me and brian just got up and got ready, made the bed in the tent, set up. i think our plan for today is to just hang out here in the tent.

umm, brian's stretching, doing some morning yoga. >> this is how gabby petito's family remembers her. happy, healthy, full of love, full of life. >> the sunset. >> how did their cherished daughter and sister end up dead at only 22 years old? why were her remains found thousands of miles away from her home in the middle of the wilderness? and why would the person closest to her, the man she thought she was going to marry, return from their cross-country trip alone and then disappear? the manhunt is on for brian laundrie with tips pouring in from all over the country. he may be the only one who knows what happened to gabby petito. over the next hour, we'll explore their relationship's ups and downs, possible warning signs they were headed for a

dark turn, and the search for gabby's killer. the couple seemed very much in love in the video and pictures they posted online. they went to the same high school in the town of bay port, new york. but they didn't start dating until years later when they reconnected in 2019. their relationship became so serious, gabby even moved to north port, florida to live with brian laundrie and his family. they took a big step just over a year later, in july of 2020. this is from gabby's instagram page. she posted a picture from their first date. her caption reads, "brian asked me to marry him and i said yes. you make life feel unreal and every day is such a dream with you." brian wrote, "my biggest fear is one day i will wake up and all

will be a dream because that is what every second has felt like since the moment we found each other. 'til death do us part or until i wake up." the couple had similar interests. art, travel, yoga, and a love of nature. so they made this white ford van into a mobile home. on july 2 of this year, the one-year anniversary of their engagement, they set off for new york where they were visiting gabby's family to begin a cross-country road trip. >> hello hello and good morning. it is really nice and sunny today. it's only 10:00 in the morning. >> anyone following their journey online would find these beautiful photos of their trip. to echo both their words, it seemed like a dream. at that time, there was no outward indication of trouble, no sign that something may have

been very wrong. how did their trip go from this to this? >> he didn't hit me in the face or anything. >> he slapped your face or what? >> he like grabbed me , like, with his nail. >> that's police body cam footage from moab, utah, six weeks after gabby and brian started off on their trip. we'll come back to that later. we know gabby and brian checked out of this hotel in salt lake city on august 24. that same day, she facetimed with her mom and told her they were headed to grand teton national park in wyoming. it was the last time her mom would talk to gabby. a day later, gabby posted this picture on her instagram page.

it's dated august 25. it was taken at an arts and entertainment venue called the monarch. and her caption simply reads, happy halloween. we found the monarch and the same mural posted in gabby's instagram photo here in ogden, utah, 40 miles north of salt lake city and 260 miles south of the grand tetons. the owner of the monarch tells us that the photo gabby posted was taken here at the monarch. he also says he shared security camera video with the fbi. from there, gabby and brian drove to the tetons. she was still texting with her family and they believe she was in the tetons around august 25. so this may have been how gabby

petito and her fiance brian laundrie drove their van to enter the spread creek dispersed camping area. we're in teton national forest, 25 miles off jackson, wyoming. we're driving now on forest road 30291. if you take a look, you can see the road is a gravel road and it stretches for miles into the campsite. according to authorities, one of the last texts that gabby petito's mom received from gabby's phone read, "can you help stan? i just keep getting his voicemails and missed calls." it was sent on august 27. the petito family lawyer said gabby's family thought the text was strange because it referenced gabby's grandfather but her family says she never called him by his first name. three days later, on august 30, a final text from gabby's phone.

it simply read "no service in yosemite." this was also strange, because according to her uncle's facebook page, gabby had told a friend over snapchat a few days before that text that she was heading to yellowstone, which is right by the tetons, not yosemite, which is about 800 miles away in california. we don't know if that text was actually sent from yosemite. but we now know gabby petito wasn't there on august 30. but whoever had her phone that day may have wanted to make her family think she was. >> i don't think we can thank everybody enough. >> gabby's mom has said that she doesn't believe her daughter wrote that last text. former fbi assistant director chris swecker says the fbi is undoubtedly zeroing in on the location that text was sent from to see if it was yosemite. >> it seems to me to point to a coverup. cellphones can be tracked. that is something the fbi has already discovered, is whether that cellphone was actually physically in california when

that text was sent. i think that that text, and actually the text on the 27th, were both very suspicious, given the facts and circumstances. >> after that, brian laundrie showed up alone in forth port on september 1 and he kept quiet about it. >> a family faced with every parent's worst nightmare. >> gabby petito's parents said this to dr. phil. >> he didn't tell you guys? >> i don't know if he told anyone, but he didn't tell us. >> that's what i'm saying, the four of you here, he didn't tell anybody here. >> as far as we knew, our

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>> with very few trees. >> whatever you can do to make sure my daughter comes home, i'm asking for that help. there is nothing else that matters to me now. >> a plea for help from one set of parents to another. >> i'm asking for help from the parents of brian. and i'm asking for help of the family members and friends of the laundrie family as well. >> we don't know what if anything brian laundrie told his parents about why he returned home alone on september 1. but we do know that gabby's mom, nicole schmidt, told "the daily mail" that she texted both brian and his mom roberta laundrie on september 10, saying she was trying to get in touch with gabby. she says neither of them responded to her. the next day, on september 11th, gabby's mom filed a missing persons report in new york. she told the "dr. phil" show that at first she was worried about both of them until police told her that brian was back home in florida with the van. >> i felt it the night i found out the van was in florida, on

the 11th. i felt in my heart that she was gone. >> you knew then? >> when did the north port police first make contact with the laundrie family and were they cooperative? >> the first time that we had interaction with that family was on september 11th, very late at night, blending over into the 12th after midnight. and i would say that they were not cooperative as far as sharing any details. you know, any time you come and you're potentially trying to figure out if -- is someone missing, are they just not wanting to talk to their family, like what's going on, and you have somebody else who's like, here's our attorney's info. that's odd. and we've said that from the beginning, that that whole

interaction was odd. >> gabby petito lived with them and now she's missing. >> right. >> and they didn't want to be asked about that or take part in -- >> we can read into that. i think most people would have a take on that. certainly i think we summed it up the best that we could, that it was odd. >> we don't know a lot about the laundrie family and what their relationship was with the petitos. joe petito told fox news that he was told not to discuss his, quote, previous relationship with brian, end quote, during the course of the investigation, which naturally raises questions about what they thought about brian and gabby's relationship even before their daughter went missing. brian laundrie's sister cassie told abc news that the couple would sometimes fight but she never saw any signs of domestic violence. >> me and my family want gabby to be found safe. she's like a sister and my children love her. all i want is for her to come

home safe. >> i can't imagine he would come back to the house that they were living in together under the same roof, the parents seeing them every day, and them not asking him where's gabby and what happened to gabby. for him to come home and just be silent with his parents and them not asking him any questions to me is -- is unfathomable. >> on september 6, the laundries went on a family camping trip at ft. desoto park about an hour north of their home. according to his sister, the subject of why brian came home alone from his trip out west with gabby didn't even come up. >> who was there? >> my mom, my dad, my brother. >> did brian say anything about gabby? >> we had our kids there. nothing came up. >> he didn't say anything about gabby? >> no. >> in the weeks after brian's return home, he was seen riding his bike, mowing the lawn, even

going to the at&t store to buy a new cellphone. the cellphone he used on the trip, along with gabby's cellphone, according to police, are both missing. authorities seized the white van used on the trip and though they didn't find any cellphones, they are examining other material including an external drive they took from the van, according to a police affidavit. meanwhile, in a sudden twist, two days after the petitos filed a missing persons report about gabby, brian is gone. brian laundrie's parents contacted north port police on friday, september 17. they say they haven't seen brian since he told them he was going for a hike at the carlton reserve in venice, florida. three days earlier, on september 14th. they say he left behind that cellphone he recently purchased which is now in the hands of the fbi, and his wallet. almost three weeks later, on october 6, the laundrie family attorney announced his parents had revised the timeline and now believe the last time they saw brian was monday, september 13. why do you think brian laundrie's parents would have waited four days to tell police their son was missing? >> i can only speculate. i can only -- you know, the potential that maybe they thought that he was surviving in

the woods. you know, i don't want to speak for them, certainly. but -- i don't know. you know, that's -- that's something they'll have to answer to. >> is there anything to suggest, that you are aware of, that brian laundrie's parents chose to give their son a head start from police? >> i have no information on that one way or the other. i think we all want that answer, right? or that's one of the answers that we want. >> on september 14, the day after brian laundrie's parents say they last saw him, north port police found the family's mustang parked at an entrance to the carlton reserve. they tagged it as an abandoned vehicle. the family's attorney says brian's father went to the reserve the night of september 13 to look for his son and his parents returned on the 14th and saw the car. the next day, the lawyer says, his parents drove the car home. the laundrie family's lawyer

issued a statement saying, the speculation by the public and some in the press that the parents assisted brian in leaving the family home or in avoiding arrest on a warrant that was issued after brian had already been missing for several days, is just wrong. brian laundrie took off before gabby's remains were even found and he hadn't been named as a suspect in her death. so why is he missing? by now the fbi is involved, searching for brian at the carlton reserve, a 25,000-acre swampland with more than 80 miles of hiking trails. search teams use swamp buggies, atvs, dive teams, and drones. but are they searching the right place? because the north port police say the only tip they have about brian laundrie possibly hiding out in the carlton reserve came from his parents. the laundrie family still says the carlton reserve is the only place they believe brian laundrie to be.

what do you make of that? >> i think that's what investigators have to go on right now. there's been no credible sources anywhere else. >> i think it's a logical place. they actually would be negligent if they didn't go search that place thoroughly because there is information, whether it's credible or not, that that's where he was going. but, you know, again, i'm very skeptical of the parents because of their behavior from day one. >> there's no word from authorities that brian laundrie's parents chris and roberta laundrie are under investigation although they have been questioned by investigators. they have not taken a polygraph test. and their lawyer had no comment when asked if they would take one in the future.

chris laundrie has gone to the carlton reserve to help investigators with their search. for days, there are two searches under way, for gabby and for brian. then on september 19, human remains are found in a camping area in teton county, wyoming. it's devastating news for the petito family. the fbi announces the remains belong to gabby. her death is ruled a homicide. >> there are times where it's difficult to tell the difference between an accident and an homicide. the coroner here came forward with a manner of death very quickly. so i suspect it's quite apparent that it was clear to him it was not an accident. >> in fact, the teton county coroner said someone strangled gabby. her cause of death was determined to be manual strangulation and throttling. the coroner also said gabby died three to four weeks before her body was found on september 19. remember, she facetimed with her mom on august 24. and she was seen with brian at a

restaurant in jackson, wyoming on the 27th. but what about that text that was sent from gabby's phone to her mom that said "no service in yosemite"? that was sent on august 30. based on the coroner's timeline, it's very unlikely she was alive on that day. >> i think in this particular case, the timeline is everything. i'm assuming there's going to be litigation in the future, and we really need to know the timeline. and that includes the time that they left new york to the time the body was found, september 19. we have to know the whereabouts the brian laundrie. and knowing the time of death is crucial here. we have to know where he was when she died. >> i love the van. >> gabby petito is confirmed dead. brian laundrie is now missing.

coming up next, intent sleuths work to solve the case.

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i've been sitting here like this for a while. >> where's gabby! where's gabby! >> brian laundrie's home in north port, florida. it's not just the last place he was allegedly seen and a key part of the investigation, but it's now a circus, and part of the mystery that's captivated the nation. >> i found something really interesting. >> i can't sleep until he's found. >> the disappearances of brian and gabby have motivated posts on social media. the mystery has online detectives hooked. remember one of the last text messages gabby's mother received from her daughter's phone? according to authorities, that text read "can you help stan? i just keep getting his voicemails and missed calls." the warrant says stan is gabby's grandfather's name but her mother says she never called him stan. it didn't take long for some on social media to claim gabby may have been trying to tell her

mother she was in danger, suggesting the word "stan" is an acro anymore for "send the authorities now." adding to the intrigue, brian laundrie's instagram post in which he shares he's been reading the book "lullaby" about a serial killer on a road trip. cyber sleuths also can't stop examining the alleged sightings like a woman who says she caught a glimpse of brian laundrie in the background of her selfie taken at ft. desoto park. >> it can be helpful but it can create a lot of noise for law enforcement to go through. >> one of gabby's hiking apps appeared to show her phone was on an island. we don't even if this is actually gabby's account and experts say something like this could easily be faked. as far as we know, none of these leads have panned out. but some social media sleuths have been in touch with the fbi and may have helped them pinpoint the wyoming national forest where gabby's remains were discovered on september 19.

>> hi, my name is marina bake and her on august 29 my boyfriend and i picked up brian at grand teton national park at 5:30 at night at coulter bay. >> tiktoker miranda told police she thought she and her boyfriend picked up brian laundrie five days after gabby last facetimed her family. she says they picked him up at coulter bay in the bridger teton national forest. >> he had told us that him and gabby were not camping on a regulated campsite in the national park, that they were camping basically out in the middle of nowhere along snake river.

this is key information. he said that he had hiked for days along snake river but when -- like looking at his backpack, it wasn't full. he said all he had was a tarp to sleep on. he did say he had a fiancee and she was working on their social media page back at their van. >> this is jackson lake dam,miranda baker says she dropped brian laundrie off. it's less than ten miles from where she picked him up. she said he told her he was going to walk across the street to the parking lot and look for another ride to keep

hitchhiking. norma jean said she saw miranda baker's tiktok video and realized she may have picked up brian laundrie soon after he got out of baker's car. she says she was on her way home from church when she stopped for a man matching his description who asked her to take him to the spread creek camping area and he had the same story. his fiance was working on their travel blog in their van and he had been camping for days along the snake river. she says she called the fbi and the jackson, wyoming police to report all of it. >> you want people out there who may not -- who may have just had a fleeting contact with him that helps sort of fit the timeline or helps piece together the timeline. it's a piece of the puzzle. >> on august 27, two days before the reports of laundrie hitchhiking, video bloggers caught a glimpse of a white van parked in bridger teton national forest when borders grand teton national park. jen and her husband kyle believe the van they saw was gabby's. what did you think when you saw that van in your footage?

>> i was just speechless. i mean, the whole world just fell out from under me. i couldn't believe what i was seeing. >> they say they spotted the van around 6:30 p.m. that day and they didn't see anyone near it. the video bloggers sent us the coordinates where they say they saw that van. so we're trying to find that location right now. they said it was about 2 1/2 miles in or so, and the van was right on the road. this dispersed camping area is an undeveloped campground that offers few services. it is on the eastern boundary of the grand teton national park and the views are breathtaking. while we don't know for sure, this clearing could be where that van was parked, certainly based on the distance that we were given. it is right on the road, so anybody walking by or driving by certainly could have seen a van parked here. video blogger jen bethune posted the video and also called the fbi, then uploaded it to the fbi's tip site. she says she sent it to the find gabby facebook page too,

prompting gabby's mother to reach out. >> she had a good cry, two moms, one to the other. she told me she loved me and she couldn't thank me enough for finding that footage for her. >> on september 19, the very same day the bethunes posted video of that van's location, investigators located gabby's remains in the spread creek dispersed camping area. about a ten-minute walk from where the van was parked in the video, according to her stepfather. perhaps these amateur sleuths helped investigators zero in on where to search in this vast forest. >> social media has been amazing. so i would just like to thank everyone for that. it is greatly appreciated. that was very helpful in bringing our daughter home. >> can you tell us anything

about what's going on? >> while some tips from the internet may be helpful, investigators are making progress on their own. authorities issued an arrest warrant for brian laundrie, not for anything having to do with gabby's death, since he has not been named as a suspect. authorities say that he allegedly used a debit card that belonged to gabby while he was making his drive back to north port. experts say it's the fbi equivalent of a red alert. >> there are a lot of good strategic reasons to have a warrant outstanding, a federal warrant outstanding. it puts him in the system, if you will. it's called the national crime information center, ncic. that database shares information with law enforcement across the country. it also gets his identifiers into the international system, interpol, if you were to try to cross borders. it puts him in the u.s. customs system. coming up, warning signs gabby petito may have been in danger and possible mistakes made in the investigation. >> there was a missing person

and a fiance who came home without this missing person. >> right. >> that's the enough to keep tabs on someone 24/7? >> well, first of all, i'm not saying we didn't do that.

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what's your name? >> gabby. >> gabby, how old are you? >> i'm 22. >> this was one of the last public glimpses of gabby petito alive. august 12 in moab, utah. remember, we showed you a clip of this earlier. it all happened just six weeks into gabby and brian's road trip and 5 1/2 weeks before gabby's remains would be found. before police stopped the couple in her van, a disturbing 911 call. >> we drove by and the gentleman was slapping the girl. then we stopped. they ran up and down the sidewalk. he proceeded to hit her, popped in the car, and they drove off. >> was brian laundrie slapping his fiance? if so, was this a warning sign that their real life relationship was not at all what was portrayed on their social

media? was something terribly wrong? >> so there's two people that came to us and told us they saw him hit you, that they saw him punch you, independent witnesses by moonflower. >> to be honest, i hit him first. >> where did you hit him? you slapped him first, just on his face? how many times did you slap him? >> a couple. >> and his reaction was to do what? he just grabbed you? >> yeah. >> did he hit you, though? it's okay if you're saying you hit him, i understand if he hit you, but we want to know the truth if he actually hit you, because, you know -- >> yeah, but i hit him first. >> where did he hit you? don't worry, just be honest. >> on my face, like this. he didn't like hit me in the face.

he didn't like punch me in the face or anything. >> did he slap your face or what? >> like, he grabbed me, like with his nail, and that's why it was cut right here, i can feel it, it burns. >> classic domestic violence scenario. the victim is stockholmed, as we call it, they become sort of the captive. they're very subservient to the male or to the abuser and they'll take the blame, they'll take the blame themselves and try to defuse the situation. i saw that during the video, reviewing the video of the traffic stop. he's portraying himself as calm and collected, but you see her and she's very upset. >> at least one of the officers seems to key in to what appears to be an unhealthy dynamic. >> and what's his name, is it brian? is he usually pretty patient with you? >> yes. but i know he definitely gets frustrated with me a lot because i have a lot of anxiety and he definitely has anxiety too.

>> i have anxiety too, and you know, my girlfriend's really, really calm. and she has a way of taking my anxiety and bringing it down. but my ex-wife, that's why she's my ex-wife, we would feed off each other's anxiety and it would spiral, you know what i mean? it doesn't matter how much i loved her. it may be bad for your soul. i'm just saying. i'm not telling you what to do with your life, but if you know you have anxiety, look at the situations you can get in, you know what i mean? >> unlike gabby, brian laundrie is calm, relaxed, even joking at times with police. >> you want to come stand in the shade? it's hot. i know the struggle. so you guys don't drink or anything? >> no. >> okay. so you were talking to these officers, i don't mean to butt in, i just felt kind of bad for you, maybe if you stand here you'll have more shade. >> playing the role of officer quarterback, someone who's prosecuted domestic violence situations, i would say buddying up to him the way they did was a mistake. i think they should have gotten an interview, a very thorough interview of the people that

made the 911 calls. >> you haven't admitted to striking her, she has not admitted you to striking her. at this point you're the victim of a domestic assault. >> but wait. one witness, a 911 caller, did say he saw a man slapping a woman and gabby did tell an officer that brian laundrie hit her. >> did he hit you, though? it's okay if you're saying you hit him, but we want to know the truth if he actually hit you, because, you know -- >> i love her, it's a little squabble. i'm sorry it went to public. >> at least one officer started explaining away brian laundrie's actions. >> he does have marks on him that witnesses say were caused by you slapping him. and that even you say you slapped him and we're addressing him first. and i don't have anyone saying he punched you aggressively, it sounds like it was shoving in a manner that was probably more consistent with preventing you

from entering the van, not to assail you, if that makes sense. >> there are some people who believe that this was a chance for an intervention or a missed opportunity for an intervention. maybe the result would have been different. >> the officers on scene ordered brian and gabby to stay apart for one night. gabby stayed with the van and brian was taken to a hotel. the city of moab said in a statement it's unaware that any police department policy was breached. but it is now investigating how this police stop was handled. about two weeks after that incident, another possible warning sign at this restaurant in jackson, wyoming. a couple from louisiana said they saw an incident involving gabby petito and brian laundrie in the merry piglets tex-mex restaurant on august 27. nina angelo said she and her husband were dining next to the couple before gabby left the restaurant in tears and brian laundrie got visibly angry at the staff. she said she did not see any

violence or physical altercation between the couple. a restaurant manager also said she saw an incident involving the couple that day and called the fbi after gabby's remains were found. keep in mind, information about these two incidents in jackson and moab didn't come out until after brian laundrie was already missing. if authorities had known earlier, could it have made a difference in how north port police dealt with brian early on? was it a mistake for the police not to keep tabs on brian laundrie ever since they knew he returned home and certainly after gabby petito was reported missing? >> we didn't even know brian laundrie was a person on this planet until probably around the 10th. what i'll say, though, is that everyone was working extremely hard to not only try to find some answers here but follow the law. you know, there are some things in hindsight, our memories get kind of blended between what we know now and what we knew then.

you know, at that time we didn't have a crime. we didn't have a crime in north port. >> you say there wasn't a crime reported. but there was a missing person and a fiance who came home without this missing person. that's not enough to keep tabs on someone 24/7? >> umm, well, first of all, i'm not saying we didn't do that. but more importantly, there's no probable cause at that time. it just wasn't that simple. you know, and sometimes i'll say generally speaking in an investigation, sometimes you hold back, you lay back, because you want to see what that person does. you want to see, maybe they lead you to evidence. you don't just plop yourself right in the front yard, then people clam up and they don't potentially reveal other issues. >> north port police say they were surveilling brian laundrie

but only as much as they could do so legally since there was no crime and no homicide at the time. gabby was still a missing persons case and her remains had not been found. but if he was being watched, how did he get away on the 13th? >> i think if you talk to a lot of people who have experience in law enforcement, i mean, the guy goes for a walk in the carlton reserve, he's not wanted for a crime. i mean, what are we -- what are we supposed to do? we're going to go tree to tree, following him back through the woods? i mean, you know, it just wasn't there with the information we had in this case. >> so from your standpoint, at this point, do you feel that there was anything that could have been done differently or any mistakes that were made? >> there's no investigation that's 100% perfect. you know, i can tell you this. it wasn't from the lack of effort. it was from a lack of hustle or knowledge or working to find answers in this. i am 100% comfortable in that. >> missing person cases are a little bit tricky. but to me the difference here

was, she was missing under suspicious circumstances. bit harder in judging the police departments on both ends of this. i think they should have taken a closer look at him. coming up, will we ever really know what happened to gabby? >> do you think brian killed gabby? we strip in the community garden. i've been stripping here for years. i strip before take-off. breathe right strips test.

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gabby petito never go to that side. >> weeks after gabby petito's remains were found, we still don't know what happened to her and the most obvious question, did he do it? did brian laundrie kill gabby petito? he is not named as a suspect. the arrest warrant is only for debit card fraud but he was the last known person to be with her before she died. >> do you think brian killed gabby? >> i don't know.

>> do you think they're involved, your parents? >> i don't know. >> there is so much negativity in the world and you turn to this beautiful soul and she sees the beauty in it. it's problem a reason she's got so much attention is because people know she sees the beauty in everything and everyone. that's awesome. >> i'm very confident there will be justice in this case. we'll find out what happened. >> we all need to know what happened. we're all looking for justice, especially the petito family and we need to put et al. together and have an answer to this puzzle. >> we have to find him one way or another for closure, for gabby's family and apparently, the world because there's a lot of people out there wanting answers to this. >> we're just hoping that through our tragedy with losing gabby, that in the future that

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