Overview
- At a preliminary hearing, prosecutors presented messages they say came from Lee’s phone asking ChatGPT how to handle an unresponsive fiancée and how to explain injuries.
- One displayed AI response included the line, “Here’s what to say without framing it as ‘police trouble,’” which prosecutors argued showed an attempt to craft an alibi.
- Body‑camera footage showed Lee telling deputies he found Gabriella Perpétuo unresponsive and suggesting she may have fallen in the shower after he had been asleep for a long time.
- Testimony and autopsy findings described blood throughout the home and injuries including severe brain and facial trauma, a broken neck, stab wounds, and human bite marks, with blunt force trauma cited as the cause of death.
- Perpétuo’s family has filed a $50 million wrongful‑death lawsuit and launched a fundraiser, while the criminal case now proceeds to a grand jury.