EXCLUSIVE: Brian Laundrie’s mother Roberta has damaged her silence to Fox News Digital after her highly-anticipated “burn after reading” letter has revealed she promised her late son a shovel and garbage luggage.

The Florida lady, by means of her lawyer, claims the missive was penned earlier than her son launched into a June 2021 cross nation journey together with his 22-year-old fiancee Gabby Petito, who was discovered lifeless September 19, 2021 close to Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park.

Her 23-year-old beau then returned to his mother’s home in North Port, Florida and was declared a “person of interest” earlier than his stays were found on October 21, 2021 in a close-by reserve.

“I just want you to remember I will always love you and I know you will always love me. You are my boy. Nothing can make me stop loving you, nothing can or ever will divide us no matter what we do, or where we go or what we say – we will always love each other. If you’re in jail I will bake a cake and put a file in it. If you need to dispose of a body. I will show up with a shovel and garbage bags,” she mentioned. “If you fly to the moon, I will be watching the skies for your re-entry. If you say you hate my guts, I’ll get new guts. Remember that love is a verb not a noun. It’s not a thing it’s not words. It is actions. Watch people’s actions to know if they love you – not their words.”

Roberta Laundrie then seems to cite Romans 8:38 from the Bible to finish the letter.

“Therefore I am certain that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor the ruling spirits, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers from above, nor powers from below, nothing in the entire created world can separate our love. Neither hostile powers nor messengers or heaven nor monarchs of earth. Nothing has the power to separate us.’ – Romans 8:38 (extended version!)”

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The letter was made public after a listening to in the civil lawsuit introduced by Petito’s dad and mom, Joseph Petito and Nichole Schmidt, towards Chris and Roberta Laundrie and their lawyer Steve Bertolino.

Through an lawyer, Roberta Laundrie advised Fox News Digital that she “truly loved” her son.

“The letter to Brian was written prior to Gabby and Brian leaving my home for their trip. Previously, I submitted an affidavit to the court for very limited purposes but that is not the whole story. Now that the letter has been shared, I ask that you read it in its entirety, and understand that the letter contains other phrases besides those highlighted by Pat Reilly for sensationalism and to bolster his case,” Laundrie mentioned. “I truly loved my son, and simply wanted to convey to him how much he meant to me and how much I loved him.  I am sure people use phrases all the time to express to their loved ones the depths of their love. Although I chose words that I thought would be impactful with Brian given our relationship, the letter was in no way related to Gabby.  Please read the entire letter before you believe the hype put out by Pat Reilly. “

The Laundries have maintained that the letter was written earlier than their son left with Petito on a cross-country street journey in 2021 and needed it withheld solely from the case. Both sides advised the court docket that they opposed a deal that might hand the letter over to Petito’s dad and mom however withhold it from the general public.

But Pat Reilly, the lawyer for her dad and mom, argues that it was written after her homicide and is proof that the dad and mom knew about it as alleged in the civil go well with.

After months of disputes over the letter, Judge Danielle Brewer scheduled the listening to for Wednesday afternoon. The decide additionally thought-about motions from the protection to dismiss the case however mentioned her determination on these would come at a later date.

“While I used words that seem to have a connection with Brian’s actions and his taking of Gabby’s life, I never would have fathomed the events that unfolded months later between Brian and Gabby would reflect the words in my letter,” Roberta Laundrie wrote in an affidavit filed in a Sarasota court docket in March.

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She sought to clarify the context of the letter, saying it was impressed by youngsters’s books “The Runaway Bunny” and “Little Bear” and a writing train e-book she mentioned Petito gave her son referred to as “Burn After Writing.”

“Brian, Gabby and I often joked about this book and the importance of being able to express yourself,” she wrote of the latter.

Embarrassing concepts could possibly be burned away, she argued.

“In some way, I did not want anyone else to read it as I know it is not the type of letter a mother writes to her adult son and I did not want to embarrass Brian,” she wrote. “That is why I wrote ‘Burn After Reading’ on the envelope, and I knew that Brian would know what that meant. I’m now appreciative that he really saved it.”

The lawsuit alleges that Laundrie, his dad and mom and their lawyer knew Petito was lifeless on the time of a Sept. 14 assertion Laundrie lawyer Steve Bertolino launched to the media, which reads, in half, “On behalf of the Laundrie family it is our hope that the search for Miss Petito is successful and that Miss Petito is re-united with her family.”

Her stays could be found on Sept. 19 at a campsite close to Jackson, Wyoming. the place she was final seen alive. Brian Laundrie allegedly killed her round Aug. 28.

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He was discovered on Oct. 20 – lifeless of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and severely decomposed after spending weeks undiscovered in the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park close to his dad and mom’ residence, in keeping with the FBI.

In a handwritten confession discovered close to his stays, first printed by Fox News Digital, Brian Laundrie declared, “I ended her life.“

“I thought it was merciful, that it is what she wanted, but I see now all the mistakes I made,” he wrote. “I panicked. I was in shock.”