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Brian Laundrie: investigators mistook mother for him, police acknowledged

2021-10-26T21:43:53.654Z


Investigators mistook Brian Laundrie's mother for him while guarding his home, a North Port Police Department spokesman said.


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Investigators in Florida mistook Brian Laundrie's mother for her son while monitoring the family home in the days after Gabby Petito was reported missing, a police spokesman said.

On Monday, North Port Police Department spokesman Josh Taylor told CNN affiliate WINK in an exclusive interview that he and Laundrie's mother have a similar complexion.

"Neither case is perfect."

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The disclosure of the surveillance error clears up at least one discrepancy - but perhaps raises a new contradiction - between the versions of events presented by the authorities and by the Laundrie family's lawyer of what happened after Petito disappeared while traveling through the city. road with Laundrie, but before her body was found in a Wyoming national forest.

A coroner ruled that Petito died of strangulation.

Laundrie's remains were found last week in a nature reserve near his family's home, and his parents could be key to understanding what happened to Petito and then to him.

After Laundrie returned to Florida without Petito, police saw him drive away from his family's home on Sept. 13 in his Ford Mustang, Taylor told WINK.

Then two days later the Mustang returned.

"We thought we had seen Brian come home," Taylor said.

Police now believe Laundrie's mother, Roberta Laundrie, drove the car back to the home, Taylor said.

But for the next two days, the police believed that Brian Laundrie was at home.

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    Chronology of the case

Investigators realized the mistake on September 17, when his parents told police they had not seen their son since Tuesday, September 14.

They later changed his memory, his attorney said, and indicated that they had not seen him since Sept. 13, after Brian said he was going to the Carlton Preserve, a nearby nature park of more than 10,000 hectares.

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As for the driver of the September 15 Mustang, "I think it was his mother, who was wearing a baseball cap," Taylor said.

"They had come back from the park with that Mustang.

"So who does that right?"

the police spokesman continued.

"For example, if you think your son has been missing since Tuesday, you're taking his car home, so it didn't make sense for someone to do that if he wasn't there. So the guy who came out in a baseball cap We thought it was Brian. "

However, police had placed a citation before Sept. 14 on the Mustang while it was parked in the nature preserve, Laundrie family attorney Steve Bertolino said Tuesday.

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"We all make mistakes. But Brian and Roberta don't have similar 'complexions'. Also, it was (the North Port police) who put the ticket on the Mustang in the park and if they saw Brian go out on Monday in the Mustang, what It's news to me, so they should have been watching the Mustang and the park starting Monday and they would have known that it was Chris and Roberta who recovered the Mustang from the park. "

"Now to be clear, none of this could have made a difference regarding Brian's life, but it certainly would have avoided all the false accusations made by so many against Chris and Roberta regarding 'hiding' Brian or funding a 'escape' ”, added Bertolino.

On September 16, during a news conference, North Port Police Chief Todd Garrison was asked if he knew where Laundrie was "right now."

"Yes," Garrison replied.

The Laundries later told police that they had gone to the nature preserve on September 15 to retrieve the family vehicle.

"Let's be clear, the Laundries reported that Brian didn't come home the night he went hiking," Bertolino told CNN last week.

"In fact, I personally reported it to the FBI."

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CNN's Taylor Romine contributed to this report. 

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Source: cnnespanol

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