Brian Laundrie wrote about RESURRECTION and said it’s ‘only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free’
BRIAN Laundrie once wrote about resurrection and “losing everything” – parts of a quote attributed online to the well-known Chuck Palahniuk novel and movie Fight Club.
Laundrie, 23, accompanied the quote, shared on Instagram, with an image of a watercolor painting of the movie’s lead actor, Brad Pitt.
The full quote read: “Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”
Laundrie’s remains were found in a Florida wildlife area last week – the latest development in a case that has intrigued the nation over recent months.
The 23-year-old was in the middle of a months-long road trip across America with his fiancee, Gabby Petitio, 22, when Laundrie returned to his parents’ Florida home alone at the start of September.
FAMOUS QUOTE
Gabby’s parents reported her missing on September 11, and her remains were discovered in a Wyoming campsite on September 19.
An autopsy later reveled that Petito’s cause of death was strangulation.
Laundrie was last seen by his family on September 13, and over the weeks that followed, search teams focused Carlton Reserve and the adjoining Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park in Sarasota County, Florida.
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Though authorities never declared Laundrie a suspect in Petito’s killing, he was reportedly a person of interest.
The FBI issued a warrant for Laundrie’s arrest on September 23, claiming he “used unauthorized debit cards after Gabby Petito’s death.”
On October 21, Laundrie’s remains were discovered and he was identified through dental records.
The couple’s case has also piqued the interests of online sleuths, who have looked to find details that they think cops might have missed.
Recently, online detectives focused on a series of drawings that Laundrie once posted on his Instagram account.
ONLINE SLEUTHS
Authorities reportedly said that they found a journal at the scene of Laundrie’s body, which may be salvageable, causing sleuths to wonder if such sketches appeared in the book, or whether the journal held clues about Gabby’s death.
Others, however, were more level-headed.
One said: “It’s honestly most likely drawings. So honestly, I feel like most will be disappointed.”
Another added: “We’re not owed a glance into it. As much as we all want the details, we’re not privy to any of them.”
Some Facebook sleuths claimed the journal may even contain drawings relating to another Chuck Palahniuk novel, Lullaby, while others think it will be blank.
NOTEBOOK DISCOVERED
Laundrie appeared to brag in an Instagram post that he and Gabby read the horror satire novel.
Lullaby, published in 2002, tells the story of journalist Carl Streator, who is writing an article about crib death when he notices a strange connection between the deaths of the babies and those of his own wife and infant.
He then finds out that his wife and child had died after he read them a “culling song” from a book.
Unintentionally, he memorizes the rhyme and becomes a serial killer who kills people over minor annoyances.
Laundrie was pictured with the book on his lap in a picture taken while he and Gabby were hiking along the Appalachian Trail celebrating her 22nd birthday.
A cause of death hasn’t been established as Laundrie’s remains have been sent off to an anthropologist for further examination, but it hasn’t stopped sleuths from touting wild speculations.
‘WILD THEORIES’
Facebook sleuths spotted an alligator-shaped cloud over Immokalee, Florida on October 22 and asked if it was Laundrie.
From the image, the shape appears to look like the head and jaws of an alligator with its mouth open.
Users from a Facebook discussion group dedicated to the Gabby Petito case shared strange pictures of a partially toothless Laundrie, warning “here’s what he looks like now.”
There is no evidence to support these claims.
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