Brian Laundrie’s parents are “being tortured in their own home” by protesters, who continue to follow them and stand outside their home in North Port, Florida, according to the family’s attorney.
- “They are being tortured in their own home by these protesters outside,” lawyer Steven Bertolino told Insider.
Protesters have been showing up at the home of Brian Laundrie’s parents, Chris and Roberta Laundrie.
- They’ve been chanting about Gabby Petito, leaving signs on lawns and sharing photos of Petito.
- Media members have followed the Laundrie family to the grocery store, asking questions about their son, too, according to Fox News.
Petito and Laundrie went on a cross-country road trip this summer. But only Laundrie returned home on Sept. 1 to North Port, Florida, driving Petito’s van. Laundrie disappeared on Sept. 17, and hasn’t been seen since then.
- Days later, authorities found Petito’s body in the outskirts of a Wyoming national park. She was later confirmed to have died by strangulation.
- Protesters have waited outside the Laundrie family home, asking questions to the parents about Brian Laundrie’s whereabouts.
Earlier this week, Petito’s parents said in an interview with Australia’s “60 Minutes” that they want answers from Brian Laundrie’s mother and father.
- “I think silence speaks volumes. I believe they know probably, if not everything, they know most of the information,” Nicole Schmidt said. “I would love to just, face to face, ask, ‘Why are you doing this? Just tell me the truth.’”