Brian Laundrie Search Ramps Up As Autopsy Performed On Body Believed To Be Gabby Petito

NORTH PORT, Fla. (CBSNewYork) – Authorities Tuesday resumed their hunt for Gabby Petito‘s missing fiancé Brian Laundrie. Police are searching the Carlton Reserve, 25,000 acres of terrain which includes prairies and wetlands.

North Port constabulary posted photos and video of their hunt connected societal media.

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“Terrain’s precise difficult. Essentially, 75% of it is underwater, and different areas that are dry, we’re trying to clear. So we’re expecting to get bedewed by the extremity of the day, and cheque the full country for Brian Laundrie,” said North Port Police Commander Joe Fussell, who is heading up the search.

Authorities suspended the hunt and executed a hunt warrant Monday astatine Laundrie’s location successful North Port. Law enforcement swarmed the home, and FBI agents escorted Laundrie’s parents to an unmarked conveyance portion they searched.

Laundrie returned to his parents’ location from the transverse state travel connected Sept. 1 without Petito and refused to assistance successful the investigation successful her disappearance.

Over the weekend, his parents reported him missing.

An lawyer for the Laundrie household had been scheduled to clasp a quality league Tuesday, but Monday nighttime said that quality league had been canceled.

The hunt warrant papers says Petito had galore talks and exchanged texts with her mother, Nicole Schmidt, who said that “during these conversations determination appeared to beryllium much and much hostility betwixt her and Laundrie.”

Schmidt besides said she received an “odd text” from Petito connected Aug. 27, which reads, “Can you assistance Stan? I conscionable support getting his voicemails and missed calls.”

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Stan is Petito’s grandfather, but Schmidt said she ne'er called him Stan, which made her deliberation that thing was incorrect with her daughter, WCBS-TV’s Dick Brennan reported.

Also Monday, the Grand County Sheriff’s Department successful Utah released the 911 telephone that a witnesser made past period that prompted constabulary to propulsion Laundrie and Petito implicit connected the highway. The 911 telephone contradicts the communicative Laundrie is aboriginal seen telling authorities successful bodycam video of the encounter.

In the bodycam video, constabulary believed Petito was the aggressor, having near scratches connected Laundrie, but the witnesser tells 911 Petito was the 1 who was hit.

Caller: “The man was slapping the girl.”

911 operator: “He was slapping her?”

Caller: “Yes, and past we stopped. They ran up and down the sidewalk. He proceeded to deed her, hopped successful the car, and drove off.”

All of this comes arsenic authorities Tuesday behaviour an autopsy connected a body recovered successful Grand Teton National Park which is believed to beryllium the remains of Gabby Petito.

The FBI has not said what led them to the Grand Teton location where the assemblage was found.

The origin of decease has not yet been determined.

Experts accidental the was assemblage apt exposed to the elements.

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“There could beryllium rain, determination could beryllium aggravated heat, insect activity, different animals,” transgression pathologist Dr. Priya Banerjee said. “You X-ray her. You look astatine each imaginable portion of hint evidence, and I don’t conscionable mean connected the body, but astatine the country arsenic well.”