Wyoming coroners officially declared Instagrammer and influencer Gabby Petito’s cause of death. According to the evidence; The 22-year-old was strangled around the date of her disappearance, in early August 2021.
The cause of death is strangulation, in that way, it is homicide, ”said Dr. Brent Blue, at a news conference in Wyoming.
And that’s not all, since the 22-year-old’s body was exposed to the elements for at least 4 weeks, the coroner said, so the murder had to have occurred at the same time as her disappearance.
Dr. Blue refused to name a suspect in the homicide, although the FBI indicated that there is an arrest warrant against Brian Laundrie, who has been missing since September 11.
Although, according to family testimonies, the relationship between them was not good. Since they were stopped on the road while fighting and it was recorded on video; which went viral when news of her disappearance broke.
When Was Gabby Petito Body Found?
In early July, Petito and Laundrie began a road trip to visit various national parks in the western United States and document the journey for their social media.
The couple started their journey in a Ford Transit van from Long Island and had planned to end the trip at the end of October when they arrived in Oregon; However, Petito stopped posting content on his social media at the end of August and Laundrie returned to his parent’s home in North Port, Florida, on September 1, driving the van alone.
According to Gabby‘s relatives, her last contact with them was in late August from Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, where the body was found. Gabby Petito’s family filed the missing person report with the Suffolk County, New York, police on September 11.
Gabby Petito Press Conference Today
“All I can really comment on is that her body was out in the desert for three or four weeks,” Blue said when asked by a reporter about the possible impact the surrounding environment had on the young woman’s body.
The coroner who carried out Petito’s autopsy said that DNA samples were taken from his body as this is relevant in the criminal investigation since it could lead to the identification of the person responsible for the murder.
Authorities had previously announced that his death was a homicide. Blue explained that it took a month to reach a final autopsy result because the forensic officials in charge of the examination were very “demanding” in their examination. But what delayed the final report released on Tuesday a bit was that they waited for the addition of other specialists to help with the investigation and the results of the toxicology test.
On September 19, the authorities reported the discovery of a body that matched Petito’s description in that natural park in the northwest of the country.
Two days later, Dr. Blue himself confirmed that the body was that of the young woman, who was making a trip through natural parks in the United States with her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, who continues to be found and is intensely wanted by the authorities in Florida. where it is believed to be still hidden in a natural park near Sarasota.
On September 23, the FBI in Denver reported that it had issued a federal arrest warrant for Laundrie.
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