In this photo provided by the North Port Police Department, law enforcement officials search for Brian Laundrie on September 18 in the vast Carlton Reserve in the Sarasota area of Florida. The search “has yet to yield any answers, but we must press on,” police said in a Facebook post on Tuesday. Tuesday, the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said. Authorities have been on site since 8 a.m. However, police said Tuesday morning they were again searching for him at the reserve. “At this time, we currently believe we have exhausted all avenues in searching of the grounds there,” Taylor said. Police said Monday they shifted the focus of their search and are no longer looking for Laundrie in the nature reserve. Police in North Port have focused the search on the wilderness of the Carlton Reserve, relying on drones for video and bloodhounds who used Laundrie’s clothing to get his scent, Taylor said. At the same time, that intense interest has highlighted how race and gender impact which of the nearly 90,000 unsolved missing persons cases get attention, and which ones don’t.ĬNN spoke with several experts in policing and search and rescue efforts to understand the challenges in attempting to locate Laundrie. The case has become an obsession for many, spurring digital detectives to comb through the couple’s online trail and try to solve the case. Laundrie had refused to speak with police about Petito’s whereabouts prior to going missing, authorities said. His family told police he left home with his backpack and told them he was going to the nearby Carlton Reserve.Ī source close to Laundrie’s family told CNN’s Chris Cuomo that Laundrie left their home without his cell phone and wallet. Meanwhile, Laundrie’s family told police on Friday night they had not seen him since September 14. A coroner confirmed Tuesday the remains found Sunday in Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest are those of Petito.Ī photo of Gabby Petito taken from her Instagram account From Gabby Petito/InstagramĪ timeline of missing 22-year-old Gabby Petito's case Petito was reported missing by her parents on September 11. Laundrie returned to his parents’ home in Florida without her on September 1, according to police. The couple had posted online regularly about their travels with the hashtag #VanLife, but those posts abruptly stopped in late August. The ongoing search comes as investigators try to piece together what happened to Petito, 22, and Laundrie, 23, on their road trip through the West this summer. The team is from the Sarasota Sheriff’s Office and is called the Sheriff’s Underwater Recovery Force, a team of “highly trained underwater specialists,” who are “called upon to search for evidence of crimes and victims of drowning, water accidents and foul play,” the sheriff’s office website says. He said the FBI is leading the investigation and local police are “assisting our federal partner in any way we can to bring this investigation to a close.”Īn underwater dive team arrived at the Carlton Reserve on Wednesday. Investigators are searching for Laundrie on the Venice side of the Carlton Reserve, a 25,000-acre nature reserve near the family’s home in North Port.Ībout 75 personnel from 16 agencies were on the ground Thursday, said North Port police spokesman Josh Taylor. Police in Florida resumed their search this week for Brian Laundrie, the fiancé of Gabby Petito, whose remains were found Sunday.
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