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Police Identify Body Found in Long Island Sound as Brittany Kritis-Garip

Detectives say the death appears non-criminal pending the medical examiner's ruling.

Overview

  • Officers responding to a 911 call on April 13 recovered a body floating in the Long Island Sound off Lloyd Harbor Road, police said.
  • Suffolk County Police identified the woman as 32-year-old Brittany Kritis-Garip of Oyster Bay.
  • The official cause now rests with the Suffolk County Medical Examiner after detectives called the case non-criminal.
  • Kritis-Garip had been missing since March 20, when her husband says she jumped from a moving car in a panic, threw her phone into a bush, and ran off in Oyster Bay.
  • Her brother announced her passing to a Facebook search group, bringing to a close weeks of coordinated searches by family, volunteers, and police in Nassau and Suffolk counties.