Gabby Petito Case at a Standstill

According to Laundrie family attorney Steven Bertolino, on Aug. 17 Laundrie flew to Tampa, Florida from Salt Lake City, Utah to get some items and to empty and close a storage unit to save money. Laundrie returned to Salt Lake City six days later to continue the trip with Petito. The day after Laundrie returned to Salt Lake Petito FaceTimedher mother saying that she’s leaving Salt Lake and is planning to head towards the Teton range in Wyoming.

By Aug. 25 multiple texts between Petito and her mother lead her mother to believe that she is in the Tetons. More texts made on the 27 lead the Petito family to believe that Gabby is still in the Tetons.

Also on Aug. 27, a Louisiana couple visiting Jackson, Wyoming reported that they saw Petito and Laundrie causing a commotion as they were leaving a restaurant. Other witnesses say that Petito was in tears and that Laundrie was visibly angry, he reportedly entered and exited The Merry Piglets Tex-Mex restaurant and showed anger towards staff members. A restaurant manager told CHH that she saw “an incident” while in the restaurant on Aug. 27 but she declined to give her name or a description of said incident. The restaurant hasn’t provided surveillance footage as of yet. Later that day a text sent from Petito’s phone referring to her grandfather by his first name put her family on edge.

Miranda Baker, claimed that she and her boyfriend gave a ride to Laundrie while he was hitchhiking in Colter Bay, Wyoming on Aug. 29. Laundrie allegedly said that he had been camping alone near Grand Teton National Park, near Snake River, for multiple days while Petito was working on social media posts in their van. Once Laundrie realized that they were heading towards Jackson Hole instead of Jackson he became agitated and got out of the vehicle near Jackson Dam. Only a few minutes later, Norma Jean Jalovec reported that she picked Laudrie up near the Jackson Dam and gave him a ride to the Spread Creek dispersed camping area, where Pitio’s remains were later found. Laundrie told Jalovec an almost identical story to what he told Baker. Jalvoec said that she dropped Laundrie off at the entrance of the Spread Creek camping area on his insistence.

Petito family attorney Richard Stafford says the family's last communication with Petito was Aug. 30, but they do not believe the message they received was from her. According to Stafford, the message read, "No service in Yosemite.” After this message was sent Petito’s phone was shut off and nothing has been posted or sent sense.

Then, alone, Laundrie returned to the couple’s North Port, Florida home on Sept. 1. Quickly after his return, the Laundrie family went on a camping trip to Fort De Soto Campground which was 75 miles away from their home.

After not being able to get in touch with Petito her family called and reported her missing. Due to them living in New York it took them until Sept. 11 to realize that Laundrie had returned without her. When police went to the Laundrie home they were “essentially handed the information for their [the Laundrie family’s] attorney” and then were asked to leave. Through said attorney, Laundrie declined to talk to investigators.

“Obviously, me and my family want Gabby to be found safe,” Cassie Laundrie, Brian Laundries' sister, told ABC News. “She’s like a sister and my children love her, and all I want is for her to come home safe and found, and this to be just a big misunderstanding.”

After several days of the Laundrie family being asked to cooperate, including Petito’s parents pleading for Laundries parents to tell them “where Brian left Gabby,” they requested for police to come to their home. Upon arrival, the police were informed that Laundrie’s parents hadn’t seen him since Sept. 14.

"We've been trying all week to talk to his family, to talk to Brian, and now they've called us here on Friday, we've gone to the home, and they're saying now they have not seen their son," North Port police spokesperson Josh Taylor tells CNN's Chris Cuomo. "It is another twist in this story."

Some remain hopeful that when Laundrie makes himself known his family will assist the police, but the Petito family and associates remain doubtful and seem to expect them to assist their son instead of law enforcement.

“The Laundries did not help us find Gabby,” Richard Stafford said at a press conference in Bohemia, N.Y., with Petito’s parents. “They’re sure as not going to help us find Brian.”

Local and federal authorities then begin the search for the 23-year-old man. As the searches began on Sept. 18, the FBI announced that they were also conducting ground searches in Grand Teton National Park due to it being her last known location. A day after the ground searches began human remains were discovered in the Bridger-Teton National Forest, which were reportedly consistent with Petito’s description. Petito’s family was informed of the discovery. The Teton County coroner confirms the human remains found Sunday was Gabby Petito on Sept. 21. In the autopsy, released Oct. 12, Petito's cause of death was strangulation. The cause of strangulation, at this time, is assumed to be manual. Manual strangulation is when a human uses one or two of their hands to compress another's neck.

At this time, Laundrie is considered a person of interest but hasn’t been accused nor charged of killing Petito. But Laundrie has been charged with credit card fraud after a federal grand jury indictment filed in the U.S. District Court in Wyoming alleges that Laundrie used a Capital One Bankcard and someone else’s personal identification number to make unauthorized withdrawals worth more than $1,000 during the period during which Petito went missing. The owner of the card hasn’t been given.

The Petito family has shown matching tattoos that they’ve gotten in honor of their slain daughter. The tattoos have the inscription “Let It Be” and are identical to the tattoo that Gabby had.

“Everyone deserves the same type of awareness,” Joe Petito, Gabby's father, said. “It’s not just Gabby that deserves that.”

On Oct. 21, unidentified remains found in the area where Laundrie was suspected of hiding were determined as the decomposing remains of Brian Laundrie. The bureau said in a statement the remains were identified using dental records. Authorities had turned to experts in analyzing skeletons and bones because the human remains found in the park were bones and not flesh. Laundrie's parents were with the group that found the personal belongings, including a backpack and notebook, which then led investigators to the remains. The items and remains were found in an area that had already been searched but had been underwater.

Laundrie's manner of death was determined a suicide by a gunshot to the head. When his cause of death was made public his parents were questioned on if they knew how Laundrie had gained access to a gun, his parents made no comment at that time based on their attorney's recommendation. Though it later came to light that on the day that Laundrie went missing his parents noticed that a handgun was no longer in its case, they noticed this when the police searched their house and confiscated all the guns they owned.

The finding of Laundrie's remains ended the 32-day search for the only person of interest in Petito's murder. The police have now stated that multiple different departments will continue working towards figuring out what happened to Gabby Petito and why Brian Laundrie killed himself.