“I wanted to have her with me all the time,” added her mother, Nicole Schmidt.
At the press conference, the lawyer for the family had a message for Brian Laundrie, her fiancé who is now missing: “Turn yourself in.”
While addressing the media at his office in Bohemia, New York, attorney Robert Stafford didn’t mince words when he talked about Laundrie, 23, who has the FBI and other authorities looking for him.
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“For Brian, we are asking you to turn yourself in,” Stafford said.
The on-again, off-again high school sweethearts had taken to the road in her converted Ford Transit van to chronicle their “van life journey” on social media.
They visited national parks and campgrounds in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, taking pictures of themselves with their arms wrapped around one another, swimming and hiking in some of the country’s most stunning locales.
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Now Laundrie is missing. He hasn’t been seen in Floridafor more than a weekand is the subject of an extensivemanhuntthat has captured the nation’s attention.
The U.S. District Court of Wyoming alsoissued a federal warrant for his arrest, alleging that he used unauthorized credit cards after Petito’s death.
He has not been named a suspect in Petito’s death at this time. Laundrie’s lawyer has not responded to PEOPLE’s requests for comment.
If you have information on this case, call 1-800-CALL-FBI (225-5324).
source: people.com
