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Gabby Petito was strangled to death, US coroner confirms

Her family filed a missing person report on 11 September after the 22-year-old mysteriously vanished.

GABBY PETITO, THE young woman who died on a road trip across the United States with her boyfriend, was strangled and her death was a homicide, the local coroner has said.

The body of the 22-year-old lay in the wilderness of Wyoming for up to a month before it was found in mid-September, Teton County coroner Brent Blue said.

“We hereby find the cause and manner of death to be: the cause of death by strangulation, and manner is homicide,” he said.

“Our initial determination is that the body was in the wilderness for three to four weeks.”

Petito had quit her job and packed her life into a camper van for a cross-country adventure with Brian Laundrie, starting in July, documenting their journey in a stream of social media posts.

But the young woman’s family filed a missing person report on 11 September after the 22-year-old mysteriously vanished, and Laundrie returned home to Florida without her.

Laundrie, 23, was declared a “person of interest” in the case. He declined to cooperate with police before disappearing himself.

The FBI has launched a nationwide manhunt, appealing for anyone with information about Laundrie’s whereabouts to contact them.

Domestic violence

Details have emerged about how police in Utah responded to a domestic violence report involving Petito and Laundrie in August.

Police bodycam footage shows a distraught Petito saying she had had an altercation with Laundrie.

Speaking to an officer after their van was pulled over, Petito is seen crying and saying she struggles with mental health problems.

Petito said she slapped Laundrie after an argument, but added she meant no harm.

The police officer decided no charges would be brought but ordered the couple to spend a night apart to calm down.

Petito’s death and the subsequent disappearance of the chief suspect sparked a blizzard of media coverage both in the United States and around the world.

It also triggered debate over the disproportionate attention accorded to missing white women.

Blue, the coroner, said yesterday there had been a “media circus” around the case.

“Unfortunately, this is one of many deaths around the country of people who are involved in domestic violence,” he said.

“It’s unfortunate that these other deaths do not get as much coverage as this one,” he added.

“There are a lot of both men and women who lose their lives and aren’t covered with this kind of media attention.”

© – AFP, 2021

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    Apr 2nd 2014, 3:06 PM

    Can I have my money back now

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    Apr 2nd 2014, 3:33 PM

    It’s like’…..burning your furniture – to keep warm!

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    Apr 2nd 2014, 4:52 PM

    Why are PwC saying this instead of IBRC and NAMA?

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    Apr 2nd 2014, 5:20 PM

    As property prices start to rise nama , ibrc start to dump property

    Can someone explain why?

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    Apr 2nd 2014, 5:56 PM

    Dumping loans philip, not property. They’re Dumping the loans as they’re non-performing and want to get them off the balance sheet.

    If they had the patience, they’d put arrangements in place to allow the properties to return to positive equity and then seek a sale, this recouping more of the tax payers money.

    Unfortunately, they’ll sell the loans for a discount and allow the new purchasers to do this and net a tidy profit.

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    Apr 2nd 2014, 5:02 PM

    The article outlines that IBRC (IBROKE would probably be a better name) will offload € 15 billion in loans.
    Yet the linked article tells us that IBROKE have already offloaded 90% of its loanbook, € 19.8 billion out of € 21.7 billion leaving just € 1.9 billion on hand.
    This can only mean, if the previous article is correct, that it is NAMA that is offloading the majority of the loans.
    Why the subterfuge?
    Why make people think that this is some kind of joint enterprise when it is NAMA that is leading the charge?
    Have the shiny suit brigade from the canal something to hide?
    Given their obsession with secrecy it would not surprise me if they have, perhaps selling the loans to some preferred customer with an inside track at a serious discount.
    The way things go it will all be wrapped up before we know anything, plus ça change.

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    Apr 2nd 2014, 2:58 PM

    Who in their right mind would buy this junk?

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    Apr 2nd 2014, 3:01 PM

    It might only be worth 30% of face value but if you buy it for 20% it’s a good deal. For the buyer anyway.

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    Apr 2nd 2014, 3:06 PM

    @ Irish Revolution

    The Banks?

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    Apr 3rd 2014, 2:42 AM

    Hedge funds bought it. They will now sell off all the ghost estates etc at a lower price so people that have houses for sale at the min will eventually have to sell for half or take them off the market.
    Fab house here in drogheda asking price €325. Hilarious. You could now nearly get a house for that on raglan road or ailsbury road!! So that house is realistically worth less than €150 really.
    People and notions ha

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    Apr 2nd 2014, 7:04 PM

    What about Bank of Scotland selling on my mortgage & others in their Irish portfolio to a company called Tanager Ltd.
    I’m in a tizzy all day because I don’t know what it means for us.

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