'I think silence speaks volumes,' Petito's mother, Nicole Schmidt, said during the interview with '60 Minutes Australia.'
Gabby Petito's stepfather said during a recent interview that Brian Laundrie is"hiding" and not"missing."host Sarah Abo to discuss their daughter's death and the disappearance of Laundrie, her fiancé.
"We know that Brian now has been missing himself for a number of weeks," Abo said, but she was quickly interrupted by Petito's stepfather, Jim Schmidt, who said,"Can we change? Gabby was missing. There's a lot of other people out there that are missing. He's hiding." He went on to speak about Laundrie's family during the interview, saying,"We were up every day and every night till we found Gabby. Are the people that love him doing the same thing for him? And why not? 'Cause if they were, maybe he'd be found by now."
Laundrie was last seen by his parents over a month ago. They told authorities they believed he left their home on September 13 to go for a hike in Florida's Carlton Reserve. Since his disappearance, law enforcement has focused the search on the reserve, and his parents have not said anything else to authorities about their son's possible location. Laundrie remains the sole person of interest in Petito's disappearance and death, which Wyoming's Teton County coroner recently said was caused by manual strangulation.Australia, Nichole Schmidt, Petito's mother, was asked about the Laundrie family's silence.
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