Brian Laundrie NOT found after cops search Carlton reserve in Florida as Gabby Petito still missing
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 paused their search of the swampland at nightfall Saturday, having found nothing.
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.
The search kicked off at the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park, a 160-acre park connected to the marshy Carlton reserve by a bridge where Laundrie was known to go hiking.
“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.”
told investigators the park had been the last place their son had been see, after they met with investigators Friday to discuss his disappearance.
“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.
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