Gabby Petito’s killer ‘looked into her eyes and terrorized her’ as they strangled her to death, John Walsh says

GABBY Petito's killer "looked into her eyes and terrorized her" as they strangled her to death, John Walsh has said.

On Tuesday, an autopsy revealed that died by .

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Coroner explained that the .

Former America's Most Wanted host chimed in on the autopsy results, saying: "That's the way angry cowards kill people."

'COWARDLY' KILL

"That’s the way angry cowards kill people, up close like that. They strangle them. They’re looking in the person’s eyes, terrorizing them," Walsh told

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“I believe he's out there with the aid of his parents,” Walsh explained when asked if was still alive.

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Walsh also blames the fugitive’s parents, , for helping their son elude the pursuit by law enforcement.

“They're actively aiding and abetting his escape, and they're helping him stay out there,” he said. 

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He added that the 23-year-old fugitive may be armed.

“I believe they might have given him a gun. And I would hate to see someone else become a victim of this guy," Walsh said.

Gabby's remains were discovered at a  on September 19.

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'PERSON OF INTEREST'

The and local police and sheriffs are actively looking for on September 14 by his parents, who told authorities he never returned after leaving their North Port home to go hiking at the Carlton Nature Reserve.

The Laundrie family stayed at the campsite there on September 6 - days after the 23-year-old cut short the couple’s summer road trip together by two months.

Investigators have deployed drones, hound dogs, and all-terrain vehicles at the reserve's alligator, snake, and bug-infested swampland.

Bounty hunters have also joined the search, with  trying to find Laundrie further afield at the much smaller 1,136 acre Fort de Soto Island campground.

was named a “person of interest” four days before his 22-year-old ex-fiancee was found dead in Grand Teton Park in . 

The van-life couple cut short their summer transatlantic road trip. 

 when her mother received a text which read: "No signal in Yosemite."

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