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Of their home. but jon, right now, there are a lot of questions about how this 23-year-old was able to slip away without a trace. >> brian was not going to speak with us. he would not speak with us. so knowing that, we weren't dedicating a whole lot of resources to following around someone who is not wanted on a crime. our focus was finding gabby. >> and jon, i want to make it clear, that police have maintained that brian is only a person of interest in regard to the disappearance of his girlfriend gabby petito. they are treating his disappearance as a missing person's case and are asking anyo...

To find her. >> reporter: now, the petito family released a statement through their attorney that a reads, quote: all of gabby's family want the world to know that brian isn't missing, he's in hiding. gabby is missing. protesters demanding answers popped up outside of the family home as questions mount why brian returned home to florida alone after that cross-country trip he and gabby were on together and why he's refused to investigators about his girlfriend's whereabouts. >> he has to say what happened. he has to tell us what happened. >> reporter: and again, arthel, police are not consideri...

>> well, the parents are going to have a hard time saying at any point in this investigation that they didn't know anything because simply by virtue of the fact that they did not respond to text messages from gabby's parents who were, by all accounts, good friends of theirs shows their complicity. so they're going to have a real hard time backing out of that one if, in fact, this thing goes the way some of us think it might go. arthel: yeah. she lived with the family for over a year. her name is gabby petito. we hope she returns home safely. if you know or have seen anything that could help fi...

>> all that matters is finding her and bringing her home. we're still trying to get the word out there, you know, and try to find that one person that might have some details that we need. just trying to get out there and find that person and, hopefully, they can help us with anything, you know, that'll bring her home. >> reporter: thousands of tips have been pouring into the fbi and the police. according to a report in the east idaho news, the owner of a local shop in victor, idaho, near the wyoming border told the fbi that she saw gabby and brian laundry either on august 25th or 26th, a day ...

Near the wyoming border told the fbi that she saw gabby and brian landry either on august 25th or the 26th, that's a day or two after gabby's mother last spoke to her daughter. the owner said the couple seemed happy and mentioned they were thinking about going to yellowstone next but still with brian silence a big piece of the puzzle is missing. >> you need to just really give us at least are we looking in the correct spots because there's a lot of space in between here and we can't just keep doing this and it's really actually torture. >> and, of course, with brian in silence the fbi continue...