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Who commits crimes of passion? most often someone familiar to the victim. we also learned today, as expected, dna was collected from gabby's body. what will be interesting is if there is any finding of any dna that was not the fiance's. why? because if there is nobody else except him in terms of evidence of contact with the body, with gabby, the idea that this was a random attack by a stranger becomes more suspect. however, the big takeaway for investigators is going to be this part of the autopsy. see it on the screen? cause is death by manual strangulation throttling. throttling is a little ...

Cause is death by manual strangulation throttling. throttling is a little bit of a term of art within the forensic field. that is strangled by human force, meaning there is no evidence that this was a rope or a garat or something like that, some implement or tool. what does that indicate? again, lack of planning suggestive of a crime of passion. that makes finding gabby petito's fiance brian laundrie more important than ever. now, where he is concerned, two things very damaging on top of everything that was learned today. the only person i've ever heard of in all my years doing this job whose ...