Watch Live: Gabby Petito's family speaks as authorities search for Brian Laundrie
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The family of Gabby Petito will speak to reporters at 1 p.m. ET Tuesday, their attorney Richard Stafford said, as authorities continue their search for her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, a person of interest in her disappearance.
Petito, 22, was reported missing after Laundrie, 23, returned home to Florida from a cross-country road trip without her in their 2012 Ford Transit van. The FBI later confirmed a body found in Wyoming was identified as Petito, and an initial autopsy ruled her cause of death a homicide.
Laundrie, who police said was initially uncooperative in the investigation, has been missing since he was declared a person of interest. Police have been searching for him in dense swampland in Florida. The FBI visited the home of Laundrie's parents on Sunday and removed personal items belonging to the missing man, Laundrie family attorney Steven Bertolini confirmed to CBS News.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.