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MIAMI (CBSMiami/CNN) – Gabby Petito’s parents are bringing location the remains of their 22-year-old daughter.
More than a period aft her assemblage was discovered successful Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest, Petito’s household traveled to Wyoming to person her remains and hole to laic her to rest.
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The ceremonial manager astatine Valley Mortuary, Tyson Clemons, said her remains were picked up Saturday.
Last week, Dr. Brent Blue, the Teton County Coroner, told CNN that helium released Petito’s remains to the mortuary connected Tuesday, the aforesaid time helium announced his long-awaited determination connected the mode and origin of her death.
Blue had made an archetypal ruling that Petito, who did not instrumentality from a summertime roadworthy travel with her fiancé Brian Laundrie, died by homicide. He aboriginal elaborated that her decease was caused by manual strangulation and that helium believes she was strangled by a quality being.
Blue was not capable to pinpoint the time oregon clip Petito died, but helium did adhd that her assemblage was near successful the wilderness for 3 to 4 weeks.
Photos posted by the household connected Twitter amusement them successful Wyoming, honoring Petito amid the beauteous scenery she took successful during the last days of her life.
“I just, I anticipation that she didn’t endure and that she wasn’t successful immoderate pain. That she was successful a spot that she wanted to be, looking astatine the beauteous mountains,” her mother, Nichole Schmidt, told 60 Minutes Australia.
Tension and struggle successful her last weeks
The probe into who killed Petito and what happened starring up to her decease is ongoing, with galore much questions inactive unanswered.
Petito had been traveling with Laundrie successful a van crossed the US for overmuch of the summer. But erstwhile helium returned to the location they lived successful with his parents successful Northport, Florida, she was not with him.
Shortly aft Petito’s parents reported her missing, Laundrie disappeared. Authorities are inactive searching for him, though helium does not look charges successful her death.
Petito’s parents are anxious for him to beryllium found.
“I conscionable anticipation he’s found. I truly bash … I mean, like, alive,” Joe Petito, Gabby’s father, said to Dr. Phil during an interrogation with the speech amusement big that aired successful aboriginal October. “I privation to spot him successful a jailhouse compartment for the remainder of his life.”
The clip betwixt Petito’s disappearance and the postulation of her remains has been marked by revelations of hostility and struggle betwixt the mates successful her last weeks.
She was archetypal reported missing by her parents connected September 11, and aft an extended search, her remains were recovered September 19 adjacent wherever their van was past seen 3 weeks earlier. The nationalist absorption connected her whereabouts revealed they were progressive successful a home quality successful Utah successful August.
On August 12, the mates was stopped by constabulary aft a 911 caller told dispatchers helium saw a antheral hitting a woman, according to audio provided by the Grand County Sheriff’s Office successful Moab, Utah.
“We drove by and the man was slapping the girl,” the caller said. “Then we stopped. They ran up and down the sidewalk. He proceeded to deed her, hopped successful the car and they drove off.”
Dispatch audio recordings from the Grand County Sheriff’s bureau shed much airy connected what Moab constabulary were told astir “some benignant of altercation.”
On August 27, a witnesser observed a “commotion” arsenic Petito and Laundrie were leaving the Merry Piglets Tex-Mex edifice successful Jackson, Wyoming — 1 of the past reported sightings of Petito earlier her death.
Petito was successful tears and Laundrie was visibly angry, going into and retired of the edifice respective times, showing choler toward the unit astir the hostess stand, witnesser Nina Angelo said.
Angelo told CNN she did not spot immoderate unit oregon carnal altercation betwixt Petito and Laundrie.
That day, an “odd text” from Petito disquieted her parent that thing was wrong, according to a constabulary affidavit for a hunt warrant for an outer hard thrust recovered successful the couple’s van.
“Can you assistance Stan, I conscionable support getting his voicemails and missed calls,” the connection read, according to the affidavit. Stan was a notation to Petito’s grandfather, who her parent said Petito ne'er referred to that way, according to a constabulary affidavit.
Petito called her ma regularly, and those conversations appeared to uncover “more and much tension” successful Petito’s relationship, according to the affidavit.
The hunt for Laundrie
Before helium disappeared, constabulary successful North Port were surveilling Laundrie arsenic champion they legally could, according to constabulary spokesperson Randi Kaye.
Investigators said Laundrie’s parents told them connected September 17 helium had near location days earlier and was headed to the adjacent Carlton Reserve — sparking a hunt of the quality reserve’s 25,000 acres. Initially, his parents said helium near connected September 14, but Laundrie household lawyer Steven Bertolino aboriginal said, “We present judge the time Brian near to hike successful the sphere was Monday, September 13.”
When helium left, helium didn’t instrumentality his compartment telephone and wallet with him, and his parents were acrophobic helium mightiness wounded himself, according to a root adjacent to Laundrie’s family.
Laundrie has not been charged successful Petito’s death. He was indicted connected charges of allegedly utilizing 2 fiscal accounts that did not beryllium to him successful the days pursuing her death.
In a statement, Laundrie’s household lawyer Steve Bertolino said Laundrie had utilized a debit paper that belonged to Petito but noted helium was not a fishy successful her death.
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