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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,767 posts)
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 02:06 PM Sep 2021

FBI Seizes Car and Boxes of Evidence During Search of Brian Laundrie's Home

FBI agents searched Brian Laundrie’s Florida home on Monday as part of the ongoing investigation into his fiancée Gabby Petito’s death and Laundrie’s disappearance.

According to ABC7, authorities taped off the perimeter of the home and escorted Laundrie’s parents outside before they allowed them to re-enter about 10 minutes later. About four and a half hours later, authorities left the premises with multiple boxes of evidence and towed away Laundrie’s silver mustang, which had been sitting in the driveway. Laundrie’s mother was seen getting into a police vehicle as officers left the scene.

Laundrie was declared “person of interest” after Petito’s parents reported her missing to police on Sept. 11. The couple embarked on a four-month road trip in July, driving to national parks across the country in a white van. They were documenting their travels on social media until late August, when Petito dropped off communication. Her last reported dispatch came on Aug. 30 when she texted her mother that there was no cell service in Yellowstone National Park. Not long after, Laundrie returned to his Florida home without Petito.

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Laundrie so far has not cooperated with law enforcement’s investigation, and his parents said they haven’t seen him for days. Police conducted a search of a 24,000-acre Florida nature preserve over the weekend after Laundrie’s parents told police he might have gone there, but they were unable to locate him. Steven P. Bertolino, a lawyer for the family, told the press that his client wasn’t talking to investigators because “intimate partners are often the first person law enforcement focuses their attention on in cases like this.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/fbi-seizes-car-and-boxes-of-evidence-during-search-of-brian-laundries-home/ar-AAOEj5y

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FBI Seizes Car and Boxes of Evidence During Search of Brian Laundrie's Home (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2021 OP
Steven P. Bertolino informing your client to not talk with investigators make his client look guilty MagickMuffin Sep 2021 #1
That is exactly what John Walsh said on Anderson Cooper last night gldstwmn Sep 2021 #6
I read a NY POST story ( no link) GusBob Sep 2021 #2
where is baker wrt to the search area? n/t getagrip_already Sep 2021 #3
IDK GusBob Sep 2021 #8
A person of interest, a lot of interest. Sneederbunk Sep 2021 #4
And for good reason: Merlot Sep 2021 #5
No one has questioned the story that they left his Mustang at the preserve so he could drive back. Treefrog Sep 2021 #7

MagickMuffin

(15,933 posts)
1. Steven P. Bertolino informing your client to not talk with investigators make his client look guilty
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 02:11 PM
Sep 2021


And your client probably is very guilty.

I wonder if the parents told investigators to look into the Florida nature preserve to throw them off track and give their precious son a head start in the opposite direction?


gldstwmn

(4,575 posts)
6. That is exactly what John Walsh said on Anderson Cooper last night
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 02:41 PM
Sep 2021

and given his vast expertise I tend to agree with him. Laundrie is probably in South America by now. Also someone needs to answer why those local cops weren't watching him.

GusBob

(7,286 posts)
2. I read a NY POST story ( no link)
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 02:19 PM
Sep 2021

There is a deer trail cam footage from Baker Florida that shows a man resembling him captured on film at 6:17 am

They story states they were searching an area where his Mustang car was found, which seems to contradict the above link ( Mustang towed)
Unless he had 2 Mustangs

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
5. And for good reason:
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 02:41 PM
Sep 2021
“intimate partners are often the first person law enforcement focuses their attention on in cases like this.”



 

Treefrog

(4,170 posts)
7. No one has questioned the story that they left his Mustang at the preserve so he could drive back.
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 02:44 PM
Sep 2021

That makes no sense to me. Would he have had the keys on him? Did they leave them under the seat with the doors unlocked? How would he know it was even there?

That story makes no sense whatsoever.

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