Human remains found in search for missing Florida doctoral student

Human remains person been recovered successful the waterways successful Tampa Bay, wherever authorities person been searching for the assemblage of missing University of Florida doctoral pupil Nahida Bristy, Florida deputies announced precocious Sunday, arsenic caller tribunal documents allege the suspect successful the killing of Bristy and another student appeared to inquire ChatGPT however to dispose of a body.

The remains were recovered successful Pinellas County, and person not yet been identified. According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, the remains were recovered "in the country of Interstate 275 and 4th Street North," which is astir the St. Petersburg broadside of the Howard Frankland Bridge.

Bristy, 27, who is presumed dead, went missing past week on with 27-year-old Zamil Limon, whose remains were recovered Friday connected a span adjacent Tampa, Florida. Limon's roommate, 26-year-old Hisham Abugharbieh, was arrested Saturday and is charged with 2 counts of premeditated first-degree execution with a weapon. He is being held without bond.

New tribunal documents unveiled Sunday uncover Abugharbieh allegedly asked ChatGPT questions astir however to dispose of a assemblage successful the days starring up to Brsity and Limon's disappearance.

According to the documents, the fishy asked ChatGPT connected April 13 what would hap if idiosyncratic was "put successful a achromatic garbage container and thrown successful dumpster." The AI chatbot responded that it sounds dangerous, prompting Abugharbieh to allegedly ask, "How would they find out."

Limon's assemblage "was located wrong galore achromatic inferior trash bags successful precocious stages of decomposition" connected the Howard Frankland Bridge, which spans portion of Tampa Bay, according to the tribunal documents. The documents besides authorities that prosecutors judge Bristy was "disposed of successful a akin way."

Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy, some 27, were past seen successful the Tampa country connected April 16, the University of South Florida Police Department said. Families of Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy

On April 15, the time earlier the doctoral students went missing, Abugharbie allegedly asked ChatGPT, "Can a VIN fig connected a car beryllium changed?" and, "Can you support a weapon astatine location with retired a license," the documents said.

Then, conscionable aft midnight connected April 17, the documents accidental Abugharbie asked if cars are "checked astatine the Hillsborough River authorities park," a authorities parkland located conscionable to the northeast of Tampa. That aforesaid night, the suspect's telephone pinged astatine the determination connected the span wherever Limon's remains were discovered — to the westbound of Tampa — the tribunal documents allege.

An autopsy by the Pinellas County Medical Examiner's Office recovered that Limon's assemblage had sustained galore lacerations and stab wounds. The mode of decease was ruled a homicide owed to "multiple crisp unit injuries," according to the tribunal documents.

Abugharbie besides had galore lacerations connected his body, including his near and close legs, the tribunal documents state.

The tribunal documents accidental detectives utilized an "enhancement agent" astatine the flat Limon and Abugharbie shared and recovered "significant" humor patterns from the introduction foyer, done the kitchen, into the hallway and successful the suspect's bedroom. The humor successful the chamber was recovered successful "two chiseled patterns connected the level which appeared to person a comparatively human-sized shape," the tribunal documents state.

Abugharbie is being represented by a nationalist defender. CBS News reached retired for remark connected Saturday aft his arraignment, but has not heard back. He is owed backmost successful tribunal connected Tuesday.