July 1st: Gabby Petito and her boyfriend Brian Laundrie left Blue Point, New York for a cross-country road trip
August 12: Police in Moab, Utah respond to a domestic incident involving the couple
August 17: Laundrie reportedly flies back to Florida to ‘clean out a storage unit’
August 21: Petito’s father, Joseph Petito, makes his final FaceTime video call with his daughter in Salt Lake City, Utah
August 23: Laundrie flies back to Utah to “rejoin Gabby” on their journey
August 24: Petito was last seen at a Salt Lake City hotel with Laundrie
August 25: Petito calls her mother, Nichole Schmidt, for the last time and says she was in Grand Teton National Park
August 25 or 26: The couple chats for about twenty minutes with the owner of a store called ‘Rustic Row’ in Victor, Utah
August 27: Video of Petito’s van was taken by blogger Jenn Bethune at the Spread Creek Campground around 6:30 p.m.; Witnesses say they saw ‘commotion’ with the couple at the Merry Piglets Tex-Mex restaurant in Jackson, Wyoming
August 29: The day Wisconsin TikToker Miranda Baker claimed she and her boyfriend were approached by Laundrie in Grand Teton National Park at 5:30 p.m. and asked them for a ride
August 30: Schmidt receives final text from Petito’s phone: ‘No service in Yosemite’
1st of September: Laundrie returns to his parents’ house in North Port, Florida in a van without Petito
September 6-7: Laundrie and his parents visit the Fort De Soto campsite in Florida
September 11: Schmidt reports Petito missing to authorities in New York; Petito and Laundrie’s van was seized by police in Florida that same day
September 12th: Grand Teton National Park rangers search for Petito
the 13th of September: Laundrie’s lawyer says on October 5 that his parents now ‘believe’ that was the day they last saw him walking
September 14: Laundrie makes a statement about Petito’s disappearance through his lawyer; Laundrie’s parents claim on September 17 that Laundrie left his parents’ house that day for a walk and that they have not seen him since
September 15: Laundrie is officially named as a person of interest in Petito’s case
September the 17th: The Laundrie family’s lawyer confirms that his whereabouts are unknown
September 18th: North Port Police and the FBI begin searching the Carlton Reserve in Sarasota County for missing Brian Laundrie
September 19: Bethune realizes she has video of Petito’s van around 12:00 and submits the footage to the FBI 10 minutes later; Officials announce a body matching Petito’s description was found in the afternoon near Grand Teton National Park
21st of September: Coroner confirms remains found in Grand Tetons are Petito’s. Her death has been ruled a homicide, but her cause of death remains under investigation
September 20 – 22: The FBI and North Port Police continue their search for Laundrie in Carlton Reserve
September 22: Neighbors say they saw the Laudries packing up their detached RV the day Gabby was reported missing. Photos from DailyMail.com show the camper was back in the driveway two days later, on September 13
September 23: FBI issues a warrant for Laundrie’s arrest for ‘use of an unauthorized access device’ for fraudulently using a Capitol One Bank debit card that did not belong to him between August 30 and September 1 to spend $1,000; An investigation is underway into the handling of the August 12 Utah police incident; Laundrie’s parents visit their lawyer in Orlando
25th of September: Dog the Bounty Hunter joins the search for Laundrie
26th September: A funeral is held for Petito in Holbrook, New York, and her family establishes a charity to help parents find missing children
September 27: The manhunt for Laundrie in the Carlton Reserve is being scaled back after a 10-day search failed to find him. Dog the Bounty Hunter says Laundrie and his parents stayed at Fort De Soto Park from September 1 to 3 and September 6 to 8 – and on that last visit only the parents left
September 28: Laundrie’s mother is accused of using a burner phone to contact her son. September 29: Records show Laundrie’s mother canceled a Fort De Soto Park campground reservation for two from September 1 to 3 and booked for three from September 6 to 8; FBI seizes surveillance footage from site; FBI investigates lead that Laundrie bought a burner phone on September 14;
September 30th: Bodycam footage of a second officer in the August 12 incident is released, showing a distressed Petito admitting Laundrie punched her; FBI agents collect more evidence from the Laundrie house
October 1: It turns out Laundrie’s sister contacted him after she said she did
October 2nd: A hiker along the Appalachian Trail claims to have seen Laundrie near the border of Tennessee and North Carolina
October 3: Investigators searched the area on the Appalachian Trail for signs that Laundrie had been there
4 October: Laundrie’s sister told protesters outside her home that her family ignored her after reprimanding her story and that she doesn’t know where her brother is
Oct 5: Laundrie’s sister appeared on Good Morning America to say she would report her brother if she knew where he is;
October 7: Laundrie’s father Christopher joins FBI agents to search for his son in the Carlton Reserve, but the search turns up no clues
12 October: Teton County Coroner Dr. Brent Blue Releases Autopsy Results Showing Petito Died of Strangulation; No specific date of death was given, only that she had been dead for three to four weeks before her body was found
October 16: Petito’s parents are seen collecting her ashes at the Valley Mortuary in Jackson, Wyoming
October 20: Human remains found in Carlton Reserve
21st of October: FBI confirms body found belongs to Brian Laundrie. A notebook, backpack and dry bag were also found with the body