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The Sarasota Medical Examiner’s workplace has launched the official post-mortem report for doomed “van-lifer” Brian Laundrie, revealing new particulars into his dying.
The report, carried out by District 12 deputy chief medical expert Dr. Wilson Broussard, states that Laundrie died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the pinnacle. When the FBI lastly discovered him days into his disappearance, he was found close to a European American Arms revolver, which was marked as a .38 particular on one facet of the barrel and as a .357 magnum on the opposite, the report states.
“The cylinder contained two dwell rounds and one spent spherical of ammunition,” the report states, noting that Laundrie had been partly eaten by animals by the point his stays had been found in a Florida swamp.
Confirming an account made by an lawyer representing Laundrie’s household after his stays had been found in October, the report offers new particulars into how authorities discovered the 23-year-old on the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park. On the time, Laundrie was charged within the disappearance and dying of his fiancee, Gabby Petito, in a case that garnered nationwide consideration.
Shortly after Petito was reported lacking on Sept. 11, Laundrie returned dwelling to Florida earlier than he himself vanished simply seven days later. Petito’s stays had been finally present in a Wyoming nationwide park on Sept. 19, after authorities say she died by strangulation.
The FBI beforehand revealed that Laundrie claimed duty for Petito’s dying in a pocket book discovered close to the physique. Final month, Wyoming federal prosecutors dismissed expenses towards Laundrie.
The total post-mortem report for Laundrie notes that when authorities discovered him on Oct. 21, 2021, they found his stays in plain sight alongside a path within the Carlton Reserve. There was proof that roughly three ft of water had saved Laundrie’s stays hidden from investigators for weeks.
A lot of Laundrie’s corpse had “reasonably intensive carnivore exercise evidenced by a number of gouging and gnawing marks,” in keeping with the medical expert. “These areas are in line with carnivores and/or omnivores together with canines reminiscent of feral canine and coyotes together with rodents and raccoons.”
The stays included a “proper and left scapulae, proper humerus, proper femur, two tibiae, two fibulae, two clavicles, two pelvic bones, the sacrum, one proper ulna, one proper radius, and a number of ribs” the report continues. “Additionally, a number of fragments of skull and cranium together with a usually intact mandible with connected tooth and the decrease facet of the maxilla with connected tooth are famous. Cervical, thoracic, and lumbar vertebrae are additionally situated close by.”
Investigators needed to affirm Laundrie’s identification utilizing dental information and DNA evaluation.
Amongst Laundrie’s private results had been a pair of inexperienced shorts, two slip-on sneakers, a white metallic ring, and the rusted handgun. Just a few ft away, searchers found a inexperienced backpack, a tent, and flares, in addition to a chunk of paper and a crimson hat with the brand “Moab Espresso Roasters.” About 150 ft southwest of the realm, cops discovered “a journal together with a picket field that contained a small pocket book and images, among the images embody Brian Laundrie.” Laundrie was in one of many images, the report states.