A retired FBI agent has come forward to discuss a troubling detail she noticed concerning Brian Laundrie’s final moments.
Brian Laundrie entered the national spotlight after his fiancée, Gabby Petito, mysteriously disappeared while the two were traveling in a van across the United States while vlogging. In September of 2021, Laundrie returned to his home in Florida without his fiancée, prompting public outcry over the missing woman, and a police investigation. He then disappeared without a trace. Meanwhile, later in September, Petito’s body was discovered in Wyoming. Police found that she had died from strangulation.
Laundrie’s remains were found on October 20th, in a Florida nature reserve. According to an autopsy, his cause of death was suicide. With his body was a notebook containing his confession to the murder of Gabby Petito.
There is one problem with the autopsy’s findings though, according to Jennifer Coffindaffer, a 25 year veteran of the FBI. She says that they are missing an explanation for the method of his suicide.
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Coffindaffer stated that she is troubled by the fact that Laundrie shot himself on the left side of his head.
Laundrie “was right hand dominant,” the retired FBI agent said, referring to a conclusion reached in other sections of the autopsy report.
“That was bothersome,” Coffindaffer added. “Because it does not fit with a right-handed person committing suicide with their off hand.”
There is a possibility that Laundrie could have been ambidextrous, she noted.
“Or he used his left hand because he was holding something like a picture in his right hand,” she posited.
That possibility is unlikely, if one considers the situation. It would be much easier to hold a picture or other object in your left hand and the gun in your right hand than the other way around. It is much easier to hold a picture with your non-dominant hand than it is to fire a gun with your non-dominant hand.
The other explanation is the most concerning — the idea that someone else was present when Laundrie committed suicide.
“I’m not a conspiracy theorist at all but I cannot ignore facts, nor can I ignore statistics,” Coffindaffer said. “And statistics would say a predominantly right-handed person does not commit suicide with their left hand.”
“To me, the case doesn’t end because it ends with a question mark. How or why did he use his non-dominant hand to shoot himself?” the retired FBI agent asked.
@WFLAWalt and I sat down to visit a glaring fact set forth in the autopsy of #brianlaundrie. https://t.co/uyg3Pzrr68
— Jennifer Coffindaffer (@CoffindafferFBI) February 26, 2022
