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A report has indicated that Florida fugitive Brian Laundrie allegedly purchased a cell phone from an AT&T store in his hometown of North Port the day his parents claimed to have last seen him. TMZ reported that Laundrie was spotted with an older woman inside one of the cell phone stores in North Port, Florida, where he was living with his parents and his fiancée, Gabby Petito, on Sept. 14. The FBI later visited the store and seized footage from the surveillance cameras. Laundrie’s parents informed authorities after 3-days that he left for the nearby T. Mabry Carlton Reserve on Sept. 14, but had not come home. An employee at the AT&T store, in North Port, said that they could not confirm or deny it was the store Brian was reportedly seen at.

The employee said that all questions should be directed to corporate. Laundrie family attorney Steven Bertolino said the Laundries had purchased a cell phone sometime after Brian returned, but said he did not know the date of the purchase. Bertolino confirmed that Brian Laundrie left the phone behind when he was last seen on Sept. 14, and said he believed the FBI had the device. It is noteworthy that authorities in Wyoming said they recovered a body Tuesday that fits the description of a 46-year-old Texas man who has been missing for over a month. The body was recovered from the same national forest where Gabby Petito’s remains were found earlier this month. The authorities also credited coverage of the 22-year-old’s case with leading to new information behind Tuesday’s discovery.

The Teton County Search and Rescue agency said it conducted a search for Robert “Bob” Lowery of Houston in Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest after receiving new information over the weekend about his last-known whereabouts. The Teton County Sheriff’s Office had said Lowery was last seen on or around August 19 in the community of Teton Village. But the search and rescue agency said in a Facebook post-Monday night that Lowery was actually last seen on the afternoon of August 20 on a trail inside the forest. On Tuesday, searchers split into teams and combed through what the agency described as a “thick timbered area” around the trail. A team with a search dog found the body after 4-hours that matched Lowery’s description and a duffel bag on a “steep, timbered slope” off the trail.