Roberta Laundrie biography: 13 things about North Port, Florida businesswoman

Who is Roberta Laundrie?

Roberta Maria Vinci Laundrie is an American businesswoman from North Port, Sarasota County, Florida, United States. She and her husband Christopher John “Chris” Laundrie live in a single-story home on Wabasso Avenue in North Port.

Roberta and Chris have two children together. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. She is affiliated with the Florida Democratic Party.
2. She have lived in different parts of New York, USA including Woodhaven, Bayport, Forest Hills and Sayville.
3. She previously lived in Venice, Florida and in Hanahan, South Carolina, USA.
4. She and Chris own Juicer Services, a company that sells and services commercial juicing equipment, and a 10,000-square feet property in North Port.
5. She is 7 years younger than Chris.
6. In October 1989, she gave birth to Cassandra “Cassie” Laundrie.
7. On November 18, 1997, she gave birth toBrian Laundrie.
8. In 2009, her annual salary in Suffolk County, New York was $27,066.
9. Her annual salary in Suffolk County, New York increased $28,998 in 2010 to $32,119 in 2011.
10. Her annual salary in Suffolk County increased from $34,052 in 2012 to $36,911 in 2013.
11. In 2014, her annual salary in Suffolk County was $36,743.
12. In 2017, her annual salary in Suffolk County was $37,787.
13. In 2020, her annual wage as an office staff in Suffolk County was $50,408.

TIMELINE

2017

• Chris is the president while she is the vice president of Juicer Services, which was incorporated on June 7, 2017.
• On September 6, 2017, she registered to vote in Sarasota County.

2018

• While she was still working in Suffolk County, her annual wage decreased to $28,060 in 2018.

2019

• In 2019, her annual wage in Suffolk County was $27,004 and her son Brian’s girlfriend Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito of Bayport, Town of Islip, Suffolk County moved to their North Port home.

2020

• In July 2020, her son Brian was engaged to Petito.

2021

• On July 2, 2021, her son Brian started their cross-country camping trip with Petito driving Petito’s white 2012 Ford Transit van with a Florida license plate.
• After Brian fatally strangled Petito on August 27, 2021 and told her and Chris about it on August 28, 2021, she and Chris allegedly planned to help Brian leave the U.S.
• From September 1-3, 2021 and from September 6-8, 2021, she, Chris and Brian stayed in Fort De Soto Park in Pinellas County, Florida, according to a tip Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman received on September 27, 2021.
• On September 10, 2021, Petito’s mother Nichole Schmidt sent text messages to her and Brian to ask about Petito but neither she nor Brian responded.
• On September 11, 2021, she and Chris did not allow North Port Police Department officers to talk to Brian when the officers arrived at their North Port home. That day, the officers seized the 2021 Fort Transit van and Schmidt reported Petito missing.
• On September 16, 2021, she was driving her Mustang home when North Port Police Department investigators mistook her for Brian.
• On September 17, 2021, she and Chris summoned the police to their home in North Port and told them that they had not seen Brian since September 14, 2021.
• On September 20, 2021, Federal Bureau of Investigation investigators escorted her and Chris from their North Port home, searched the home as part of a court-authorized warrant related to Petito’s disappearance and brought them back inside for questioning.
• On September 25, 2021, she called 911 after Chapman knocked on the front door of their North Port home.
• Representing her and Chris, lawyer Steven Bertolino said on September 27, 2021 that she and her husband did not know where Brian was.
• During a search with police on October 20, 2021, Chris was the first to spot a dry bag belonging to Brian at the Carlton Reserve in North Port where partial remains were also found and on October 21, 2021, she and Chris were informed that a comparison of dental records confirmed that the remains belonged to Brian.

2022

• On March 10, 2022, Schmidt and Petito’s father Joe Petito filed a civil lawsuit against her and Chris seeking damages of at least $100,000.
• On June 24, 2022, the FBI released a letter she wrote to Brian to Bertolino’s custody. In the letter, which was in Brian’s backpack when his remains were found, she wrote in part, “If you’re in jail, I will bake a cake with a file in it. If you need to dispose of a body, I will show up with a shovel and garbage bags.” She included the Romans 8:38 verse from the Bible and in the letter’s envelope, she wrote “burn after reading”.
• On November 17, 2022, Judge Hunter W. Carroll awarded Joe and Schmidt $3 million in a lawsuit against her son Brian’s estate, which was estimated to be about $20,000.

2023

• In a deposition taken on October 11, 2023, she admitted to ignoring Schmidt’s texts on September 10, 2021 at Bertolino’s advice. 

2024

• On February 21, 2024, she, Chris, Joe and Nichole reached a settlement in a lawsuit. The terms are confidential.
• On May 30, 2024, Schmidt gave her a message at Crimecon 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA saying in part, “You do not deserve forgiveness. You deserve to be forgotten and dehumanized. You epitomize pure evil.”

2025

• In April 2025, she will turn 59.