More than 50 law enforcement officers started a second day of searching in a vast wildlife area near Florida’s Gulf Coast for Brian Laundrie.
As local and federal agencies search for Gabby Petito in a Rocky Mountain national park, law enforcement are also working to find her fiancé Brian Laundrie, who his family says has not been seen since Tuesday. The latest efforts to locate Laundrie have shifted to a Florida nature reserve, where dozens of officers and FBI agents are combing an area that stretches out to roughly 25,000 acres, according to the North Port Police Department. The search resumed Sunday morning, North Port police said in a tweet, writing that investigators are « looking for anything of note after his parents say this is where he went. »Laundrie’s family told police he left home with his backpack Tuesday and told them he was going to the reserve, North Port police spokesperson Josh Taylor said Saturday. Laundrie,23, is not wanted for a crime, according to law enforcement officials, who began investigating Petito’s disappearance on September 11 when her family reported her missing. Prior to her disappearance, Petito,22, had been traveling with Laundrie on a cross-country road trip through several western states, leaving online reviews of campsites they visited. Laundrie returned to North Port, Florida, without Petito on September 1, according to police. Officials later found the van the couple had been traveling in at the home Petito shared with Laundrie and his parents in North Port, a city in Sarasota County some 80 miles south of Tampa.
