I'd wager a gator ate Laundrie

[bigtree]

...dragged him underwater. Wicked karma.

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FBI Investigator Michael McPherson said the area where the items were found was previously underwater. North Port Police Department spokesman Josh Taylor said the remains found at the wilderness park were bones and not flesh.

Dr. Cyril Wecht said the Medical Examiner would examine the bones, teeth, and insects to find answers most critical to the case – the identity of the body, how long it has been there, and the cause of death.

Although the body likely had been submerged for an extended period of time, Wecht said experts should have no problems coming to conclusions.

“If he shot himself, that will still be evident,” Wecht said. “It would not have been obliterated or changed to any significant degree by virtue of submersion. If he stabbed himself, that could be obliterated or markedly obscured by virtue of the post-mortem period and submersion in water.”

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/state/2021/10/21/brian-laundrie-human-remains-confirmed-florida-park-gabby-petito/6126027001/

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The Associated Press @AP 2h
BREAKING: FBI: Dental records prove remains found in Florida park are of Brian Laundrie, who was a person of interest in the killing of his girlfriend, Gabby Petito.

[tblue37]

1. His parents might be wishing they had cooperated with the police from the beginning.

[malaise]

2. How do we know it's him?

There's something really troubling about the parents' involvement

[Thtwudbeme]

3. Dental records

nt

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. I hope investigators will corroborate the dental records...

... as much as they can. With DNA tests of the other remains too.

This is an over-the-top idea that's almost certainly not true in this case, but someone COULD pull their teeth to appear that they're dead.

If those are his bones, though, then he's dead, dead, dead.

[malaise]

13. If you watch enough Investigative ID programs

there are some other over the top possibilities -LOL

[Buckeye_Democrat]

14. If the teeth were still connected to a skull (or jawbone)...

... then it's settled as far as I'm concerned. (DNA testing should still be done anyway, but it probably isn't necessary.)

I still haven't found an article that describes how the teeth were found, though.

Edit: I'd read that his family arrived on that scene before the investigators, so that made me wonder about possible shenanigans.

[malaise]

15. Your edit is the reason for my doubts

[Buckeye_Democrat]

16. Yep, me too.

Made me wonder if they tossed out a couple teeth that he'd previously pulled. Strongly doubt it, but investigators should be certain that he's dead.

If nothing else, his family seemed to know exactly where he was located. If they had previously withheld that information at all, then they're culpable for delaying the investigation.

Or maybe they shared that information, but flooding prevented an earlier discovery somehow?

[malaise]

18. I watched a program where the person who died in what

turned out to be a staged accident was not who they said he was.
The case was about an army man who killed someone and was then supposedly killed in this accident. He did get caught and was charged again for a second killing.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

23. Yeah, and his family hasn't exactly come across...

... as trustworthy during this whole sordid affair either.

My parents would've demanded to know where my girlfriend was at, and why I drove her vehicle back home. They'd probably pull the lever to electrocute me in an electric chair if they thought I had committed murder.

I got into some (pretty minor) trouble with some friends when I was a teenager, and my parents were the only ones who showed up at the police station and said, "Put him in jail!" One of the cops' eyes bulged like he was thinking, "Daaamn."

I was on the honor roll at school at that time, and it's not like I was regularly in trouble.

[malaise]

24. +1,000

You had great parents - too many think their responsibility is to defend their monsters no matter what.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

25. They softened up later.

I admitted that I got caught up in the "excitement" and I wouldn't do it again, and they didn't remain furious at me.

I think they were gobsmacked from getting called to the police station, and they were still angry when they first showed up.

[malaise]

26. Of course they did because they know you

[FSogol]

30. Pull teeth? Why not just bribe someone in the dentist office to change the dental records?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

31. I suppose that could happen.

The more people involved, the riskier the scheme.

I strongly suspect that he's actually dead, of course. DNA testing should confirm it.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

20. They can probably court order a dna sample from parents.

[malaise]

21. Now that's a good idea

[Klaralven]

28. They might already have Brian's DNA from the search of the home

[2naSalit]

4. I speculated the same a couple days ago.

It hasn't been very long so if there was no flesh, something ate him. Gators come to mind real quick. If so, he got what he deserved.

[TomSlick]

5. I hope the poor beasties didn't develop GI complaints.

[vercetti2021]

6. Karma 10 fold

Imagine dying by asphyxiation as you killed Gabby the same way and not only that but getting eaten alive to add on. Perfect karma

[liberalla]

7. I don't doubt he was gator food, but I think they were dining on a corpse.

I think he took his own life...

[Raine]

8. What or whoever killed him I hope it was slow

and painful so he had time to think of what he'd done as he took his last breath.

[vercetti2021]

9. I agree

I know as sadistic as it sounds but, I believe those who do this should endure the worst possible torment imaginable

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. "Chomp. Chomp chomp." as Tony Joe White might put it.

"Poke Sallet Annie,
Gator got your granny (Chomp. Chomp chomp.)..."

I'd flesh it out a little more, but I can't think of anything that rhymes with "Laundrie".

[Hassin Bin Sober]

19. I'm against the death penalty. But if gators take care of business...

[GumboYaYa]

29. If a gator got him they may not have many bones left even

A gator would eat everything, bones and flesh.

[Tommy Carcetti]

32. Gators don't actively hunt adult humans.

Now, if you stumble into (or onto) a gator’s space then yes, there’s a possibility it might attack you.

Or if you get too close to a mama’s nest.

But gators don’t prey on grown humans or jump out of the water to snatch them.

Go to a place like Shark Valley in Everglades National Park and you’ll see full grown gators sitting literally two feet off the walking path. Hundreds of people will walk by it in a given day. Not once have any just jumped out and snatched a person.

Maybe an Australian saltie but not gators over here.

If gators did get to him most likely it was post-mortem.