Spencer McCormick 1/19/21
Forensics Current Event 8
Jiménez, Jesus. “Gabby Petito's Death Ruled a Homicide, F.B.I. Confirms.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 21 Sept. 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/us/gabby-petito-homicide.html.
I choose to review this article because it is a very relevant forensics case in the United States right now. The article talks about Gabby Petito and her fiance Brian Laundrie went on a cross country trip and planned on visiting the west coast. Throughout the trip there was an altercation with the two that led to a fight between the two. Police interviewed but thought that it did not escalate to the point of domestic violence. Soon after that Petitos family lost contact with her and she was believed to be in a National Park in Wyoming. After she was missing for a couple of days and the fiance was not giving up any information on her whereabouts her remains were found. "Full forensic identification has not been completed to confirm 100% that we found Gabby, but her family has been notified of this discovery," Charles Jones, FBI Denver's supervisory senior resident agent in Wyoming, says.
The article shocked the country as a whole and led to an outcry for finding Gabby before it was too late. I remember waking up and seeing this case in the news. It is definitely very shocking to the public that although not confirmed it looks very much that her Finance ended up killing her. This also shows that forensic investigation is getting very good to the point that they can track down an area where the body might be and find it somewhat quickly.
Strengths of the article were the great quotes that were provided from the police officials. Some weaknesses were the details surrounding the forensic process used in order to determine if the body they found was really her. An improvement would be to write more about the finance and what the circumstances surrounding him are.
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