Gabby Petito’s remains were found a month after this photo was taken.
A selfie taken by Gabby Petito weeks before her death shows she had facial injuries on the day she and Brian Laundrie were stopped by Moab police.weeks before her death shows she had facial injuries on the day she and her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, were stopped by police investigating a domestic disturbance call, according to her family's lawyer.
Family attorney Brian Stewart said the photo, recovered from cloud storage, was taken in the back of Petito's van on August 12, the same day the couple was pulled over by Moab police as they were traveling through Utah.In the selfie, Petito has a cut on her left cheek with what appears to be blood smeared over her eyelid, under her eye and up the bridge of her nose. She appears to be wearing the same shirt in both the photo and officer body camera video released by Moab police.
About a month later, Petito's remains were found in a Wyoming national park. Her death was ruled a homicide by manual strangulation. Petito's family reported her missing in September, launching a nationwide search and attracting an avalanche of public attention to the case. As authorities were searching for Petito, Laundrie also went missing. His body was found in a Florida nature reserve in late October alongside a notebook in which he admitted to killing Petito, the FBI said. His death was ruled a suicide.
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