Following autopsy findings, Brian Laundrie's family announces they will not have a funeral for their dead son



Brian Laundrie's family will not have a funeral for their deceased son, CNN reported.

What's a very brief history here?

Laundrie's partial remains were discovered in a remote area of a Florida reserve on Wednesday after he was last seen on Sept. 13.

He disappeared just days after the family of his fiancé — Gabby Petito — reported her missing after he returned home from a trip without her.

Petito's remains were discovered in a Wyoming national forest in September. Authorities determined that she was murdered by strangulation.

Laundrie was the sole person of interest in Petito's murder.

What are the details?

On Sunday, family attorney Steven Bertolino told CNN that the family will cremate Laundrie's remains and will not hold a funeral service.

"Brian Laundrie's autopsy has not provided a manner or cause of death and his remains are now being transferred to an anthropologist," Bertolino said in a statement.

Claudia Kelly-Bazan, a producer for Fox News, added that Laundrie's family would receive his remains "when the time comes."

Kelly-Bazan tweeted, "The #Laundrie family attorney tells me there will be no funeral for #BrianLaundrie. [H]is body will be cremated, and given to his parents Chris & Roberta when the time comes."

Among Laundrie's skeletal remains were personal belongings, according to various reports, including a backpack and a personal notebook.

On Thursday, Bertolino reported that Laundrie was "upset" and "grieving" when he left the family home for the last time on Sept. 13.

He added, "These are parents that are suffering. Now, I understand that whatever happened or whatever didn't happen ... this is tragic for two families. And anybody with a child, and anybody with a sense of humanity can understand the frustration that both families feel on that point."

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Brian Laundrie’s parents break their silence on son: Brian was 'grieving,' 'very upset' when he left the family's home for the final time — 2 days after Gabby Petito was declared missing



Chris and Roberta Laundrie — who remained mum after their son went missing into the Florida wilderness on the heels of Gabby Petito's disappearance and subsequent murder — now say that their son was "very upset" when he left the family home and disappeared.

Authorities on Thursday determined that the human remains discovered in a remote area of a Florida nature reserve are that of Brian. A cause of death has yet to be announced and may take some time to determine due to the condition of the body.

Brian was the only person of interest in the strangulation murder of Petito, whose remains were discovered on Sept. 19 in the Teton-Bridger National Forest in Wyoming.

What are the details?

The parents of Brian Laundrie have finally broken their silence on their son's disappearance and apparent death.

In a statement on the news, family attorney Steven Bertolino said, "I can tell you Brian was very upset when he left."

According to reports, Chris felt helpless when he couldn't stop his son from fleeing the family home.

"Chris conveyed to me several times he wished he wouldn't have let him go, but he couldn't stop him," Bertolino added. "Brian is a grown man. He was 22 years old. He wanted to walk out the door, he was entitled to walk out the door."

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What else?

According to a report from Fox News, Brian was "grieving" in the days before he vanished.

Chris admitted that his son was upset when he left for the Sept. 13 hike — which took place two days after Petito was reported missing — from which he never returned.

On Thursday, Bertolino told Fox News that he "immediately informed the FBI that his client had failed to come home."

"North Port PD was under the assumption that Brian was home, and so was the FBI when they got a tip on Friday that Brian was in Tampa, and they wanted to meet with us on Friday," Bertolino said. "I was shocked and said, 'That's good. You found him in Tampa,' and they said, 'What do you mean? I thought he's at the house.' I said, 'No, I told you the other day he never came home.'"

Bertolino did not clarify about Brian's mental or emotional state when he left the family home on Sept. 13, or what he was grieving over.

Bertolino also added that the Laundrie family is suffering a great loss, comparable to that of the Petito family.

"These are parents that are suffering," he said. "Now, I understand that whatever happened or whatever didn't happen ... this is tragic for two families. And anybody with a child, and anybody with a sense of humanity can understand the frustration that both families feel on that point."

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Brian Laundrie's sister urges him to turn himself in, is unsure whether their parents are involved in his disappearance — and says he briefly came home after physical altercation



Cassie Laundrie has urged her brother, Brian Laundrie, to turn himself in after going missing following his girlfriend's murder and said that she doesn't know whether her parents are involved in his inexplicable disappearance.

She also revealed that her brother returned home to Florida — without the late Gabby Petito — approximately five days after Utah police questioned the two about a domestic dispute in which Brian was reportedly seen hitting Petito.

What are the details?

In remarks caught on camera and obtained by News Nation, Cassie said Brian flew to the family's Florida home around Aug. 17 without Petito, but returned to Petito's side before she went missing and was ultimately found dead.

Cassie, who delivered the remarks to a group of people gathered outside her home, said that she visited with her brother during his mid-August visit and that nothing seemed amiss, adding that he did not state that the two got into an argument.

"He was telling me where they were going next," she recalled. "I FaceTimed with Gabby and [my] kids on that trip."

When asked if she believed her brother killed Petito, or if her brother was even alive, she answered, "I don't know."

Elsewhere during the interview, Cassie said that there was a rift between her family concerning the ongoing case.

When asked if she believed that her parents were involved in Brian's disappearance or had an idea on his whereabouts, she responded, "I don't know."

"I am losing my parents, and my brother and my children's aunt and my future sister-in-law on top of this, and you are not helping," she told the crowd. "This is not how we want the world to find out when we're angry and upset. But I can't have my kids crying for three days in a row."

When asked why she felt that she was "losing" her parents, she responded, "[B]ecause they are not talking to us, either."

She added that she had no idea why her parents refused to speak with her or her husband.

"If I knew, I would say," Cassie continued. "I don't know."

Cassie's husband, James Luycx, told those gathered, "The sooner he is found, the sooner this is over for us."

Brian remains a person of interest in Petito's death after her remains were discovered Sept. 19 near a Wyoming park, and there is an active warrant out for Brian's arrest on fraud charges for purportedly using someone's bank card around the time that Petito disappeared.

What else?

Cassie doubled down on her suggestion that Brian come forward, and on Tuesday told "Good Morning America" that if her parents are involved, they also "need to come clean."

During the interview, Cassie said that she simply didn't know "what to think" about what happened between her brother and Petito during their cross-country trip that this was the end result.

She added that if her parents — Christopher and Roberta Laundrie — had anything to do with their son's disappearance, they need to own up.

"I don't know if my parents are involved," Cassie said. "I think if they are, then they should come clean."


She continued, vowing that if she'd heard from her brother, she would have turned him in.

"I really wish he had come to me first that day with the van because I don't think we'd be here," Cassie insisted. "I would tell my brother to just come forward and get us out of this horrible mess."

Cassie added that she waffles between concern and anger, but that at the end of the day, she wants answers.

"I worry about him. I hope he's OK, and then I'm angry and I don't know what to think," she admitted. "I hope my brother is alive because I want answers just as much as everybody else."