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We recorded the original episode focused on the Gabby Petito case back in late September of this year and since then, a number of significant developments have occurred.

We left off before the autopsy results were done and while Gabby's boyfriend, Brian Laundry, had left his parents' floor to home, presumably into a wilderness preserve nearby. Despite a massive manhunt, he was not found.

On October 12, the Teton County Coroner in Wyoming, where Gabby's body was found, determined that she was, and I quote, choked to death. This language is very specific.

In an interview with Anderson Cooper, the coroner stated that not only was this an asphyxial death, but it was a strangulation via a throttling.

Throttling is also a very specific term. When someone uses that term, they are talking about someone taking their two hands, putting them on their victims' throat and applying pressure.

And even though a person can be throttled from behind, in most cases, and my experience tells me it is probably what happened in this case as well, they are choked from the front, face to face.

This means that whoever killed Gabby would need to be very close to her and would be looking into her eyes as she died. This is very intimate and implies that her killer most likely knew her.

One common personality trait male abusers share is poor self-control. It's hard to determine a truly accurate portrait of pre-existing incidents of domestic violence in the relationships that end this way.

Because many prior choking incidents go unreported. But I think it's safe to say there were likely some explosive outbursts and rage-fueled moments in the relationship before the murder happened. And in Brian and Gabby's case, we know there were.

Generally speaking, the perpetrator is usually very emotionally dependent on the victim. Their whole sense of self is wrapped up in that person. So the threat of breaking up can trigger this sort of tragic outcome.

Why does that happen? Well, the desperation to keep the relationship together intensifies. He cannot deal with the notion that she could be happy without him. And so he takes control of the situation and kills her.

The coroner's report also stated she had been out in the elements for three to four weeks before she was found in the Grand Teton National Park on September 19.

As a reminder, five days before Gabby's body was found, the police declared Brian Laundrie a person of interest and his parents reported him missing three days after that.

Brian's family home was declared a crime scene later that week and his parents surrendered all the guns in their home. It was at this time that they reported one of their guns was actually missing.

We later learned that they said Brian had been grieving since he had gotten home and that they were worried he would hurt himself.

In our original podcast on this case, I thought it was more likely a possibility that Brian was hiding or on the run than that he had killed himself.

But remember at that time, we did not know that a gun was missing from the house and that the parents told police Brian had been grieving.

Grieving plus a gun plus the guilt and shame of murdering someone obviously can make someone suicidal.

On October 20, Brian Laundrie's parents accompanied the investigators to the Carlton Nature Preserve where Brian had last been seen.

They searched an area that was previously under water when initially searched weeks before and very quickly found a backpack and a notebook that belonged to Brian.

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