Brian Laundrie could never survive in alligator-infested Florida swamp: expert
Brian Laundrie could never survive in the alligator-infested Florida swamp where cops have been hunting for him — and if he were dead, you’d know by the frenzy of buzzards, according to a local expert helping police.
“There’s no surviving out here,” rancher and outdoorsman Alan McEwen told Fox News Digital of Carlton Reserve, the area where Laundrie’s parents claim the 23-year-old wanted man went to escape days before his fiancée, Gabby Petito, was found dead.
“I’ve been in the woods in and out all my life,” said McEwen, who said he has navigated nearly every day of the last 30 years
“I have learned a lot in my life, and one thing I know is no one is gonna survive out there for two weeks on foot,” McEwen said, predicting that even an experienced survivalist wouldn’t last more than five days.
“There’s no water supplies; there’s no fresh springs … there’s just no possible way. No possible way,” he said of the area that is “90 percent underwater” with “no place habitable.”
“The mosquitoes will carry you off in the first night,” he told the outlet.
McEwan is equally doubtful that Laundrie’s body could be in there, undiscovered by police search squads — or the even more precise vultures.
“Anything dead you find in the woods, you’re gonna look up, you’re gonna see buzzards flying like crazy,” he told Fox News, saying you’d get up to 100 of them for “nothing but a squirrel.”
“No buzzards, no body … And I haven’t seen any buzzards flying,” he said.
He is also skeptical of theories that Laundrie could have been eaten by alligators, saying, “Gators out here are more afraid of you than you are of them.”
Adding to his suspicions that the wanted man was never really there, McEwan noted how Laundrie’s parents have not tried to help hunt for their son even though they live nearby.
“I’d be out there right now looking for them — if that’s where I thought he was,” he told Fox News Digital.
“I would go nuts. I wouldn’t be out mowing my lawn, I could promise you that. That’s the last place I’d be,” McEwen said.
