In the letter, which was made public this week, Roberta Laundrie wrote that if her son was in jail, she would 'bake a cake with a file in it.'
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The FBI found his remains in October, along with a backpack, notebook and revolver. In the notebook, authorities said they found writings from Laundrie taking responsibility for Petito’s death. Ahead of the trial, Roberta Laundrie filed an affidavit requesting a protective order on the letter. Laundrie said she’d given the letter to her son before he and Petito had set off to the West Coast — a claim disputed by Petito’s parents, who suspect she sent the letter after their daughter died.
On the cover of the letter, she wrote “burn after reading,” which she said was in reference to a book titled “Burn After Writing” that she, her son and Petito had joked about, according to the affidavit.
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