‘For Sale’ Sign Seen At Laundrie Family's North Port Home A Hoax, Attorney Says: Report

NORTH PORT, FL — Despite a “for sale” sign popping up at the North Port home owned by Brian Laundrie’s parents, they have no plans to move, the family’s attorney Steven Bertolino said.

The attorney told WFLA’s Josh Benson that the “sign is a hoax,” the reporter tweeted Tuesday night.

The New York Post reported earlier Tuesday that a “for sale” sign appeared in the front yard of their home.

The three-bedroom, two-bathroom home isn’t listed for sale on popular real estate sites. Redfin estimates that it’s worth about $297,000.

Laundrie was a person of interest in the strangulation death of his fiancé, Gabby Petito, whose body was found in a Wyoming state park in September.

Protesters and media outlets stood outside the family’s Wabasso Avenue home for weeks as authorities investigated the case. Some neighbors even rented out their driveways and front yards for thousands of dollars a week to media outlets waiting for news to break in the investigation.

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Laundrie and Petito, both Long Island, New York, natives living with his family in Florida, were traveling across the country visiting national parks this summer when she disappeared at the end of August. Her body was found weeks later near Grand Teton National Park.

He returned home alone to Florida in Petito's van Sept. 1 and was reported missing by his parents Sept. 17.

His skeletal remains, including a portion of his skull, were found Oct. 20 in the Carlton Reserve and the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park in Sarasota County, along with several of his belongings, after more than a month of searching for him. The FBI used dental records to match the remains to Laundrie.

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No cause of death could be determined after an Oct. 22 autopsy, and Laundrie's bones were sent to a forensic anthropologist for further examination.

In a Nov. 23 news release, the District 12 Medical Examiner's Office said that he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.