Brian Laundrie: Investigators confused his mother for him during surveillance, police reportedly acknowledge
After Laundrie returned to Florida with out Petito, police noticed him drive away from his household dwelling September 13 in his Ford Mustang, Taylor advised WINK. Then, two days later, the Mustang returned.
“We thought that we had seen Brian come again into the house,” Taylor mentioned.
Police now consider the automotive had really been pushed again to the house by Laundrie’s mom, Roberta Laundrie, Taylor mentioned.
However for the subsequent two days, police believed Brian Laundrie was at dwelling.
Laundrie household lawyer notes one other police hole
As to the Mustang’s driver on September 15, “I consider it was his mother, who was sporting a baseball cap,” Taylor mentioned. “They’d returned from the park with that Mustang.
“So, who does that, proper?” the police spokesperson continued. “Like, if you happen to suppose your son’s lacking since Tuesday, you are going to carry his automotive again to the house — so, it did not make sense that anybody would do this if he wasn’t there. So, the person getting out with a baseball cap, we thought was Brian.”
Police, nevertheless, had positioned a quotation by September 14 on the Mustang whereas it was parked on the nature reserve, the Laundrie household legal professional, Steve Bertolino, identified Tuesday.
“Everybody makes errors. However Brian and Roberta are usually not ‘constructed’ the identical. Furthermore, it was (North Port police) that put the ticket on the Mustang on the park and in the event that they noticed Brian depart on Monday within the Mustang, which is information to me, then they need to have been watching the Mustang and the park beginning on Monday and they’d have identified it was Chris and Roberta that retrieved the Mustang from the park.
“Now to be clear, none this will likely have made a distinction with respect to Brian’s life but it surely definitely would have prevented all the false accusations leveled by so many towards Chris and Roberta with respect to ‘hiding’ Brian or in any other case financing an ‘escape,'” Bertolino added.
North Port Police Chief Todd Garrison was requested September 16 throughout a information convention if he knew the place Laundrie was “proper now.”
“Sure,” Garrison responded.
The Laundries later advised police that they had gone to the character protect on September 15 to retrieve the household car.
“Let the report be clear, the Laundries reported Brian didn’t come dwelling the evening he went out for the hike,” Bertolino advised CNN final week. “I really reported that to the FBI, personally.”
CNN’s Taylor Romine contributed to this report.
