Dog the Bounty Hunter says ‘strangulation is not an accident’ and is BACK searching for Brian Laundrie in Florida
DOG the Bounty Hunter said the release of Gabby Petito's cause of death in an autopsy report yesterday "doesn't look good" for her fiance Brian Laundrie because "strangulation is not an accident."
The reality TV investigator made the remarks in an interview with WFLA on Tuesday evening just hours by Teton County Coroner Dr. Brent Blue.
"I can’t fathom how Brian’s parents can live with themselves," Dog added.
Real name Duane Chapman, Dog announced on Monday that he had hurt his ankle while searching for Laundrie in Florida's Fort De Soto Park.
Laundrie, 23, has been missing since at least September 13 - six days before Gabby's decomposed remains were found at a campsite near Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
Her manner of death was confirmed to be a homicide days later, but officials withheld her cause of death for a month while officials were "exacting" in their examination of the details, Blue said on Tuesday.
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.
"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.
QUESTIONS REMAIN
He declined to comment as to whether Gabby's body showed signs of bruising, or whether it had been buried or left above ground.
";We hereby find the cause and manner of death to be, the cause, death by strangulation, and manner is homicide," said. "By Wyoming state statute, no other information will be released about the autopsy.
"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.
Following the results of the autopsy, the Laundrie family's attorney, Steve Bertolino, released a statement calling Gabby's "death at such a young age ... a tragedy."
"While Brian Laundrie is currently charged with the unauthorized use of a debit card belonging to Gabby, Brian is only considered a person of interest in relation to Gabby Petito’s demise.
"At this time Brian is still missing and when he is located we will address the pending fraud charge against him."
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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