What happens if Brian Laundrie isn’t found?

BRIAN Laundrie has been on the run ever since he became a person of interest in Gabby Petito's death.

Gabby was found dead at the Spread Creek Dispersed Campground in the Bridger-Teton National Forest on Sunday, September 19, 2021, in Wyoming, more than a week after she was reported missing.

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When did Brian Laundrie go missing?

Brian Laundrie went missing on September 13, 2021.

He had returned home from a road trip without Gabby.

After hiring a lawyer and refusing to talk, he then vanished too ... five days before Gabby’s body was found in a shallow grave in a national park; She had been strangled.

The case has become a national sensation, and was initially linked to the killing of a lesbian couple at a camp site and also leading to the discovery of another dead hiker.

Now the hunt is on to find Brian, aided by an army of digital detectives poring over the couple’s extensive social media presence for vital clues.

Cops have been hunting for Brian in a Florida nature reserve that spans nearly 25,000 acres.

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Have there been alleged sightings of Brian Laundrie?

Alleged sightings have placed Brian in numerous places from the Appalachian Trail in North Carolina to a hotel in Canada and a bar in Montana, where a tourist claimed to have interacted with him.

In a video posted to TikTok, user @cwlynn said she was staying overnight at a hotel in Toronto on September 20 when she went downstairs to pick up a food delivery.

As she stepped outside to meet her courier, she says she spotted a man who closely resembled Brian.

Another potential sighting came in Okaloosa County, Florida when Facebook user Sam Bass shared an image of a man he spotted on one of his trail cams.

But police have since confirmed this was a false sighting.

Additionally, campers at Florida's Fort de Soto park where Brian stayed with his parents just days before vanishing said they feared he could be hiding in the mangroves.

Other places include Wyoming, where Gabby’s remains were found, and the Bahamas. 

Despite all the supposed sightings, no sign of Brian has been confirmed since his disappearance.

Internet sleuths, however, have suggested Laundrie could be hiding in Guatemala, which is where his sister's husband is from.

a Facebook post, referring to Brian’s sister, said: “I just read that Cassie’s husband is from Guatemala.

“It makes me wonder… could they have ties there with the husband’s family and Brian could be there?”

The user also wondered if Cassie may have knowledge of where her brother is, something that other sleuths questioned as well.

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One user wrote: “I am 50/50 with Cassie to [sic] I wanna believe her but at the same time I don’t know what to make of her.”

Discussion threads on Reddit have become a hotspot for theories as well. On the r/Gabby Petito subreddit, a user suggested that Brian might have taken a “private charter to Costa Rica”.