Gabby Petito, the young woman who vanished on a road trip with her fiancé and later turned up dead in Wyoming, was killed by strangulation.
Gabby Petito, the young woman who vanished on a road trip with her fiancé and later turned up dead in Wyoming, was killed by strangulation, a local coroner said on Tuesday. Teton County Coroner Dr. Brent Blue, whose office had already ruled Petito’s death a homicide, said she was killed about three to four weeks before her body was found on 19 September. Her fiancé, Brian Laundrie,23, has been missing for nearly a month. Petito,22, was last seen alive on 26 August. Her body was discovered on 19 September near the remote Spread Creek Dispersed Campground in Bridger-Teton National Forest in western Wyoming. The disappearance last month of the young woman during a cross-country road trip with her fiancé captivated the country, first as an internet sensation and then as a tabloid mystery that grew more enigmatic by the day. Petito and Laundrie, who lived with Laundrie’s parents in North Port on Florida’s west coast, embarked on their trip in early July from New York’s Long Island, where her parents live.
