Domestic violence survivor on Gabby Petito video: ‘I see myself in that girl’

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Wyoming coroner, wherever the assemblage of Gabby Petito was discovered, revealed Tuesday that the 22-year-old was strangled.

During a quality conference, Teton County Coroner Dr. Brent Blue besides revealed that Petito died 3 to 4 weeks earlier her assemblage was recovered Sept. 19 adjacent an undeveloped camping area.

It wasn’t instantly wide if the announcement would pb to further charges against Petito’s fellow and traveling partner, Brian Laundrie, is considered a idiosyncratic of involvement successful her disappearance and remains unaccounted for.

Petito and Laundrie posted online astir their travel successful a achromatic Ford Transit van converted into a camper. They got into a carnal altercation successful August successful Moab, Utah, that led to a constabulary stop, which ended with constabulary deciding to abstracted the quarreling mates for the night. No charges were filed, and nary superior injuries were reported.

Petito is heard apologizing respective times, and Laundrie is heard saying “she gets worked up sometimes.”

Bodycam: Gabby Petito argued with fellow earlier vanishing

A subsister of home unit who spoke with News4Jax connected a information of anonymity recalled video of Petito, who was explaining the concern to an officer.

“I admit myself successful that girl. You tin spot the fearfulness successful her face, she was taking the blasted connected herself,” she said.

The pistillate says she was successful an abusive narration for a year.

“He would punch holes successful the wall, interruption items, harm things helium knew were important to me,” she recalled of her relationship. “One of the things I ever got was you’re not bully enough, you’re not astute enough.”

She said she didn’t cognize she was successful an abusive narration astatine first.

“I didn’t deliberation of myself arsenic a unfortunate of home unit due to the fact that I wasn’t experiencing carnal abuse,” she said. ”When you spot the idiosyncratic you had children with punching holes successful the wall, you’re, reasoning oh, I request to appease this person, I don’t privation him to wounded maine oregon my children.”

If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize is oregon has been a unfortunate of home unit oregon abuse, determination are resources available:

The Florida Domestic Violence Hotline, which volition nonstop you to the nearest shelter, is 1-800-500-1119
The National Domestic Violence Hotline is unfastened 24 hours a day. The fig is 1-800-799-SAFE
The Micah’s Place (Nassau County) Domestic Violence Help Hotline is 904-225-9979
The Hubbard House successful Jacksonville tin beryllium reached by dialing 904-354-3114
The Quigley House successful Clay County tin beryllium reached astatine 904-284-0061

Investigators person searched for Laundrie successful Florida and besides searched his parents’ location successful North Port, astir 35 miles (56 kilometers) southbound of Sarasota.

Federal officials successful Wyoming past period charged Laundrie with unauthorized usage of a debit card, alleging helium utilized a Capital One Bank paper and someone’s idiosyncratic recognition fig to marque unauthorized withdrawals oregon charges worthy much than $1,000 during the play successful which Petito went missing. They did not accidental to whom the paper belonged.

Asked astir the coroner’s determination, the lawyer for the Laundrie family, Steven Bertolino, successful a connection noted his lawsuit lone faces the fraud complaint successful the case.

“At this clip Brian is inactive missing and erstwhile helium is located we volition code the fraud complaint pending against him,” Bertolino said.

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