Dental records confirm human remains found in US park are those of Gabby Petito's fiance
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A screenshot from police bodycam footage shows Brian Laundrie speaking with officers as they respond to an altercation between Laundrie and his girlfriend Gabby Petito.
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LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) - Dental records conducted on human remains found in a Florida wilderness park have identified them as belonging to Brian Laundrie, the boyfriend of murdered woman Gabby Petito, the FBI said on Thursday (Oct 21).
The partial human remains were found on Wednesday in a Florida wilderness area where authorities were searching for Laundrie since he was reported missing by his family in mid-September.
Petito's disappearance last month during a cross-country road trip with her boyfriend captivated the country, first as an Internet sensation and then as a tabloid mystery that grew more enigmatic by the day.
Petito, 22, had last been seen alive on Aug 26. Her body was discovered near the remote Spread Creek Dispersed Campground in Bridger-Teton National Forest in western Wyoming.
Medical examiners found that she had been strangled.
