Gabby Petito autopsy update: Toxicology report still can’t be released and her exact date of death is not known
A TOXICOLOGY report will not be released yet as part of Gabby Petito's autopsy, officials said on Tuesday, as it was revealed the slain vlogger died by strangulation.
The remains of 22-year-old Gabby were discovered at a campsite near Grand Teton Nation Park on September 19. She had been on a cross-country road trip with her fiance Brian Laundrie when she vanished in late August.
Blue confirmed that Gabby had died by strangulation and said that her body had been in the Wyoming wilderness for three to four weeks before it was found.
He also confirmed that Gabby was not pregnant at the time of her death, but said officials were unable to release a toxicology report at this time.
"It was just a matter of making sure we had everything right," Dr. Blue said of the delay of the cause of death during a press conference.
"All I can really comment on is is that her body was outside in the wilderness for three to four weeks."
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"Prosecutors are very interested in DNA because DNA — foreign DNA on her, meaning not her own DNA, can be critically important, and there are things called defensive strikes, defensive wounds, and they look under the nails to see if there is any foreign DNA," Casarez said.
"If there was anything that could show a perpetrator…was committing an act against her, that DNA could be used" in a criminal case.
Brian quietly returned home to Florida alone on September 1, failing to alert police or Gabby’s family that she was missing.
He reportedly acted "without a care in the world" upon his return, neighbors said, mowing the front yard and enjoying idyllic bike rides with his mom.
Gabby was eventually reported missing by her mother in New York on September 11. That came after 10 days of allegedly being stonewalled by Brian and his parents about where her daughter was, she said.
Then, on September 13, Brian allegedly vanished after telling his parents he was going hiking at Carlton Reserve.
But they didn’t report Brian missing until three days later.
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