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发帖数: 2555 | 1 News of the discovery of a body comes as authorities in Florida also search
for Petito's fiancé Brian Laundrie, whose family told police Friday they
had not seen him since last Tuesday.
Laundrie, 23, is not wanted for a crime, according to law enforcement
officials. Prior to her disappearance, Petito had been traveling with
Laundrie on a cross-country road trip through several Western states,
leaving online reviews of campsites they visited.
Laundrie returned to North Port, Florida, without Petito on September 1,
according to police. Officials later found the van the couple had been
traveling in at the home Petito shared with Laundrie and his parents in
North Port, a city in Sarasota County some 80 miles south of Tampa.
The latest efforts to locate Laundrie have shifted to a Florida nature
reserve, where dozens of officers and FBI agents are combing an area that
stretches out to roughly 25,000 acres, according to the North Port Police
Department.
Laundrie's family told police he left home with his backpack Tuesday and
told them he was going to the reserve, North Port police spokesperson Josh
Taylor said Saturday.
Police visited the home after Petito was reported missing, but Laundrie's
family refused to talk, Taylor said last week, and instead gave authorities
the information for their attorney.
The home was searched Friday evening, when Laundrie's family told police
they had not seen him for days. Laundrie family attorney Steven Bertolino
said Friday that Laundrie's whereabouts "are currently unknown."
Richard Stafford, the attorney for the Petito family, said in a brief
statement to CNN, "All of Gabby's family want the world to know that Brian
is not missing, he is hiding. Gabby is missing."
The search for Petito on Saturday included ground surveys alongside the
National Park Service and local authorities at the Spread Creek Dispersed
Camping Area in Bridger-Teton National Forest on the eastern edge of Grand
Teton National Park, the FBI's Denver field office said in a tweet.
The office said it is seeking assistance from anyone who was in the camping
area between August 27 and 30 and may have had contact with Petito or
Laundrie or seen their vehicle -- a 2012 Ford Transit van with a Florida
plate and stickers on the back, according to a FBI's Missing Person poster
for Petito. |
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