Inside the search for Gabby's Petito's boyfriend Brian Laundrie
Aug. 24
Laundrie and Petito check out of a hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Sept. 1
Laundrie
returns home to North Port, Florida, with the van, which is registered in Petito’s name.
Sept. 11
Petito’s family
file a missing person’s report with Suffolk County, New York, authorities after not hearing from her since late August.
Sept. 14
Laundrie
issues a statement through a lawyer saying a search for Petito is underway in Wyoming. The statement says the Laundrie family is “remaining in the background” of the investigation.
The van is towed away from Laundrie’s home by police.
Sept. 15
Police in North Port, Florida, say Laundrie is refusing to cooperate and name
him as a person of interest in her disappearance.
Sept. 16
North Port police say they know where Laundrie is but are frustrated he isn’t speaking to authorities.
Sept. 17
Florida police reveal Laundrie’s parents say he has been missing since Tuesday, Sept. 14. Both Petito and Laundrie are now being sought by the FBI.
Police officers
spend two and a half hours at Laundrie’s home having a “conversation” with his parents as dozens of protesters outside yell, “Bring him out!”
Sept. 18
The search for Laundrie begins in the 24,000-acre Carlton Reserve in Sarasota, Florida. His family say that’s where he set off with a backpack on Sept. 14.
Sept. 19
Authorities
recover Petito’s apparent remains in Bridger-Teton National Park in Wyoming near where her van
was spotted late last month.
Sept. 20
Authorities announce they are calling off the search for Laundrie in Carlton Reserve.
FBI and police
raid Laundrie’s parents’ home over an eight-hour period.
Sept. 21
Police say the FBI is taking over the criminal investigation and the search will resume for Laundrie in Carlton Reserve.
Authorities warn the search is in an “unforgiving location” where crews are “wading through gator- and snake-infested swamps and flooded hiking” trails.