The woman whose body was found floating in the Long Island Sound this week has been identified as a 32-year-old Oyster Bay resident who mysteriously vanished last month, according to authorities.
Brittany Kritis-Garip was confirmed as the woman authorities pulled from Lloyd Harbor on Monday, according to the Suffolk County Police Department.
She had been missing since March 20, when surveillance footage that evening last captured her in the ritzy Oyster Bay hamlet, News 12 Long Island previously reported.
That’s when Kritis-Garip unexpectedly jumped out of an unidentified family member’s car — with her brother, Niko Kritis, telling Patch his sister was “vulnerable” and likely “disoriented and frightened.”
Her husband, Fernando, had said his wife tossed her phone into a bush and fled, wearing black pants and a black jacket with a fur collar when she leaped from the vehicle.
Detectives believe her cause of death is “non-criminal in nature,” police said in a statement — although the circumstances surrounding her death remain unclear.
After a grueling three-week search, her brother announced on Facebook that the hunt for his sister “has come to a close.”
“With heavy hearts, we share that Brittany has been found and has passed. We take comfort in knowing that God has called her into His care, and that she is now at peace,” he wrote in the Facebook group dedicated to search efforts for his sister.
“Brittany was, and will always be, a light in the lives of everyone she met. Her warmth, kindness, and spirit left a lasting mark on so many people. That light does not disappear—it lives on in all of us who knew and loved her.”