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Day one of search for Brian Laundrie ends with ‘nothing found’
North Port police paused its search for Brian Laundrie, the boyfriend of the missing Gabby Petito, due to darkness following the first day of the manhunt.
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North Port, Fla. — North Port Police paused their search for Brian Laundrie in the Florida swamps at nightfall Saturday — while thousands of miles away the search for his missing girlfriend Gabby Petito continued.
“Our search of the Carlton is being called this evening due to darkness. Nothing found. Efforts will begin again Sunday morning,” North Port Police tweeted Saturday evening around 7:45 p.m.
Laundrie refused to speak to police or Petito’s family after he returned alone from a lengthy road trip with his girlfriend, who was reported missing on Sept. 11.
Then he went missing, too.
Laundrie, 23, was last seen Tuesday when he reportedly never returned home from a hike in the area of the Carlton Reserve in the northern area of the city, which encompasses roughly 25,000 acres of wilderness.
The first day of the search — which included 50 local agencies and the FBI employing drones and scent-tracking K9 dogs — ended fruitlessly.