Partial remains found by authorities looking for Brian Laundrie, Gabby Petito’s fiancé, had been confirmed to be his after a overview of dental information.
The remains had been found in Florida’s Carlton Reserve on Wednesday after greater than a month of looking for Laundrie, who was declared an individual of curiosity in Petito’s disappearance earlier than her physique was found in Wyoming. The FBI subject workplace in Denver introduced that the remains had been positively recognized Thursday.
A spokesperson for the North Port Police advised NBC Information earlier Thursday that the remains had been “skeletal.”
In accordance to the FBI, the remains had been found alongside private gadgets, resembling a backpack and a pocket book, belonging to Laundrie.
“This stuff had been found in an space that up till just lately had been beneath water,” Michael McPherson, particular agent in cost of the FBI’s Tampa workplace, stated Wednesday.
Laundrie’s dad and mom helped lead the FBI and North Port police to the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park, in accordance to Steven Bertolino, an lawyer for the Laundrie household.
“Chris and Roberta Laundrie had been on the reserve earlier right this moment when human remains and a few of Brian’s possessions had been positioned in an space the place they’d initially suggested legislation enforcement that Brian could be,” he stated in one other assertion Wednesday night.
Bertolino stated in a telephone interview with CNN on Wednesday evening that “the likelihood is robust that it’s Brian’s remains, however we’re going to look forward to the forensic outcomes [to] come in and confirm that.”
The Carlton Reserve and neighboring Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park are quick drives north of the Laundrie household dwelling.
Petito and Laundrie had been touring throughout the nation, chronicling their journey in their van on social media, earlier than Laundrie returned to his dad and mom’ North Port dwelling with out her Sept. 1, authorities have stated.
Through the seek for Petito, 22, police in Moab Metropolis, Utah, launched physique digicam video capturing a distraught Petito after an alleged bodily altercation with Laundrie.
Petito’s physique was found Sept. 19 on the Unfold Creek Dispersed Tenting Space in Bridger-Teton Nationwide Forest in Wyoming. Petito had been lifeless for not less than three weeks and her dying was dominated a murder by “handbook strangulation,” the coroner stated.
Laundrie has been lacking since mid-September when his dad and mom stated he went climbing in the Carlton Reserve and by no means returned. The 25,000-acre wildlife refuge was closed for intensive searches of the realm and solely reopened Tuesday.
An arrest warrant was issued for Laundrie after authorities stated he used Petito’s debit card with out permission. He was an individual of curiosity in the case and was not charged with Petito’s dying.