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Brian Laundrie, Gabby Petito's fiancé, has been missing for a week. Here's why it's been so hard to find him - CNN
Brian Laundrie, Gabby Petito's fiancé, has been missing for a week. Here's why it's been so hard to find him
By Amir Vera, CNN
Updated 2:44 AM EDT, Tue September 21, 2021
Laundrie had a multiple-day head start


Laundrie's family told police Friday night they have not seen the 23-year-old since Tuesday. His family told police he left home with his backpack and told them he was going to the [URL='https://twitter.com/NorthPortPolice/status/1439309309175902216']Carlton Reserve, a 25,000-acre nature reserve near Venice, Florida.

Police in North Port, Florida, tweeted Saturday that authorities were searching the reserve, an effort that included the use of drones and bloodhounds who had used articles of Laundrie's clothing taken from his home to get his scent, said police spokesperson Josh Taylor.

In a place like a nature reserve, foliage and the lack of sunlight affects visibility, according to Chris Boyer, executive director of the non-profit National Association for Search and Rescue(NASAR). The night can also hamper efforts, especially if the person being sought has no source of light or fire.

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NEW: Police and federal agents are going back to the Carlton Reserve today - this time moving in from the Venice, Florida side.
This is now an FBI led investigation -- and North Port Police are now assisting.

Police were at the Carlton Reserve all weekend, then stopped searching there yesterday, but will be back today. It's very swampy -- and the rain yesterday didn't help the situation. Police are calling it an "unforgiving location."
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NEW: Police and federal agents are going back to the Carlton Reserve today - this time moving in from the Venice, Florida side. This is now an FBI led investigation -- and North Port Police are now assisting.
8:03 AM · Sep 21, 2021·Twitter Web App

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Police were at the Carlton Reserve all weekend, then stopped searching there yesterday, but will be back today. It's very swampy -- and the rain yesterday didn't help the situation. Police are calling it an "unforgiving location."
8:05 AM · Sep 21, 2021·Twitter Web App

Brian Entin on Twitter
There are also a ton of alligators and snakes there. Police say many of the hiking and biking trails are flooded right now.
8:06 AM · Sep 21, 2021·Twitter Web App
 
SEP 21, 2021
Gabby Petito update: Her conversations with mother reveal 'more and more tension' with fiancé, affidavit says - CNN
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Before she vanished, Petito sent multiple text messages and had many talks with her mother via cell phone during her trip, Florida police wrote in an application filed last week for a search warrant for an external hard drive found in the couple's van.

In those conversations, there "appeared to be more and more tension between her and Laundrie," the affidavit reads. On August 27, Petito's mother received one last communication from her daughter, which she called an "odd text," the affidavit says.

The message read: "Can you help Stan, I just keep getting his voicemails and missed calls." Because the text message referred to Petito's grandfather as Stan, her mother was concerned that something was wrong, the warrant states.

Following that text message, Petito's phone was no longer operational and she stopped posting anything on social media about their trip, the warrant says.

One more text came on August 30 that read, "No service in Yosemite," but her family doubts she wrote it, Richard Stafford, an attorney representing Joseph Petito and her mother, Nicole Schmidt said.

[...]
 
SEP 21, 2021
Autopsy of body believed to be Gabby Petito will answer big questions | WGXA
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Following the autopsy, investigators will be able to 100% confirm the body belongs to Petito.

It will also give them a much better idea of the cause of death.

A makeshift cross was found in the Spread Creek Dispersed camping area where officials said they found the body that resembles Petito.

Investigators have not yet confirmed the cross marks the exact spot, however, our 2News crew in the area said there are signs of recent digging and paint marks.

[...]
 
SEP 21, 2021
Gabby Petito autopsy: Coroner faces challenges in determining time, cause of death, says forensic pathologist | Fox News
[...]

"I would still approach this case like any other suspicious death, take fingernails, hair, any sort of sexual assault kit," said Banerjee. "You just never know what can be found with further testing."

"Then even with decomposition, sometimes the bugs found on the body and other tissue changes can even tell you help you along the lines for dating- bugs, soil elements that can actually, if a forensic entomologist gets involved, they can work backwards to try to deduce a better timeline for when she was killed."

[...]

"Given the length of time, I just worried that everything's going to not look like it's supposed to be, hence the decomposition," said Banerjee. "That can change not only the color of tissues, but it could potentially even hide surface defects."

"Once we get inside, hopefully they can see, you know, remnants of blood discoloration, whatever else, bone trauma should be readily identified."

[...]

"But again, we don't know exactly how she died. And so that's going to be critical for the pathologist to really dive in, use all sorts of extra analysis, if you will, not only toxicology, potentially needing a forensic anthropologist, if bone traumas there, depending on the condition of the body."

[...]
 
SEP 21, 2021
Gabby Petito's boyfriend sought in Florida nature preserve - ABC News (go.com)
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Police in North Port, Florida, said Tuesday morning that investigators have returned to the Carlton Reserve to look for Brian Laundrie, 23.

Investigators searched the 24,000-acre (9,712-hectare) Florida nature preserve over the weekend without success. They focused on the area after Laundrie’s parents told police he may have gone there.

On Monday, the FBI went to Laundrie's parents' home in North Port and removed several boxes and towed away a car neighbors said Laundrie's mother typically used.

[...]

Gabby Petito case: Search for Brian Laundrie resumes in Florida's Carlton Reserve - CBS News
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Federal agents searched Laundrie's Florida home Monday for nearly eight hours, questioning his parents and collecting evidence that could tell them what happened to Petito. Search warrant documents obtained by CBS News authorized authorities to seize computers, flash drives and other electronics.

In the application for the search warrant, authorities wrote that text messages Petito sent to her mother appeared to show increasing tension between the couple as the trip progressed. The application did not include specific messages.

[...]

Police said Tuesday the search was resuming on the Venice side of the reserve.
 
Gabby Petito case: What one witness saw near the Tetons may help FBI unravel mystery

"When Jessica Schultz first spotted the white van near Grand Teton National Park one evening in late August, her first reaction was irritation.


The van’s driver seemed to have no idea where he was going, and was moving too slowly down a narrow, one-car-width road near a dispersed camping area called Spread Creek in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming.

Schultz said she saw the van on Aug. 26, when she and her Blue Heeler, Rosie, were headed to a dispersed campsite to meet with Schultz’s friends. As Schultz pulled around the van, she decided to check out who was inside to see if they were people who would want to chat or join their group.


Once seeing the man was much younger than her crowd, Schultz decided to pass on the invite and kept moving.


“I’m pretty sure he got out of the van to like look around or something,” Schultz recalled seeing as she drove by. “There’s definitely nobody in that passenger seat; like he definitely doesn’t have a girl in there.”


Schultz saw the same van again the following day as she was riding in the passenger seat of her friend’s truck. The van was in almost the exact same area — though it appeared to have pulled over to the right before backing up into a spot across the road.


“I was like, ‘Oh, that guy stayed the night,” Schultz recalled telling her friend, noting that it wasn’t a parking spot.


Schultz said that what was unusual about the van during the second sighting was that there were no indications that anyone was camping there — and it was not in a designated parking spot. Normally, parked campers will do things like put out a hammock or table, or open a window, Schultz said.


Schultz said she thinks she and her friends saw the van in the same spot for a third day, on Aug. 28, and were surprised it hadn’t been booted by then — because it was not in a designated parking spot. She doesn’t recall seeing it on Aug. 29."
 
Gov. DeSantis directs Florida agencies to continue helping in Brian Laundrie search: ‘We need justice for Gabby Petito’ | WFLA

Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling for justice for Gabby Petito, the 22-year-old North Port woman who mysteriously disappeared during a cross-country road trip with her fiancé.

The governor tweeted Tuesday about the ongoing investigation into Petito’s disappearance, as well as the search for her fiancé Brian Laundrie. Laundrie, who was reported missing last week, has been named a person of interest by police.
 
Petito family says they will make statement when ‘Gabby is home’ | WFLA

9/21/21

TAMPA (WFLA) – An attorney for Gabby Petito’s family released a brief statement to the media Tuesday as her family awaits results from an autopsy conducted Tuesday on a body found in a Wyoming park over the weekend.

“I want to personally thank the press and news media for giving the Petito and Schmidt family time to grieve,” lawyer Richard Stafford said, referring to Petito’s mom, dad, stepfather and stepmother. “We will be making a statement when Gabby is home. I will contact you to arrange a time and location.”

While the autopsy results are still pending, the FBI has already said it believes the remains found in Grand Teton National Park Sunday are Petito’s, the biggest question remains where is Brian Laundrie?
 
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The Okaloosa County Sheriff says they did an extensive search that took place in the area this picture was taken -- including a search by drone. They say no one -- and nothing of note -- was located. No connected to Brian Laundrie in this area, they say.
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