so strikingly bizarre police are describing it as odd in the search for gabby petito. today marks three weeks since brian laundrie's parents report the him missing on september 17th and his parents said they would only talk to them about their son's case. would not address questions about gabby petito. the son's fiance who was missing at the same time. athena jones has been covering this case. and that is not the only puzzling behavior of brian laundrie's parents that day. >> reporter: well yes, brian laundrie's parents were on the fo phone or had their lawyer on speaker phone on september 17th when police came to their home, the same day they reported their son brian laundrie missing. this is similar to what we heard police say about how they were acting on september 11th which is when gabby petito's family said that -- reported her missing. police went to the laundrie home and were handed a card or a piece of paper saying contact