Gabby Petito case: Expert raises fears about what Brian Laundrie would do in private after ‘hitting fiancé in public’
BRIAN Laundrie's actions in private have been called into question by a forensic expert after Gabby Petito's fiancé reportedly hit her in the street during an argument.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Joseph Scott Morgan, an Associate Professor of Applied Forensics with Jacksonville State University, said that it potentially showed how "bold" could be.
Gabby told cops responding to the call that Laundrie grabbed her face when trying to get her to be quiet.
Officers decided that Gabby was the "aggressor" after she said she hit Laundrie first in the argument.
The couple was ordered to separate for the night but no charges were brought against either of them.
"If that story is true, that's rather bold, don't you think?
"And so for me, I think, 'well, if you're so bold to do that public, what might you be willing to do in private?'"
It comes after the Teton County Coroner's Office on Tuesday revealed that
No further details about the condition Gabby's remains were found in were revealed.
Dr Brent Blue also refused to speculate on a suspect or Brian Laundrie.
Yet the FBI issued a on September 24 for misuse of a bank card that was later revealed to be Gabby's.
The Laundrie family refused to answer questions about where Gabby was as the Petito family became concerned they had not heard from her since August 27.
She was reported missing on September 11 and Laundrie was
Dr Blue had said her body was outdoors for up to a month before it was found but would not comment on any decomposition.
He said that while it would be "difficult" to identify earlier bruising if Gabby's remains were decomposed, it wasn't out of the question.
"You have to take care in what you're doing and be very exact," he said.
“Our body has a fantastic way of healing, but you can have overlying or overlapping injuries, where it'll be at a different point in time in the healing process.
“You have some evidence, at least admittedly on the Moab tape, that they've been quarreling.
“So, for me, I'm going to say: ‘Well, I'm going to dig a little bit deeper.’
“The trick of all of this is to try to differentiate, and it can be difficult to differentiate between pre-existing injury and the compositional artifact," Morgan continued.
“Is the muscle in such a state of decay that you would not be able to pick up on that?”
“This is a scary case,” Morgan said of watching the bodycam footage.
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