The mother of Brian Laundrie — the man who killed his fiancée, Gabby Petito, before taking his own life in 2021 — referenced Romans 8:28 in a chilling but undated letter she wrote to her son.
In the letter, Roberta Laundrie wrote that she would help her son “dispose of a body” and “bake a cake with a file in it” to help him escape prison. The note was in an envelope with the words “burn after reading” scrawled under Brian Laundrie’s name, according to CNN.
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“I just want you to remember I will always Love you and I know you will always Love me,” Roberta Laundrie wrote. “You are my boy. Nothing can make me stop loving you, nothing will or could ever 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 with a file in it,” she continued. “If you need to dispose of a body I will bring show up with a shovel and garbage bags. 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.”
Later in the letter, Roberta Laundrie referenced Romans 8:28, seemingly writing her own version of the Scripture passage, significantly diverging from what the Apostle Paul actually wrote in the verse:
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. “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 of heaven nor monarchs of earth. Nothing has the power to separate us… ” — Romans 8:38 (extended version!) (Nothing can separate us: “not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not threats, not even sin, not the thinkable or unthinkable can get between us.) ~Not time. Not miles and miles and miles.~
The eerie letter surfaced this week, nearly two years after Brian Laundrie and Petito set off on a cross-country excursion that ultimately proved fatal for both of them.
Petito’s remains were found at Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest in September 2021. Her death was ruled a homicide by manual strangulation. Before committing suicide, Brian Laundrie, 23, admitted in a journal entry to killing his 22-year-old fiancée.
Roberta Laundrie’s letter to her son was referenced during a hearing Wednesday, during which Petito’s parents argued it is relevant to the lawsuit they filed against Brian Laundrie’s parents and attorney, whom they have accused of causing emotional distress.
The Petito family has argued the Laundries knew their son had killed their daughter.
Roberta Laundrie, for her part, said in a statement through her attorney, Steven Bertolino, that the note was written before the road trip and its horrific ending and encouraged people to read it entirely.
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