i have no information on that one way or the other. i think we all want that answer, right? or that s one of the answers that we want. on september 14, the day after brian laundrie s parents say they last saw him, north port police found the family s mustang parked at an entrance to the carlton reserve. they tagged it as an abandoned vehicle. the family s attorney says brian s father went to the reserve the night of september 13 to look for his son and his parents returned on the 14th and saw the car. the next day, the lawyer says, his parents drove the car home. the laundrie family s lawyer issued a statement saying, the speculation by the public and some in the press that the parents assisted brian in leaving the family home or in avoiding arrest on a warrant that was issued after brian had already been missing for several days, is just wrong. brian laundrie took off before
the circumstances. the second piece is you have to deal with the laundrie family. you have to do an investigation with respect to what they knew and when they knew it. you have to look at those text messages, if any. you have to look at what if anything they did with respect to brian laundrie in potentially giving him a head start, of making misleading or false information, et cetera. if there s any crimes to be had, that will absolutely be pursued, and it should be. now, in terms of what they may have known, other than the obvious of common sense and why they wouldn t talk to the petitos, why they wouldn t return the petitos phone calls, as far as we know they may not have been lawyered up, the petitos didn t even know if gabby was missing, listen to what the lawyer said on good morning america. you told us the laundries knew brian was grieving the night he left, that was on september 13. but gabby s remains weren t discovered until the 19th. why did they think he was grieving?
and it should be. now, in terms of what they may have known, other than the obvious of common sense and why they wouldn t talk to the petitos, why they wouldn t return the petitos phone calls, as far as we know they may not have been lawyered up, the petitos didn t even know if gabby was missing, listen to what the lawyer said on good morning america. you told us the laundries knew brian was grieving the night he left, that was on september 13. but gabby s remains weren t discovered until the 19th. why did they think he was grieving? brian had been extremely upset, chris and roberta were concerned about him. they expressed to me when he walked out the door that evening, they wish they could have stopped him, they wish they could have prevented him from going out but he was intent on leaching. look, either he didn t mean to use the word grieving and he just meant to say distressed.
reporter: what was he grieving about? a notebook found near laundrie s remains could shed light on that, a source telling cnn the notebook is possibly salvageable. you want to make sure you handle it as carefully as possible, you only get one shot at these types of items. reporter: according to the laundrie parents, their son left their home on september 13. the lawyer says he notified the fbi the same day that their son had left, something law enforcement disputes. making a statement that we haven t seen him is not reporting someone missing. if we had had that information, there s a million things we would have done differently. reporter: did laundrie tell his family anything about petito before he left? that s not something i can comment on right now, and, uh, i would like to just leave it at that. reporter: tonight we still don t know how laundrie died. the family s lawyer says he and brian s parents discussed the possibility that it could have been a suicide. you kn