The dad and mom of a US blogger who authorities say was strangled by her boyfriend have launched a letter from the alleged killer’s mom through which she talks about burying a physique.
Gabby Petito’s household is suing the dad and mom of her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, for emotional misery.
On Wednesday a decide dominated the Petitos can embrace Roberta Laundrie’s letter to her son of their civil lawsuit.
The loss of life of Gabby Petito, 22, in 2021 drew worldwide consideration.
Laundrie shot himself after his girlfriend was discovered strangled in a Wyoming campground.
His dad and mom – who haven’t been charged with any crime in reference to Petito’s loss of life – had requested the decide to maintain the letter out of the case.
Within the word, Mrs Laundrie writes to her son: “Should you’re in jail I’ll bake a cake and put a file in it.
“If you could get rid of a physique. I’ll present up with a shovel and rubbish luggage.”
She wrote “burn after studying” on the envelope that contained the letter.
In a beforehand filed court docket doc, Mrs Laundrie mentioned the letter merely contained “quirky” references to her son’s favorite childhood books.
She additionally mentioned she wrote the letter earlier than her son left on his cross-country journey with Petito.
However the Petito household mentioned in a press release to the BBC on Thursday that “an inexpensive inference is it was written after Gabby Petito was murdered”.
In court docket on Wednesday, CNN reports that Petito household legal professional Patrick Reilly mentioned of the letter: “These are legal acts, by the best way, that Roberta Laundrie has mentioned she would commit.”
Sarasota Circuit Courtroom Decide Danielle Brewer declined to concern an order blocking the usage of the letter within the case.
Final yr, the Petito and Laundrie households reached a $3m (£2.4m) settlement in a wrongful loss of life lawsuit filed by Petito’s dad and mom.
The couple had been documenting their cross-country street journey on social media following their engagement earlier than Laundrie returned alone to his household dwelling in North Port, Florida, in September 2021 with out her.
Her physique was found close to Wyoming’s Grand Teton Nationwide Park later that month.
Laundrie’s physique was discovered a month later in a Florida nature protect close to his dad and mom’ dwelling, the FBI mentioned.
The letter was found by investigators.
Petito’s disappearance and the aftermath of the investigation captured the curiosity of US web sleuths.
