Gawkers Transform Suspicious Waterboro House Into A Virtual Tourist Trap Amid Mysterious Police Probe

Laurie Grant has one message for curious members of the public trying to figure out what the cops are doing crawling all over her home.

“Stay off the property,” she told WGME-TV’s Sam DeCoste when he asked her what her message to the public is.

Grant’s property has apparently been inundated with curious gossips wondering why police for the past two weeks have been poring over her Main Street property.

To his credit, DeCoste got an exclusive interview with the woman who lives there with her son, daughter and boyfriend.

The small landlocked town of Waterboro, located in the heart of York County in southern Maine, has become a virtual police convention for two long weeks.

Media from far and wide have shown up at Gant’s humble home trying to figure out what all the fuss is.

Try as he might, DeCoste got little of substance into the investigation from the one woman who should know – Laurie Grant.

Grant tells WGME she was at the York County sheriff’s department one morning two weeks ago to discuss a theft from her property.

“After we were there a few minutes we were asked to have a conversation with another set of law enforcement,” she told DeCoste.

While she was there, deputies from Marin County, California approached her. Grant says they handed her a search warrant.

DeCoste: “Do you know what they were looking for?”

“This is the theory – that they’re trying to follow up on a cold case,” Grant replied.

DeCoste reported that “it remains unclear how investigators determined a property in Waterboro, Maine was relevant to a case in California.”

“What could have happened at your house and to your family that could possibly be a related to an investigation all the way over in California?” he asked Grant.

“There’s a theory, there’s a theory,” she replied. “At this point they’ve got to run their theory.”

“What is that theory?” DeCoste asked.

Grant: “I’m not … at this point it’s an ongoing investigation.”

Grant told the TV outlet that deputies confiscated some items from her house, some of which were returned the next day remaining as “evidence” at the York County Sheriff’s Office.

“Did they find what they were looking for?” DeCoste asked Grant.

Shaking her head back and forth, she replied, “I have no idea.”

DeCoste said that York County Sheriff Bill King told him that “the investigation has a long way to go.”

“Grant isn’t sure if deputies plan to return but she’s confident that nobody in her family will be arrested,” DeCoste reported as his camera panned to a red-and-white sign nailed to a tree that says “Private Property No Trespassing.”

“What would you say to people out there, whether it’s neighbors or people who are watching or who are wondering what’s going on – what’s your message to them?” DeCoste asked the besieged homeowner.

“Stay off the property,” Grant replied.