Gabby Petito: Florida police search for fiance after remains found
Brian Laundrie reported missing as body believed to be of ‘van-life’ blogger discovered in national park
Laundrie had returned alone to their home in Florida on 1 September and it was 10 days later that Petito’s family filed a missing-persons report.
After Petito’s disappearance authorities expressed “frustration” about not being able to speak to Laundrie. Police have identified him as a person of interest in the case.
According to local police and the FBI, Laundrie, who had declined to be interviewed about Petito’s disappearance through a lawyer, went missing over the weekend with police saying they were searching a large nature reserve in Florida among other locations.
Underlining the mystery over what occurred had been the release last week by police in Utah of video of a traffic stop of the couple, that showed Petito weeping.
Laundrie had acknowledged that the couple had scuffled after he got into the van with dirty feet and described the “emotional strain” of sharing the small space of their van.
However, both asked the police to treat the incident as a “mental/emotional health break” rather than as a domestic assault, with Petito telling police she suffered from anxiety.
The body was found after police had increasingly focused their search on the Spread Creek Road dispersed camp in Grand Teton national park one of several that Petito had said the couple planned to visit.
The search of the campsite came after another couple, Jenn and Kyle Bethune, had posted video describing coming across a vehicle similar to that owned by Petito and Laundrie in August.
“This is at the Spread Creek dispersed camping area. We got there and there was a huge gravel lot and we decided we wanted to try to drive more toward the back because we’d heard the views were better back here. So we were heading back on this long dirt, gravel road,” Bethune said, narrating the video he posted on Saturday night. Read More
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