FONTANA DAM, N.C. - A man visiting a resort off the Appalachian Trail in North Carolina got his hotel door kicked in by U.S.
Marshals and sheriff’s deputies after being mistaken for Brian Laundrie who is wanted by officials as a person of interest in connection to the murder of Gabby Petito, 22.
Sheriff Jerry Crisp with the Graham County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina told FOX TV Stations that his department had received a few calls of people seeing someone who resembled Laundrie ever since he was reportedly seen near the Appalachian Trail.
Local news media reported several sightings of a person who looked just like Laundrie near the Appalachian Trail in late September, according to Crisp, but those sightings soon fizzled out. "Then.