Brian Laundrie’s full autopsy report released by medical examiner

The District Twelve Medical Examiner has released its autopsy report for Brian Laundrie. The report reveals new details, including the condition of Laundrie’s remains and the items found with him.

According to the report, Laundrie’s remains and belongings were in plain sight along a trail in the Carlton Reserve. The report says that a water line on the trees was evidence of approximately three feet of water that had previously kept the remains hidden from view.

The report defines two scenes of investigation; the main scene and a secondary scene that was described in the report as being 100 to 250 feet to the east.

At the main scene, investigators found what was later determined to be Laundrie’s nearly complete skeletal remains, including his jawbones that were used to help identify the remains. Investigators also found personal items, including green shorts, a green belt, slip-on shoes, a backpack, a white metal ring, and a revolver that contained two live rounds and a spent one.

Using a metal detector, investigators found a projectile in the ground about 50 feet from where the skull fragments were found.

Investigators found animal skeletal remains, a handwritten half note, and a hat at the second scene.

The report says about 250 feet southwest of the main scene, a drybag was found containing a journal, a wooden box containing a small notebook, and photos, including at least one of Laundrie.

Using dental records and DNA analysis of the bones found, investigators confirmed that the body found in the Carlton Reserve was 23-year-old Brian Laundrie.

Laundrie’s fiance Gabby Petito was found dead in Wyoming before we knew that he killed himself in Carlton Reserve.

The autopsy report lists the cause of death as a “gunshot wound to the head with extensive, associated craniofacial fractures.”

A reconstruction of Laundrie’s skull determined that the gunshot went from left to right and exited his head. Laundrie’s sister says that her brother was right-handed.

While it may seem strange that someone who is right-handed would shoot themselves on the left side of the head, FGCU forensic studies professor David Thomas said, “well, in this case, everything has been so convoluted, I would think that the idea would be to throw people off, in his mind just got to create some doubt, that would be a way to do it.”

“There’s other evidence that you guys aren’t privy to, and haven’t been privy to, But that evidence probably gives them a lot more insight, and so until we get those facts, you just have to live with the idea that they have enough to believe that this was actually a suicide,” Thomas said.