The mother and father of assassin Brian Laundrie allegedly “gutted and renovated” their son’s room whereas he was lacking, as Gabby Petito’s family members had been nonetheless trying to find the lacking 22-year-old, her mom claimed.
Nichole Schmidt sat down with Taylor Lautner and his spouse, Tay, on their podcast, The Squeeze, this week to debate her daughter’s story, and mentioned she lately got here throughout the gorgeous declare in opposition to the Laundries.
“I actually just found out some new information a few days ago,” Schmidt claimed.
“There was — I actually don’t know their name, which is better — that was at the house when Brian was missing and — I would say he was hiding, he wasn’t missing, but he was actually dead — but his room was completely gutted and renovated. None of his things were there anymore. It was gone.”
She claimed that the week her daughter was lacking, “cops were going to their house to try to get, I guess, a scent from their dogs to look for Brian, all his things were gone.”
“The room was completely empty, just gone,” Schmidt mentioned.
The unidentified particular person, who claimed to have been in the home throughout that point, advised Schmidt that it was apparent one thing was “wrong” with Laundrie’s mom, Roberta.
“They said that there’s something wrong with that mother she’s clearly not mentally well, and I’m like that’s just add it to the list because I didn’t even know about that,” she mentioned.
Schmidt mentioned it drives her “absolutely insane” when she tries to think about any approach to make them “pay for what they did.”
“There is really nothing I can do,” she mentioned.
Roberta Laundrie is suspected of serving to her son sneak away whereas regulation enforcement zeroed in on him as a key suspect in Gabby Petito’s homicide in 2021.
His mother and father additionally refused to cooperate with authorities and provides any details about their son’s whereabouts.
Schmidt took the stage at CrimeCon 2024 in Nashville, Tenn., in June and mentioned she forgave her daughter’s killer for what he did.
“I speak for myself here when I say Brian, I forgive you,” she mentioned.
“I needed to release myself from the chains of anger and bitterness, and I refuse to let your despicable act define the rest of my life.”
Nonetheless, as for Roberta, she believed she had “no remorse in your heart.”
“As for you, Roberta, and I call you out individually because you are evidently the mastermind that shattered your family and mine with your evil ways, I see no empathy in your eyes,” Schmidt mentioned.
“No remorse in your heart and no willingness to take responsibility for your actions.”
Petito’s household believes the Laundries had been conscious their son had murdered their daughter and allegedly tried to cover the sinister act whereas serving to him evade justice after he had returned residence by himself from a visit the 2 had been on.
Each of Laundrie’s mother and father acknowledged in depositions that they’d considerations about Petito’s welfare after their son appeared erratic in cellphone calls shortly after her homicide.
Laundrie drove to his Florida residence from Wyoming, the place he deserted Petito’s stays.
After returning residence, he went tenting together with his mother and father, sister, and her kids because the Petitos’ family members struggled to piece collectively what occurred and the place she was.
The 22-year-old’s physique was found in Grand Teton Nationwide Park on Sept. 19, 2021, with investigators ruling her reason behind loss of life as strangulation.
Laundrie, 23, subsequently killed himself, and his stays had been found in a Florida nature park alongside his backpack and pocket book with a confession about killing Petito.
