Dog the Bounty Hunter speaks to Fox News Digital about getting involved in the search for Brian Laundrie
"No one should have to find their child on their own," Gabby's father Joseph posted on Instagram Saturday.
"We are creating this foundation to give resources and guidance on bringing their children home," he added. "We are looking to help people in similar situations as Gabby.
FIRST ON FOX: Dog the Bounty Hunter arrived at Brian Laundrie’s parents’ home Saturday, knocked on the door and met silence – but he’s already picked up a scent."
The reason I went to Mr. [Christopher] Laundrie is I carry a reputation with me," he told Fox News Digital moments later. "The reputation is, ‘He gives you a second chance. He’s gonna get you, but he gives you a second chance.’"
The reality TV star and legendary bounty hunter, whose real name is Duane Chapman, is a father of 13 and lost a daughter around the same age as Gabby Petito in a car accident in 2006. He was already in Florida on a honeymoon with his wife Francie Chapman, he said, when people began reaching out to him to look into Laundrie’s disappearance.
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{{#rendered}}21-year-old Rose Davis, who told PEOPLE magazine that she was Gabby Petito's best friend, firmly believes that Brian Laundrie is out in the wilderness somewhere.
"He is out in the wilderness, I promise you," Davis said, adding that this is not the first time Laundrie has survived on his own out in nature.
"He's out there. He is," she insisted. "If he's alive, he's out there, camping out...He lived in the Appalachians by himself for months."
Police in North Port, Florida are still combing the vast Carlton Reserve wilderness area where Laundrie's parents say they last saw him.
{{#rendered}}NORTH PORT, Fla. – Saturday is National Daughters Day – and the parents of New York’s Gabby Petito – who mourners around the country have called "America’s daughter" – spent it preparing for her Sunday funeral.
The parents of Brian Laundrie, who police have named as a person of interest in the activities surrounding Petito's disappearance, also have a daughter. For much of the day they were ducking scrutiny at their home in North Port, Fla., where their son arrived on Sept. 1 in Petito’s van – without her.
Laundrie has not been charged in connection with Petito’s death, which the medical examiner ruled a homicide. He has been charged with debit card fraud – and before police found her body abandoned at the bear-packed Wyoming park where they were last seen camping, he’d already vanished from his parents’ home
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Former D.C. homicide detective Ted Williams reacts to the latest developments in the manhunt for Brian Laundrie.
Funeral services for Gabby Petito will be held on New York's Long Island on Sunday, according to an Instagram post from her father.
Services will be held at the Moloney Funeral Home in Holbrook and will be open to the public from 12 to 5 p.m.
"Thank to all for your support and love," he wrote, adding that in lieu of flowers the family requests people make donations to the future Gabby Petito Foundation.
{{#rendered}}Fox News has confirmed that television's Dog the Bounty Hunter is joining the search for Brian Laundrie.
"Dog and Francie have experienced extreme loss themselves," his team said in a statement. "Their hearts go out to Gabby's family for what they're going through and want to help bring justice for her death."
Dog the Bounty Hunter says he "wants anyone with information on Brian Laundrie's whereabouts to call me at 833-TELLDOG" and added that "all information will be kept confidential."
Dog and Francie are currently searching where Brian Laundrie was last seen.
NORTH PORT, Fla. – The slaying of Gabby Petito and subsequent disppearance of Brian Laundrie, a person of interest in her case, prompted a prominent Florida attorney to put a $20,000 bounty on his whereabouts.
"I think a missing child is every parent's worst nightmare," the lawyer and mother of two, Tatiana Boohoff, told Fox News Friday. "Our hearts go out to her family and to the community, and we hope that together we can get some answers and get justice for Gabby.
"Public scrutiny fell heavily on Laundrie, 23, who was the 22-year-old Petito’s fiancé when her mom reported her missing on Sept. 11, well before authorities discovered her remains in a Wyoming park full of bears, wolves and other wildlife. The young woman may have last been seen alive at a Jackson Hole restaurant on Aug. 27.
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NORTH PORT, Fla. – With the City of Moab in Utah announcing an investigation into the police handling of an Aug. 12 domestic dispute involving Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie, experts say the officers may have acted appropriately — based on incomplete information.
"It's proper if they determine that it's only a mental health situation because now officers are being trained, because people get shot, [to] handle mental health situations differently than they handle regular cases," Susanne Gustin, a Salt Lake City-based defense attorney, told Fox News Friday. "You want to de-escalate. You don't want to necessarily arrest somebody who was having a mental health episode.
"Under Utah law, police are required to either arrest the suspect or issue a citation in a domestic violence situation. They have no discretion in the matter, she said.
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{{#rendered}}Residents of Blue Point, Long Island, lit candles outside of their homes in a tribute to Gabby Petito Friday night, according to reports.
Petito, whose remains were identified earlier this week, was a native of the area. Her family is holding funeral services this weekend in nearby Holbrook.
"When the community loses one, we all do," Jennifer Horton, who participated in the vigil, told News 12 in New York. "So just remember the great life she had. Losing her so young and just to really celebrate her life."
The candles were given out with a suggested $20 donation to Gabby's family.
The circumstances surrounding Laundrie's disappearance have prompted speculation about the alleged role his parents may or may or not have played in helping their son elude authorities.
Of particular interest is how Laundrie’s parents, Christopher Laundrie, 62, and Roberta Laundrie, 55, claim they picked up their son's Mustang car on Sept. 14 from the nature preserve that authorities are now sweeping for any trace of Brian Laundrie. Some have speculated as to why they would bring the car home, without their son, leaving him in a large nature reserve full of alligators and snakes.
The parents did not report their son missing until police showed up at their home on Friday, Sept. 17, three days later.
So far, Laundrie’s parents have not been charged with any crime, and experts say that could be a tall order under Florida law.
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Brian Laundrie’s parents were followed by undercover law enforcement agents when they drove 150 miles north to speak with their lawyer in Orlando on Thursday, according to the Daily Mail.
The trip came a day after a federal arrest warrant was issued for Laundrie who officers have been searching for since last Saturday.
They were also followed all the way back to their home in North Port, Florida, where they ignored questions from Fox News reporters.
Laundrie family attorney Steven Bertolino told Fox News on Wednesday his "family is definitely concerned [about his whereabouts] but we don’t want to speculate as to anything more."
{{#rendered}}Loved ones of Gabby Petito will say goodbye to the 22-year-old at her funeral in Long Island on Sunday, her father posted on Instagram Friday.
Services will be held at the Moloney Funeral Home in Holbrook from 12 to 5 p.m. "Thank to all for your support and love," he wrote, adding that in lieu of flowers the family requests people make donations to the future Gabby Petito Foundation.
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