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Experts Claim That Gabby Petito Autopsy Offers Photo of Her Final Moments
Gabby Petito Autopsy photo: Experts tell Fox News that the discovery of Gabby Petito’s remains at a Wyoming campsite last month during an FBI-led investigation suggests that domestic abuse and murderous intent were likely involved. Her autopsy revealed that she died by homicide by strangling.
Her fiance, Brian Laundrie, has been identified as a person of interest in her death and is sought on a federal bank card fraud warrant. Brian and she camped together before he drove back to Florida alone and eventually vanished himself.
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According to Teton County Coroner Dr. Brent Blue, Petito was killed by “manual strangulation/throttling,” which means she was killed by hand as opposed to anything like a rope or chain.
Dr. Dan Field, a board-certified emergency physician who has testified as an expert witness in homicide and strangulation cases, stated that killing someone by strangulation takes time and planning.
He explained to Fox News Digital, “I [tested] in a murder case in Florida where the defense was trying to put out the argument that it was a moment of passion — and so the question I was asked is how long does it take for strangling to kill someone.” The numbers are extremely precise.
According to him, it takes from 62 to 157 seconds. The prosecution’s next concern is whether or not 62 seconds constitutes a “moment of passion,” he continued. In that case, prosecutors succeeded in getting a conviction.
According to Field, victims can lose consciousness within the first five to ten seconds after a stranglehold is performed due to a combination of low oxygen levels, reflexes, and blood flow restriction.
In between 11 and 17 seconds, a seizure can happen. They start to lose control of other organs after 30 seconds. However, dying takes longer.
Field remarked, “It is surprisingly swift, but it’s not a moment. “There is no flap. Not pulling the trigger is what it is.” And these assaults are typically planned, he said.
Field stated that although the exact sequence of events that led to Petito’s murder is still a mystery, statistically speaking, accidental strangling between intimate lovers is much less likely than malicious intent.
By the figures alone, he concluded that erotic asphyxiation was unlikely. It is still a chance, though. It’s unknown what the prosecution would argue or try to show in court because they haven’t yet filed any charges against anyone in relation to Petito’s death.
Field said, “If you don’t have an eyewitness, then you’ll have to establish a circumstantial case.” “And if the facts show that the two of them were present at the same moment or very close to it when she passed away, it is circumstantial proof that he was responsible for her demise. Circumstantial evidence, not proof.”
Experts Claim Gabby Petito Autopsy Photo
According to Blue, who spoke at a news conference on Tuesday, Petito’s remains were scattered throughout the Wyoming wilderness for at least three weeks.
Although there was probably extensive decay throughout that time due to the environment and wildlife, some hints may still have been present.
One would be the victim’s neck’s broken hyoid bone, according to Field. Others include bleeding within the neck’s strap muscles or injury to the carotid or jugular arteries.
Blue chose not to go into further detail about his discoveries, but he was sure of the diagnosis of manual strangulation.
Dr. Ziv Cohen, a criminal psychiatrist with a practice in New York City, claims that strangulation can also be impulsive, emotional, and unplanned.
Because it is a more personal method of killing, he explained, “strangulation usually points us in the direction of somebody who knew her or who might have gotten physical with her.”
The bodycam video from the Moab police department on August 12 shows additional proof of the couple’s physical intimacy, he continued.
He added, “We know that Brian Laundrie was alleged to be witnessed as striking her from the 911 callers. “And we know that she acknowledged to scratching him on the bodycam tape.”
Field Came To The Same Conclusion
He also brought up the Moab episode, saying that “if there has been evidence of some prior interpersonal violence, it elevates the possibility of homicidal strangulation to a considerably larger degree.”
Thus, I am aware that the two had some problems. They appeared to be traveling the country in the van while fighting.”
In the bodycam video, Petito also made a gesture toward her jawline, which Salt Lake City private eye Jason Jensen described earlier this week as a warning sign that she had previously been grabbed by the throat.
Any victim who has already been choked will instinctively lower their chin to their clavicle to stop the hand from going around their throat, he explained.
Witnesses witnessed the couple fighting with waitresses at a Jackson, Wyoming, restaurant called Merry Piglets two weeks after the Moab incident, after Laundrie flew home to Florida for a week and then returned to meet Petito again in Utah.
Nina Celie Angelo and Matthew England told Fox News last month that Laundrie frequently left the restaurant and then came back to dispute with the female staff.
Gabby Petito apologized for his actions after becoming furious. It’s possible that was the last time anyone saw her alive in public.
There is enough of proof that their relationship was becoming out of control, according to the 911 calls, the Merry Piglets witnesses, and I believe there were other witnesses, Cohen added.
There was conflict—verbal and physical—and I believe that the Merry Piglets episode is noteworthy because it shows that even other people were getting in Brian Laundrie’s cross hairs.
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