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North Port, Florida (CNN)The FBI searched the family home of Gabby
Petito's fiancé, Brian Laundrie, in Florida for hours Monday, a day after investigators across the country found what they believe to be her
remains.

In the morning, FBI investigators searched Laundrie's parents' home in
North Port as part of a "court-authorized search warrant" related to the
Petito case. His parents were escorted from the home before the search and
then were brought back inside for questioning, police said.

Agents removed a number of items from the home, and a Ford Mustang
convertible was also towed away.

The FBI tweeted Monday evening that the search was finished but the investigation is ongoing.

Meanwhile, investigators are still searching for Laundrie, who returned to
the Florida home without Petito earlier this month, declined to talk to investigators and then went missing last week. The search for him had
centered on a nearby nature reserve, but investigators shifted their focus after they "exhausted all avenues in searching the grounds there," North
Port Police spokesperson Josh Taylor said Monday.

On Sunday, human remains that officials believe to be of Petito's were
found in an undeveloped camping area in Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National
Forest on the eastern edge of Grand Teton National Park. An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday to confirm the identity.

US Park Ranger vehicles block access in the Spread Creek area of the Bridger-Teton National Forest, where human remains believed to be of Gabby Petito were found in Wyoming on Sunday.

Petito, 22, and Laundrie, 23, had road tripping in a white van from New
York through the American West this summer, all while regularly posting
photos and stories to their social media pages with the hashtag #vanlife.

Those posts abruptly stopped in late August, though. Laundrie returned to
his home in North Port, Florida, with their van but without Petito on
September 1, according to police. Petito's family, unable to get in touch
with her, reported her missing on September 11.

In the days since, her story has become a national obsession for many,
spurring digital detectives to comb through the couple's online trail to
try to solve the case. The story has also further highlighted the tens of thousands of missing persons stories that do not garner such intense
interest; there were nearly 90,000 active missing person cases as of the
end of 2020, according to the National Crime Information Center.

More details about an incident involving the couple emerged Monday when authorities in Utah released a recording of a 911 call where a man
described a woman being slapped.

In the audio provided to CNN by the Grand County Sherriff's Office in
Utah, a caller to 911 tells an operator he wants to report a domestic
dispute and describes a white van with a Florida license plate.

"We drove by and the gentleman was slapping the girl," the caller says.
"Then we stopped. They ran up and down the sidewalk. He proceeded to hit
her, hopped in the car, and they drove off."

Police later stopped the couple.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/us/gabby-petito-brian-laundrie- update/index.html

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