“It was extremely hurtful to listen to someone that has no remorse and no compassion for the girl they would call their daughter-in-law,” Gabby Petito’s mother, Nichole Schmidt, said of Brian Laundrie's father's court deposition.
Joe Petito and Nichole Schmidt say the note could establish Roberta Laundrie knew that Gabby had been killed amid the desperate search to find her, but she's insisted it was an innocent message written before Gabby had gone missing.
Gabby Petito's family is seeking a note Roberta Laundrie wrote to her son Brian in 2021 that included the phrase "burn after reading," but the Laundries say it had nothing to do with Petito's death.
Attorney Steven Bertolino says his “expression of hope and prayer” in statements made on behalf of accused killer Brian Laundrie’s family regarding Gabby Petito’s whereabouts — shortly before her body was found — “was not reckless,” court documents state.
A lawyer representing the family of murdered woman Gabby Petito says Roberta Laundrie wrote a "Burn After Reading" letter to her late son, allegedly offering to bring a shovel to help bury a body.
Lawyers representing the family of Gabby Petito say the damning selfie — taken just as someone called 911 to report her as the victim of intimate partner violence — proves Moab police failed to protect the young woman before her eventual murder.
An attorney representing Gabby Petito's parents has alleged that Chris and Roberta Laundrie, as well as family attorney Steven Bertolino, knew Gabby had been killed when they issued a statement saying it was their "hope" she'd be reunited with her family.
A Florida judge denied a bid by Brian Laundrie's parents to limit the scope of questions they would face in depositions for a civil lawsuit filed by Gabby Petito's family.
