It is taking longer to find Brian Laundrie,

[RicROC]

than it took for find the body of Gabby Petito.

[ripcord]

1. There are a number of reasons for that

One is that they had a good tip about where to find Gabby and dead body's don't move around much. At this point there is a decent chance Laundrie isn't even in the preserve, just because you enter doesn't mean you can't walk right back out in another place.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

27. Has anyone checked his lawyer's beach house in Gulf Shores, AL? Sounds like a good place to hole up

Lawyer sends him Grubhub eats, he's never seen

He hasn't been charged with anything, not even formally named as a suspect.

[Treefrog]

33. Makes as much sense as anything!

I think he’s hiding out too.

[Me.]

2. I Don't Think He's Even In THis Country

[Demsrule86]

4. His parents got him out maybe?

[Buns_of_Fire]

8. Remember, his parents are the ones who pointed them in the direction

they're now searching.

I don't believe a damned word his parents say.

[Me.]

11. It's Just Speculation On My Part

but if you were going to slip away, wouldn't you try to get out of the country? Of course if he did, I assume the airlines would be able to say but it is a pattern used by people of 'interest'.

[GusBob]

23. I speculated about this myself

He coulda been in Mexico from Wyoming before he made it back to Florida

[Xolodno]

24. Greyhound bus ticket to a Texas border town....

...then walk over. They don't check. And you are as good as gone after that.

[Me.]

28. But If The Federales Find Him, They'll Send Him Back

he would need to get to a place where there is no extradition

[Xolodno]

36. Cuba is the closest country with no extradition.

...and they will probably refuse him entry. But I hear Belarus, Oman or Sudan are nice this time of year.

The Federales usually don't bother as they are up to their eyeballs with local police corruption, drug lords, gun smuggling from the USA, etc.

Some white guy who broke in the law in the USA hiding out in Mexico and probably violating their immigration laws, yeah, they have plenty of those. As long he doesn't cause any trouble, they won't worry much. Because if he did cause trouble, he'll be in a Mexican jail before they deport him. Not some place you want to have the distinction of visiting.

Add to that, illegal immigration in Mexico is a minor infraction...in other words, give them what's in your wallet when they challenge you and you will be left alone for awhile. We have enough trouble getting drugs lords to be extradited, don't think they will go out of their way to look for him.

[Lancero]

31. Depending on where he went in Texas, some blackface could have got him a trip to Haiti.

[George II]

37. Did you really say that? Sorry, not funny.

[hlthe2b]

25. That is my supposition...

He certainly had time to do so.

[Polly Hennessey]

3. What a fool. Prolonging the inevitable.

[Treefrog]

5. I know, he's done everything he can to make this go worse for him.

His parents must be real prizes too.

[Submariner]

6. Gabby's parents and friends may have to harass

the shit out of the murderers parents to flush him out of hiding.

If the Laundrie's move, track their address changes and make their life a living f'ing hell until they give up the creep.

[mainer]

7. I wouldn't be surprised if he killed himself

And they just haven't found his body.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

17. It took awhile for police to find the guy who killed...

... one of my former girlfriends. (A few years after I broke up with her.)

He'd hung himself in a barn, located in another state.

I didn't even know about the murder of my former girlfriend -- which received almost no media attention despite how she was an extremely pretty blonde woman -- until my sister told me the story of her church friend's son being accused of murdering her. He was her roommate, and he's the one who called police in the first place. He found her dead on her bed after he returned to their apartment from work.

He immediately directed the police to search for her often-jealous boyfriend, but they couldn't locate him. Then after several days had passed, they started grilling the roommate -- lying that they had "proof" that he murdered her, so he should just confess to hopefully get leniency during the trial. Which he never did, but he told his mother that he ALMOST confessed to the crime that he didn't commit because they'd scared him so much.

Not long thereafter, somebody finally found the boyfriend's dead body hanging in the barn.

So it was the police and my sister's friend's son that were the focus of our conversation initially, but then my sister said the girl was so pretty and she told me her name. At that point, I must've turned white because my sister saw my reaction and asked me, "Did you know her?!"

I'd never mentioned that former girlfriend to my family. I figured they wouldn't approve of the "provocative" ways that she often dressed, and I eventually decided to just end the relationship anyway.

[maxsolomon]

22. Crimony.

That must have been awful to experience, and probably still is.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

26. I actually felt a little guilty for breaking up with her.

My thoughts were, "Maybe we'd still be together if I hadn't broke up with her, and she'd still be alive."

I was feeling jealous around her too, after seeing other guys ogling her in public. But I would've never killed her! My reaction to the jealous feelings was instead, "Well, I'm getting out of this relationship." I'm certainly not the kind of guy who would ever want a "trophy wife", that's for sure.

And I wasn't even honest with her about it, since I didn't feel it was my place to complain about how she dressed. That's how she dressed when we first started dating anyway. She was a very sweet person, so I had some regrets about it even before learning about her murder.

Her maiden name was extremely unusual, so that's how I knew it was her that was murdered. She was briefly married to another guy before we started dating, and that's the surname that my sister told me initially. So I was thinking, "Uh oh. It might be another woman with the same name, though." Then my sister said her maiden name was very odd, finally remembering it. That's when I must've turned ghostly-white, and my sister picked up on my reaction.

She looked a lot like the singer Kylie Minogue, who was often shown on TV around that same period.

Then I also learned from my sister that my former girlfriend had been a high school classmate of HER daughter -- my niece who is only 6 years younger than me -- and she later showed me one her daughter's yearbooks, asking if that's who I had dated. Yes, that was her. (She looked like a "tomboy" in high school, though.)

It was so bizarre how I even learned about the murder. It wasn't even covered by the local news very much, not enough for me to ever see it.

[RobinA]

19. Me Either

My speculation - He got a little too violent and killed her without intending to. He then freaked and drove where a fairly young kid drives when in trouble - home. Now, the parents may have helped him skip town, but I'm thinking more that he killed himself, seeing no way out of his problem.

[Luz]

32. These parents wouldn't facilitate his suicide, but they

would help him escape. They've helped their baby boy get out of the country by now is my guess.

[GoCubsGo]

9. They should look in the Bahamas. nt

[honest.abe]

10. According to Twitter they just brought in underwater divers recovery team.

Link to tweet

The "drivers" was a typo.. should be "divers".

Sounds like they found something.

[Klaralven]

14. It means they've finished searching solid ground and wadeable swamp.

I'm not sure why there is any urgency around finding him. If he is in the swamp, he will eventually start coming out to find food, supplies, etc., like Eric Rudolph.

[honest.abe]

18. There's no way they finished searching solid ground of that entire preserve.

Its enormous.

[Xoan]

12. Perhaps it escaped your notice ...

but Gabby couldn't move.

[Rorey]

13. Well, I saw him at King Soopers this morning

Same build. Same hairstyle. He was super friendly, but I think that was to throw everyone off.

It's funny that nobody else picked up on the fact that we were in the presence of a murderer. Everyone else seemed so calm.


Seriously, though, I hope he's found soon. I think he's probably dead, but I hope he's alive so he can clear up what happened and give her family and friends answers.

[Totally Tunsie]

15. May I presume that, by now, the authorities have taken a look

at the parents' bank accounts to make sure a large withdrawal isn't funding their "missing" son? I'd also be checking to see if there's a safe in the house that may have contained tucked-away emergency funds. If Laundrie is on the move, he can't use cards or ID b/c he'd be tracked. I don't believe for a moment he's in the swamps, although being a wilderness dude, he could be almost anywhere.

Maybe I watch too many TV crime shows!

[LeftInTX]

16. My thoughts exactly..

Have no idea how much of a "wilderness dude" he really is.
Both he and Gabby seemed to have a "suburban kids on a road trip" vibe.

But I agree bank accounts, phone records.
Don't know if they can get parents' records without getting another warrant.

Maybe I don't watch enough true crime shows.

All I know, is he got on a airline, there would be a record.

I know you can take private boats and private planes to the Bahamas and not get caught.

[csziggy]

20. It took five years for them to find Eric Rudolph

Who bombed Centennial Olympic Park, abortion clinics and a lesbian bar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Rudolph#Bombings). He spent five years in the Apalachians ducking authorities. He had lots of help and better terrain than Florida swamps, but he still managed for that long.

[BGBD]

29. That's because he's probably dead

If he had the capacity to run and hide he'd have done so before ever returning home.

This killing has the hallmarks of little to no organization. Body wasn't well hidden and no attempts were really made to cover his tracks. It was likely a spurt of the moment killing and then little thought given to how to get away with it.

After a couple of weeks of it becoming more and more clear he was going to be caught, I think he walked into the woods and killed himself somewhere within them. He shows no signs of a man who could evade police if he were truly on the run.

[Shellback Squid]

30. if he were a POC he would have been taken in to custody when he first came back

[yellowcanine]

34. He either fled the area, maybe the country, or he is dead.

My money is on the former. Because of the help from his parents, he had a lot of lead time before the police even started looking for him. When they thought he was in the house he may not have been there.

[Me.]

35. If HIs Family Sent Aothorities On A Wild Goose Chase

They should have to pay for every penny of the searches

[moondust]

38. John Walsh, host of "America's Most Wanted,"

was on Anderson Cooper's show tonight with John Berman. Walsh is pretty sure Laundrie killed her. Walsh thinks the cops blew it since Laundrie was the only suspect yet they didn't move on him before his parents helped him get away.