North Port, Fla. It’s been almost 24 hours since the FBI confirmed that the skeletal remains found at the Southwest Florida Nature Preserve belonged to Brian Laundry. Officers were able to use dental records to create identification.
Laundry was a man interested in the disappearance and death of his fiancée, Gabby Petito.
WPTV learned on Friday that investigators may be releasing new information gradually because they do not want to jeopardize their investigation.
The FBI said dental records confirm that the remains found in the Carlton Reserve Wilderness Park belonged to laundry.
The search for the remains concluded a large-scale search involving federal, state and local law enforcement, which began shortly after Laundry’s September 14 disappearance, without a 23-year-old man’s petito in his North Port. Two weeks after the parents returned home alone.
The search team found a notebook and backpack, believed to have belonged to the laundry.
A criminologist told WPTV that investigators are going to piece together what happened to the laundry and that could take time.
Dr. Alexis Picero of the University of Miami said any evidence inside Laundry’s body, outside the body, in the backpack and in the notebook could somehow directly link him to Gabby.
“All that stuff is literally trying to piece everything together again, not knowing what happened,” Picero said. “From an enigma standpoint, that’s what investigators are doing and people need to understand that it’s not going to end in 44 minutes like CSI. It’s going to take a while because doing this kind of thing takes time. . Actual detailed investigation on all these evidences.”
The Petito family has not issued any comment about this week’s findings.
A memorial to Petito outside the Laundry family home is also asking people to respond.