The FBI reportedly discovered the startling diary entries throughout a raid on Laundrie’s Florida dwelling shortly after Petito’s physique was discovered dumped in a distant Wyoming tenting space.
A number of entries discovered Laundrie writing about his “mania.” Others included drawings of skulls alongside notes like “Belief nobody” and “Kill.”
“A few 12 months in the past I went into a kind of mania the place I used to be smashing holes within the wall with my head,” Laundrie wrote in a single startling diary entry. “I wished to die, and the bizarre factor is nothing’s modified.”
“Below the mattress I’m on is a loaded 357 magnum revolver,” he wrote in one other entry. “A pull of the set off and all my issues shall be over.”
Petito’s dad and mom expressed shock concerning the newly launched writings and drawings from Laundrie’s diary. In addition they acknowledged that Laundrie was possible affected by a “psychological well being disaster.”
“It’s fairly clear that Brian was having some sort of psychological well being disaster, and it might have been constructive to him to get assist,” Petito’s father, Joseph Petito, stated on Banfield this week.
“I believe there was undoubtedly a psychological well being disaster occurring there and will have been taken care of,” Nicole Schmidt, Petito’s mom, agreed.
Petito’s mom additionally admitted that “the Brian that [they] noticed was not the issues that [they] realized about” with the FBI’s current launch of Laundrie’s disturbing diary entries.
“The Brian that we noticed was not the issues that we realized about in the present day,” she advised NewsNation’s Banfield concerning the newly launched writings and drawings. “That was the primary time that we seen that.”
As RadarOnline.com beforehand reported, Petito’s household’s resolution to look on NewsNation for an unique interview this week additionally got here only a few days after the murdered 22-year-old’s mom forgave Laundrie for the loss of life of her daughter.
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“I forgive you, Brian,” Schmidt stated throughout this 12 months’s CrimeCon 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee over the weekend.
However whereas Petito’s mom forgave Laundrie for her daughter’s loss of life, she additionally eviscerated Laundrie’s mom and accused Laundrie’s mom of being concerned within the tragedy.
“Roberta, you shattered your loved ones and mine together with your evil methods,” Schmidt stated in a assertion directed towards Roberta Laundrie. “I see no empathy in your eyes, no regret in your coronary heart.”
Petito’s mom additionally mentioned the choice behind her remarks for Laundrie and Laundrie’s mom throughout her look on Banfield this week.
Schmidt defined that it was “one thing for [her] to let go of” and “a method for [her] to maneuver ahead” almost three years after her daughter’s homicide.
“I really feel prefer it was one thing for me to let go of, and it was a method for me to maneuver ahead,” she defined. “With Roberta, I do not suppose that she’s deserving of any extra consideration or deserving of being in my area and in my head, so I let that go.”
“And I simply do not wish to take into consideration her anymore,” Petito’s mom added. “I am shifting ahead both method, with out that forgiveness for what she had accomplished.”