EXCLUSIVE: Brian Laundrie’s parents unknowingly walked just a few yards away from locations in a Florida nature preserve where police found their son’s personal belongings and remains Wednesday morning.
When Chris and Roberta Laundrie left their home before sunrise Wednesday, only two journalists were present – a Fox News Digital reporter who followed in a separate vehicle and a Fox News Channel cameraman who remained on their street.
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{{#rendered}}Police returned Sunday to investigate the area where the remains of now-deceased fugitive Brian Laundrie were found last week.
Amateur sleuths identified a rope near the scene, speculating it may have been a noose. Police confirmed, instead, that it was a rope swing, but officers continued to examine the area again, finding what appear to be small bone fragments, according Fox News’ Michael Ruiz.
It is unclear if the remains are human or animal, but the small size would suggest the latter.
Officers also found a reusable water bottle – similar to the one used by Laundrie – near the scene.
Brian Laundrie’s recovered remains – which have been described as "bones" by police – will undergo further examination after an autopsy failed to establish a cause or manner of death, a lawyer said.
The remains of Laundrie, which were discovered Wednesday in a Florida park, will be forwarded to an anthropologist for more study, Laundrie family attorney Steven Bertolino told Fox News on Friday.
Earlier in the day, Bertolino had said on ABC’s "Good Morning America" that he was told he and the Laundrie family might receive information about Brian’s cause of death by midday Friday but that didn’t happen.
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"Let the parents grieve. Let them go through...I mean, they didn't know anything," a woman, who removed signs critical of Brian Laundrie's parents from their yard, told Fox News' Michael Ruiz on Saturday.
She said she knew both Laundrie and Gabby Petito.
The signs featured cartoons targeting the Laundrie family for staying silent about their now-deceased son, whose remains were discovered on Wednesday.
Somebody had to do it," she said.
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