Hear Full 911 Call From Man Who Says He Spoke to Brian Laundrie Along Appalachian Trail

The Haywood County Sheriff's Office in North Carolina on Monday released a 911 call from a man who claimed to have spoken with Brian Laundrie along the border of Tennessee and North Carolina on the Appalachian Trail.

Dennis Davis said he had been hiking along the trail when he said he was approached by a man that he believed was Brian Laundrie. Davis said the man had asked him about how to get to California.

"He was talking wild. He said that his girlfriend loved him and he had to go out to California to see her, and he was asking me how to get to California," Davis told the 911 operator in the audio recording. He added later that he was "99.99 percent sure" the man was Laundrie.

Brian Entin of NewsNation Now posted the 911 recording on Twitter Monday.

Davis told the dispatcher that the man was driving what appeared to be a white Ford pickup truck. The man had slowed down and flashed his lights to signal for Davis to pull over, at which point their brief exchange occurred.

On Saturday, Davis spoke with the New York Post about the encounter, saying he didn't immediately recognize the man as Laundrie. However, he said he later pulled over to the side of the road and looked up photos of Laundrie on his phone. He then became convinced the man was him.

Davis also told the Post that the daughter of Dog the Bounty Hunter, who is also searching for Laundrie, sent him audio of Laundrie's voice and that voice of the man he spoke with was "the same."

Davis added that he has placed multiple calls to the FBI and law enforcement officials in North Carolina and Tennessee.

The Haywood County Sheriff's Office said it had received at least 10 reports of Laundrie sightings over the weekend.

Laundrie is a person of interest in the death of his fianceé, Gabby Petito, and has an active warrant out for his arrest on fraud charges for allegedly using someone's bank card and PIN around the time Petito disappeared.

The last people who are known to have had contact with Laundrie are his parents, who said they last saw him on September 14 at their home in North Port, Florida. They said he had told them he was going camping in a nearby nature reserve.

Laundrie and Petito had been traveling across the country during the summer in a Ford Transit van before Laundrie returned to North Port alone on September 1.

Petito was reported missing by family on September 11, and Laundrie did not cooperate with the police investigation, according to officials.

Petito's body was discovered near Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming on September 19. Her death was initially ruled a homicide by a local coroner.

Updated 10/04/2021 at 5:24 p.m. ET: This story has been updated with additional information and background.

Update 10/04/21 3:45 p.m. ET: This story has been updated to include more information about the encounter Davis said he had with the man he believed to be Laundrie.