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Brian Laundrie manhunt: Florida park documents confirm family camped out after Gabby Petito disappearance
Fox News ^ | September 28, 2021 | Brooke Singman

Posted on 09/28/2021 6:43:42 PM PDT by conservative98

NORTH PORT, Fla. – Brian Laundrie’s mom Roberta did check in to a Florida park about 75 miles north of the family’s home earlier this month, records obtained by Fox News show.

Laundrie, 23, vanished on Sept. 14 – although his parents didn’t say anything until three days later. His 22-year-old fiancée Gabby Petito was found dead in Wyoming on Sept. 19 – weeks after the couple was seen camping near the site of her remains. The coroner later ruled her death a homicide.

Duane "Dog" Chapman, also known as Dog the Bounty Hunter, announced Saturday he was entering the search for Laundrie, and tips quickly poured in. He told Fox News he received a heads-up on Monday that Laundrie’s parents spent the night in Fort De Soto Park with their son twice in early September from Sept. 1 to 3 and Sept. 6 to 8.

The documents confirm Chapman’s suspicion that the Laundries went camping at the Fort De Soto Park outside St. Petersburg between his return from out West on Sept. 1 and the day Petito’s mother reported her missing, Sept. 11. They show the family checked in on Sept. 6 and out on Sept. 8 – but there's no record on the document of them the week prior.

"I will no longer give that dog credibility or dignify his false claims with the time of my reply," Steven Bertolino, Laundrie’s attorney, told Fox News. However he admitted told local media that the family camped out on Sept. 6 and 7 and that "they all left the park."

The documents show the checkout was actually recorded on Sept. 8 – three days before Petito officially became a missing person.

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KEYWORDS: brianlaundrie; christopherlaundrie; dirtylaundries; dog; dogthebountyhunter; dtbh; famousbutincompetent; fbi; fortdesoto; gabby; gabbypetito; jamestown1630; lookasquirrel; petito; robertalaundrie
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To: conservative98

Even if he isn’t at Fort De Soto Park, anymore, some evidence could’ve been dumped there.


21 posted on 09/28/2021 7:19:59 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: TexasGator

He was in town the whole time and yes the FBI was camped out there for at least six months. Every motel owner in the area became filthy rich and then sold their businesses when the FBI finally left.


22 posted on 09/28/2021 7:21:53 PM PDT by blackdog (Sophisticated so public policy is not applicable. )
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To: gw-ington

“The guy’s a nutcase.”

And selfish.

He took the free room offered and left Gabby in the van. She told the officers that she wasn’t familiar with driving the van.

Officer told Gabby she could use a shower and told her where she could get one for $4.


23 posted on 09/28/2021 7:25:15 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: TexasGator

Who told you that they refused to answer the mother’s questions?

How do you know that they knew anything at all, or what Brian told his parents?

(And the van may have been a mutual investment. There’s a reason the Feds went after his use of the banking instruments, when they could have gone after the van a lot sooner.)


24 posted on 09/28/2021 7:29:09 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Paladin2
Who owns the little white camping van and where is it?

If you mean Gabby's van, the FBI has it.
The Laundries recently bought a camper for the back of their pickup truck.

25 posted on 09/28/2021 7:30:49 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: DJ MacWoW

“If you mean Gabby’s van, the FBI has it.”

That’s the vehicle of interest to me.

What has the Fey Wray gleaned from it to date?


26 posted on 09/28/2021 7:36:26 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: Paladin2
What has the Fey Wray gleaned from it to date?

They aren't saying. They state to check their twitter account and that it's an ongoing investigation.

27 posted on 09/28/2021 7:37:52 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Paladin2

The FIB is still looking at pictures from Jan 6 to see if they can tie the van to the “insurrection”


28 posted on 09/28/2021 7:39:41 PM PDT by digger48
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To: blackdog

“He was in town the whole time and yes the FBI was camped out there for at least six months.”

By 2003 the FBI had two agents on the case. Both were in Ashville, a hundred miles away.


29 posted on 09/28/2021 7:42:05 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: Jamestown1630

“Who told you that they refused to answer the mother’s questions?”

Gabby’s mother. Don’t you read?

“(And the van may have been a mutual investment.”

Not likely. Brian was a controlling sponge. If he put in money it would be in is name.


30 posted on 09/28/2021 7:45:35 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: Jamestown1630

“There’s a reason the Feds went after his use of the banking instruments, when they could have gone after the van a lot sooner.”

Your FBI informant has mislead you!


31 posted on 09/28/2021 7:49:03 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: blackdog

“He was in town the whole time”

He was living in the forrests.


32 posted on 09/28/2021 7:50:42 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: TexasGator

I don’t have an ‘informant’.

Why don’t you inform me?


33 posted on 09/28/2021 7:50:49 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: conservative98

This goes along with my thinking that the suspect has to be hiding close to home so his parents can resupply him with food and money, etc.

75 miles away is far enough to hide good but close enough to Mommy and Daddy.

The Dog was laughed at early today, now he’s in hot pursuit it seems.


34 posted on 09/28/2021 7:51:56 PM PDT by David Chase
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To: TexasGator

You seem to know an awful lot of stuff.

Why don’t you post your sources (other than ‘stuff you’ve read on the internet’) HERE?


35 posted on 09/28/2021 7:52:10 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: redshawk

He’s not dead. He’s in hiding. They went camping and left him there then came back a week later and got him. He was in the camper. To believe his parents offed him is most naive.


36 posted on 09/28/2021 7:56:57 PM PDT by webheart (I thought I was helping by getting vaccinated but they say I didn’t help at all. )
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To: Jamestown1630

“(And the van may have been a mutual investment. There’s a reason the Feds went after his use of the banking instruments, when they could have gone after the van a lot sooner.)

Why don’t you post your sources (other than ‘stuff you’ve read on the internet’) HERE?


37 posted on 09/28/2021 8:01:31 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: Jamestown1630

Well maybe it was this or maybe it was that. Maybe he didn’t kill her. Or maybe he did. Maybe he’s dead in the swamp. Maybe he put gas in the van and he wanted his gas back before he gave it back to her. Maybe she fell down and died by accident and he didn’t know what to do so he left her there. Maybe she tried to kill him and he was just defending himself. Maybe he is an aspiring rapper who was just beginning to get his life together.


38 posted on 09/28/2021 8:04:24 PM PDT by webheart (I thought I was helping by getting vaccinated but they say I didn’t help at all. )
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To: conservative98

On Sep 22, an arrest warrant was issued for Laundrie

On Sep 23, the parents ‘drove to Orlando” to see their attny and, stopped at a library for approx 1/2 hour where it appeared they didnt look at books according to fibber tails inside the library

“In surreal scenes, undercover agents - believed to be with the FBI - followed the couple into the Orlando Public Library on Thursday and hovered in the aisles perusing 80s dance CDs and a Colombian art installation while keeping them under constant surveillance.

“Though it’s not clear what they were doing in the library, it’s now known that the couple met Bertolino in Orlando during their trip.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10021319/Brian-Laundrie-parents-escorted-law-enforcement-return-home.html

burner phones? sending texts? why sit in a library and do nothing?


39 posted on 09/28/2021 8:07:00 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: Jamestown1630
Why do you assume the Laundrie parents didn't know Gabby was missing? Do you think perhaps Gabby's parents contacted the Laundries before calling the police to report her missing?

What do you suppose Brian told his parents when he arrived at their home with Gabby's van and no Gabby? What do you think the Laundrie parents surmised when Gabby's parents contacted them about Gabby, and Gabby's van was sitting in their driveway?

40 posted on 09/28/2021 8:07:00 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Puddin' Head Joe--We are checking our watches for the end of your miserable White House tenure.)
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