As police continue the search for Gabrielle « Gabby » Petito, who didn’t return home after a cross-country trip in August, investigators say her fiancé and those around …
As police continue the search for Gabrielle « Gabby » Petito, who didn’t return home after a cross-country trip in August, investigators say her fiancé and those around him are withholding critical information. Petito,22, was last seen in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming Aug.30, police in three states say. Her fiancé, Brian Laundrie,23, is being called a person of interest in the case after he drove back to the couple’s primary residence in Florida on Sept.1 without her. Laundrie refused to speak with authorities when the van was seized at their home in North Port, Florida, and instead hired a lawyer, hindering the Petito’s family’s search for answers, authorities say. « They’re being tortured right now by the potential of someone having information and not relaying it, » said Josh Taylor, North Port Police communications manager, in a live-streamed press conference on Friday. « I believe Brian has the information, » Todd Garrison, chief of North Port Police Department in Florida, said at a Thursday news conference. No charges have been filed in the missing persons case. More than 1,000 tips have come in, Taylor estimated Friday. « I don’t know that we’re to the point that we’ve got it solved by any means. But the goal right now is to bring Gabby home, » Taylor said. The couple had been sharing photos and video of their trip on social media, and police body camera video showed an argument between the couple before Petito’s disappearance.
