good evening and welcome to the cnn special report. i'm randi kaye in north port, florida. gabby petito's disappearance and death has captured the attention of the nation and it's been a fast moving investigation. just this bweek, human remains were found here at the carlton reserve and according to the sarasota county medical ice examiner's office those remains have been identified as brian laundrie. the manhunt for brian is over but there are still so many questions about gabby's death. over the next hour, we'll explore their relationships ups and downs, potential warning

signs they were headed for a dark turn and the serve what happened to gabby. >> so me and brian just got up, made the bed in the tent and set up. i think our plan for today is to hang out here in the tent. brian is stretching doing some morning yoga. >> this is how gabby petito's family remembers her, happy, healthy, full of love, full of life. so 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? he may be the only one who knows what happened to gabby petito. 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 bacgabby's instagr page. she posted a picture from their first date. brian asked me to marry him.

i said yes. you make life feel unreal and every day is a dream with you. brian wrote my biggest fear is that one day i'll wake up and it will have all been 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 where they would live for the next couple of months. and on july 2nd of this year, the one-year anniversary of their engagement, they set off from 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 out ward indication of travel. in sign that something may have been very wrong. how did their trip go from this to this? >> he didn't like hit me in the face. he didn't punch me in the face or anything. >> did he slap your face or what? >> he grabbed me with his nail. i can feel it. it burns. >> that's police body cam footage from utah on august 12th. six weeks after gabby and brian started off on their trip. w we'll come back to that later. we know gabby and brian checked out of this hotel in salt lake city august 24th. that same day she facetimed with her mom and said 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 25th. it was taken at an arts and entertainment venue called the monarch and her caption simply reads happy halloween. we found the monarch and mural here in utah about 40 miles north of salt lake city and about 260 miles south of the grand teton. the owner of the monarch says 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 25th. so this may have been how gabby petito and her fiancee brian laundrie drove their van to enter the disbursed camping area.

we're in bridger teton national forest about 28 miles outside of jackson, wyoming. we just turned off highway 191 and we're driving now on forest road 30290 and if you take a look, you can see the road is a gravel road and it stretches for miles into the camp site. according to authorities, one of the last texts that gabby p petito's mom read can you help stan? i just keep getting voice mails and missed calls. it was sent on august 27th. the pa tite's family thought th text was strong because it referenced her grandfather but she never called him by his first name. three days later on august 30th, 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 30th 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 she doesn't believe her daughter wrote that last text. former fbi assistant director says the fbi is undoubtedly zeroing in on the location of gabby's cell phone on the 30th to determine if the text was actually sent from yosemite. >> seems to me to point to a coverup. cell phones can be tracked if they -- that is something that i

think the fbi is probably already discovered is whether that cell phone 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 north port on september 1st and he kept quiet about it. >> a family faced with every parents' worst nightmare. >> gabby petito's parents said this to dr. fphil. >> he didn't tell us. >> he didn't tell you guys? >> he didn't tell us. >> he didn't tell anybody here. >> as far as we knew, our daughter was camping in grand teton. >> but there is more. police say they were never given a chance to talk to brian laundrie about his missing fiancee when they showed up at his house on september 11th. the day gabby's family reported

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i'd say this is the best so far. since we left new york i only set up my ham make once and we're in utah and luckily enough i was able to set up my hammock in the trees. >> we're in the desert. >> 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 why he returned home alone on september 1st but we do know that gabby's mom, nicole

told the daily mail she texted brian and his mom on september 10th 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 person's 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. >> just you knew then? >> yeah. >> when did the north port police first make contact with the laundrie family and were they corporative? >> 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

corporative as far as sharing any details. you know, any time you come and you're potentially trying to figure out if someone is missing or are they just not wanting to talk this their family, what is going on and you have somebody else who is like here is our attorney's info. that's odd. we said that from the beginning 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 -- >> i mean, think most people would have a take on that. certainly, i think we summed it up the best we could that it was odd. >> we don't know a lot about the l laundrie family and what their relationship was with the petito's. he said he was not told to discuss his previous relationship with brian during the course of the investigation which naturally raises questions 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 and all i want is for her to come home safe. >> i can't imagine that 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 is gabby? and what happened to gabby? for him to come home and just be silent with his parents and them not ask him any questions to me is unfathomable. >> on september 6th, the laundries went on a family camping trip at fort 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? >> kids were 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 and even going to the at&t store to buy a new cell phone. the cell phone he used on the tripgabby's cell phone according to police are missing. authorities seized the white van and though they didn't find cell phones, 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 papati filed missing person's report brian is done. they say they haven't seen brian since he told them he was going for a vehicle in florida.

three days earlier on september 14th. they say he left behind that cell phone he recently purchased which is now in the hands of the fbi and his wallet. almost three weeks later, on october 6th, the laundrie family attorney announced his parents had revised the timeline and now believe the last time they saw brian was monday, september 13th. >> 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 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 something they'll have to answer to. >> is there anything to suggest that you're 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 or that's one of the answers that we want. >> on september 14th, 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 13th 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 swamp land with more than 80 miles of hiking trials. search teams use sbwamp buggibu atvs and drones but are they searching the right place because the north port police say the only tip they have about brian laundrie hiding out is from his parents. >> they say this 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 now. there is no credible sources anywhere else. >> i think it's a logical place and they actually would be nug je negligent if they don't search thoroughly because there is information whether credible or not that's where he was going but again, i'm very skeptical of

the parents because of their behavior from day one. >> there is no word from authorities that brian laundrie's parents chris and roberta laundrie are under investigation but have been questioned. 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 the search. for days, there are two searches underway. for gabby and for brian. then on september 19th, 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 a 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 manuel strangulation and throttling. the coroner also said that gabby died three to four weeks before her bod iy was found on septemb 19th. remember, she facetimed with her mom on august 24th 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 30th and based on the coroner's timeline, it very unlikely she was alive on that day. >> i think in this particular case that timeline is everything. i'm assuming there is 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 19th. we have to know the whereabouts of 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, internet sleuths work to solve the case. ♪ but it's actually a network. ♪ connecting just about everyone to just about everyone else. ♪ it can open eyes with a cup of coffee and change minds on what makes a business, a business.

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oh my gosh! >> the tent is just coming in on me. the wind is so bad. i've just been sitting here like this for awhile. >> wheres gabby! >> brian laundrie's home in north port, florida 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 has captivated the nation. >> i felt something really

interesting. >> i can't sleep until he's found. >> the disappearances of both ga gabby petito and brian laundrie turned this case into an internet sensation. tips from armatures tuned into the find gabby facebook page and on tiktok posts have the gabby hashtag have been viewed 1.3 billion times. the mystery has online detectives hooked. remember one of the lastgabby'sd from her phone. according to authorities that text read can you help stan? i just keep getting his voice mails and calls? 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 no danger suggesting the word stan is an a a

acronym for send the authorities now and the instagram post he shares he's been reading the book lull la buy about a serial killer ochoen a road trip. the hiker who says he saw brian laundrie on the appalachian trail in north carolina and the woman who says she caught a glimpse of brian laundrie in the background of herself f selfie. >> it can be helpful but create a lot of noise for law enforcement to go through. >> rumors that laundrie was hiding out in puerto rico lit up the internet after the account for what may be one of gabgabby hiking apps showed her phone was on the island. we don't know if this is actually gabby's account and experts say something like this could 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 19th. >> hi, my name is miranda baker and on august 29th, my boyfriend and i picked up brian at grand teton national park at 5:30 at night at culter bay. >> tiktok eer miranda baker believed they picked up brian five days after gabby last facetime her family. they picked him up in the bridger teton national far cast. >> he had told us that him and gabby were not camping on a regulated camp site through the national park, that they were camping basically out in the middle of nowhere along snake river. this is key information. he said he hiked for days along snake river but when like looking at his backpack, it wasn't full and he said all he

had was a tarp to sleep on. >> he did say he had a fiancee and that she was working on their social media page back at their van. >> this is jackson lake dam where miranda baker dropped brian laundrie off and less than ten miles from where she picked him up. he said he was going to walk across the street to that parking lot and look for another ride to keep on hitchhiking. norma jean saw miranda baker's tiktok video and realized she may have picked him up after baker ease car. she was on her way home from church when she stopped for a man that asked her to take him to the spread creek camping area and the same story, his fiancee was working on the travel blog in the 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 have may have just

had a fleeting contact with them that helps fit the timeline or piece together the timeline and a piece of the puzzle. >> on august 27th, two days before the reports of laundrie hitchhik hitchhiking, video bloggers caught a glimpse of the van in teton forest that borders grand teton national park. january ajan and her husband kye believe the van they saw was gabby's. >> what did you think when you saw the van in your footage? >> i was speechless. my world fell out from under me. >> they spotted the van around 6:30 p.m. that day and 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 final the location now. they said it was about 2.5 miles in or so and the van was right on the road.

this disbursed camping area is an undeveloped camp ground 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 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 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 face book take, too, prompting gabby's mother to reach out. >> we had a good cry and two moms, one to the other and she just told me that she loved me and she couldn't thank me enough for finding that footage for her. >> on september 19th, the very same day the couple posted video of the van's location,

investigators located gabby's remains, about a ten-minute walk from where the van was parked in the video according to her stepfather. perhaps these armature sleuths helped investigators zero in on where to search in this vast forest. >> social media has been amazing. so i'd just like to thank everyone for that. i do -- it is greatly appreciated. that was very helpful in bringing our daughter home. >> can you tell us anything? >> 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 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 f fbi equivalent of a red alert. >> there are a lot of good

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or in a clear plastic container that's always in the sun. >> is she in my car? >> yes. >> this isn't my car. >> she is in here. >> unlock it? >> yeah. hey, how are you? >> good. >> my name is eric. i'm with the police. what's your name? >> good-babby. >> gabby, how old are you? >> 22. >> this is one of the last glimpses of gabby petito alive in utah. remember, we showed you a clip of this earlier. it all happened just six weeks into gabby and brian's road trip and five and a half 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. and then we stopped and they ran up and down the sidewalk. he proceeded to hit her.

hopped in the car and they drove off. >> was brian laundrie slapping his fiancee? if so, was this a warning sign that their real life relationship was not at all what was portrayed on their social media? something terribly wrong? >> there is two people that said they saw him hit you and punch you. independent witnesses by moon flower. >> to be honest, i definitely hit him first. >> where did you hit him? >> i slapped him. >> you slapped him first? on his phase? >> he told me to shut up. >> how many times did you slap him? >> a couple. >> and then his reaction was to do what? >> he just grabbed you? >> yes. >> did he hit you? it's okay if you say you hit him and he hit you. we want to know the truth if he hit you. >> i guess, yeah, but i hit him first. >> where did he hit you?

don't worry. be honest. >> he grabbed my face, i guess, he didn't like hit me in the face, like he didn't punch me in the face or anything. >> did he slap your face or what? >> like he had grabbed me with his nail and i guess that's why -- i definitely have a cut here. i can feel it. >> yeah. >> classic domestic violence scenario. the victim is stockholmed as we call it. they become the captive. they're subserved to the male or abuser and take the blame themselves and try to diffuse the situation and 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. >> what's his name? is it brian? is he usually pretty patient

with you? >> yeah. but it just makes me upset. 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 my girlfriend is calm and she takes my anxiety and brings it down but my ex-wife, why she's my ex-wife, just sharing, a little personal but to help you understand, we would feed off each other's anxiety and spiral. i didn't matter how much i loved her. it would be bad for your soul. 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 getting hot? i know the struggle. so you guys -- you don't drink or anything? >> no. >> okay. so you were talking to these

officers. i don't mean to butt in. i feel bad for you. maybe if you stand here you'll have more shade. >> playing the role of armchair quarterback, someone that prosecuted domestic violence situations, i would say buddying up to him the way they did was a mistake. they should have gotten an interview very thorough interview of the people that made the 911 calls. >> you have admitted to striking her. the witness did not see you strike her. so 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 is okay if you say you hit him and he hit you but we want to know the truth if he actually hit you. >> i guess, yes. >> just a little squabble. i'm sorry it had to get so public. >> at least one officer started

to seem away brian laundrie's actions. >> he does have marks on him witnesses say were caused by you slapping him. and that even you say you slapped him and were aggressing him first and i don't have anyone saying that he actually punched you aggressively. sounds like it was shoving in a manner that was probably more consistent trying to prevent you from entering the van and get space from you, not to assail you if that makes sense. >> there are some people that believe this is 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 said in a statement it's unaware 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 ga gabby petito and brian laundrie in the mary pi glet's tex-mex. they were dining next to the couple before gabby left in tears and brian laundrie got visibly angry at the staff. she did not see violence or physical altercation between the couple. a restaurant manager 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 inls incidents didn't out until after brian laundrie was missing. if authorities newknew earlier could it have made a difference how police dealt with it? it a mistake for police not to keep tabs on brian laundrie

since they knew he returned home? >> we didn't 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 things in hindsight, our memories get kind of blended between what we know now and then. you know, at that time we didn't have a crime. we didn't have a crime in north port. >> i know you said there wasn't a crime reported but there was a missing person and a fiancee who came home without this missing person. that's not enough to keep tabs on someone 24/7? >> well, first of all, i'm not saying we didn't do that. but more importantly, there is 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 load 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 not front yard where 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 person's case and her remains had not been found. but if he was being watched, how did he get away on the 13th? >> if you talk to a lot of people who have experience in law enforcement, the guy goes for a walk in the carlton reserve. he's not wanted for a crime. i mean, what are we supposed to do? we going to go tree to tree following him back through the woods? 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?

>> there is no investigation that's 100% perfect. you know, i can tell you this. it wasn't from the lack of effort. it wasn't from a lack of hustle or knowledge or working to find answers in this. i'm 100% comfortable in that. >> while a missing person case is tricky, to me, the difference here is she was missing under suspicious circumstances and knowing that, i'm a little bit harder in judging the police department 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?

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good evening. we begin with breaking news and unanswered questions in the fatal shooting with the prop handgun on the set of an alec baldwin family that wounded joel souza and took the life of halyna hutchins. it happened in santa fe, new mexico. baldwin pulled the trigger. this is the third such deadly incident involving prop firearms. we will be joined by a los angeles times writer who contributed to the reporting on that. first the call to santa faye 911 which was obtained about koat. the usually warning about difficult content apply.

>> what is the location of the emergency? >> bonanza creek ranch. we've had two people accidentally shot on a movie set by a prop gun. we need help immediately. >> okay. bonanza creek ranch. stay on the phone with me. we're going to get some help. don't hang up, okay. hold on just one second. >> it sounds like somebody else is calling for two ambulances. better make sure -- everybody should be -- we need some help, our director and our cameraman, camerawoman has been shot. are they going to take them to the road? >> was it loaded with a real bullet or -- >> i cannot tell you that. >> okay. >> we have two injuries from a movie gunshot. >> okay. we're getting them out there already. just stay on the phone with me, okay. >> thank you. okay. no, no, no, i'm a script supervisor. >> how many people are injured? >> two. that i know of. i was sitting -- we were rehearsing and it went off and i ran out, we all ran out. they were -- over the id and the