investigators had to try to pinpoint an area to start the search in over 300,000 acres. as you mentioned it appears a travel blogger who posts videos to youtube may have provided this critical clue over the weekend after going back through the video she shot during that time frame of the end of august when petito and her boyfriend were believed to be in the park discovering she had captured gabby s whiteford van in a very specific area and campground and shared it with the f.b.i. and family. statement released by the attorney for gabby s family asked for privacy during this time adding they ll be forever grateful for the efforts by law enforcement to find her. last night joseph petito tweeted a photo of his daughter standing in front of a mural with wings saying #gabby petito, she touched the world and as her family absorbs the new developments, they wait for news from the coroner. dana: laura engel in wyoming
interviews. dana: great to have you. we had the breaking news throughout fox news channel all day today, trace. we ll be covering this breaking news. trace: this is a riveting story. our hearts go out to the petito family and hoping the brian laundrie is caught soon. dana: we ll keep everybody updated. the faulkner focus is up next with harris. here she is. harris: we ll pick it up from here with a fox news alert
petito family pleaded with them to cooperate. on friday we saw police arrive here at the laundrie residence for the first time to speak with the family. lots of people thought they were going to offer up information about the disappearance of gabby petito. police tell us that is when they reported that they hadn t seen brian since tuesday and believe he had went to this nature reserve to go hiking. police tell us the family went out to the nature reserve and found the mustang that he apparently drove there. there has been some conflicting reports about what they found in the mustang and when but they went out to the nature reserve, retrieved the mustang and on friday police learned that brian had been missing for several days. that s when they started to search over the weekend. harris: i want to unpack that little detail. legal analysts or experts at fox news coming up in a moment and make sure i got the
checked her footage she spotted gabby s van and shared the video with the f.b.i. and her family. when we were in the park we didn t think anything of it. the reason why we noticed the van is we re from florida and the van had florida plates. we wanted to stop by and say hi but the van was very dark, closed up, looked like no activity so we ended up just driving. last night joseph petito tweeted a photo of his daughter standing in front of a mural with wings saying simply #gabby petito. she touched the world. the attorney who represents the family of petito issued a statement that reads in part i would like the thank the f.b.i. the police departments and grand teton search and rescue team. your work and determination helped bring gabby home to her parents. the family and i will be forever great f u. the autopsy
laura. right. gabby petito s family said this park and this part of her journey on her cross-country destination was really just a dream. it was a trip that they had planned for a very long time. you can see how beautiful it is here. of course, it appears as though it has come to a devastating end. the area where those human remains were found sunday that match the description of the missing 22-year-old is still an active investigation site that according to the f.b.i. this was a massive area for law enforcement to tackle. when there was first word of her disappearance. the grand teton national park has 300,000 acres and appears a travel blogger provided a critical clue over the weekend after going back through video show shot on august 27th in a campground where petito and boyfriend were believed to be in the park. when somebody suggested she