The latest on the Gabby Petito case

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Recently, the federation has been gripped by the hunt for Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old pistillate who went missing amid a cross-country travel with her fiancé, 23-year-old Brian Laundrie.

Since Petito was reported missing implicit the weekend, constabulary person named Laundrie a idiosyncratic of involvement successful her disappearance. He returned to his Florida location connected Sept. 1 and has since declined to talk to the constabulary oregon cooperate with investigators.

So, wherever does the probe into Petito's disappearance stand? And what could beryllium successful store successful the coming days?

Timeline

Petito and Laundrie took portion successful a nomadic cross-country travel successful a converted Ford Transit van that served arsenic a camper. Along the way, Petito captured images of her travels connected her Instagram leafage and adjacent started a YouTube channel, Nomadic Statik.

According to a map published connected a Facebook page created successful the hopes of uncovering Petito, the mates began their roadworthy travel successful upstate New York connected July 2. They traveled westward, stopping successful Colorado Springs connected July 6 earlier heading to Utah.

Petito and Laundrie spent respective weeks traveling and hiking successful Utah's nationalist and authorities parks.

Aug. 25 marked the last clip that Petito's mother, Nicole Schmidt, says she spoke with her daughter. At that point, Petito told her parent that she was successful Grand Teton National Park.

Schmidt told Fox News earlier this week that she aboriginal received substance messages from her daughter, but she isn't definite who sent them.

Laundrie returned location from the travel connected Sept. 1, and Petito was reported missing 10 days later, according to The New York Times.

Aug. 12 incident

On Thursday, the Moab Police Department released assemblage camera footage showing officers speaking to Petito and Laundrie aft pulling implicit their van adjacent Arches National Park.

In the video, Petito was affectional and told officers that she and her fiancé had been "fighting each morning."

Laundrie besides told officers that the 2 had been fighting. There were scratches disposable connected his face, which helium said resulted from a carnal scuffle with Petito.

Police declined to record charges successful the incident, classifying it lone arsenic a "mental wellness crisis" erstwhile the mates agreed to walk the nighttime successful abstracted places. Police accidental Petito stayed successful the van portion Laundrie got a edifice room.

"They are successful emotion and engaged to beryllium joined and desperately didn't privation to spot anyone charged with a crime," an serviceman wrote successful a study astir the incident.

Police added that neither Petito nor Laundrie called 911. Instead, a bystander called the police aft seeing them warring astatine Moonflower, a co-op convenience store successful Moab.

An seperate execution investigation

On Aug. 13 — a time aft constabulary interviewed Petito and Laundrie — Kylen Schulte, 24, and Crystal Turner, 38, were past seen astatine Moonflower — the aforesaid Moab store wherever the Petito and Laundrie had been spotted fighting.

Schulte, an worker astatine the store, and Turner were recovered changeable to decease connected Aug. 18 astatine a campsite successful the Moab area. The newlyweds were traveling with Schulte's aunt and niece, and according to Scripps presumption KSTU successful Salt Lake City, the household members had told friends astir a antheral who was "creeping them out" adjacent the campground.

Turner Schulte

KSTU

While constabulary person not formally linked Petito's missing idiosyncratic lawsuit and the murders of Schulte and Turner, a spokesperson for the Grand County Sheriff's Office told Fox News that they're "not ruling thing out."

Police person not yet filed charges successful transportation with Schulte's and Turner's deaths.

Where does the probe stand?

Laundrie has not been charged with a crime. In North Port, Florida, constabulary person lone listed him arsenic a "person of interest" successful Petito's disappearance.

The North Port Police Department besides confirmed that Laundrie drove the achromatic van they shared arsenic a location backmost to the location the Laundrie shared with Petito and her parents connected Sept. 1. They've since recovered the van and are processing it for evidence.

The North Port Police volition clasp a property league regarding Petito's lawsuit connected Thursday astatine noon ET.

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