The harrowing disappearance of Youtuber and van-life blogger Gabby Petitio has continued to concern the nation. Still, new evidence has come to light regarding the whereabouts of her recently disappeared fiancé, Brian Laundrie. After Laundrie returned to Florida, he was named a person of concern.
Miranda Baker, who claims that she met Brian Laundrie in Wyoming while hitchhiking alone, has become a viral sensation on TikTok.
In a series of four TikToks, citizen Miranda Baker begins the first video saying, “Hi, my name is Miranda, and on August 29th, my boyfriend and I picked up Brian at Grand Teton National Park at 5.30 p.m. at Colter Bay.”
She emphasizes she and her boyfriend had identified Brian first through TikTok, which prompted the couple to contact the police after their experience.
Miranda claimed that Laundrie claimed to have hitchhiked and was looking for a ride to Jackson Hole. “So I said, ‘You know, hop in, and he hopped in the back of my Jeep, and we then proceeded to make small talk. But before he came in the car, he offered to pay us like $200 to give him a ride like 10 miles.”
She added Brian did mention his fiancé Gabby, claiming, “he’s been camping for multiple days without his fiancé. He did say he had a fiancé and that she was working on their social media page back at their van.”
In a later TikTok, Miranda said that Laundrie claimed he and his fiancé “had not been sleeping in regulated campsites like National Parks, they were basically out in the middle of nowhere along Snake River.”
Miranda also noted in her videos that it was suspicious Laundrie did not have a full backpack with him and told the couple he had been sleeping on a tarp. “You think if you’re going camping for days on end, you’d want food and a tent, and he had none of that,” Miranda thought about the matter in the video.
Their interaction was strange because they didn’t know where they were going. “Then once in conversation, I brought up ‘We’re going to Jackson’ [and] he freaked out. He’s like ‘Nope, I need to get out right now, pull over.'” Miranda said at Laundrie’s request, she and her boyfriend pulled over at the Jackson Dam.
She added, “We dropped him off at 6:09 p.m. on August 29th. He hurried out of the car and then was like, ‘I’m just going to find someone else to go hitchhike.'”
She also added he “looked clean and didn’t smell bad,” which also struck her as odd for someone without much camping supplies which had been out in the elements for days on end. He was wearing a backpack and a long-sleeved shirt, pants, and boots.
Laundrie was reported missing in Florida on September 17, 2021. His family attorney stated that he hadn’t seen Laundrie since Tuesday, Sept. 14. He also claimed his whereabouts were unknown. “currently unknown.”