s lawyer Matt Luka in a Dec. 5 letter concerning the paperwork they need to hand over as a part of the go well with.

Roberta Laundrie admitted to writing “burn after studying” on the envelope, however claimed it was a reference to a guide that she and Brian each loved. She mentioned she wrote the letter when their relationship was strained.

Whereas in a roundabout way addressing the reference to burying a physique, Laundrie mentioned she used “related phrases to explain the depth of a mom’s love” and included references to youngsters’s books like “Little Bear” and “The Runaway Bunny,” in accordance with the affidavit.

She mentioned a few of the “quirky” elements of the letter have been references to inside jokes that the 2 shared.

“There have been another phrases that I used within the letter, which aren’t discovered within the books I shared with Brian as a toddler. Nonetheless, these phrases are widespread sufficient in our circle of family and friends, to explain who you may flip to in essentially the most troubling instances of your life,” Roberta Laundrie wrote in her affidavit. 

“Whereas I take advantage of the phrases that appear to have a reference to Brian‘s actions and his taking Gabby‘s life, I by no means would have fathomed the occasions that unfolded months later between Brian and Gabby would replicate the phrases in my letter,” she wrote.

Laundrie mentioned she gave her son the letter in Might 2021 — simply earlier than Brian and Gabby’s cross nation journey throughout which he killed her, in accordance with the report. The letter is undated, attorneys for each households agreed. 

“The phrases within the letter might by no means have been a touch upon that tragic state of affairs, as they have been written so many months earlier than,” Laundrie wrote within the court docket doc. “My phrases to Brian have been meant to convey my love and assist for my son by means of a light-hearted and quirky reminder that my love for him was not diminished, and couldn’t be shaken by the miles of separation we’d quickly be confronted with.”

Brian Laundrie’s stays have been discovered on October 20, 2021 within the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park — simply 10 minutes from his dad and mom’ North Port, Florida residence.

Laundrie, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the pinnacle, was discovered with a backpack stuffed with a number of letters, a suicide word and a pocket book during which he admitted to killing Petito.

Reilly has argued that “the content material of the letter appears to point that it was written after Gabby’s dying.”

“If my perception as to the time it was written is correct, it reveals that not less than Roberta Laundrie knew of Gabby’s homicide earlier than Gabby’s physique was situated. The remainder of the pocket book contained letters to his household,” Reilly advised Fox Information.

The civil case in opposition to the Laundries is slated to start in August.