Brian Laundrie's Mother Writes "Burn After Reading" Letter | Gabby Petito Lawsuit Analysis 

These sons have always got away with anything due to their mothers enabling, so they continue doing so.

You underestimate a mother's love for their children

So it’s the women raising these predators.

This mother loves herself first and foremost, so she loved her son because she saw him as an extension of herself. That letter showed how she sees herself as clever and precious, and basically the center of the universe. She also conditioned her son to believe women would worship him like she did.

i cant stand when people jump to conclusions about sh*t they dont really know about

Some how, they think they can snow every one into thinking it was coincidential. If Gabby's van is still in yer driveway, no matter what happened, per him... a fight, argument.... a falling out, it's as if they're trying to show that it was something else other than murder!! Then, no time to "block" more like... contact them n tell them to get the dam van outta their driveway!!! But, yet that didn't happen. The timeline is everything n I know that they want every one to have amnesia... but we were all concerned in real time, well, i mean, as soon as Gabby's Mom stopped thinking the best of them n faced her reality in relation to them!

Agreed.

This! Exactly! blocking the mother and contacting the attorney. Had the letter been written prior to her death, it would seem more like as the Dr. said bridging a gap......

Yes, sadly overlooked as evidence of inflicting pain and suffering by these wicked parents against Gabby's parents. I worked with a gal whose son murdered and cut up his girlfriend and my coworker and her husband tried to help cover it up. Shameful!

Because you choose to believe the Petito's allegations with no proof or evidence to back it up. Why did the Petito's take over two weeks to report their daughter missing? Would a desperate and frantic parent not file a missing person's report instead of calling two people not answering their phones? It took less time for them to book an interview with Dr.Phil for 25K after Gabby was found. I smell a rat and it isn't the Laundries.

Mayb to prove his love for his parents he was expected to off himself n the "actions" part of the letter was just the impedus. She's quoting as if on a par w/ God. Speaking of eternity as an eternity of HER love, cuz ya know.. God may not look too kindly on a murder, altho forgiving does not mean un punishable! She's being as deep as she would ever be as this probably was the last connection to her son on earth. Now THAT is very plausible to me.

Yes, "always loving" doesn't mean you shouldn't speak out against the loved one's behavior. Indeed, to avoid criticism of his/her anti-social acts is the same as condoning them. Parents are supposed to teach their children right from wrong. To actually offer to assist your child person in evading the consequences of anti-social acts is the highest form of enabling and moral dereliction of duty.

Plus she doesn’t seem at all bothered that perhaps The Petito’s also loved Gabby very much??

​@@julielevinge266 I think Brian's mom resented Gabby for taking Brian away from her. That's a strange letter.

She quotes the Bible. Nice touch!

her enabling behavior is what turned him into a wife beater in the first place, there is no way that was his first go around either, and their continuing condoning behavior led them to help him escape seems like not only should his parents lose everything finically but they should also end up in prison themselves, he was young and was enabled not saying he didn't know right from wrong just arguing what is their excuse??

Love and support includes holding them accountable. ❤

Right! I would love my son regardless, but pacifying his behavior doesn’t equal love .

This is why they say SPOILING and never holding a child accountable is one of the easiest ways to raise a narcissist and these women keep reinforcing it with their sons.

Sons need their fathers for this, mothers are always going to naturally want to protect their children. Having a father in the household drastically improves the future behavior of any male in the family. Women can't, and shouldn't, raise men alone.

Neither of Brian's parents "aided and abetted" him. That would mean they encouraged and helped him strangle Gabby. Clearly they did not. The murder was a crime of passion (not premeditated), and Brian was in another state on the other side of the country at the time. He told his parents well after the fact. Dr. Grande is correct in saying that the parents have the legal right to remain silent, granted by the 5th amendment. That's why they consulted a lawyer to make sure they were not breaking the law. I don't have kids, but I also would not stop loving them if they committed a crime. I would hopefully seek justice for the victims and get help for my child, but I wouldn't stop loving them.

Also Chris Coleman's parents were like this with him too when he murdered his whole family. They talked bad about how the wife wasn't fulfilling his manly needs. Same story again.

Exactly

I JUST commented that, lol. Totally. Totally. Weirdo mom makes for a narc son.

Just thought of another mom who was like that with her son, Scott Peterson's mom!

Wow, you are all 100% correct about this!! How’s that for consistency, it makes me want to do a deep dive into the upbringing of other wife killers and family annihilators, just to see how consistent the trend is!

vindictive

yes. that is pure cruelty

I would do anything for my child so I understand.

@@madeleine9907 Seek therapy.

@@madeleine9907 that kind of motherly attitude ruins the kids life. Seen it again and again

Either that or they suspected something, but he didn't share much. He could have lied, they suspected the truth but said nothing, and went along with his lie. To claim ignorance later in case things go bad. To look like they too are victims.

I so agree with what you said. They obviously knew that their son murdered her and wanted protection by an attorney for themselves and for their son!

The whole thing was absolutely terrible! I totally agree with Dr. Grande that the letter was written after the murder and not before. And her words speak for itself. Whoever agrees to silence about a murder and goes as far as to say what she said about the body is as guilty as the one who committed a murder in my opinion. As a victim of domestic violence, this tragedy is very close to home when I think that it could have been me or any other person who gets herself or himself involved with a psychopath like him. Sadly she was so young and so beautiful and so full of life and had to lose her life like that. I hope that he burns in he'll for eternity.

Everybody has a right to a lawyer, so... Sure but it does not matter.

Brian probably showed his parents the letter and said "Here I have it in writing- You promised you would help me and cover for me"

Absolutely. It's got the stink of "you'd better not leave me" manipulation all over it. I wouldn't be surprised if the trouble between mother and son was because Roberta was jealous of Gabby (any woman, really). God, she's the quintessential mother-in-law from hell.

My mother is the same way

So true. My mother in law continues to smother love her golden child. She even uses Munchausens by Proxy. Her daughter and herself are continually complaining about their "medical injuries" Seeking sympathy we are so sick of it.

I had a friend in HS who's mother essentially made him her husband (she'd emotionally manipulate him and would vent about inappropriate topics like her dating life). There's a reason the devouring mother is such a mainstay in story telling, it's relatable to so many people.

I agree fully that he was responsible for his actions. This letter as idk Roberta and I'm not a shrink could have very well been her begging her son to be fully truthful and take responsibility trying to bargain with him perhaps idk. What I do believe is this young man had no respect for his mother and it was not by mistake that he left it behind to be found. Honesty is indeed the best policy. Her son was not a nice person and I think she underestimated his problems.

Unfortunately parents are exempt in Florida. Edited for clarification: Close family members are exempt from 'accessory after the fact' charges in Florida.

You have no concept of the law

Yes, unfortunately Florida has that law. I think the Petitios (sp?) should file a petition to have the law changed and call it Gabby’s law. All/Any who willing know of or participate in a crime or cover up of a crime is an accomplice to said crime.

@@CapnWack no sir , it is you who does not. An accessory-after-the-fact is someone who assists 1) someone who has committed a crime, 2) after the person has committed the crime, 3) with knowledge that the person committed the crime, and 4) with the intent to help the person avoid arrest or punishment. An accessory after the fact may be held liable for, among other things, obstruction of justice. Title 18 of the U.S. Code deals with crimes and criminal procedure. Accessory-after-the-fact has been codified in 18 U.S. Code § 3. In Bollenbach v. United States, 326 U.S. 607 (1946), the Supreme Court refused to apply principal liability (either as a principal in the first degree or as a principal in the second degree) to an accessory-after-the-fact. This contrasts with the ability of an accessory before the fact to have principal liability.

Why are the parents responsible for reporting a criminal act? Its a hard position to be in and seeking an attorney was actually the right thing to do because after the dust settles you dont know what price you can end up paying for the supidity of your adult son. The state is supposed to investigate and prosecute. If the laudries lied to law enforcement then maybe that will be soomething (but they probably communicated through an attorney). Eitherway this man was an adult and it was he who committed a crime. Morally speaking its a good thing to say what you know but consider that you may have a lot lf assets on the line for something you did not do.

It makes me tear up.

The interview with the sister that almost didn't happen. She shed light on the way her family was during the interview on her lawn. She said so much, without being belligerent, about her family dynamic.

The sister was sincere. I think the rest of the family knew exactly what Brian had done but they kept her in the dark. They basically threw her under the bus in favor of Brian. That is a sick, twisted family. I hope the sister got as far away from them as she could. It had to have broken her heart.

The sister actually said "first I lost my sister-in-law, now I lost my brother". This was before Brian's body had been found. She and the family knew what had happened and they kept quiet. Remember it was only after enough time had passed where Brian could have killed himself that his father agreed to lead police on a search and they find him right away.

Yes. She does sound like she was selected by them to be the fam scapegoat. Often mothers like that worship one “golden child” (we all know who that was) and another child is the often despised scapegoat. It is very often the male child who is put up on a pedestal and the female child who they envy and see as their “competition.” The GC can end up to be quite rotten while the scapegoated child can wind up demoralized.

Very true.

Tough love is love as well.

*boom* 💯

Then the Petitos should have done something on this day: Aug 12, 2021. Moab Utah. Gabby called her mother from the backseat of the police cruiser. These statements are from the Petito v Moab lawsuit. 3. Gabby contacted her family to tell them that the couple had been fighting, that Brian had hit her, and that the police had been called. The family immediately responded by beginning to arrange for Gabby to fly home and to have her van shipped home, to separate her from Brian. 98. Gabby then called her parents. 99. On that call, Gabby’s parents demanded that Gabby fly home to get away from Brian, offering to pay for her ride to Salt Lake City and her flight home. But upon learning that the police were involved, Gabby’s parents accepted Gabby’s assurances that she should continue her trip. Gabby’s parents relied to their detriment on the police officers involved to evaluate the situation and intervene as necessary to protect Gabby. But for the officers’ failure to investigate and follow Utah law, Gabby’s parents would have intervened to end the trip and bring Gabby home.

Easy to judge when youre not in the situation yourself.

Indeed. Those verses are regarding us with Jesus/God. not us to eachother. Romans 8:31-39 .... nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Why? The vast majority of bible thumpers are completely nuts.

The Bible is open to interpretation. Most religious folk I've met are super messed up. the other ones as balanced and intelligent as any people around. It's no panacea

Christian’s are some of the most hateful, evil people I’ve ever met

Is Brian really dead?. sounds like she helped plan the murder ? It is giving me Norman Bates vibes. I feel bad for Gabbys parents who they gaslighted this whole time.

Yes I agree with you, and love means you have the guts to speak up when your kids are going the wrong way. They have a better life and don't harm others if you do the right thing as a mom.

"I would do anything for love, but I won't do that!" Meatloaf

My parents put it this way “You have to love your children. You don’t always have to like what they DO.”. I love my children unconditionally, but I have no intention of helping them hide any bodies. You can be there for them without covering for them. The extreme emotion expressed in the letter was SO over the top!

@@jimgutt749Your right, I would also do anything for love. That means take the risk of my child and grandkids hatred and loathing by guiding them in the right direction. They must be responsible humans that care for others. Not be selfish shits because I'm too cowardly to speak up.

@@karenneill9109 You are right and honourable as a human. We want your kind not those parents in society. 👍

👏👏👏Couldn’t agree more! Would be a matter of kindness and common sense.

If they had done the right thing and helped their son do the right thing, he would be alive and in prison right now.

If they were an accessory to covering up a crime, then that might be illegal.

Agreed! His Parents were Morally Obligated!

​@@sarahb4484 ..agree but money won't bring their daughter back,, if the lawsuit was to establish some criminal liability that's different and her parents suffered and are still suffering but trying to get paid is just as insensitive to Brian's parents because their son is gone too... I know he's a f**** murderer but he's paid with his life even though he was just a little wimp that didn't want to go to prison... Horrible situation all around...

Right. It’s weird to mention a body?

Agreed. That's what I do.

​@@lisaschmidt8466 Yes. And moreover her offer to supply a trash bag and shovel to help dispose of anybody he murdered betrays her (thankfully subaverage) condonation of murder per se. And her written expressed willingness to be an accessory after the fact to any such murder (and her instruction to her son to "burn" such writing) shows her compound criminal mind.

Exactly. My Mom told me she loved me lots of times. She never once offered to help me dispose of a body.

I'd never write a pre trip letter to my son that says burn after reading lol. This was absolutely written after. I can not imagine the grief though of everyone involved...

THIS

BAM. 💯

How do you know what the Laundries did or did not do?

"Gabby Petito should have been cited for domestic abuse by Utah police, review finds"...... The law means nothing if cops don't enforce them and DV education cannot be achieved if people justify violence from women.

​@emersonmanning6523 Why, because the cops were men and siding with him? Chatting it up with him while she was in the car Crying having a nervous breakdown?! Eat shit

​@@emersonmanning6523except she wasnt the abuser lol

@@Sputterbugz According to law enforcement, she was the abuser. You can disagree but your opinion is completely irrelevant.

Narcissist mother teaching her son to be a monster too without shame!

Emotionally incestuous for sure. Yuck.

Sure seems that way. What was "dad" doing this whole time? Seems emasculated and weak.

I get the feeling everyone criticizing her is childless. You don’t understand a mothers love if you think what she wrote is weird.

​@@Gramatic69 Tough love is love as well.

She goes right to the darkest thing - if you’re in jail or kill someone, I’ll help. Bizarre.

Yes!

@@darcymoon2109 you're so right. A healthy child would be creeped out by such talk.

This is in the same ballpark as those moms who get jealous when their sons get married 🤢

My thoughts exactly. It sounds like they have already bumped uglies 🤮🤢😷 His mother was jealous of Gabbie and needed her out of the picture 🫢😲

Agreed, the whole letter is creepy. Regardless of when it was written I think it shows the problematic and obsessive relationship his mother had with him.

If you ever have children you will understand.

@@Gramatic69 I have children. I also have grandchildren. I have been estranged from my son in the past. Even though we are reconciled now, it would have been inconceivable that I would have ever written him a letter such as this, either as a bridge building endeavour, or for any other reason.

Maybe . . . perhaps she had a sense that her son was going to take his own life--that is what he did after all. I could imagine a mother feeling desperate in that situation. You don't want your son to die. He obviously realized that he was a despicable monster and was overwhelmed with guilt. He knew he would have to face justice and at the very least spend the rest of his life in a U.S. prison, a.k.a. hell. He didn't want to face punishment. What else can you say to your son who is a murderer? You hit the nail on the head. This is an extreme circumstance.

@@Lpement stop making excuses for these garbage monsters

Incest!

Do you have kids? Cats don’t count.

I agree! I mean, she would go to the moon and exchange guts w an alien? What kind of PERSON even thinks that way!!?

Are you normal? Nobody is normal if you manage to dig deep enough. But she loved her son and wanted him to know this. Her way to express it may not be yours, so what.

@@ronald3836 Yeah, listen to Dr. John Mathias in hidden true crime podcast, but oh, wait, I guess you know better than a forensic psychologist with over 20 years of experience. Are you kidding me?

"mom we got into a fight and I choked her to death" you think he said that?

Agreed. Great points.

Agreed!

Agreed, he would have been alive but in jail. I don't think he would have received anything other than life for what he did. But he'd be alive. How does Roberta feel about that?

Yes,I agree

Karma.

And if you speak a word, it gets twisted into some sort of admission of guilt. There's no winning.

Exactly! Thank You!

If you don't get an attorney, you're giving away all of your rights.

That and the fact that they were able to lead authorities directly to the body after weeks of pointless searching kind of shows they knew where he was all along.

Possibly. However it is of note that they had this attorney for years for other legal matters. He almost sounds like a family friend. But they obviously consulted him upon Brian's return as he admitted to speaking to Brian so it certainly would appear this was after Brian confessed to them what he had done. In either case though I don't believe them retaining or speaking to an attorney is something that can be used against them as they were well within their rights to do so. Morally they are repugnant but legally they had the right to say nothing.

Couldn't even take full responsibility in his own confession suicide note. Framed it like a mercy killing and that was that.

What did she protect him from?

A lot of misogynistic mothers who are coached by equally misogynistic religious people behave like this.

​@@emersonmanning6523 facing the truth, that he was a cold blooded murderer and going to jail and facing consequences for his wrongdoings! ..... WHAT ELSE!

@@pilarortega6334 How did she protect him?

fr i hope they get sued for causing emotional distress

Mine would have loaded me into the car and supervised the 51-50 admission to hospital for evaluation.

🤯😨🤮

Hi Susan!!!😍

😅

I would have been ghosted... kinda like what the Laundries did to the Petitos. Wouldn't be for no reason.

It’s so refreshing when someone understands themself enough to know they wouldn’t be a good parent to a needy tiny child. And that’s ok! I wouldn’t make a good football player lol we all have our limitations and we can’t be “anything” like so many parents tell their kids. ❤

Not one of my siblings has children, but at least one of them would throw her weight around to cover something a child (mine and others) did.

If she knew he killed Gabby, she should have talked him into turning himself in. She could have written a passionate, heartfelt letter to Brian imploring him to turn himself in. If he didn't, she should have turned him in. We love our kids, and would do anything for them. That means doing the very difficult things, like letting them be held accountable for their actions. Brian's mother didn't want to lose HIM! She didn't care about Gabby or anyone else.

@LDiamondz Even if Brian turned himself in the police hands were tied because they had no evidence that a crime had been committed.

Yep, like the mother of the killer, Terry Driver, turned her own son in immediately after she realized her son murdered a girl in Canada in 1995. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-k4I2h9M52YA.html

Sucks that your son probably doesn't know what it feels like to have someone in your corner no matter what. A mom should be the one a son can always run to in the worst, darkest moment.

​@@baddudecornpop7328 .. what's that supposed to mean? You can love someone and still be normal,, this showing up with shovel and garbage bags is completely insane - if one of my sons did something like this I'd be extremely unhappy and definitely would turn him in and they know that.. this Brian is a nutcase though,, even if this girl dumped him called him names whatever, you walk away... There's absolutely no reason for this crime except this Brian's stupidity...

54,, yeah this lady is sick herself and undoubtedly taught it to her son...

@@baddudecornpop7328 😂😂😂 that's ridiculous.

exactly this doesn't make his mom look any better even if it was written 2 whole years before he met Gabby

exactly

Yes!!! Her handwriting is childish.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Not to mention to write a letter like this to your grown child is just creepy, almost inappropriate as if she had some sort of sexual relationship with her son and was jealous of his relationships outside or his with his mother. Roberta is just creepy and definitely had a weird relationship with her adult son.

Yes, she significantly changed it. 😮

Now we’re certain who the narcissist is in the family.

​@@stephanieburgess8217 The Oedipus Syndrome!

Isn’t that really designed to keep him forever attached to his mother, since it is doomed to fail? Maybe he really wanted to kill his mother.

As Gabby thought any man she loved would never leave her.

They made him the way he was. No one was ever going to love him like Mommy.

Yes!!😢

Religious nutbag parents produce shitty, maladjusted, weirdo kids. This is not a new phenomenon. We know this to be true, and have known it for a long time. Yet we allow it to continue. For what reason? Cowardice? Apathy? Stupidity? Certainly no good reason.

he was a psycho

Yes

Ew, Oedipus. You’re right.

@@awg7068 LOL. It is strange for a mom to be that way. Ew is right!!

He was abusing her way before this and his mother still worshipped him. If she knew exactly where the body was she'd never tell anyone.

We all overlook the flaws of other people. When does it become a red flag instead of just an interpersonal relationship? "He gets a bit grumpy when he's tired", "He gets argumentative when he's had a few drinks", "He doesn't like to be interrupted when watching the game on TV", "He swore at me for not cooking dinner as he likes", "He slapped me after we argued and I called his mother a bitch"...."red flags" are incremental and as they escalate once you've accepted one the next becomes more tolerable. People end up gaslighting themselves on top of any other control/abuse by their partner; some people are in situations where they feel they cannot escape an abusive relationship. It takes an awful lot of courage to say "enough is enough" even when you can see what is happening. I've been lucky that I've escaped such abusive relationships before anything serious happened, usually at quite a lot of personal loss and after a lot of time. Now I'm out the door at the first whiff of a red flag. I say that as a heterosexual man, so it's not just mothers and daughters who need to be advised when to just walk away, how to do it safely and from whom you can get help.

I don't disagree, but fathers also have a major role to play. Mine utterly hated females, was unemotional, and manipulative, and basically thought children were meh, someone-elses problem. My mother had her own unresolved abandonment issues and put those onto her children, plus she enabled her abusive husband. All wrong.

@@avaggdu1 Precisely, not to mention we get programming from our childhood. Brian was programmed to be an entitled selfish pr*ck by his mother and maybe Gabby was raised in a way that she was submissive and too forgiving.

It seemed like a toxic relationship. Obsessive even on her part.

Makes you wonder if his mom’s enabling enmeshment with him had something to do with his expectations / treatment of women in relationships.

She's sick. No wonder he turned out like that.

@@fighterflight Good point!

@@fighterflight bingo

@@ryanvetter5852 Here come all the butthurt men with their own personal grievances and found the worst possible story to vent them with. This is a pointless, trite comment. No shit it takes two to tango. This wasn't tango, this was murder.

Yep. Coo coo for cocoa puffs. Just like Chris Watts’s mother. Crazy moms make broken people.

For an extreme version of that, look at photos online of former supermodel Stephanie Seymour and her late son (since dead of drug overdose/suicide) Harry Brant. Take note of where her husband stands in the photos, if he's there at all.

She was probably so jealous of Gabby. That jealousy and resentment really shows when they repeatedly chose to call her "Ms. Pettito" in that public statement, rather than simply calling her Gabby. This was their son's future wife, and their future daughter in law. And she actually lived with them! But they called her "Ms. Pettito" as if she was some stranger they barely knew.

Good Luck

@@ember1794 Thanks. It went fairly well. Only a little drama but pretty much nobody was going to take their crap today.

Reminds my of Chris watts mother. Sick mothers produce such children.

Religious wackos.

Gabby had a role in her tragedy. That doesn't give cover to Brian and his family, but she made a few unfortunate decisions.

​@@GoGreen1977 stop victim blaming. In no way is Gabby responsible for her own death.

​@@mykidsaresupercute She publicly battered him, which is why the police were first called. Doesn't mean he should have killed her, but she was no innocent angel.

Yes!

100% AGREE

Enabling? Yes! But where's the victim blaming?

He stole her credit card and her van too.. Protecting the murderer and not the victims of such a crime is unconscionable .. Change these outdated and ignorant laws.

@@susand7202 His parents have encouraged that type of behaviour. Why wouldn't he commit murder?

I think he would avoid saying to his parents that he murdered Gabby. She "disappeared leaving him, he couldn't find her". Thus by avoiding full confession they could avoid calling the cops. So having been around narcissists they lie and use euphemisms making them feel free of obligations. It's sick, and allows the fantasy tone if her letter. And to not stop him heading off to the swamp because they can tell themselves he needs time alone. Vs omg he's going to kill himself. Living in a fantasy world is sad.

THEY SHOULD BE!!!!

@@joywebster2678 but then theres the lawyering up n not speaking to Gabby's parents,so... that throws that one outta the water!

He’s a strange man! He killed her! 😢

I found it hyperbolic

Are you kidding me. She would have done anything for him. That’s what she was saying and he killed her.

Are you kidding me. He killed her

@@barbarafaulder9087 Gertrude is saying Brian's mom's letter was disturbing. The letter wasn't written by Gaby. No one is calling Gaby strange.

Amen creepy

👍 Good on good for speaking up.

Toxic traits passed on from one generation to the other.. That Mother needs jail time..

A child like this can do one thing wrong and that is to displease the mother by not playing along.

@@seriouscat2231 That wraps it up. Apropos blurb for the book.

It's actually pretty standard behaviour for happy clappers.

@Michelle I agree!

@@johnstory2996 Jews are even worse

@@johnstory2996 I don't know what that means....happy clappers

@@michellestultz4211 Google it. It's not obscure.

They are parents. Every parent has got to in some way wonder and fear this situation and so a lot of comiseration is generated here. They did the wrong thing for a reason many can understand.

Florida...

The thing is, they didn’t know. He didn’t tell them. The DA would have charged them as accessories if he had.

Not if you are the parent.

​@@Gramatic69 the DA would need solid proof to go through with the charges. Unless there was a handwritten letter from Brian left under his mother's pillow saying he did it then there is no solid proof that will stand at a trial

Then why did they hire an attorney if they didn’t know he had done something? Brian shows up-alone-in HER van. That didn’t raise a red flag to them? He had to have told them something for them to hire a lawyer. Not buying it that they didn’t know. They knew something. And not sharing ANY information to Gabby’s parents was beyond cruel. My daughter is the same as Gabby was. I can’t begin to imagine the hell her parents went through, especially knowing that his family knew something and would say nothing.

@@dustysgirl1434 I;m guessing he couldn't hide his guilt, and his face told them something was wrong.

Missing White Woman syndrome is strong with you

Exactly. Win or lose, they deserve to be dragged through the mud a little bit.

Yeah that's because "the laundrie family" didn't kill her, one person, Brian laundrie was the one who killed her.

@@fighterflight I think many would agree with you!

It always cracks me up when people say this. You fail, hugely, to understand the psychology behind these people's actions. If you are capable of ignoring (for WEEKS) the desperate pleas of your son's girlfriend's parents as to her whereabouts, what on earth makes you think people like this would be "tormented" by anything? They're upset THEIR kid is dead, they OBVIOUSLY COULDN'T CARE LESS about Gabby or HER family!

@@krazyk8592 maybe

Very good observation about the bird and Edgar Allan Poe!

My same thought... Like.. he did that kinda drawing... so I thought at 1st a letter FROM him... so now she ,as an adult, did it also???? I mean... Just sayin'... what the hail!

Well said ❤

love for an adult child can be conditional imo, and this is exactly what unconditional love is.. loving regardless of their behavior

@@reneegardner2286 No, unconditional love would be his parents loving him and supporting him, but also holding him accountable for his actions. This letter is wrong on so many levels. I hope the laundrie's burn in hell. They are cowards.

@@picolascage5270 yeah holding him accountable for MURDER. that's where the love stops imo

That is a good point.

Did you miss the part the letter was undated? Can't prove anything with it beyond it was odd. Doesn't look like a woman's writing to me either or how a Mom would talk.

​@@zenawarrior7442 she clearly is referring to the statement about the search party for Gaby they put out, wishing the search to be successful

@@DinastiaJonas Oh yeah sure. That was really clear, obviously. The assumptions people have in this case blow my mind, believe the media crap. If she meant that had zero to do with admitting anything.

so essentially the same as being silent

ya cuz the qusetion would be asked... What did brian tell you.....?

Brian never paid for his crime, but his parents are partially responsible.

@@eucliduschaumeau8813 for the crime? No, they are not.

Yes, it's a weird letter. I am not sure how we can, right now, come to a conclusion about them being aware of what hat happened or not. Are we also to believe she was expecting him to go on a space flight soon?

We will probably never know. Kind of hard to prove something like when a letter was written. Just a sad situation all around.

Honestly, I think she sent him into the reserve knowing that he wasn’t coming out alive.

I know a conspiracy theorist who tends to think that cases like this are created to estrange men and women from each other. I mean, it did not happen. And since these things are written by people who have no first hand experience, there will be lots of outlandish and contrived details, actions and behaviors, which will help to drive in the idea that these people are strange.

There are quite many telltale signs of what I previously said. One is if the trial will be televised. One is that there are so many modeled pictures of Gabby. Those look like a professionally created media package, not a dude with issues taking pictures of his exceptionally pretty girlfriend. One is the outlandish premise of the trial. One is the set date, implying that there will be entire year's worth of material. The dude did not want to spend that much time on this, so they had to write his suicide into it. But the most glaring one is everyone constantly talking to the media.