“He was slapping her?” the dispatcher replies.
“Yes, and then we stopped. They ran up and down the sidewalk. He proceeded to hit her, hopped in the car and they drove off,” the caller adds.
However, another officer wrote in the report, “It wasn’t clear, but I believe it was reported the male had been observed to have assaulted the female.”
After the couple spoke with police, Petito went back to the customized van in which the couple was traveling and Laundrie stayed the night in a hotel, the police report states.
The incident was classified as “disorderly conduct.”
Petito last made contact with her family on Aug. 24 and was reported missing on Sept. 11. On Sunday, authorities announced they haddiscovered a bodyin Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming they believe isPetito’s.
Police in North Port, Fla., where the Laundrie family lives and where the couple had lived before they set out on a cross-country trip in their van, have said they believe Petito was in the national park when she last contacted her family.
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Last Wednesday, Laundrie wasnamed a person of interest in the case, and on Friday, authorities announced Laundrie is currently missing.
Laundrie has not been named a suspect in the case.
On Monday, the FBI announced they wereserving a search warrant at the Laundrie family home.
On Saturday, ina series of viral videos posted to TikTok, a woman claimed that she and her boyfriend picked up Laundrie while he hitchhiked in Wyoming in August, after Petito was last heard from.
In the TikTok videos, the woman, who identifies herself asMiranda Baker, said she picked up a hitchhiking Laundrie on Aug. 29 at Colter Bay in Grand Teton National Park.
Baker claimed that Laundrie approached the couple in need of a ride to Jackson, Wyo., where she said they happened to be heading. Baker said Laundrie got in their Jeep, and after the couple exchanged small talk with their hitchhiker, Laundrie mentioned he had been camping “for multiple days without his fiancée,” who he said was “working on their social media page back at their van.”
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source: people.com
