Chilling details in Gabby Petito's autopsy report after killing by Brian Laundrie

The sombre saga of Gabby Petito's killing concluded early in 2022 with the publication of the chilling autopsy report , full of devastating details.

The FBI's Denver Division, after a private meeting with the Petito family at the Tampa Field Office, declared on January 21, 2022, that they had finished "all logical investigative steps", which included looking through killer boyfriend Laundrie's disturbing diary entires and violent sketches .

Special Agent in Charge Michael Schneider from the FBI Denver Division insisted that no other suspects were implicated in Petito's death beyond her abusive fiance Brian Laundrie to whom she wrote a heartbreaking letter before her death .

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"The FBI's primary focus throughout the investigation was to bring justice to Gabby and her family," he asserted.

Laundrie's remains were discovered in Florida on October 20, 2021, over a month after Petito's body was found near Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. It was determined that Laundrie died by suicide.

Tragically, the cause of Petito's death was particularly harrowing; the Teton County Coroner's Office reported that she died due to "blunt-force injuries to the head and neck, with manual strangulation."

During a press conference on the 12th of October, 2021, Teton County Coroner Dr Brent Blue confirmed that Petito's death was indeed a homicide, caused by "manual strangulation/throttling," He maintained there were no other specifics available during his conversation with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, stating, "We believe this was strangling by a human being."

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The following day, Blue elaborated on these findings. "Throttling generally means that it was done with human hands as opposed to an instrument," he informed NewsNation. "It doesn't necessarily have to be, but manual strangulation basically means it was not done with equipment."

The coroner highlighted that this mode of death was surmised due to the "nature of the injuries around the neck." Decomposition naturally posed some challenges for the post-mortem examination as Blue noted, given that Petito's body had likely been exposed to outdoor elements for a month. "The situation where any body is out in the outside, whether it's exposed to the elements and insects and animals, there [are] various forms of decomposition," he illustrated.

Understandably, the horrifying autopsy report deeply shocked Gabby Petito's loved ones. In an interview with People in October 2021, Petito's friend Alyssa Chen expressed her intense grief: "It makes me sick to my stomach," Chen claimed.

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"I wonder what was going through her mind, knowing she was probably about to die. She must have been so scared."

Even in a period of intense loss and sorrow, Petito's family, her mother Nichole Schmidt, father Joe Petito, stepmother Tara Petito, and stepfather Jim Schmidt, are taking effective steps towards the creation of a safer world. They have set up the Gabby Petito Foundation, a non-profit charity which aims to raise awareness about domestic violence.

"We have to prevent this from happening to other people," Nichole expressed passionately to People on June 5. "It keeps us strong. Gabby works through us. We can't not do it. We have to move forward and change the world together."

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