Brian Laundrie likely 'looks homeless' & will have 'dropped 15 pounds' on the run from FBI, forensic sketch artist says

A FAMED forensic sketch artist has shared what she believes Brian Laundrie may look like now more than three weeks after he vanished amid an investigation into the disappearance of his slain fiancee, Gabby Petito.

Speaking to The Sun, Lois Gibson shared a series of sketches showing the potential changes to Laundrie's appearance that the wanted 23-year-old may have either intentionally or unintentionally altered.

Laundrie was last seen sometime around mid-September, with his parents initially claiming he disappeared on September 14 after telling them he was going hiking in Florida's Carlton Reserve but never returned.

His parents have since revised that account, insisting he actually left home on September 13. Police weren't made aware of his disappearance until four days later.

A slew of potential Laundrie sightings have been reported in the weeks since, including in Florida, Canada, Mexico and along the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Maine to Georgia.

While police work to track him down, it's widely expected that the keen outdoorsman and van-lifer is hiding somewhere out in the wilderness.

TELL-TALE SIGNS

According to Gibson, who holds a Guinness World Record for the most ever identifications by a forensic artist, going on the run in the wild will have a series of specific effects on Laundrie's appearance.

"I have my opinions" Gibson, who worked as a sketch artist for 39 years, said. "He's trying to make it a survival thing, which is likely to involve camping.

"When you're out in the open like that, you're going to get a lot of extra sun to the point of suffering some skin damage. He's likely to have a lot of redness or rosacea across his face, like sometimes how you see on a homeless person."

Gibson also believes that Laundrie has likely lost a substantial amount of weight, somewhere between 10 and 15 pounds, "regardless of how much money he has on him."

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"He will have lost a bunch of weight," she said. "Even if he's got a bunch of money on him – it's hard to eat when you're on the run. It gnaws away at you.

"Life will be hard for Brian Laundrie right now. Very hard. And that will show in the form of weight loss."

PHYSICAL CHANGES

Gibson shared with The Sun three sketches to show what Brian may look like now.

The impressions include things that Laundrie may have intentionally changed about his appearance to avoid detection.

One of the most likely alterations Laundrie has made is shaving off his beard, Gibson says.

"Because his beard and mustache are very, very distinctive, I believe he would've shaved pretty quickly.

"He'd be crazy if he didn't shave because it would be so easy to spot him.

"[His beard is] almost an Abraham Lincoln on the bottom and the beard grows on the bottom edge [of his face]. It's very thick and dark around the edge of his chin.

"He's mustache also doesn't get to the bottom of the lip at all. It's pretty far away."

While Laundrie is balding, Gibson suggests Brian will also likely attempt to grow his remaining hair out, possibly even dying it to a brighter color.

"He should let his hair grow, but hair only grows about a third of an inch each month, so he's probably got barely any hair grown out at the moment."

CONCEALING HIS FACE

In the meantime, Gibson says Laundrie will most likely be using items of clothing to shield his identity.

One thing she says she'd bet "a lot of money on" is that Brian is wearing a baseball cap.

"About 90 percent of crooks on the run wear a baseball cap when they're trying to get away or hide their features.

"[Looking at his social media] it's clear he likes wearing ball caps. They're also good for survival in the outdoors because they help keep you shielded from the sun.

"You could also safely bet that he's probably wearing sunglasses. They've been used as a form of disguise ever since they were invented.

"And he even gets to wear a Covid mask all he wants without drawing attention to himself – and that's a biggie to look out for."

DISTINCTIVE FEATURES

Two distinctive and identifying features of Laundrie's that he'll find difficult to conceal, Gibson says, is his ears and his teeth.

"I went to dental school so I noticed that he has unusual dentition in his teeth. His maxillary lateral incisor pushes out at the bottom, just a little bit and it makes for a sort of uneven bottom edge of his top teeth.

"It really shows readily when he talks or smiles – he shows the bottom edge of those teeth."

She continued: "Ears are also the most complicated object on the surface of the head – more so than eyes, lips or noses. There's really nothing that can be done to change them."

While theories about where Laundrie might be continue to circulate on social media, Gibson says her near four decades of working alongside law enforcement gives her the hunch that Laundrie is on the Appalachian Trail.

Explaining her thought process, Gibson said: "The Appalachian Trial is massively long. It's huge. And he can easily disappear there forever or even blend in with hikers trekking the trail."

But offering her advice to Laundrie, Gibson urged the fugitive to turn himself in.

"I wish somebody could talk to him because he's not going to be happy living life on the run.

"I've seen people get away with things like murder for 30 years and it tears your guts out. It's not the way you want to live.

"Of course, the alternative isn't perfect. You're going to have to go through trial, and things like that, but at least you get to tell your side of the story.

"There are punishments, lawyers and all that ugly stuff. But there's peace, you can sleep and everybody can get closure.

"He needs to contact authorities and hand himself in peacefully. But as long as he's out there it's a tortured existence. It's not a happy existence."

Ill-FATED ADVENTURE

Brian and Gabby, who met in New York before moving to Florida two years ago, were around two months into their planned four-month cross-country road trip touring the US’ national parks before Gabby vanished sometime around August 27.

Brian quietly returned home to Florida alone on September 1, failing to alert police or Gabby’s family that she was missing.

He reportedly acted “without a care in the world” upon his return, neighbors said, mowing the front yard and enjoying idyllic bike rides with his mom.

Gabby was eventually reported missing by her mother in New York on September 11. That came after 10 days of allegedly being stonewalled by Brian and his parents about where her daughter was, she said.

Then, on September 13, Brian allegedly vanished after telling his parents he was going hiking at Carlton Reserve.

A more than three-week search for him has so far yielded no concrete leads.

Laundrie is not currently considered a suspect in Gabby's murder but is considered a person of interest.

He does, however, have a warrant out for his arrest on bank fraud allegations after allegedly racking up $1,000 in charges on a debit card that's believed to have belonged to Gabby.

Police are still searching Carlton Reserve for traces of Laundrie, while TV star Dog the Bounty Hunter is scouring Fort De Soto Park.

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