Gabby Petito's stepfather creates stone cross memorial at exact site where daughter's body was found

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Gabby Petito's stepfather makes stone cross memorial and covers it with yellow flowers at the exact spot where her body was found in Wyoming: Family arranges visitation at funeral home near in New York as cops continue to hunt for her fiancé
Gabby Petito's memorial will be held on Sunday in Holbrook, New York
Details of her funeral are yet to be published and the family has not commented
Petito's stepfather has visited the spot where her body was found in Wyoming
James Schmidt laid rocks in the shape of a cross on the site, with flowers
The 22-year-old's body was found by Spread Creek campsite on Sunday
Her boyfriend Brian Laundrie, 23, is the sole 'person of interest' and is missing
Gabby Petito's stepfather James Schmidt has visited the exact spot where her body was found in Wyoming, and created a memorial to the 22-year-old New Yorker.

Schmidt, who is married to Petito's mother Nichole, traveled from New York to Wyoming last week to help with the search for the missing 'van life' traveler.

She had been reported missing on September 11, and he set out on September 14. Her body was found on September 19.

On Wednesday Schmidt made a stone cross at the site where Petito was discovered, Fox News confirmed. He left yellow and white flowers on the site, beneath the trees.

Gabby Petito's father James Schmidt has visited the exact spot where she was killed, and created a stone cross. He laid a floral tribute

James Schmidt, Gabby Petito's stepfather, traveled to Wyoming on September 14 to help the search for the 22-year-old. Four days later her body was found

Schmidt is pictured with his wife Nichole, Gabby's mother, at a press conference on September 14 - shortly before he set out for Wyoming

Petito saved money for her road trip by working in a pharmacy and then set out on July 2

Gabby Petito, 22, is pictured with her boyfriend Brian Laundrie, 23, in a YouTube video made to document their 'van life' road trip. Petito's body was found on Sunday and Laundrie has disappeared

A memorial of stones arranged in a cross pattern was spotted Monday evening at the Spread Creek Dispersed Campsite east of the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. On Wednesday Petito's stepfather made a similar tribute at the exact spot where her body was found

A similar memorial had been made on Monday, on an open patch of muddy land on the banks of a river near the campsite.

Gary Rider, a friend of Schmidt, said the pair had visited the site on Wednesday and that they had left some flowers next to the other cross.

'We did go – the small cross with flowers was made by Jim and myself,' he told The Independent.

'That larger cross was not done by anyone connected with the search or recovery of Gabby.'

A memorial for Petito will be held on Sunday in New York, the Long Island funeral home confirmed on Wednesday.

The pair had been travelling on a cross-country trip together since July 2, when they left New York. Petito was reported missing on September 11

A mural of Gabby Petito with wings was placed at Nicholls Road and Montauk Highway, in Blue Point, New York

Petito was originally from New York with her family saying they will release a statement when her body is returned there

A makeshift memorial for Gabby Petito is seen near North Port City Hall in North Port, Florida, where she used to live

Petito's family - from Blue Point, New York - have not spoken since a coroner on Tuesday confirmed that the body discovered on Sunday was indeed her.

They said that they would speak once her remains were returned to them.

The hunt for the sole 'person of interest' in her case continues.

Her boyfriend Brian Laundrie, 23, was reported missing by his parents on September 17, three days after telling them he was setting off on a hike.

Laundrie's family lawyer said: 'May she rest in peace.'

The search for Laundrie has since Sunday been concentrated on the Carlton Reserve - a swampy, alligator-filled 25,000 acre site where Laundrie's abandoned car was found. The silver Ford Mustang contained a note, requesting it be towed away.

North Port Police Department on Wednesday evening at around 7pm tweeted that the search had concluded for the day, and would resume in the morning.

'The ground search for Brian Laundrie has been halted for the evening. Nothing found,' they said.

'We will be back out Thursday, similar operation.'