"It was a situation of how frantic he was. I had no idea what to think. He asked me to get a lawyer,” Brian Laundrie's dad Christopher said of the call he got from his son regarding Gabby Petito.
Brian Laundrie placed a “frantic telephone call” to his own parents after he murdered Gabby Petito, informing them his fiancée was “gone,” new court documents say.
“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.
