mid-september. why are authorities putting all their eggs in one basket and relying so much on these parents for information? good evening, don. well, there s some evidence that he may be in the appalachian trail. there was a witness up there, and the fbi has spoken to that witness. dog the bounty hunter is in pinellas park. but there s some evidence that the authorities have that brian laundrie was camping in that swampland, or else they wouldn t pay so close attention to it. a lot of the evidence seems to be coming from the parents. that s why they brought the father how there to see if they could find where brian laundrie was camping, but no dice. so they re at a dead end right now. that s why they depend on people in the community, civilians, to help provide tips. look, this is always a telltale sign when people do this because it s not actually admissible in court, but they re like looking to create some sort of credibility. that s the laundries attorney
as you hear not only brian laundrie s parents are changing their story about when their son left, we now are learning they went looking for him, knew hi car was abandoned outside the nature reserve. is anything of this adding up? it just makes the laundrie parents look even worse. they ve been already demonized in public opinion, because they lawyered up, they remained silent, haven t helped anyone, and it looks like their son went missing a day before they reported it. now, originally they said it was tuesday that he left the home. they didn t report him missing until friday. now it s that he left the home to go into that swampland on monday. that means they waited until the end of the week to report him missing to police, long after they retrieved his mistake from that swamp.
gabby petito. of florida arranger helping search the swampland in that area and says there is no surviving that terrain. joining us is richard allen mcewan who spent every day of the last 30 years navigating the area. why is there no way brian laundrie could survive in the area they have been searching. two weeks with the atmosphere going on and it is 90% flooded. anyone living over there moved to higher ground. i don t believe there is any way that man can or was there to begin with. for anybody to walk through that and stumble through it, house get out as they chase them over there.
you know that nature reserve. is it possible he s still there alive? no, ma am, not at not not in my thoughts, no way, not after two weeks being underwater the way it is with rain we ve had. there s just no possible way. i don t even think he was there, to begin with. well, i mean, that is a crucial question here. i mean, tell me about it because you know and i have got some pictures coming up. but i mean, you know, you have spent 30 years around this. 25,000 acres of swampland, snakes, alligators. almost all of it, uninhabitable. um, but, you know, i know some people have said oh maybe brian was killed by wildlife but i know that you re not sure at all that that s the case. tell me why. well, for one, like i said, i have been here all my life. i ve ran ranches around here. i ve had cattle get loose over there from my place here. i ve had to go over there and chase so i know that area pretty well. and right now, it s about 90%
underwater. but any animal that s not a reptile right now i don t care if it s a hog, deer, whatever, they ve gone to higher ground. there s a lot of swampland over there. a lot of places you re going to sink. you know, there is not a lot of places that are dry except for maybe the main power line running through there and a few roads that are going on. but to survive in there with the mosquitoes and everything else and the wetness. i mean, there s very few dry spots in there. there s just there s no way. and the theory i hear that, you know, he s been eaten by a gator maybe or something like that. that theory s not going to happen right now. you know, you can we re not at a gated community where you can walk up to an alligator and say hello basically or feed him or anything. you get these gators in the woods. you walk up to them, 90% of them, they ran from you. they are going to scatter. they re more scared of you than you are of them.