Brian Laundrie’s mother offered him “a shovel and garbage bags” if he needed to dispose of a body, according to a “burn after reading” letter, court documents show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The parents of Laundrie’s fiance Gabby Petito have been given the letter after a Florida judge denied a request from his parents to withhold it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Petitos are suing the Laundries for emotional distress following their daughter’s death while Brian and Gabby were traveling together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The letter was released after arguments by lawyers as to whether it is relevant to the lawsuit, which is set to be heard in May next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gabby’s body was found at Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest in September 2021 and her death was ruled a homicide by manual strangulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Laundrie took his own life the following month, but the FBI said that he had written in a notebook that he was responsible for her death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The “burn after reading” letter was found in his backpack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Petito family’s lawyer shared a copy of the letter, written by Roberta Laundrie, with NBC News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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