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FBI confirms human remains found belong to Brian Laundrie [Video]

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:


  • The human remains found in a Florida nature preserve Wednesday belong to Brian Laundrie, the FBI confirmed Thursday.
  • Law enforcement identified the remains by “a comparison of dental records.”
  • Laundrie was the sole person of interest in the homicide of his fiancee, Gabby Petito.

The FBI confirmed Thursday that it had found the remains of Brian Laundrie, the 23-year-old fiancé of Gabby Petito and the only person of interest in her death.

In a statement, the FBI’s Denver field office, which has been leading the investigation, said a comparison of dental records confirmed that the human remains found in Carlton Reserve and the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park in Sarasota County, Fla., on Wednesday were those of Laundrie.

Steven Bertolino, an attorney for Laundrie’s parents, said police came to their North Port, Fla., home late Thursday afternoon to notify them.

On Wednesday, partial human remains, as well as a backpack and notebook belonging to Laundrie, were found along a trail in the Myakkahatchee park, which is adjacent to the 24,565-acre Carlton Reserve, where Laundrie’s parents told police they believed he was headed when they reported him missing last month.

Bertolino said on Wednesday that Laundrie’s parents had gone to the park to search for their son that morning and met with North Port police and the FBI.

“Chris and Roberta Laundrie went to the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park this morning to search for Brian,” Bertolino said in a statement. “After a brief search of a trail that Brian frequented, some articles belonging to Brian were found.”

The remains were found in an area that until recently was under water, the FBI said. The Sarasota County Medical Examiner’s Office and a cadaver dog from the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office were called in to assist in the investigation.

Earlier Thursday, NBC News reported that the remains were “skeletal” and included part of a human skull.

Laundrie’s parents reported him missing on Sept. 17, two days before Petito’s body was found near Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

An autopsy was conducted by the Teton County Coroner’s Office, which concluded that the 22-year-old’s death was a homicide caused by strangulation.

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On Sept. 1, Laundrie returned to the couple’s North Port home, where they lived with his parents — without her. Petito’s parents, who live on Long Island, said they lost contact with her in late August and reported her missing on Sept. 11.

Petito’s family issued public pleas for Laundrie’s parents to cooperate with authorities. Police say the Laundries initially did not share “any helpful details” in the search for Petito or their son.

Source: Yahoo! News

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  1. Sueann Grychak

    October 24, 2021 at 4:45 pm

    Can you really Trust the FBI ? The whole report sounds something is not right. Remember when the guy said he ran into Brian on the Appalachian Trail and
    called the FBI what happened to that report? put on the shelf like everything else.

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