Partial human remains found in a Florida wilderness area have been identified through dental records as belonging to Brian Laundrie, the boyfriend of murdered travel blogger Gabby Petito, the FBI said on Thursday.
The remains were discovered on Wednesday in the swampy Carlton Reserve, not far from Laundrie’s parents’ home. Police and FBI agents had been searching for him there since his family reported him missing in the middle of last month.
Laundrie had been named a “person of interest” in Petito’s disappearance, but was never criminally charged in her murder.
A federal grand jury in Wyoming indicted him on Sept. 23 on