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Dog the Bounty Hunter has called the death of Brian Laundrie 'suspect' and detailed a slew of inconsistencies in his disappearance and suicide.
The reality TV star suggested in his new memoir that Brian's parents knew the location of his body all along after he killed his fiancée Gabby Petito in 2021 while on a cross-country road trip.
Dog writes that it would have been a 'miracle' if Roberta and Chris Laundrie really had found their son's remains by chance as they claimed in the 160-acre Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park in North Port, Florida.
'I believe in miracles but that seems miraculous indeed!' Dog writes snarkily in Nine Lives and Counting: A Bounty Hunter's Journey to Faith, Hope, and Redemption, which is out next month.
Dog joined the search for Brian but he killed himself before he was able to apprehend him, making him the first ever fugitive to evade the famed bounty hunter.
Dog says he is not convinced Brian shot himself dead and it writes that it doesn't make sense that his suicide note was still legible despite supposedly being underwater for a month.
Dog The Bounty Hunter joined the manhunt for Brian Laundrie after he was wanted for killing his fiancée Gabby Petito in 2021
Dog, real name Duane Chapman, writes in his upcoming memoir that Laundrie's death is 'suspect' and points out several 'inconsistencies'
Dog writes that it would have been a 'miracle' if Roberta and Chris Laundrie (pictured) really had found their son's remains by chance as they claimed
The case still troubles him due to 'too many irregularities and inconsistencies that have not been explained satisfactorily', he writes.
Petito, 22, from Blue Point, New York, was on a cross country road trip in 2021 with Brian 23, when her parents reported her missing in September that year.
She had been chronicling her journey on Instagram with her posts talking about how much she enjoyed the travels and living out of their van.
His memoir, Nine Lives and Counting: A Bounty Hunter's Journey to Faith, Hope, and Redemption, is out next month
But after her parents had not heard from her in a month they called the police, who later concluded she was murdered by Laundrie in late August.
Laundrie went missing soon after and became the prime suspect, even refusing to come forward when Petito's body was found despite mounting outrage from Petito's family and the public.
Dog became involved in the case while Brian was still a fugitive and writes in the book that he interrupted his honeymoon in Florida with his sixth wife Francie Frane to go and knock on the Laudrie family home in North Port.
Dog, whose real name is Duane Chapman, writes that his daughter Barbara Katie died in a car crash when she was 23, a similar age to Petito.
'I had an immediate emotional connection with Gabby's parents,' Dog writes.
After explaining this to Frane, he told her he wanted to knock on the Laundrie family home 'so bad' and she agreed to go with him.
After knocking loudly on the property and nobody answering, Dog became convinced he was nearby.
He writes: 'I felt in my gut the parents knew where their son was….I could feel that Laundrie was close.'
Dog told Francie: 'That boy slunk back home with his tail between his legs and I'm going to find him - for Gabby!'
Cutting his honeymoon short, Dog began working the case and 'tracked down a lot of clues' and set up a tip line run by former law enforcement agents that he knew.
Dog's suspicions grew even more when Roberta and Chris decided to 'suddenly' go looking for their son's body in the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park, where his van had already been spotted.
Soon after Brian's remains were found along with a backpack and a notebook.
