Sunday 26 June 2022 05:30 PM Brian Laundrie's mother wrote letter 'offered to assist him,' lawyer for Gabby ... trends now

A lawyer claims that Brian Laundrie's mother, Roberta Laundrie, wrote him a secret letter after he killed his fiance Gabby Petito where she 'offered to assist him'. 

Attorney Patrick Riley, who is representing Petito's parents in a civil suit against the family, appeared on NewsNation, where he hinted that even the lawyer for Laundrie's parents, Steven Bertolino, was surprised by the bombshell letter. 

'Within that letter is an offer from Roberta Laundrie to assist her son,' Riley said. 'It's a pretty interesting, pretty odd letter.' 

Petito's parents, Joseph Petito and Nicole Schmidt, have filed a lawsuit against Christopher and Roberta Laundrie in a Florida court accusing them of harboring Brian and conspiring to help him flee to avoid taking responsibility for his crime.

Riley suggested that the letter could offer proof. 

On the outside of the envelope, which was found in Petito's van which the couple used on a cross-country road trip, Roberta Laundrie had written 'burn after you read this,' Riley told News Nation.

Riley claims that the newly surfaced letter could help prove the Petito family's case against the Laundries.

'There's no date on the letter but it appears to have been written between the time that Gabby was murdered and Brian committed suicide,' Riley said. 'There are scenarios presented by Roberta, for example, 'if you go to jail, I'll bake a cake and put a knife in it or saw in it.'

He said that the evidence was gathered as part of the federal investigation into Gabby's murder. 

'My understanding is that the letter at one point had been in the van, but then it was taken from the Laundrie home during the time when the search warrant was executed,' the lawyer said.

Petito was reported missing in September after she and Laundrie embarked on a cross-country road trip. 

She was found strangled to death on September 19, 2021 near Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. She had been dead for three weeks. 

Brian Laundrie went on the run after her body was found and was later discovered dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in October.

The lawyer for Laundrie's parents recently released pages from his diary where he confessed to killing Petito, and claimed that it was 'merciful' and 'what she wanted'.

The letter Roberta Laundrie allegedly wrote to her son was not part of his confession letter and, he said, Bertolino seemed taken aback by its contents.

'The surprise on his face was very interesting when he read the letter,' Riley said.

Riley declined to fully describe the correspondence, saying that he did not want to misquote it.

He said that though he has read the letter, he does not have a copy of it, but has requested it for the purposes of the lawsuit. 

'There was also something referenced in that letter about Gabby and I'd rather not go into it any further at this point. The letter will speak for itself.'

It was not an offer by the mom to help Brian commit suicide, the lawyer clarified.

'It was an offer that had to do with Gabby,' he said. 

Riley also told NewsNation that the notebook was not the only confession that Brian left, he said. There were two more confessions, one on a 'digital device' according to the news service and a third 'in written form.' 

The lawyer had not seen those admissions, but was told about them by FBI investigators.

On Friday, Bertolino released a sensational confession letter that Laundrie had written before he killed himself.  His notebook was found in a dry bag beside his body on October 20 last year after he fled to the alligator-infested Carlton Reserve near his home in North Port, Florida.

The 23-year-old wrote that he strangled his 22-year-old fiancé as the result of an 'unexpected tragedy' in Grand Teton National Park after Petito had fallen into a creek and injured herself. 

At the start of the confession, he wrote a personal message to

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