City officials remove Gabby Petito memorial from outside Florida home of Brian Laundrie's parents
- Memorial to Gabby Petito outside Brian Laundrie's family home has gone
- Petito’s supporters placed signs, flowers and left messages to the late traveler
- The entirety of the memorial was removed just after 8pm on Wednesday
- Laundrie, the sole person of interest in the disappearance and death of Gabby Petito, was found inside the Carlton Reserve on October 20
- Police and medical examiners have yet to determine a cause of death
- His parents have maintained a wall of silence and have yet to say anything publicly about either the death of their son, or what he told them about Petito
A memorial to Gabby Petito which has been outside the family home of Brian Laundrie since the 22-year-old went missing, has been removed by authorities.
Officials from the city of North Port, Florida were at the house just after 8pm and took down all elements of the memorial.
Petito’s supporters had placed signs, flowers and left messages related to the late traveler.
Her body was discovered last month in a forest in Wyoming, which was one of the places the couple had visited on a trip they documented through social media videos.
A memorial to Gabby Petito which has been outside the family home of Brian Laundrie since the 22-year-old went missing, was removed by the city on Wednesday night
Officials from the city of North Port, Florida were at the house just after 8pm and took down all elements of the memorial
The entire memorial was removed and placed into the back of a pickup truck
'They removed the entire memorial. Everything is gone,' Laundrie family attorney Steve Bertolino told Fox News. 'I am the only one here. No photographers. No other video people. Just me.'
The skeletal remains of Brian Laundrie were found in a Florida nature reserve last week and positively identified using dental records.
A manhunt for Laundrie lasted more than a month as investigators desperately looked for clues in the murder of his girlfriend,Gabby Petito. Both were originally from Long Island, New York.
An initial autopsy on Laundrie did not reveal the cause of his death however a more intensive examination will now be conducted.
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The memorial was cleared away by staff from the city of North Port, Florida
The city worker showed up at around 8pm and began clearing away the memorial
The signs of Gabby Petito had been up for more than a month
The items were all placed delicately into the back of the a white pickup truck on Wednesday
Petito was discovered slain last month on the edge of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming with autopsy concluding she died by strangulation and that it was a homicide.
Laundrie, 23, was listed as a 'person of interest' in her killing but he was charged only with fraudulent use of a debit card that was not his.
Laundrie returned home alone September 1 from his trip with Petito. Her body was found September 19 in the Wyoming park and authorities say it had been there for about a month.
Laundrie told his parents September 13 he was headed to the Carlton Reserve park in Sarasota County. That was the last publicly known contact anyone had with him.
Brian Laundrie's father Christopher, 62, was spotted outside of his North Port, Florida, home on Saturday morning hammering a 'no trespassing' sign into the grass of his front lawn
Mourners created a shrine to murdered Gabby Petito on the Laundrie family's lawn which has now been completely removed
The sudden discovery of Laundrie's body inside the reserve – described as 'like Jurassic Park' by one search and rescue expert – came after a massive hunt for Laundrie began there on September 17.
More than 50 law enforcement officers, many in tactical gear and wielding rifles, had combed the treacherous swamp in huge all-terrain vehicles – while drones using infra-red technology covered areas they could not tackle due to flood water.
For weeks is appeared there was absolutely no evidence of him being there.
North Port police said they did cover the area where Laundrie was found, but in airboats, suggesting that his body had been submerged underwater during the initial stages of the search.
It is not known how long Laundrie was in the reserve before he died. He fled there on September 13, two days after police arrived at the home he shared with his parents to speak with him over Gabby's disappearance.
Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito are shown on August 12 after being pulled over by police in their van. The cops had received reports of a fight between the pair. Witnesses said they saw Laundrie hit Petito. She was however deemed to be the aggressor in the argument, and the pair were separated for the night
Laundrie's remains - said to include part of a skull - were found on October 20 in an area of the swamp which until recently were under several feet of water. His autopsy was inconclusive and cause of death remains unknown
This is the desolate swampland scene dotted with orange FBI marker paint in Florida where fugitive Brian Laundrie’s bones were discovered, DailyMail.com confirmed on Saturday
Gabby's heartbroken family have only recently been able to collect their murdered daughter's ashes. Mom Nichole Schmidt, stepdad Jim Schmidt, dad Joe Petito and stepmom Tara made the devastating trip to a funeral home in Jackson, Wyoming, last week.
It was only a few days after Teton County Coroner Dr. Brent Blue announced Gabby had been manually strangled before being dumped close to a remote campsite in Grand Teton National Park.
The remote site where the blogger's body was discovered has become a shrine to Petito, complete with a stone cross dotted with flowers.
The remains and backpack were found near a bridge between Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park and the Carlton Reserve, just four miles north of Brian Laundrie's home, just a mile or two into the park. The Laundrie parents say they told the police that it's where Brian might have been, but the portion of the land was submerged in water when cops first searched it in September
