(Fox Information/FOX 46 CHARLOTTE) – A Charlotte man mountaineering the Appalachian Trail promises he saw Brian Laundrie driving in a white pickup truck close to 12:30 a.m. ET on Saturday in Tennessee near the North Carolina border.
Dennis Davis, who spoke to a selection of information stores on Saturday together with Fox Information Electronic 2 times, said it failed to at first register that the driver may perhaps have been Laundrie, but following the experience, he appeared up images of the fugitive wanted on debit card fraud prices, and he then felt confident sufficient to get in touch with in the sighting to FBI twice, as well as 911 operators in Tennessee and North Carolina.
“There is no question about it. That was Brian Laundrie I was just conversing to. 100%. Not a doubt in my thoughts,” Davis reported of the face right after he looked up both of those a portrait and profile shot of Laundrie on his telephone.
Laundrie is on the lam and is preferred on bank fraud expenses immediately after his 22-year-previous fiancée, Gabby Petito, was uncovered dead in Wyoming last thirty day period.
The incident is not the initial time Laundrie has been connected to the North Carolina Mountains.
Previous week, Dog the Bounty Hunter’s daughter, Lyssa Chapman, tweeted that they ended up on the lookout for seasoned hiking/survivalists in close proximity to the Appalachian Hiking Path.
Chapman went on to say persons in the space should share Laundrie’s photo and attain out to any one in these communities. Chapman also told hunters in the area to check out their recreation cameras.
Various sightings of Laundrie have also been claimed in Watauga County, North Carolina. The Sheriff’s Place of work tells FOX 46, “We have been looking into these claims, but nothing has been confirmed.”