Brian landreth trial

The young couple was on a cross-country trip when Petito, a year-old Long Island native, went missing and Laundrie returned home in her van without her on Sept. Her death was ruled a homicide by manual strangulation while Laundrie remained missing and was the subject of a massive FBI-led manhunt. That search ended when his partial skeletal remains were found, but after his initial autopsy results were inconclusive, the were sent to an anthropologist for further review.

November 23, pm Updated November 23, pm. Bodycam footage from August 12, , featuring a very distressed Gabby Petito. Moab City Police Department In a statement Tuesday, Petito family lawyer Richard Stafford said his clients are aware of the suicide determination, but said they have been asked by federal prosecutors to refrain from issuing a statement.

The remains of Gabby Petito were found on Sept. Dennis A. Share This Article. On January 31st, authorities discovered the bodies of Paul "Brian" and Margaret "Susan" Brooks, who would have celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in July, inside the lakeside home of their son where they were vacationing near Lampe.

The boys, who were 15 and 16 years-old at the time of the Brookses murders, had run away from Lives Under Construction, a rehabilitative ranch for troubled boys, about a week before the double homicide. Authorities say Zarro, of Spring, Texas, and Allen, of Nashville, Tennessee hid in a vacant cabin next door to the Brookses and watched the elderly couple come and go before they allegedly killed them.

An autopsy determined that the couple died from blunt force trauma and stab wounds. Christopher Allen at certification hearing They are each charged with 12 separate counts that range from first-degree murder, armed criminal action, burglary, robbery, property damage and tampering with a motor vehicle and evidence. Landreth was one of the first investigators on the scene at Trace Hollow Road. He said when he arrived, deputies had two juveniles in custody and was told there were two deceased persons inside the home.

A neighbor of the Brookses thought the boys were suspicious called authorities and held them at gunpoint until law enforcers arrived. Landreth said that as he approached the front door he noticed blood stains on the concrete landing to the door and found copious amounts of blood throughout the house.

Followed on through to the back bedroom area, where I found the two bodies. Landreth said the door of the refrigerator and the fronts of the stove and dishwasher were covered in blood. He said a trail of blood led investigators to a bedroom where the elderly couple had been "dragged.

Landreth testified that the boys had attempted to clean the crime scene as investigators found bloody rags in a bedroom trashcan and bloody clothing in the washing machine. When the boys were searched, authorities found credit and debit cards belonging to Mr.

Brooks in the possession of Zarro. Allen was found to be in possession of credit and debit cards bearing Mrs. Brooks' name; and the clothing the boys were wearing appeared to have blood spatter on them, according to testimony from Landreth.

When authorities were swabbing the boys' hands for DNA evidence, Zarro asked why they were bothering with collecting evidence. I already told the other guy I killed them," Landreth recalled. Landreth responded "yes. His attorneys admit that Allen was present at the crime scene, but did not take part in the murders. Allen took part in the murder of the Brookses.

Brooks make him an active participant of the crime. Regardless, Rundel said, the focus of the certification hearing was not to determine the guilt or innocence of either boy but to determine if they should stand trial in adult court. The Juvenile Office appointed local attorney Eric Chavez to represent Zarro as he had no parents in the state to guide him, according to Rundel. Chavez told the court that Zarro had been abused and neglected by his biological mother and had been in and out of the foster care system from the ages of four to eight.