Another interesting update on the death of Gabby Petito is that a lawyer representing her parents—Pat Reilly—wants more evidence released. We touched on both Brian Laundrie’s admission of killing Gabby as well as his plans and actions afterward but Reilly believes something is fishy here and he would speak with WFLA Tampa about his suspicions.
“Release the Entire Notebook”: Gabby Petito Family Lawyer Wants the Whole Thing Released – Claims “There’s Some Pretty Extreme Things” In Letter from Roberta Laundrie
Steve Bertolino, the Laundrie’s lawyer, released eight pages from Brian Laundrie’s notebook on June 24, 2022. He says there’s more evidence surrounding the young man who was 23-years-old at the time of his death including a letter written by Roberta Laundrie to Brian—and he doesn’t have a copy of it. Reilly said:
“I find it ironic that Mr. Bertolino says he was, in full transparency, releasing this. Well, someone should ask him why he doesn’t release the entire notebook—but more importantly, ask him why he doesn’t release Roberta Laundrie’s letter to her son.”
Reilly would go on to say that there are “some pretty extreme things” that Roberta Laundrie said in the letter. Since he didn’t have a copy of the letter in front of him but didn’t want to quote it without proof. He noted that it wasn’t dated but he was certain that based on the context of the letter, it was “written after Gabby was killed and before Brian took his life.”
In that window of time, Brian had started back home, texted Gabby’s mother as Gabby, returned to Florida, spent time with his parents, and disappeared. Also, there was a search for Gabby Petito, her body was found, and a search for Brian Laundrie to sit for questioning. Another damning thing is that Reilly claims it came with instructions to destroy the letter afterward. Reilly told WFLA:
“I will tell you, by the way, that on the envelope that contained the letter, the words ‘burn after you read this’ were written.”
Both Pat Reilly and Steven Bertolino saw the evidence on Friday, June 24 while at the FBI offices in Tampa. Things get a little more damning as according to Reilly “I don’t know if that letter was written before or after he came back to North Port but — the most I want to say is there was an offer to assist Brian with some things in that letter.”
If true and the letter as well as the rest of the notebook is released are allowed as evidence, this lawsuit will definitely go to trial. With just the eight-page confession-suicide letter released and nothing else, it looks like an attempt to make Brian Laundrie more of a sympathetic figure in this story.
Bertolino would confirm that there was a letter from Laundrie’s mother but didn’t elaborate on the details:
“I do know it’s a movie and what she wrote on the cover of a letter to Brian many months before the trip had the title of the movie on there.”
“That’s a Version”
When discussing the confession that Steven Bertolino released, Reilly said that there was another version of the confession and his team would be getting it:
“That’s a version. There’s another version—I don’t have a copy of the other version yet—but I’ve been advised there’s another version that he authored that we will be getting, hopefully through the Freedom of Information request, that does not entirely match up this particular version.”
He would note that the other version was on a device and confirmed WFLA Now’s JB Biunno’s question as to if it was “a type-out note”. Reilly would state that he doesn’t believe the confession that was in Laundrie’s notebook.
What do you believe? Do you believe the released version of Brian’s confession holds water? Will the confession that is “on a device” be dramatically different from the version available? What is the “pretty extreme stuff” that Roberta Laundrie wrote in the letter to Brian? Tell us your theories in the comments and we’ll look at them in a follow-up.
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