Time and environmental factors are complicating the search for Brian Laundrie, experts say

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : The more time passes, the less evidence there will beLaundrie essentially had a multi-day head start on law enforcement.
46% : The public continues to be eager about this case, said Jeanis, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette professor, but "law enforcement is surely trying to take all the steps necessary to ensure safe and protected scenes and collecting evidence."
45% : "People who may be even well-intentioned could be passing on tips to law enforcement and instead of law enforcement having to find a needle in a haystack, it's now more like a grain of sand on a big beach," Fox said, explaining that every tip must be investigated.
41% : "Time is that one thing that we are constantly fighting in law enforcement," said Bryanna Fox, a former FBI special agent and associate professor in the department of criminology at the University of South Florida.
37% : It is really, really difficult today to remain intentionally missing," said Michelle Jeanis, an assistant professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's Department of Criminal Justice who specializes in missing persons.
35% : Law enforcement, to be able to find him, they either have to find one clue or catch one mistake he made and that could blow the whole case open," she said.

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