Brian Laundrie’s family lawyer makes new demand over texts and calls in legal battle with Gabby Petito’s parents
A NEW demand has been made by the attorney representing Brian Laundrie's family amid the legal battle with Gabby Petito's parents.
Steve Bertolino is seeking copies of all the family's texts and other phone records from a six-month period in 2021 after they were obtained by Gabby's parents as part of their civil suit.
The Petitos' attorney, Pat Reilly, got a subpoena earlier this year asking AT&T for calls, texts, and other phone records from Brian, Christopher, and Roberta Laundrie between July 2, 2021, and November 13, 2021.
Gabby's parents claim that the Laundries caused them emotional distress and attempted to help Brian escape after he strangled Gabby to death during their ill-fated "van life" road trip.
In December 2022, Bertolino was added to the lawsuit - he asked for copies of the AT&T records last Thursday.
"The plaintiffs have no proof of what they have alleged in their court filings," he told Fox News Digital on Monday.
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"Pat Reilly can seek high and low, but he will not find a scintilla of admissible evidence to support anything beyond conjecture."
The lawsuit claims that Laundrie, his parents, and their lawyer knew that Gabby was already dead when Bertolino released a statement to the media on September 14, 2021.
The statement read: "On behalf of the Laundrie family it is our hope that the search for Miss Petito is successful and that Miss Petito is reunited with her family."
Just days later, on September 19, Gabby's remains were found in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming where she was last seen alive.
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Laundrie allegedly killed the vlogger around August 28.
A month later on October 20, Laundrie's remains were found at the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park near the Laundrie family home in North Port, Florida.
Laundrie died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said the FBI.
A handwritten suicide note was found near his decomposed remains along with a confession preserved in a dry bag and other personal items.
Reilly has also asked the court to force Laundries' parents to turn over a letter in which Roberta allegedly offered to lend her son a shovel to bury something.
"I don't feel comfortable summarizing the letter," he told the outlet at the time.
"The content is very specific and best read when available. If my belief as to the time it was written is accurate, it shows that at least Roberta Laundrie knew of Gabby's murder before Gabby's body was located. The rest of the notebook contained letters to his family."
Roberta's letter didn't have a date, however, Reilly said "the content of the letter seems to indicate that it was written after Gabby's death."
However, the Laundries have maintained that the letter was written before Gabby and their son left on the cross-country trip and has no connection to Gabby's death.
Earlier this month, Gabby's parents asked the Laundries to hand over financial information in the weeks surrounding her death.
Everyone is due back in court on May 24.
Chris and Roberta Laundrie have not been charged with a crime in connection with Gabby's death.
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The U.S. Sun has reached out to Reilly for comment.
