BRIAN Laundrie is still missing after cops started combing Florida’s Carlton reserve, while the search for his fiancé Gabby Petito also goes on.
North Port Police had stopped searching the swampland for their fiancee Gabby Petito at nightfall on Saturday. They found nothing.
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“Our search of the Carlton is being called this evening due to darkness. Nothing found. Efforts will begin again Sunday morning,” the force said in a Twitter message Saturday evening around 7.45pm.
Laundrie, 23, had refused to speak to cops or Petito’s family having returned alone from a cross-country road trip with his girlfriend who had been reported missing on September 11.
He has now been reported missing
as well.Laundrie was last seen Tuesday after he reportedly never returned home having been hiking in Carlton reserve in the north of the city, which covers around 25,000 acres of wilderness.
Along with 50 other local agencies, the FBI and 50 others began Saturday morning using drones as well as scent-tracking K9 dog sniffing dogs. However, they failed to find anything.
The Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park was the first location where the search began. It is a 160-acre park that is connected to the marshy Carlton reserve through a bridge. Laundrie used to hike in the park.
“It’s muddy, it’s wet, there are a few unpaved dirt roads that are out there basically running along the power lines, you know it’s a place that people hike, there are mountain biking trails out there,” North Port Police Department spokesman Josh Taylor said Saturday, adding the search could take “a long time.”
Laundrie’s parents told investigators the park had been the last place their son had been see, after they met with investigators Friday to discuss his disappearance.
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His parents told cops he had left home Tuesday with a backpack, telling them he was going for a hike in the area.
Cops said it was “fair to say” that Laundrie could potentially pose a threat to himself or others.
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“I mean you have somebody, there’s an enormous amount of pressure I’m sure on him to provide answers on what’s going on here,” Taylor stated.
He added that with Laundrie being a skilled outdoorsman he “could be out there for months”.
“I don’t know how frequently if he would come out here and do day-long hikes or whatever, you could be out here for months if you wanted,” Taylor said.
According to cops, Laundrie could disappear because he was not a suspect and had not been charged for a crime. They also said that they weren’t tracking his movements.
The latest shock development comes as it emerged:
“Were we trying to keep an eye out kind of where he’s at so that when needed we could potentially reach him? Yes. But our focus was putting resources on trying to find Gabby,” Taylor said, describing Laundrie’s disappearance as “certainly a twist.”
Taylor said the meeting with Laundrie’s family Friday had been to only discuss their son’s disappearance and not Petito’s.
The search for Gabby continues.
The FBI Denver seems to be focusing its attention on the Spread Creek Dispersed Camp Area at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
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