and on august 29th, my boyfriend and i picked up brian at grand teton national park at 5:30 at night at colder bay. tiktoker miranda baker told authorities she believed she and her boyfriend picked up brian laundrie when he was hitch hiking in wyoming. that would have been five days after gabby last facetimed her family. baker says they picked him up at colter bay, about 17 miles from the spread creek area in the bridger teton national forest. he had told us that him and gabby were not camping on a regulated campsite through the national park, that they were camping basically out in the middle of nowhere, along snake river. this is key information. he said that he had hiked for days along snake river, but when like looking at his backpack it wasn t full, and he said all he had was a tarp to sleep on. he did say he had a fiancee and
saturday. and to my knowledge, not again until friday. so hopefully we get an answer. it is really important. it may shift the understanding about how this guy was able to be out of pocket for so many days. another question in an intensifying investigation to be sure. so the discovery of a body that the fbi believes to be gabby may have been helped by a tip from youtubers. there was a family that posted videos of their travels and they captured what looks like petito s van in the spread creek camping area in the early evening of august 27th. they remembered it when they heard about petito s van on the news this month. and they reported it to the fbi. authorities searched the spread creek area that is where they found the body on sunday. another key piece of evidence, at least a key piece of the puzzle. it may offer some insight into gabby and brian s relationship y is that important?
another question in an intensifying investigation to be sure. so the discovery of a body that the fbi believes to be gabby may have been helped by a tip from youtubers. there was a family that posted videos of their travels and they captured what looks like petito s van in the spread creek camping area in the early evening of august 27th. they remembered it when they heard about petito s van on the news this month. and they reported it to the fbi. authorities searched the spread creek area that is where they found the body on sunday. another key piece of evidence, at least a key piece of the puzzle. it may offer some insight into gabby and brian s relationship y is that important? well, it s fundamentally important in understanding the circumstances that may have led not only to their separation but her demise. the august 12 incident when petito and laundrie were confront bud police after engaging in some sort of altercation. we now have the you about
laundrie, who has been missing for a week. on monday agents scoured the florida home of brian s parents, where gabby and brian also lived, declaring it a crime scene. the family escorted from the house as investigators took photos in the backyard around a storage shed, even towing a vehicle from the driveway. authorities suspended a search in a dense wildlife area where laundrie s family told them brian went for a hike last tuesday. just days later, a body believed to be petpetito s was discoveren wyoming. we continue to seek information from anyone who utilized the spread creek area between the dates of august 7 and august 30. anyone who may have had contact with gabby or her boyfriend. my plan for today is to just hang out. reporter: the couple had spent months on the road together, posting upbeat content on social media about their van life adventure. but on august 12, witnesses in utah called 911, reporting a
time range. there is a potential new clue as to where she may have been, a travel blogger discovered a video she took of a gravel road where people pull over and camp in the spread creek area near the grand teton national park on august 27th, and it looks like gabby s van was there. once she realized what she had, she shared it immediately. i asked schmidt about this news, he told me he s hopeful that the van is possibly theirs. they re focusing on this campground area and then are they moving out in a group search of some kind? i would assume so. they have a pretty large area that goes back into some pretty dense forest area, some pretty rugged terrain. reporter: now, i want you to look at this. we grabbed still shots of the dashboard of the couple s van both from the body cam footage of the widely-circulated traffic stop on august 12th and of this new van sighting, and you can clearly see what looks like