Cassie Laundrie has a message for her fugitive brother. In an interview with ABC News on Tuesday, Cassie urged her missing brother, who has been the center of a nationwide manhunt after his girlfriend’s death, to come forward and turn himself in.
“I would tell my brother to just come forward and get us out of this horrible mess,” Cassie Laundrie told the Good Morning America. Cassie Laundrie lives in Florida with her husband and two sons. She told ABC News that her brother stopped by for an “ordinary” visit the day he returned the trip in Gabby’s van but without her.
“I really wish he had come to me first that day with the van,” she said, “because I don’t think we’d be here.”
Cassie told ABC News that she never witnessed any signs of domestic violence, although the couple would typically argue and try and take space from each other. Moreover, she said that she does not know where her brother is currently, and if she did, she would turn him in. Cassie last saw his brother on Sept. 6, when their family camped in Fort De Soto Park in Florida.
“We just went for a couple of hours and we ate dinner and had s’mores around the campfire and left, and there was nothing peculiar about it,” she said. “There was no feeling of grand goodbye. There was no nothing.”
Cassie also urged her parents to come clean if they had information on their son’s whereabouts. Since day one, Cassie has been cooperating with authorities. She is urging her parents to do the same.
Said she is also mourning for Petito and wants Petito’s parents to know that she shares their pain. On Monday, Cassie told a group of reporters outside her home that her family has been ignoring her regarding Brian’s disappearance.
