Gabby Petito's parents traveled to Wyoming to collect her remains, around 2 months after she died by strangulation
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Mia Jankowicz
Oct 19, 2021, 21:56 IST
Nichole Schmidt, Gabby Petito's mother, and her husband Jim, Petito's step-father, at a September 28 news conference in New York.
Ted Schaffrey/AP Photo
Gabby Petito's family collected her remains from a Wyoming mortuary Saturday, per multiple reports.
It was some two months after the 22-year-old vlogger died by strangulation on a joint road trip.
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Gabby Petito's parents picked up her remains from a Wyoming mortuary at the weekend, around two months after the 22-year-old was killed, according to multiple reports.
Her mother, Nichole Schmidt looked stricken and father Joe Petito clutched a small white box close to his chest as he left Valley Mortuary in Jackson, Wyoming, DailyMail.com reported.
Officials had held her body for examination until the announcement of autopsy results on October 12. On Saturday, funeral Director Tyson Clemons confirmed to CNN that her remains had been picked up.
Her parents' journey came around five weeks after Petito was first reported missing after a joint road trip with her fiancé Brian Laundrie.
Laundrie, who returned to their Florida home alone on September 1, became a person of interest in the missing person case and has since disappeared himself. He is still missing as of Tuesday.
A warrant is out for his arrest for bank card misuse after it emerged he had used Petito's card to spend $1,000 in the days around her death. Police have not named a suspect in her killing.
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