Brian Laundrie, parents left home with 'attached camper,' neighbors say

[Dead social media addicts]

A couple that lives across the street from Brian Laundrie’s
Florida home said they saw the 23-year-old and his parents drive
off hitching an “attached camper” on the same day that Long
Island native Gabby Petito was reported missing.

Charlene and William Guthrie moved to North Port in the early
summer, and said that it had recently been a “nightmare” living
amid a high-profile investigation and media circus surrounding
Gabby’s death, according to Fox News.

William told the outlet he was doing yard work on Sept. 11 when
the Laundries hooked what appeared to be a new camper to the
back of their truck and drove off for a weekend-long trip.

“I saw them doing some work. And then when they prepared for
their trip, I saw them loading the camper,” Guthrie reportedly
said.

The neighbor said he did find it odd that Christopher and
Roberta Laundrie would go camping with their adult son in what
he described as a “small” RV.

The Guthries reported the incident to police that later came to
their home as part of the missing persons investigation
involving the disappearance of Petito, 22, according to the
article.

A neighbor told Fort Myers’ WINK-TV that he saw Brian and his
family leave with the camper on Sept. 11, the day Petito was
reported missing, an executive producer at the station tweeted
Wednesday.

That source did not know if Brian returned to the home,
according to the tweet.

The person of interest was reported missing by his parents on
Sept. 17, three days after they said they last saw him.

The Guthries told Fox they had assumed that Brian had returned
to the family home in Petito’s white van with his live-in
girlfriend in tow, before the street was occupied by reporters,
police and protesters.

“We didn’t know it was Gabby’s, we just assumed it was [Brian’s]
van,” Charlene reportedly said.

“We just thought they had come back from wherever. We didn’t
know they were on a trip. We assumed they went back to their
house or wherever they got a house … We didn’t know much about
them at all.”

The North Port Police Department and the FBI did not immediately
respond to a request from The Post to confirm that police were
notified Brian left the home in a camper, more than a week after
returning home from Wyoming alone.

Petito’s body was found in a remote national park in the state
on Sunday, and a medical examiner determined that she had been
killed.

Brian has been in the wind for more than a week, sparking a
manhunt in a Florida reserve where his parents said he went
hiking.

The family had refused to speak to law enforcement officials
about Petito’s whereabouts, leading some to speculate they were
buying time to help Brian flee the area.

https://nypost.com/2021/09/22/brian-laundrie-parents-left-home-
with-attached-camper-neighbors/