Just before forensic teams positively identified the human remains that were found Wednesday during the search for Brian Laundrie, the Laundrie family’s attorney painted a clearer picture of …
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Brian Laundrie timeline: Family attorney details days surrounding disappearance of Brian Laundrie
It's very confusing.
The attorney said that he reported to the FBI on September 13 or September 14 that Brian was missing and that he went for a hike and never came home. The father went to Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park on Sept. 13 and didn't see anything because it was dark. Both parents returned on September 14, saw Brian's Mustang with a parking. ticket on it and drove it home. At a news conference on September 16, the police chief said they knew where Brian was (i.e. at home). Brian was reported missing by his parents on Sept. 17. At the time, they told police they had last seen him leave home to go to the Carlton Reserve area for a hike on Tuesday, Sept. 14, which they later corrected to September 13.
Here is why the parents went to the park;
“Chris and Roberta decided that, since the Myakkahatchee Park was now open to the public, they would like to go into the park and walk the trails and search for Brian,” Bertolino said.
According to Bertolino, the parents got to the park around 7 a.m. Wednesday and met with the North Port Police Department. When the parents went into the park, Bertolino said law enforcement followed close behind.
“As they walked into the preserve, they walked down the path that had been searched and looked many times before,” Bertolino told us. “Now Chris started to go off the path into the woods. Chris described to me that he was searching in the woods in a zig-zag pattern, apparently law enforcement was doing the same thing and Roberta was maintaining the trail. She was on the trail.”
At some point, Bertolino said, Chris Laundrie found a white dry bag that contained what looked like some of Brian’s belongings. The attorney said Chris did not want to pick the bag up but eventually did because law enforcement crews were not nearby and he didn’t want to leave it there. Bertolino added that Chris didn’t want to yell out to law enforcement because there was a news camera close by.
“[Chris] brought [the bag] toward Roberta. He confirmed with Roberta that was Brian’s belongings and momentarily after that, the law enforcement officer came out of the woods and showed Chris and Roberta a picture of a backpack,” Bertolino said. “Law enforcement said the backpack was found near some remains.”
My comments:
- I believe the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park was closed to the public for about a month because of the police search. There is no explanation why they only contacted the police after the park reopened. Since the police were searching the park, they could have gone with them any time during the previous month. Perhaps the lawyer thought that it might help a defense to a resisting arrest charge if they volunteered to assist in a search.
- I am not sure, but it seems the police found the backpack and Brian's remains separately from the parents.
- Since Bryan is dead, if the prosecutors conclude that that they don't have grounds to charge the parents with obstruction, should they give them immunity and have them testify before the grand jury so that they can ask what Brian said happened in Wyoming.