Wyoming coroner set to announce how Gabby Petito was killed

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Authorities successful Wyoming program to denote Tuesday however they judge slain traveler Gabby Petito was killed.

Teton County Coroner Brent Blue is scheduled to denote the findings of Petito’s autopsy astatine an aboriginal day quality conference.

The assemblage of Petito, 22, was recovered connected Sept. 19 adjacent an undeveloped camping country successful distant bluish Wyoming on the borderline of Grand Teton National Park. Blue antecedently classified Petito’s decease arsenic a homicide — meaning her decease was caused by different idiosyncratic — but did not disclose however she was killed pending further autopsy results.

Petito had been connected a cross-country travel with her boyfriend. She was reported missing Sept. 11 by her parents aft she did not respond to calls and texts for respective days portion the mates visited parks successful the West.

Her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, is considered a idiosyncratic of involvement successful her disappearance and remains unaccounted for.

Petito’s lawsuit has led to renewed calls for radical to wage greater attraction to cases involving missing Indigenous women and different radical of color, with immoderate commentators describing the aggravated sum of her disappearance arsenic “missing achromatic pistillate syndrome.”

The hunt for Laundrie has generated a frenzy, with TV personalities similar Duane Chapman — known arsenic Dog the Bounty Hunter — and longtime “America’s Most Wanted” big John Walsh moving to way him down.

Petito and Laundrie posted online astir their travel successful a achromatic Ford Transit van converted into a camper. They got into a carnal altercation Aug. 12 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.

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.