North Port Police Department admits to costly mistake in Brian Laundrie investigation: 'No case is perfect.'

• A spokesperson for North Port Police said investigators made mistakes in the Brian Laundrie case.

• A spokesperson for the department told WINK News that officers mistook Brian's mother for her son.

• "They're kind of built similarly," Josh Taylor told the outlet.

Officers with the small Florida police department that led the search for Brian Laundrie over the last month-and-a-half, made mistakes while handling the high-profile case, a spokesperson with the department said Monday.

Josh Taylor, public information officer for the department, told WINK News that officers mistook Brian's mother, Roberta Laundrie, for her 23-year-old son just one day before his parents reported him missing.

"No case is perfect," Taylor told the outlet.

According to Taylor, North Port Police began watching Brian after the family of his fiance, Gabby Petito, reported her missing on September 11, ten days after Laundrie returned to Florida from the couple's cross-country road trip without her.

On Monday, September 13, North Port Police watched Brian leave his parent's home in his grey Mustang, according to Taylor. Two days later, on September 15, officials thought they saw him return to the family home in the same car.

As pressure mounted in the search for Petito, North Port Police Chief Todd Garrison told reporters on Thursday, September 16 that police were confident Brian was inside his home.