it's the news gabby petito's family hoped they'd never hear earlier today human remains were discovered consistent with the description of gabrielle gabby petito the fbi saying sunday night that the body was found near grand teton national park in wyoming a spot the NUMBER_TOKEN year old and her fiance were planning to visit late last month according to her mother as every parent can imagine this is an incredibly difficult time for the family gabby's devastated dad posting this picture of his daughter on social media sunday writing she touched the world her younger brother expressing his shock on instagram writing in part i'm at a total loss my heart is shattered petito's parents first reported her missing on september NUMBER_TOKENth NUMBER_TOKEN days after her fiance brian laundry returned from their cross country road trip without her her dad previously telling dateline's andrea canning he worried he'd never see his daughter again i don't know if i can deal with not having my baby girl back not holding her again laundry has refused to speak with investigators citing advice from his attorney and now he's nowhere to be found his family telling police on friday he left to go hiking at a florida wildlife reserve last tuesday and never returned investigators bringing in drones and police dogs over the weekend to look for any sign of the NUMBER_TOKEN year old there's an enormous amount of pressure i'm sure on him to provide answers in what's going on here i think our plan for today is to just hang out in videos posted during their cross-country road trip over the summer potito and laundry seem to be head over heels in love but police footage from an incident in utah appeared to reveal a rocky side to their relationship we'd have been biting all morning and he wouldn't let me in the car before he offered to pay us like NUMBER_TOKEN dollars to give him a ride police also confirming they spoke to this woman who posted that she picked up laundry as he was hitchhiking alone at grand teton late last month one of thousands of tips investigators are now combing through as they work to figure out how gabby petito's young life was cut short brian laundry's family did release a statement overnight it reads in part the news about gabby petito is heartbreaking the laundry family prays for gabby and her family hoda back to you so miguel now that that a body has been found what does that mean for the investigation going forward well investigators need to positively identify gabby which will likely happen in the next NUMBER_TOKEN hours and then investigators say they will also determine a cause of death which will be another big point in this investigation hoda yeah all right miguel albaguer forest there in wyoming miguel thank you hey thanks for watching our youtube channel find your favorite recipes celebrity interviews uplifting stories shop our favorite deals and so much more with the today app download it now
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