The park connects to the Carlton Reserve, a 25,000-acre nature reserve that has been the primary search location for investigators. The Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park is on 160 acres of heavily wooded land in North Port, with trails and a camping area. The discovery comes amid an exhaustive search for Laundrie that has now stretched over a month and as authorities try to piece together what happened to Petito. The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Response Team and the Lee County Sheriff’s Office were also now on scene along with a mobile unit. The Sarasota County Medical Examiner was called to the scene, and the Pasco County Sheriff’s office said a cadaver dog and two spotters were also on site. The discovery comes 37 days after Laundrie, the fiancé of Petito, was reportedly last seen by his parents.Įarlier, the Sarasota County medical examiner and a cadaver dog were called to the park and aerial footage showed activity in the Carlton Reserve near the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park where Laundrie’s car was found parked in September.Ī photo of Gabby Petito taken from her Instagram account From Gabby Petito/InstagramĪ timeline of 22-year-old Gabby Petito's case “I know you have a lot of questions, but we don’t have all the answers yet,” he said reading a statement for the media. According to McPherson, it’s likely the team will be on the scene for several days. The FBI Tampa’s Evidence Response Team is on the scene using “all available forensic resources” to process the area. The attorney said the family was heartbroken by the discoveries today. “At that point, the Laundries were notified there was also remains near the backpack, and they were asked to leave the preserve.”īertolino called the suggestion that Chris Laundrie had planted the dry bag “hogwash.” At that time, law enforcement officers showed him a picture on the phone of a backpack that law enforcement had located also nearby and also some distance off the trail,” Bertolino told CNN. “He did meet up shortly with law enforcement, they looked at the contents of the bag. However, Bertolino said Laundrie “couldn’t find the law enforcement,” because they were then out of sight and didn’t want to leave the bag there with a news reporter standing nearby, so he picked it up. The dry bag is a white bag, laying in the woods, say 20 feet or so off the trail.”īertolino said, according to Chris Laundrie, the dry bag was in some brambles and he didn’t want to pick up the bag, because he wanted his law enforcement to see it. “At some point, Chris locates what’s called a dry bag. And Roberta Laundrie was walking down the trail,” Bertolino said. He was zigzagging in different areas, law enforcement was doing the same thing. “As they went further in, Chris ventured off the trail into the woods. The parents walked the trail followed closely by law enforcement personnel, “certainly within eye shot,” the attorney said. Law enforcement met them there Wednesday morning, he said. Laundrie’s parents had informed the FBI and the North Port Police Department on Tuesday night that they intended to come to the park on Wednesday morning to search for him, Bertolino said. Here's what we know about Brian Laundrie's disappearance The area where the discovery of remains was made was the “very area of the park that we initially informed law enforcement on,” Bertolino said, referring to a meeting with law enforcement on September 17.īrian Laundrie is pictured in a post on Gabby Petito's Instagram account on February 14, 2021. “As happenstance was, they stumbled upon these items,” he said. North Port police spokesperson Josh Taylor said the remains were found “about 2 to 3 miles inside the Carlton Reserve, or about a 45-minute walk” from the entrance at Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park.įamily attorney Steve Bertolino told CNN’s Chris Cuomo that the Laundrie parents – making their first visit to the park since its reopening – helped with the discovery. It is going to be a very thorough process with the medical examiner.” The source said “based on the condition of the remains, it may take some time to officially identify. The apparent remains were found in an area that has been under water until recently, he said.Ī source close to the investigation told CNN that the apparent human remains “appear to have been there a while.” What appears to be human remains and items belonging to Brian Laundrie, including a backpack, have been found in the Carlton Reserve in North Port, Florida, according to FBI Special Agent in Charge Michael McPherson.Īnother one of the items found was a notebook belonging to Laundrie, who McPherson said was “a person of interest in the murder of Gabby Petito.”
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