OF THE FACT THAT SHE WAS OUT
THERE IN THE WILDERNESS EXPOSED
FOR SO LONG.
>> LET’S BRING IN NANCY GRACE
WHO JOINS US BY PHONE FOR IT IS
BEEN ANTICIPATING THIS FOR QUITE
SOME TIME.
WHAT WAS YOUR TAKE AWAY?
>> I THINK THAT IT IS VERY
SIGNIFICANT THAT WE ARE LEARNING
THE CAUSE OF DEATH AND THE FACT
THAT IT IS A STRANGULATION IN MY
MIND EVEN MORE SO IMPLICATES
BRIAN LAUNDRIE AND I THINK WHEN
DNA RESULTS ARE IN WE WILL FIND
OUT EVEN MORE.
LEGAL EAGLES HAD LONG THOUGHT
THE CAUSE OF DEATH WOULD EITHER
BE STRANGULATION OR BLUNT FORCE
TRAUMA.
STRANGULATION IS OFTEN USED,
IT’S CALLED A SWEETHEART MURDER
IN OTHER WORDS, THE PERPETRATOR
IS CLOSE UP AND INTIMATE WITH
THE VICTIM.
WE FIND THAT OFTEN IN DOMESTIC
HOMICIDES.
>> NANCY, I WAS GOING TO SAY THE
IDEA OF STRANGULATION,
PARTICULARLY OF YOUNG WOMEN LIKE
THIS AFTER CIRCUMSTANCES WE HAVE
SEEN IN OTHER VIDEOS AND OTHER
TIMES TO YOU, IS THAT SUGGESTIVE
OF A CRIME OF FASHION?
>> IT’S ABSOLUTELY SUGGESTIVE OF
A CRIME OF PASSION PART I LONG
SUSPECTED IT WOULD BE EITHER
STRANGULATION EXPECTS THE AGENT,
OR BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA IN A FIT
OF RAGE, BUT HERE WE HAVE GABBY
OUT IN THE WILDERNESS ALONE WITH
BRIAN LAUNDRIE.
WE KNOW SHE WAS CONTEMPLATING
LEAVING HIM BECAUSE SO MANY
PEOPLE HAD JUST TOLD HER TO
RECONSIDER THE RELATIONSHIP.
THERE SHE IS, ALONE WITH HIM,
CONTEMPLATING LEAVING LATE AND
STATISTICALLY THE SINGLE MOST
DANGEROUS TIME FOR A WOMAN
CONTEMPLATING LEAVING A
RELATIONSHIP, IT THAT IS THE
SINGLE MOST DANGEROUS TIME AND
THERE SHE IS ALONE.
IT REALLY FLOORS ME IS WHAT IT
MUST HAVE TAKEN FOR HIM TO LEAVE
HER DECOMPOSING FOR THREE OR
FOUR WEEKS AND I’M REALLY HAPPY
IN ONE WAY OR RELIEVED AS THE
BETTER WORD THAT THEY COULD EVEN
DETERMINE A CAUSE OF DEATH DUE
TO POTENTIAL EXPOSURE OF GABBY
PETITO.
>> AND THE DETAILS OF WHAT WE
JUST LEARNED OF WHAT THEY DO IN
POTENTIALLY MAKING THE
CONNECTION TO BRIAN LAUNDRIE IN
THE COURT OF LAW, NANCY, I WOULD
ASK YOU REFERENCING WHAT A SALT
LAKE CITY PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR
IS QUOTED TALKING ABOUT AN ART
.COM PIECE TODAY SAYING HE
WAS NOT GOING TO BE SURPRISED IF
IT WAS ANNUAL STRANGULATION OR
IF HE HAD CHOKED HER BEFORE
PRAYER ADHESIVE WHEN HE WAS
WATCHING THAT POLICE VIDEO IN
UTAH AND HE DESCRIBED HOW
LAUNDRY GRABBED HER FACE DURING
THAT DOMESTIC DISPUTES, HE SAID
THE PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR SAID
ANY VICTIM WHO HAS BEEN CHOKED
BEFORE, THEIR NATURAL REACTION
IS TO LOWER THEIR GIN TO THEIR
CLAVICLE TO PREVENT THAT HAND
GOING AROUND HER THROAT
SUGGESTING THAT’S WHAT HE SAW
HER DO IN THAT VIDEO.
YOU BELIEVE THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT
AND LAWYERS ARE GOING TO BE ABLE
TO MAKE ANY SORT OF CONNECTION
HERE?
>> I ABSOLUTELY DO BELIEVE THAT.
IT IS AMAZING WHAT TYPE OF DNA
IS LEFT BEHIND LEAVITT’S SALIVA,
EPITHELIAL, WHICH IS SKIN CELLS.
I HOPE THEY DECOMPOSE OR DID NOT
RUIN OR COMPROMISE ANY OF HIS
DNA IF IN FACT IT WAS THERE AT
ALL, BUT I CAN TELL YOU THIS
MUCH, THE FACT THAT SHE WAS
STRANGLED, OUT THERE, AND WHEN
YOU LOOK AT HER IN THAT BODY CAM
VIDEO FROM MOAB ON AUGUST THE
12TH WHERE SHE KEPT HOLDING HER
HAND UP TO HER CHEST NEAR HER
NECK, IT IS VERY VERY DISTURBING
.
I NOW THINK THAT INVESTIGATORS,
POLICE, FBI WILL USE EXTRINSIC
EVIDENCE SUCH AS PLACING BRIAN
LAUNDRIE IN THE VICINITY OF THAT
LOCATION NEAR THE TIME OF DEATH
TO PLACE HIM THEY ARE WITH HER.
THEY’RE IS NO WAY FOR A JURY TO
FIND SOMEONE ELSE DID THIS THING
.
THROUGH PHONE RECORDS, THROUGH
RECEIPTS, THROUGH MAPS ON THE
TRANSIT THE APPLICATION SYSTEM,
PLACING HIM THEY ARE AT THE
APPROXIMATE TIME OF HER DEATH.
THEY WILL BE ABLE TO DO IT.
>> NANCY, YOU HEARD THE CORONER
SAY THAT WE MAY NOT KNOW THE
EXACT DATE OF DEATH BECAUSE OF
THE STATE OF DECOMPOSERS OR OF
THE BODY AND THE AMOUNT OF TIME
THE BODY WENT UNDISCOVERED SO IF
YOU’RE LOOKING AT THAT THEORY OF
TRYING TO PLACE HIM IN THE SAME
AREA AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH,
THE CORONER IS SUGGESTING THAT
MIGHT BE A DIFFICULT HILL TO
CLIMB.
>> I HAVE NO DOUBT IN MY MIND
THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO
PINPOINT A DAY, BUT IF I LOOK AT
THE LAST TIME SHE IS SEEN ALIVE,
THE NEXT TIME HE IS SEEN ALONE,
AND THOSE RECEIPTS OF HIM
TRAVELING ACROSS THE COUNTRY,
BASED ON THE TIME THAT HE GOT
HOME AND THE TIME THAT HE WAS
LAST SEEN ALIVE, I BET YOU, I
BET YOUR BOTTOM DOLLAR WE WILL
GET THREE OR FOUR DAY WINDOW OF
HER TIME OF DEATH THAT THEY CAN
PLACE HIM THERE, IN THAT
CAMPGROUND, AT THAT TIME, IT’S
OVER.
>> STEPHEN BERTOLINO WHO
REPRESENTS THE BRIAN LAUNDRIE
FAMILY HAS PUT OUT A STATEMENT
FOLLOWING THE REVEAL OF THE
AUTOPSY RESULTS SAYING THAT THEY
DEATH AT SUCH A YOUNG AGE AS A
TRAGEDY HE WRITES WHILE BRIAN
LAUNDRIE IS CURRENTLY CHARGED
WITH THE UNLAWFUL USE OF A DEBIT
CARD BELONGING TO GABBY, HE IS
ONLY CONSIDERED A PERSON OF
INTEREST IN RELATION TO THE
DEMISE.
AT THIS TIME HE IS STILL MISSING
AND WHEN HE IS LOCATED, WE WILL
ADDRESS THE PENDING FRAUD CHARGE
AGAINST HIM.
YOUR REACTION, NANCY?
>> THAT’S WHAT I EXPECT THEM TO
SAY.
THAT WHAT HE’S BEING PAID TO SAY
.
SO I’M NOT SURPRISED AT ALL.
HE WANTS ME TO THINK ABOUT THE
DEBIT CARD WHEN I FIND OUT THAT
SHE WAS STRANGLED DEAD AND HER
BODY LEFT TO DECOMPOSE AND I’M
THINKING ABOUT A CHICK-FIL-A
DRIVE-THROUGH?
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
HE’D LIKE ME TO THINK ABOUT THAT
BUT RIGHT NOW I’M THINKING ABOUT
GABBY PETITO BEING STRANGLED
DEAD AND THAT IS PLENTY OF TIME
TO FORM PREMEDITATION THE TIME
IT TAKES TO STRANGLE SOMEONE.
SO NOW WE KNOW, THIS WAS NO
ACCIDENT.
SHE DIDN’T FALL DOWN AND HIT HER
HEAD.
SHE DIDN’T FALL INTO A RAVINE
AND DROWN, WE KNOW SHE DIED BY
STRANGULATION.
WE KNOW SHE DIED OF ASPHYXIATION
.
SHE WAS MURDERED.
IF THEY CAN PLACE HIM THEY ARE,
WITHIN 70 TO HOURS OF THE TIME
SHE WAS MURDERED, IT WOULD BE
HARD TO PINPOINT THAT DOWN, BUT
I BET YOU, IT WILL BE CLOSE
ENOUGH FOR A JURY.
WHAT YOU EXPECT A DEFENSE
ATTORNEY TO SAY, YEAH, HE DID IT
, NOW SHOULD I TELL YOU WHERE
HE IS?
>> LET ME COME BACK TO SOMETHING
YOU SAID A COUPLE OF MINUTES AGO
HERE AS YOU ARE GIVING AS YOUR FINAL DETAILED ANALYSIS AND THAT
FINAL DETAILED ANALYSIS AND THAT
IS THAT MAYBE WHOEVER STRANGLED
LEFT SKIN CELLS AROUND THE
STRANGULATION AREA.
YOU SAY YOU HOPE THAT
STRANGULATION SURVIVE BEING OUT
THERE IN THE ELEMENTS, THE FACT
THAT BRIAN LAUNDRY IS STILL JUST
A PERSON OF EVIDENCE AND HAS NOT
BEEN CONNECTED WITH THE DEATH OF
GABBY PETITO, IS THAT A
SUGGESTION THAT THERE IS NOT YET
ANY KIND OF EVIDENCE THAT COULD
TIE EITHER HIM OR ANY SUSPECT TO
HER DEATH?
IS THAT A SUGGESTION THAT MAYBE
THAT EVIDENCE YOU TALKED ABOUT
DOES NOT EXIST?
>> I LIKED WHAT YOU SAID WHEN
YOU SAID NOT YET.
AND YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
NOT YET.
BUT IT AIN’T OVER YET.
RIGHT NOW, THERE HAS STILL HAD
GOT TO BE COMPARISONS DONE AND I
THINK THEY MAY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO
DO IT BY NOW, BUT I DON’T KNOW
THAT.
WHAT I DO KNOW IS HE WAS WITH
HER, HE IS ALIVE AND SHE IS DEAD
.
THE DNA WILL BE COMING.
DO I THINK IT SURVIVED?
PROBABLY NOT, BUT IF SHE WAS
STILL CLOSED, AND I THINK SHE
WAS, WE’VE GOT A BETTER CHANCE
OF GETTING DNA OFF THE CLOSE.
>> AS FAR AS ANY FURTHER
DETAILED INFORMATION, THE
TOXICOLOGY REPORT, HE DID NOT
REVEALED HER AT HE SAID ONLY
CAUSE AND MANNER OF DEATH IS
WHAT HE WOULD REVEALED TODAY.
YOU BELIEVE THERE WILL BE ANY
FURTHER SURPRISE DETAILS THAT
COME FROM WHAT THEY HOPE LEARN
SINCE THEY HAVE HAD HER BODY?
>> I DO.
THEY’RE WERE NOT SURPRISES IN IT
WHY WOULD THEY KEEP IT A SECRET?
SO RIGHT NOW, EITHER THEY’RE NOT
COMPLETE, OR THEIR WITHHOLDING
EVIDENCE.
WHY?
WHY WOULD THEY WITHHOLD EVIDENCE
?
YET TO THINK REASONABLY.
WHAT IS THE LIKELIHOOD THAT
SOMEBODY ELSE WOULD COME KILL
THIS BEAUTIFUL YOUNG GIRL WHEN
BRIAN LAUNDRIE IS THE ONE MAKING
OFTEN HER VAN WITH HER DEBIT
CARD.
DID HE THINK SHE WAS GOING TO
RUB TWO STICKS TOGETHER OUT
THERE AND MAKE DINNER.
THINK IT THROUGH.
THROUGHOUT THE LIKELIHOOD THAT
HE WAS HER MAN OR HARD DRIVE,
HER COMPUTER, HER BELONGINGS,
USED HER DEBIT CARD AND SOMEBODY
ELSE HAPPENS ALONG AND KILLS HER
?
THAT DOESN’T EVEN MAKE SENSE.
>> NANCY GRACE, ALWAYS GOOD TO
TALK TO YOU AND GET YOUR
ANALYSIS.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO MORE OF YOUR
COVERAGE ON THIS.
>> OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH THE