Brian Laundrie’s parents obviously want to move on from their Florida home. The parents put up “for sale” signs in the front yard of their North Port, Florida, house that was crowded for weeks by people demanding answers from their fugitive son, who was the sole suspect in Gabby Petito’s death.
During Gabby Petito’s case, Chris and Roberta Laundrie’ s house was a site of intense scrutiny from both media and authorities. Their son Brian Laundrie returned home from his infamous road trip without his girlfriend in early September and vanished days later.
Brian’s partial skeletal remains were found in a nearby park in October. The family’s lawyer revealed last week that Brian died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The family’s lawyer, Steve Bertolino, said Brian took the gun from his parents’ home. Neither the family’s attorney nor investigators had formerly mentioned the involvement of a firearm.
“While law enforcement was at the Laundrie home on Sept. 17 to complete the missing person report for Brian, we volunteered to surrender all guns in the home to avoid any possible issue going forward,” Bertolino said. “While retrieving and taking inventory of the guns, it was realized one pistol was missing,” he said.
Chris, 62, and Roberta, 55, were closely watched throughout the tragic saga, as protesters and online critics parroted unproven claims the parents were helping their son hide from the police.
It was Chris and Roberta who ultimately led investigators to their son’s remains, less than two hours after entering Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park to help the search.
In their first outing on Tuesday, Chris and Roberta were spotted walking through those same woods where their son committed suicide. Photos obtained by the New York Post show them holding hands on a trail in the 168-acre park.
Despite conspiracy theories all over the Internet, the couple has not faced any changes. Bertolino has continued to dismiss any speculation that the Laundries were involved in the two deaths or in any kind of cover-ups.
The house, which is worth somewhere between $210,000 and $340,000, is not currently listed on popular real estate sites like Zillow and Realtor.
