A laundry basket and a sign reading “Dirty Laundrie come clean” has appeared at a memorial for Gabby Petito outside her fugitive boyfriend’s home in Florida.
The display — which includes the sign, a box of detergent, and a bottle of bleach — has stoked outrage online after a photo was posted by Fox News reporter Michael Ruiz.
Also in the basket is a can of a Monster energy drink, a reference to the beverage company’s Energy Ultra Gold container that Dog the Bounty Hunter came across during his search for Laundrie in a Sunshine State campsite.
“That basket does not belong at a Gabby memorial. Gross,” user @Sophie_bea_ said in a tweet in reaction to the sign with the play on words.
“Don’t encourage this behavior, please! This is tasteless and dishonorable to have next to Gabby’s memorial,” she added.
Another user, @William2Angel, wrote: “Some people are just ignorant, and some are just outright stupid, Gabby who was /is still my friend her memorial should be honored, keep your laundry basket in you’re (sic) home Rest In Peace Angel –Gabby.”
Inside the basket was also a can of a Monster energy drink, a reference to the beverage company’s container that Dog the Bounty Hunter came across during his search for Brian Laundrie. William FarringtonBut a Pennsylvania woman behind the stunt — a YouTuber who goes by the name Molly Golightly — pushed back at the haters, telling the Sun she arrived at the North Port home to be “Gabby’s voice.”
Marissa Zdazinsky, 46, of Hershey, told the news outlet that she was only sending a message to Laundrie’s parents, Chris and Roberta, to cooperate with law enforcement.
“The laundry basket and its contents that I placed was in front of the Laundrie family’s home as a concrete message to them. It is symbolic of their failure to ‘come clean’ with the truth,” she said.
“Don’t encourage this behavior, please! This is tasteless and dishonorable,” one Twitter user said about the basket. William Farrington“I want everyone to know that I meant well. And I mean what I say, I stand by it. Everything I said and everything I did, I did because I want this to end for Gabby’s family’s sake,” Zdazinsky added.
The vlogger told the Sun she wanted the fugitive’s parents “to realize that they are selfish. This is a selfish thing, what they’re doing to Gabby’s family [by staying silent], to their neighbors, to their grandchildren.”
Regarding the beverage can, she said she “included it as a message to Brian’s mom: This is for your monster son, the monster you raised.”
Zdazinsky, who returned to Pennsylvania on Sunday, added that she also has received messages of support for her stunt.
“Everyone has been telling me it was brilliant, epic or that they wish they could’ve said that,” she told the Sun.
The parents have denied any knowledge of or involvement in their son’s disappearance.
Laundrie returned alone to Florida on Sept. 1 after the couple’s cross-country trip, arriving at his parents’ home in North Port in Petito’s 2012 Ford Transit van.
On Sept. 11, her family reported her missing. She was later found dead in a Wyoming park. Authorities are conducting a massive manhunt for Laundrie, who disappeared on Sept. 14 and was reported missing three days later. There is an active warrant for his arrest on fraud charges for allegedly using someone’s bank card around the time Petito disappeared.







