Julian Dorey Podcast - #448 - "Kirk BULLET!" - Death Investigator BREAKS SILENCE on Charlie Kirk | Joseph Scott Morgan

Starting point is 00:00:10 I always get so goddamn pumped when you're coming in, just Scott Morgan. I hear you, baby. Well, the problem is when you come in, that means people have died, and we have to talk about it. That's the one thing. It's a reality, but people are dying everywhere. People do die everywhere, unfortunately, in all seriousness. But, you know, I loved having you on the podcast back in the day, and it's been cool to bring you on, like, each step of the way since then.

Starting point is 00:00:31 And obviously, for people who don't know you, you've been the guy on every channel, basically, since like 2011, talking about 2011, 2012, talking about any type of high-profile homicide case. And you're even a great historian of homicide cases as we've laid out in the past. You look at things that happened 2,000 years ago. It's fascinating. And it just goes to prove there's nothing new under the sun.

Starting point is 00:00:56 Everybody says there is. Homicide and violence have existed forever and ever. And the way I approach it, and I think I've mentioned this before, The way I approach it is when I'm teaching my students, as a professor, when I teach at a police academy, one of the things I leave them with is that it's not just about the technical side of forensics and generating a report. Because in my world, in the world of medical examiners and coroners, you have a lot of people that die and they're never remembered at all. And I tell my kids, look, 200 years from now, what you're writing, People will go back and read. You're literally a historian.

Starting point is 00:01:39 You're documenting that somebody actually existed. It's not just a high-profile people. Because we document deaths of little grandmas that die in their sleep or some person that's taking their own life that doesn't make the news unless it's a celebrity. All of those things, people will go back and read those records. And how you write and what your remembrances of at that moment, Tom, is going to dictate what people in the future think about you because I've read some reports where you're thinking, oh my Lord, this is this is going to be in the record forever and ever. Amen.

Starting point is 00:02:19 And so I take a lot of pride in that, the histrionics of it, because I've gotten to the point now after over 40 years of working in the field and then being a professor. I've got the long view now, you know, what you leave behind. Yeah, I mentioned it. every single time you're in here, but even from our very first recording back in episode 146, the gravity and weight with which to this day you still treat every death notification you ever had to do with people where you have to go tell a loved one the unthinkable that, you know, their loved one is gone. And the types of reactions you had to, you know, put on the hard drive that you can't on download, if you will, over the years. And I think that's really

Starting point is 00:03:04 important because people want to see that, you know, especially in a world now where unfortunately, I think sometimes there's like a weird fan girly kind of thing going on with true crime to the point that some people will dehumanize it in a way. You've got to remember whether it's a huge case or a small case, just like you said, these are people, they lived and they died, and there's a level of respect that's got to be given to that. Well, I've got to tell you this. I've come across now a few podcasters that are doing true crime. And, and I'm a lot of, And hey guys, if you're not following me on Spotify, please hit that follow button and leave a five-star review. They're both a huge huge help.

Starting point is 00:03:42 Thank you. They've got the look in their eye now because of some of the stuff that they subjected themselves to and they were not prepared for it. And they're doing it day after day after day. And it's hard for them to contextualize it because a lot of people that comment on true crime and have podcast and God bless them. You know, there's, what do they say, there's enough room in the firm moment for all the stars, right? Right. So, but what's, they don't count on the stuff that they're going to encounter and you can't leave it behind. I've got a callous built up.

Starting point is 00:04:19 Right. Okay. There's something that I've done for, well, since I was 20 years old. And you have people that are stepping off into this at the midpoint in their life and they're subjecting themselves to a lot of things out there. that I don't think that they were able to plumb the depths of before they get into it. They start filing foias and they start seeing images and reading transcripts. Now, it doesn't put them in the morgue and it doesn't put them at the scene, but they're getting a real taste of it.

Starting point is 00:04:47 And I don't know. It's an interesting little vein to follow, I think, from just an academic standpoint, perhaps, how this is going to impact some of these podcasters going forward into the future, some of the things they've subjected themselves to. I don't know. It's, you know, welcome to my world. Yeah. Yeah. It's one thing when you start chasing something because it's something people want to know about or it's a lot of clicks and stuff like that. But then, like you said, when you get into the reality of it, you know,

Starting point is 00:05:18 and look, to be fair as well, the whole public was brought into the reality of the Charlie Kirk thing because people literally saw from four different angles immediately, you know, a live execution of a guy. And I'll never forget it. It still gives me chills because we were recording in here when it happened. And I was recording with my friend Nate. And, you know, you just saw this image. And you're like, what the fuck? D.F was like, hey, guys, didn't want to bother you.

Starting point is 00:05:50 But no. Charlie Kirk just got hit. And, you know, there are guys I talked to, both of the guys I had in here. A couple days later were like Special Forces guys. And they're like, you know, that's the, it doesn't matter who you are. That affects everyone, affects all of us, how we see it. It's just brutal. It's a cold cup of coffee for anybody that, it, I'll tell you where I was.

Starting point is 00:06:15 I was actually lecturing in my medical legal death investigation class. And my grad assistant came in and, you know, right in the middle of my lecture, and we put it up on the big screen. And we had those first real-time images of that shot. And it was really, and I didn't really hesitate to show my class at that point in time. I mean, it's literally what we were discussing at that moment, Tom. I look back now and I think, I may not should have done that at that particular time, but the gravity of it, because we couldn't really understand it at that moment in time.

Starting point is 00:06:53 And you really don't understand these things until you get a little distance. But it was a landmark moment. And immediately, you know, I did kind of a quick mental assessment. I tried to separate myself from the horror of it, and which you always do as a death investigator, and then begin to view the image. I was asking myself, should I believe my lying eyes? Is this accurate, you know, am I missing something here?

Starting point is 00:07:18 But just the initial, my initial blush on this thing. It was unlike anything else other than maybe Bud Dwyer from years and years ago. former Secretary of Treasury for Pennsylvania that shot himself at a press conference. And, you know, and that's been on the Internet for years and years. But it raised itself to another level. And, of course, you had Trump that had been, you know, they tried to shoot him, you know, and Butler, you know, the ear thing. And we always forget about the poor man that was killed, you know, there in the audience.

Starting point is 00:07:59 Cory and contemporary. Yeah. Yeah, very, very sad. And we've seen a lot of this level of violence. And again, I think this kind of circles back into, are we becoming more and more desensitized to it? Yes. I really wonder about that. And I know what shape it left me in after everything I've borne witness to.

Starting point is 00:08:22 And I wonder if there's like a ripple effect relative to the general public with being desensitized to it where it's like, you know, Well, yeah, public executions. Let's kick it up another notch, you know, and you just go on to the next thing. It's like a feeding frenzy. It's strange when you really think about that historically, though, too, because until, you know, in, say, like, at least first world countries, until even 150 years ago or 100 years ago, there'd be kids who would go to the square and watch public execution or they'd just see a guy die on the street much more commonly than they'd. do today and that would be like in person. This was a normal right of passage. You might be nine years old and you see stuff like this. And then eventually society graduated to a point where it's like, hey, we shouldn't do that. That's kind of crazy. We value life more. And so we

Starting point is 00:09:14 took that away. But then the internet comes around. There it is. And now you can go watch it. So you're one step removed from it, but you can watch it in slow motion and replay from every angle, regardless of who it is. You can go to these websites that are exclusively for that. People go on what some of the stuff. Yeah, live leak and things like that and actually see these things. And I think there's a digital desensitization that is maybe even more concerning than it would have been in the past. Because in the past, at least the gravity of like you are, even if you're a child and you're like, holy shit and you're traumatized, you're there. You see it.

Starting point is 00:09:51 You understand a life just ended and things like that. When you're watching it on a video, I think some, whether it's kids or teenagers or even, adults, like there's a video gamification of it. You know what I mean? And that's really, I don't like that at all. Yeah, they're missing that visceral part of it. And I'll just say this. It's almost wrote to say that death has a smell, but it does. When you walk into a scene, blood has a smell. It's got a sickly sweet kind of odor to it. Obviously, decomposing bodies have a smell. There's that kind of accurate thing that's left behind relative to gunfire. The smells of a home. You know, looking, again, my old adage is we're always having to view the abnormal in the context of the normal walking in somebody's

Starting point is 00:10:44 house and you see a family obliterated at Christmas time. And this should not be part of it. What happens in social media and out there where they're viewing this stuff, they don't, I think that there's a level of shock when people are actually exposed to it. when they see it. I was thinking, what was it in Charlotte, for instance, with the young lady that was on the bus and she caught the knife in the neck, the young Ukrainian girl, a young lady. And I'm thinking, holy smokes, you know, you think about that happening. And, you know, you talk about a public execution. You watch that in real, well, I guess it was in real time. You've got that CCTV. And you see her literally her life just eb out of her. She's, you know, stabbed in the throat. but yet you're not there to actually hear her whimpering. You're not there to smell the blood. All those sorts of things that come along with physically being at a scene. And that is incredibly dangerous, incredibly dangerous.

Starting point is 00:11:45 People don't realize that they're really brushing up against evil. Yeah, that's a good way to put it. But we do got to discuss this and go through the Kirk case. We're going to go through a few different cases today. Obviously, Joseph covers literally everything. we won't get to all the cases you're covering but there's there's obviously some big ones out there that said as we are recording this and we're going to put this out like almost right away so we're up to date but the charlie kirk trial is going on and just to be perfectly frank with you so you

Starting point is 00:12:19 understand like where i'm at with this thing you know obviously the whole thing looked crazy when we saw it and then there was a lot of weird shit that happened afterwards from an investigation's standpoint, I'll bring up a phone call you and I had in a few minutes that there was a few days after that. That'll certainly be relevant today. But we have watched the whole internet turn into these factions with like, these people are saying this. These people are saying that. Oh, it's this giant conspiracy. Oh, it's not a conspiracy at all. It's a lot of noise, a lot of things. So what I would really like to do today is someone who is not an expert on the case by any stretch. I'm not with it. You know, there's some of it I've just stayed away from. We've only talked about it probably about

Starting point is 00:12:59 three times, three, four times on the podcast before for maybe 10 minutes max each time. But as someone who's not coming out from like the expert lens, I'd really like to just go through the facts on the ground, which I know is literally what you do for a living with this, just to go through what we know, what's now being presented at trial as well that maybe we haven't seen, and what the biggest problems were from the jump. Well, what we have to understand is what's going on right now is not actually a trial. It's a preliminary hearing. Right. And, And it is a five-day-long process. And what they're trying to do is present the evidence to the judge to determine if they have enough evidence to, in fact, move forward with a trial.

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Starting point is 00:15:01 And of course, we've caught snatches, you know, along the way. But for the first time, we're kind of seeing this stuff revealed to us in real time where people are watching this. And they're hearing some of this stuff. There's been so much speculation, you know, over low of these many months, you know, leading up to this moment in time. You see the defendant in the, you know, in the courtroom. You see his counsel. You see prosecution. Eric Kirk has been, you know, in the courtroom. I think she left pretty quickly the first day.

Starting point is 00:15:37 They started talking about some things that were rather unsettling, which, you know, the whole, this whole lead up to this is very unsettling because it's so graphic. You're talking about the evidence that they have, the evidence that they've documented, collected, and tested to this point, what their conclusions are. And I guess what it comes down to when you're doing the calculus on all this, do you have enough to make a case out of this? All right. And it's dense, dense material because we're talking about things like DNA. We're talking about firearms, ballistics, examinations. We're talking about tool marks.

Starting point is 00:16:14 Tool marks. Yeah, which is kind of fascinating because a Dremel tool was used on the casings to write messages. Oh, right. And we're talking about electronics. The list goes on and on. And we haven't even gotten to Charlie. You know, we'll learn more about what the ME found because, again, that's been a big area of speculation. About the nature of the injury, coupled with the type of platform that was used to allegedly,

Starting point is 00:16:51 pull this off, what types of injuries or injury he sustained, how devastating that was. You know, there's been all kinds of things floating around. And you don't, we don't have, say we, the people that are practitioners and that actually do this for a living, they don't have time to sit out there and have a lot of speculative moments. They have to look at the data that they have in front of them and assess it in a logical way because it really doesn't matter what the public opinion is or what the current zeitgeist is. At the end of the day, their measure is going to be taken at trial. It'll be taken at trial relative to what those people in the jury find. if this thing goes to trial, I think they'll probably will.

Starting point is 00:17:46 They're going to, you know, they're going to take a look at that. And is there enough meat on the bone here? Do you think there's enough meat on the bone? Yes. Yeah. Yeah, it's almost when you're, they're talking about, they're talking about numbers. Relative, they're talking about numbers relative to the DNA. numbers that have been thrown out now are octillion and quintillion you know that it could be

Starting point is 00:18:21 anybody other than this person or persons you know because you've got two guys that are either directly involved or peripherally involved relative to DNA and that's when I say involved they've made contact with some of these items of evidence all right and And that's one of the difficulties that defense attorneys have now because the DNA is playing such a huge role in almost every case now. If it's not involved in the case, you have people saying, well, where's the DNA? They expect that DNA will be done in every case. Well, here it's something that really plays a part because you're telling, from biological standpoint, you're talking about points of contact. and everything from pressing live ammo into a magazine,

Starting point is 00:19:13 placing your cheek on the stock of a weapon, all right? Maybe you've cycled the weapon or you haven't, but you've touched the bolt at some point, Tom, you've touched the trigger, you've touched the screwdriver that's found there. You've got a towel that's got deposition. of DNA from two separate people. It's a tough hill to climb for the defense. That's just the DNA.

Starting point is 00:19:41 All right. So, yeah, simply based on that, yeah, there's enough for them to go forward with a trial, in my opinion, from a physical evidence standpoint. Okay. Well, let's start with the very beginning, which is, obviously, everyone sees the shot to see what happens. They see who is a brutal wound right. away anyone I talked to who was even slightly an expert in any type of you know shooting or death

Starting point is 00:20:09 investigating or stuff like that told me that the instant they saw it they knew there was no saving the guy like it was obviously an insane wound but what they've said is that the rifle that fired it allegedly fired by by Tyler was a 30-06 bullet yes and one of the huge problems with this case just in general, regardless of what the truth is or isn't, but it's a huge problem that I think needs to be raised is the complete fuck-upery of every optic that you could have if you are trying to generate public trust in investigations. So number one, you immediately just say like this guy's guilty, we've accepted that, nothing else to see here. Number two, we'll get to this later, but you pave over the entire place of the scene of the crime right away.

Starting point is 00:21:02 Number three, you got people fucking with the cameras right there and taking out hard drives or SIM cards and stuff immediately after the shots are fired. Number four, you also don't have, optically speaking again, a great look when you're doing a WWE-type fucking funeral for the guy nine days later. Again, saying nothing to see here.

Starting point is 00:21:24 The list goes on. We'll go through more today. Like all those things are a problem. But one of the things that was like, oh my God, who on earth told you to press send on this tweet was nine days afterwards or 10 days afterwards. Andrew Colvette put out a tweet regarding what the doctors told him about Charlie's wound. And I want to start with this because I want to break down the real possibilities of whether or not something like this could be true or like just what you saw and what the weaponry could actually be. But he said, I want to address some of the discussion about the lack of. of an exit wound with Charlie. I'm usually not interested in delving into most of this kind of

Starting point is 00:22:02 online chatter, and I apologize, this is somewhat graphic, but in this case, the fact that there wasn't an exit wound is probably another miracle, and I want people to know. I just spoke with the surgeon who worked on Charlie in the hospital. He said the bullet, quote, absolutely should have gone through, which is very, very normal for a high-powered, high-velocity round. I've seen wounds from this caliber many times, and they always just go through everything. This would have taken a moose or two down, an elk, etc., unquote. But it didn't go through. Charlie's body stopped it.

Starting point is 00:22:34 I mentioned to his doctor that there were dozens of staff students and special guests standing directly behind Charlie on the other side of the tent, and he replied, quote, it was an absolute miracle that someone else didn't get killed, unquote. Quote, his bone was so healthy and the density was so impressive that he's like the man of steel. It should have just gone through and through. It likely would have killed those standing behind him too, unquote. in the end the coroner did find the bullet just beneath the skin even in death charlie managed to save the lives of those around him remarkable miraculous joseph even if this were true

Starting point is 00:23:08 we live in a country where arlin specter once told us there was something called a magic bullet that went through fucking eight different whatever definitions of physics that it just totally broke to kill john f kennedy to make sure nothing to see here i don't believe this to be clear i think that's insane Charlie Kirk was a big guy. He certainly wasn't like Mr. fucking America though as far as bodybuilding goes. But like even if on the off chances were true, why would you ever tweet that out at a time where people were already going what the fuck with this case? You know what I mean? I know exactly what you mean and he would have been advised to keep his

Starting point is 00:23:48 freaking mouth shut at that point in time. And also one other thing, I don't care what a surgeon has to say. You don't. No. I don't. They have the utility for me as a death investigator. What did you see when you got in? Other than that, I don't want to hear your freaking opinions about anything. Really? Yeah, really. Yeah. I want to know if you go in and you take life-saving steps in order to stem bleeding, those sorts of things, maybe your initial assessment of trauma is fine. I don't want to hear about moose, and I don't want to hear about elk, and I don't want to hear about how many moose or mooses or whatever you want to call it around the,

Starting point is 00:24:25 you think may have passed through, okay? That's total garbage, all right. Okay. This is not a miracle. This is physics. It's physics. It's physics and it also goes to the structure of the 30-0.6 round. All right, let's go there. That's what I was hoping you to do. So first off, so we understand what a 30-0-6 round is. 30 is a designator of the caliber. That's measured at the bottom of the round, okay, which we'll get into in just a second. That's the base. of the projectile. The projectile itself is seeded into a cartridge, all right? Okay, cartridge holds the 30-0-6 projectile.

Starting point is 00:25:10 Once that primer is tapped off with this rifle, it sends that round down range. Okay, it has certain ballistic characteristics. Well, do you know what the origin of 30-06 round is? No. Okay. Well, the beauty of the 30-06 round, we know a lot about it, and here's why. 30 is a caliber. Do you know what 06 is? Most people don't. It's the year, the year that it was developed. 1906. Guess where we used this round to great effect? World War I? One. Yeah. It's what the doughboys carried.

Starting point is 00:25:54 No shit. So when they're cycling that weapon and it's a bolt action rifle, it's not semi-automatic, you have to physically cycle it like this. It ejects around and then you're ready to rock and roll. Do you know what became the most popular hunting cartridge in the wake of World War I? 30-0.6. Yeah, everybody's grandpappy had one. They would take it and they would go deer hunting with it, you know, which is the most prevalent. You can call deer large game, but they're not actually large game.

Starting point is 00:26:29 Right. You know, kind of a mid-range. So people have used it to great effect for a long, long time. How about Al Capone? Al Capone. Those were Tommy Guns. I think that he had, yeah, Tommy Guns and 45 Calibers. I feel like he would have liked that 06, you know.

Starting point is 00:26:45 He probably would have. And it's been chambered for a variety of different weapons. I think that the Browning, the B-A-R was initially chambered in 30-a-old. which, you know, you've seen in all kinds of war movies over the years. I know it's 308, but it doesn't matter. For our purposes, though, 30-0-6 is a very effective round. And there's also Remington makes this cartridge. And several manufacturers do. You've got Remington, you've got Winchester, all these other. But Remington, and if I remember correctly, I think these are Remington rounds. Did you know that there is actually a round, and I think it's like 150 grain, 155 grain round,

Starting point is 00:27:31 that is utilized in this weapon, and there is a particular brand of this weapon that's called the most deadly mushroom in the woods. Most deadly mushroom in the woods. You know why? Because this particular round was designed so that when it impacted on target the round actually mushroom but it doesn't mushroom like a hollow point does where you've got

Starting point is 00:28:01 these little wings that kind of deploy it turns into a fist so you go from 30 caliber maybe up to 40 45 maybe up to 50 because it expands out and it cavitates as it goes through cavitates yeah it cavitates an area it creates a channel

Starting point is 00:28:17 it actually creates a channel in whatever your target area is. And from what I'm seeing, and we'll find out what the medical examiner sees, and I can hold forth on that for a little bit. But from what I saw with the initial view, it entered, and it's to the left of the midline. Okay. And when I say the midline, if you find your Adams apple right here, okay, your Lairnick sits right here. It's entering right about here, which is right over where, you know, your external jugular is, your carotids run through here. Right. And for that horrific moment, you see, and I'll get to this too, you see Charlie do this, you see his shirt balloon, and then you see him begin to list to the left like this falling down.

Starting point is 00:29:07 if I remember correctly, he, he contracts his thumb like this. And that's many times when you see this, this is, if you watch an NFL game, it's a fencing mechanism. Well, you go like this. If you see somebody with a head injury or a neurological thing, yeah, exactly. You'll see that event. And when I saw that initially, I'm thinking, this is hit his spine. You know, it's hit his probably spinal cord, all right?

Starting point is 00:29:37 And then he goes down. And they're talking about, this goes back to the ballistics. They're talking about that they recovered the round from his body, but it's deformed to the point that they could not read ballistics on it. It cannot be excluded, all right? So they haven't excluded this round. The round first went to the FBI, which I found kind of weird. Right. Isn't that whole thing? The whole chain of command was a little live, right? And then it winds up going to the ATF. Let me tell you something. No offense to the FBI.

Starting point is 00:30:16 All right. Here it comes. But if I'm looking to do anything relative to ballistics, hands down, going to the ATF. Really? Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. They have some of the top ballistic experts. And look, the FBI does too, but this is where they dance. That would have been my first stop. All right. Well, they were too busy in Valhalla.

Starting point is 00:30:43 I'm just saying that's where I would have sent it. And I found that out, I think yesterday. I'm saying yesterday. I hope that's okay. Yeah, so we're recording this on Friday. The episode's going to come out Monday or Tuesday. Yeah. And the crompson tech was giving her testimony relative to this.

Starting point is 00:31:05 And she talked about the, the chain of the chain of custody relative to these rounds where they went to be examined and all that sort of stuff. But they didn't have enough to do the ballistics. And let me kind of break that down so that folks understand what that means. Over the years running this business, the subscriptions and all the overhead has complicated my financial picture so, so much. Which is why I really needed to check out my friends at Monarch to make it all simple again. Monarch is the personal finance app that tracks everything accounts investments saving goals spending you name it with monarch i can find and easily track all the different services i'm subscribed to and find all those old ones that i don't even

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Starting point is 00:34:46 Can you explain the striation? Sure, absolutely. So within the barrel of the 30-0-6 rifle, you have what are referred to as lands and grooves. grooves exactly what they're what they are they're twist okay so grooves are kind of deep channels lands are flat and so if you look at a barrel on cross section it it when you look at it you've got a land groove land groove land groove land groove land groove and they're twisted so when when a round travels out of that barrel it begins to spin Okay, that's why this is a rifled round, all right?

Starting point is 00:35:32 And for folks that don't understand what that means, if you've ever, if you've ever thrown a football with somebody, okay, right. So the more efficient, the more efficient you can make that spiral, the further it's going to go. If you've ever heard the term a wounded duck, you know, where quarterbacks will drop back and they're getting hit right at the last moment

Starting point is 00:35:54 and it just kind of flutters off. It doesn't have a tight spiral. Well, with a rifled round as opposed to smoothbore, which we had back in Revolutionary War, which is like a musket, kind of bouncing down. Goddamn right, we did. Hell yeah. The rifled round is revolutionary, okay? And so this round is transferring all of this energy that happens at that moment of explosion.

Starting point is 00:36:23 Okay. It's going downrange. It's spinning. it also, it retains energy and it retains direction. Okay, so you're talking about it going downrange and striking the target, which you intend for it to hit. So when it delivers that energy, okay? When it delivers that energy, it's going to be devastating. Now, back to Charlie when this is just my opinion.

Starting point is 00:36:48 Okay. Pierce back here. When you see Charlie's shirt, I'm talking talking about him like I know him, old buddy, oh, pal. When you're talking about Charlie Kirk's shirt, all right, and people have made much of this, okay? Yes. Kind of balloons out like this. It's called kinetic energy.

Starting point is 00:37:10 So when you see that, when you see that, there's nothing to you that looks abnormal of any type of gunshot from this type of weapon that you've seen in your career? Like an exploding microphone? No. You're out on the exploding microphone. Okay. Here we go. So I think I lost points off of my IQ just by saying exploding microphone. Anyway.

Starting point is 00:37:42 Well, let's pretend it's a high IQ point and how you would break it down with another high IQ point. Right. So with the kinetic energy delivery, which is part of the destructive nature of a, of a, of a weapon. It's not just the projectile itself. It's the energy that it delivers. So let's just pretend that we're on the shore of a beautifully placid pond. Maybe there's a few ducks swimming over there, you know, you can see the little fishies in the water. There's a frog over there. And we pick up a stone and we throw it in the middle of it. What happens? Well, you have this wave that travels out, right? That's kinetic energy. That's the delivery of the energy. So when

Starting point is 00:38:26 People say, you know, I've shot people before and this sort of thing and I've never seen a shirt do that. Okay. Right. How you've seen people shot before and you've never seen a shirt move. It's going to move when you get hit. All right? He's wearing kind of a loose fitting t-shirt. So when he is hit, it balloons out like this.

Starting point is 00:38:54 And when it balloons out, that's that energy. transfer. There's a great old black and white scene. If you've never seen it, look it up. Okay. It's, it was, it may have been done up in the northeast, like at Coney Island. I don't know. The guy that catches the cannonball.

Starting point is 00:39:14 Have you ever seen that? The guy that catches. Have you seen that before? I've seen it. Okay. So, he's standing this rather rotund man, and he was known. Rather rotund. Rather rotund.

Starting point is 00:39:25 That's a nice way to say. Yeah, it was fat as hell. He was healthy in a 30s and 40s sense. When you see, when you see him hit like that with that cannonball, you can see the ripple effect. All right, let's get that on the screen. That's pretty good. That it actually travels out, okay? Well, that's kinetic energy, and it disperses throughout his body.

Starting point is 00:39:48 Why is he doing this to himself? He didn't have a, he didn't have a smartphone. and so he couldn't entertain itself. And this is how people entertain themselves. I thought I was getting time off his sentence. Yeah, no kidding. It's rather impressive, though. And you can, yeah, here he is.

Starting point is 00:40:07 Yeah, this is the sledgehammer thing. All right, you kind of did him dirty, though. You made him sound like a real fat ass. He's kind of like old school. He's old school. Yeah, it looks like he's going to throw some hands with you. Yeah, like Robert Mitchum, you know. Yeah, look at that.

Starting point is 00:40:19 He's got some liver protection. Look at this. Yeah, this guy's kind of a savage. You really did him. dirty. It wasn't my intention. Okay. My apologies to... Look at that. He's like, coming to... To all of his...

Starting point is 00:40:32 To all of his kith and kin. I didn't mean to... Okay. You know, anyway, so you have this transfer of energy that takes place, and that explains the ballooning of the shirt, and if he had not had a shirt on you, you were watching this in real time, you could probably see... And you were watching super slow-mo. When it strikes this area, you could see a ripple effect in the skin as well. well, it'll kind of balloon out like that. And then the elasticity will bring it back in.

Starting point is 00:41:02 So once it has created the defect, which is the hole, it begins this, this, this cavitation, you know, as a round is traveling through the tissue. And if it fragments, and that's called, you have what are called, there's an old term referred to, it's not old, but some rounds, 5.56 was known. for this in Vietnam is a flangeable, frangible bullet. Wait, say that again? Flangible, frangible bullet or projectile, yeah. And on impact, on impact, it kind of shatter. So you don't just have one projectile. You have multiple projectiles, and all the little vessels that are associated in that area

Starting point is 00:41:48 are getting ripped and torn as this thing kind of cavitates through these structures in the neck. All right. How far away again exactly was Tyler Robinson allegedly would do with would I've heard estimates. I've heard people some people have said 200 yards and then other people have said people have said 180 160. I want to get what the reported consensus from law enforcement is if possible. That's why I asked it that way. So we'll pull it up just so we have it.

Starting point is 00:42:18 Because what I want to get at is and deep scout it. What do we get? So it's saying here that from Sergeant Jennifer Faramina of the Utah Department of Public Safety, it was 410 feet between the rooftop perch and the tent where he was. So they're saying roughly 415 feet away. Yeah. That's what, 140-ish? It's too early from that type yards, something like that? 138 yards.

Starting point is 00:42:54 38. It's well within, okay. So with a 30-0.6, there are people out there that, and this is with a scoped, a scoped version of this, okay, a scoped version of this weapon. He had optics on it. There are people out there that easily, I'm a horrible marksman. I barely, yeah, I barely qualified in the Army years and years ago. Yeah, I've got terrible life. Don't say that. I thought you were great. No, I like looking at bullets. I don't want you. You look like a good job. shot. Yeah, well, there you go. So there are people out there that could easily score the shot with an iron sight. With an iron sight. Yeah, with no scope whatsoever from that distance. Which leads to my question here, because that makes this even more relevant to me. With a 30-od-6 bullet from approximately 138 yards. Yeah. How does that not exit and to take it a step further above my pay grade here,

Starting point is 00:44:01 just going off what some other guys who have shot a lot of weapons in my life has speculated with before, how does that not literally take his head almost clean off his neck? No. Over the course of my career, I've examined a lot of gunshot wounds, and particularly from high-velocity weapons. Okay, hunting rifles, AK platforms, AR platforms, scars. I mean, you name it. I've seen them, everything from 308, you know, 7.56, 556, 500 windmags, 300 blackout. I mean, you name it. I've seen,

Starting point is 00:44:42 and the entrance wound is not, the entrance wound itself is not going to be blown out with every single case that just, it just doesn't happen. I think people are expecting to see like It's like the old Gallagher comedian up on stage with a watermelon. They have this expectation that you're going to take, you know, this weapon and fire it, and the watermelon is going to explode. That doesn't happen with human tissue. So the elasticity of the tissue itself will absorb that round. Okay.

Starting point is 00:45:16 Now, I think that I don't know if people are wanting to see it or they want to try to understand it because there's, you know, you've got this kind of interesting dichotomy out there. There's certain people that I think that actually want this to be, they want to see like his spine hanging out of the back of his neck for whatever reason for whatever their interest is. But that's not the reality in the morgue. You know, when you go to the morgue and you examine, examine bodies. The St. Hollywood.

Starting point is 00:45:47 So when you have a... Can I ask a quick question? Sure, absolutely. I'm just, I don't want to get lost in this and forget about this. but you're making me think about like the kinetic energy that you were relating and what that looks like from a ripple effect and then where the where the actual entrance wound would be and what that could cause as far as like an explosion or not explosion. So please correct me if I'm completely wrong here. But if I think that pond example you gave where you throw a rock, if I throw the rock directly in the center of the pond, the ripple effect distributes in a circular motion all the way evenly across. Now, if I throw the rock off center to the right, a bigger wave ends up going over the rocks on the right. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:46:31 And the left, as it distributes across, gets less of an effect because the center is more towards. Yeah, you're not hitting at center mass is what you're saying. And that's a ballistic term. And it's a weapons term that's used on the range. Got it. You're aiming for center mass. So my question would be, because he got hit here. here where the carotid artery is.

Starting point is 00:46:55 And it was on his leg, and the jugular vein. It was on his left side, our right, if we're looking at it. It's part of, it's part of the reason that there wouldn't have been like an explosion or like head coming clean off the fact that it's hit off center versus if he had been hit in the Adams apple. Right. Perhaps it would have in the larynx, this area here, the trachea, because as we can feel, this has got, you know, it's cartilaginous in here, right?

Starting point is 00:47:21 Carvalaginus. Yeah, so a lot of cartilage. It's formed up in here. If you hit this surface, you might see more of a dynamic entry area, but this is rather soft tissue right here. It can absorb a lot. Okay. So you move to the left of the midline. And this wound, if you had, let's just say we had, I don't know how to say it. Let's just say if we had three cases and you had people that were shot, one to the left of the midline, one in the middle. midline and maybe another that is over far to the right over here or far to the left. All of these wounds are going to look different dependent upon, and it's dependent upon the actual anatomical structure and the delivery of that energy and how it affects that particular spot. So going back to what you saw with Charlie to summarize it is therefore, in your forensics opinion, very possible that he was shot with 30-odd-6 from approximately 140 yards away and that it did completely create a fatal impact upon hitting his arteries right there,

Starting point is 00:48:38 but that it is possible, therefore, that it may not have made an exit wound and that it is also therefore even more possible by that point that, like, his head would not have been effectively taken off. And let me tell you one more thing. So with the vertebral bodies here, you know, we start up here at C1, right? C1 is called the Atlas, right? So it's what supports our head, you know, like Atlas. So we've got C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6.

Starting point is 00:49:08 And so these are rather robust, you know, this surgeon or this guy, this associate of his saying, you know, healthy bones, you know. Superman. Whatever. he's freaking human being. All right. Let's don't paint it in any other way. He's human being, all right? And with this insult, this defect, there is a strong possibility that it is traversing kind of the trajectory would be from above to below.

Starting point is 00:49:49 Okay, so from higher to lower, right? possibly from left to right. Okay. All right. It could have been straight back. So above to below from front to rear. Okay. If it is traversing like this, okay, okay?

Starting point is 00:50:10 Okay. Like this. There is a high probability that it hit one of the bony structures in the spine. All right. Remember going back to the neurological response that we talked about. Yes, that would account for what we're seeing here as he kind of slips off to the left side. It's within those bony structures that they have or immediately adjacent, they've recovered this round. One other thing that's going to be really fascinating at trial, and I don't know if they'll present this in the preliminary hearing, are going to be the x-rays.

Starting point is 00:50:49 it's going to be a marvel to see. So they are, they've said that they're going to be putting those out. I don't know if they will or not. It's common practice now. As a matter of fact, it wouldn't surprise me if they'd done a CT as well on his body. Oh, full cat skin. Well, certainly of head and neck. Yeah, yeah, certain, we go back to the, let's see.

Starting point is 00:51:14 Oh, the Gabby Petito case. Up there where she was found, they actually did a C.E. of her. And she was in a moderate state of decomposition. They did a CT on her on her remains. And it's becoming very very prevalent. We've always done x-ray for people that could afford to have portable x-ray. You know what the beauty of x-ray is in the morgue? One of the reasons that morgue photographs get excluded at trial is because they're regarded to be very prejudicial because they're so gory with a lot of blood and all that sort of stuff. Radiographs are not prejudicial.

Starting point is 00:51:53 And what it's going to show is a cavitated lead storm that will pass through here. If this thing fragmented, you'll see little bits distributed all the way through here. Those little radio opaque bits of metal traversing in whatever trajectory that they determined. And that still remains to be seen. and you'll actually see the main body of that round that the biggest part that's intact where it's lodged. If they didn't just do a standard X-ray and they did CT dimensionally,

Starting point is 00:52:30 you'll be able to actually appreciate the track of the wound where it actually sets up. So it takes it to a whole new level and those will be prominently displayed in the court. Okay. Well, this gets to that actual process that I referred to earlier of what happens once someone is murdered and there's a homicide in the state of Utah and how the autopsy happens, where it happens, who's involved.

Starting point is 00:52:56 One of the things that was weird to me, and this is why I called you a couple days, a few days after the assassination, was how quickly his body was at least preliminarily prepared and by a first funeral home in Utah to then send it and you explain this process to me to the final funeral home that was going to handle all arrangements in Arizona where he's from. But I was doing, I was looking at the time. I'm like, okay, he shot at whatever it was like 12, 30 p.m., something like that, local time in Utah. And then based upon when we saw J.D. Vance go and help hand off the body and we knew that the family had spent time with the body because Erica Kirk had released some social interesting social media posts over the casket and stuff we knew that that was around

Starting point is 00:53:46 5.5.30 p.m. Eastern time the next day and they'd been spending time with the body in the afternoon before and basically I got it down to like okay he shot at 1230 and the funeral home is there was obviously working on him and embalming him that morning like the next morning which is less than 24 hours like that that part was clear to me and so I called you at the time because I'm like well Joseph Scott Morgan's got to go to do with this. And I said, okay, as a total novice here, that seems a little weird to me. Is that weird to you? And at first, you explained it and you said, it doesn't have to be.

Starting point is 00:54:24 No. I'll tell you why. And you proceeded to take me through the entire. I think you said it like this. You're like, Julian, are you aware of the chain of custody and command in the Utah, in the state of Utah when it comes to an autopsy? And I'm like, do I sound like someone who's aware of what happens? And you're like, no. And you then explained me, gave me a play-by-play like Al-Fuck and Michael's in his heyday as to where the body goes, what office it goes to, who's in the room, who's, you had some people by name, I think, at the time they're supposed to be in the room. How long an autopsy like that could or would take what time they'd be working on him. So if you don't mind, let's just start there. Can you re-walk everyone else who wasn't on that phone call that's listening right now through what that process is supposed to be specifically in Utah for the body, It's determined he is dead.

Starting point is 00:55:13 The doctor has called it and now he's handed over. Yeah. I've got a little preamble here, though, for this. Please. I love a good preamble. Who doesn't like a good preamble? State of Utah has not had a coroner since 1972. Where's the camera?

Starting point is 00:55:31 Since 1972. No corners in Utah. Since 1972, does everybody understand that? Good. I was watching that. Now that that dumbassery is a side. You know when the hair gets flipped back, it's about to go. Utah has a state medical examiner's office.

Starting point is 00:56:03 Highly regard it. Okay. These are board certified forensic pathologists. You say, well, Morgan, you're splitting hairs. That's merely semantics. No, it's not. It's not. No, it's not because coroners are elected.

Starting point is 00:56:20 Medical examiners are appointed. In a lot of states, you don't even have to be a physician to be a coroner. Matter of fact, there are some states where all you need is a GED. Okay? That's not reassuring. No, it's not. We could do an entire episode on the coroner system. Okay.

Starting point is 00:56:34 But I digress. They haven't had corners in a long, long time, okay? They understood that they needed a state medical examiner's office. And this is why this is so critical in this case, because it has been stated by a rather prominent person out there that the coroner, this is their words, was inexperienced. Okay, I don't know really what that means. I don't know where that data came from because they don't have coroners.

Starting point is 00:57:10 I don't know. I don't understand why that term would have been used. It shows a certain level of ignorance. Maybe that was intentional. I don't know. But the way the process would work is that his remains, Charlie Kirk's remains, would in fact be turned over to the state medical examiner's office. They would take him to their closest state medical examiner facility, a fully equipped forensic autopsy suite that will be, that will have x-ray. It's going to have all the instrumentation they need.

Starting point is 00:57:46 And most importantly, it's going to have a board certified forensic pathologist, not an elected coroner. Is this the one in Salt Lake City specifically? So everyone gets taken to Salt Lake City? Yeah, unless they have some satellite offices. I know that I covered, I don't know if you remember the Idaho case cases with Chad and Tammy Daybell. Chad Daybell, it's a long story. Anyway, Tammy Daybell was died in Idaho, and her body was taken to Utah. Interesting.

Starting point is 00:58:26 And they had to exhume her remains in Utah. Not a real good job of her death investigation up in Idaho at the time. She turned out she was probably poisoned and she was embalmed. These people are responsible for a lot of deaths, and it's this guy's wife, Tammy. Anyway, the Utah State Medical Examiner worked that case. I'm very familiar with them. Like personally? Well, you know, in the community in forensics, it's very small.

Starting point is 00:58:55 So you're aware of the quality of work that's turned out by particular offices. This is a stellar office, okay? And everybody there, well, most people, of course, every office, It's going to have its own personality, but the people there are highly trained scientists. This is not an elected coroner that's doing this. I can't emphasize that enough, okay? Because the fact that that came out early on, just like the tweet that you showed me, or whatever the hell they call it, post or whatever they call it, I don't know,

Starting point is 00:59:28 the posting, whatever they call it now. We got Joseph off hashtags now. Yeah, thank you. God bless you for that, by the way. You know, it's important to understand. understand that you would have had reliable professionals that would have taken charge of his remains at that point in time. Why was it done so quickly? Well, this is not like you've got a guy that has got multiple gunshot wounds.

Starting point is 00:59:57 His body is riddled with all kinds of trauma. This is a single gunshot wound. At least that's what they're believing, you know, when his remains arrived there. It's a pretty simple process. Ontario. Come on down to BetMGM Casino and see what our newest exclusive The Price's Right Fortune Pick has to offer. Don't miss out. Play exciting casino games based on the iconic game show only at BetMGM. Check out how we've reimagined three of the show's iconic games like Plinko, Cliffhanger, and The Big Wheel, into fun casino game features. Don't forget to download the BetMGM Casino app for exclusive access and excitement on the Price's Right Fortune Pick. Pull up a seat and experience the Big Wheel into fun casino games. Don't forget to download the Betmgum casino app for exclusive access and excitement on the Price's Right Fortune Pick. Pull up a seat and experience the The Price is Right Fortune Pick, only available at BetMGM Casino. BetMGM and GameSense remind you to play responsibly. 19 plus to wager.

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Starting point is 01:02:17 All right, I don't, people throw around this term assassination a lot, right? Okay, if you want to call it an assassination, it's fine. But the state of Utah is not going to prosecute an assassination case. This is a homicide. Right, yeah, that's how it's categorized. Okay, and that's how we have to look at it. So they're going to process this case just like they do every other case that they handle. and there's a certain procedure that they go through.

Starting point is 01:02:39 Now, what might kick it up another level as far as speed is the profile of this case. They want to be as thorough as they possibly can and have as many people in the room. I can assure you that it wasn't just the medical examiner and a technician and a photographer that was in there. Could you understand why people out there? Because, by the way, I checked this before, they still haven't gone through the exact details of what the chain of custody and command and what it all looked like yet. Maybe that'll come out in the trial.

Starting point is 01:03:07 Maybe it won't. I don't know. But like, could you see why people who live in a country where they literally didn't do that correctly with the president that they were acting in 1963, which I know you've covered that case more than anyone, you know, why they might be like, would they have everyone in the room for this if they wanted nothing to see here? Yeah. In Kennedy's case, they had every damn person in the room, right?

Starting point is 01:03:29 It was just all the wrong. Yeah. It was all the wrong people. That's right. They had LeMay smoking a cigar over his body and washing it. But when you look at RFK's case, Dr. Tom Noguchi, he had eight pathologists in the room, I think, maybe nine, including one of the guys that showed up late for John F. Kennedy's autopsy that was wound ballistics guy that they forgot to consult the doctors there. Yeah, forgot. They flew Tom Noguchi, knew about this.

Starting point is 01:04:02 So he flew them out to California. lock that down. They say that RFC's autopsy was arguably one of the best forensic autopsies that has ever been performed. And it's because the community's really small. Tom Noguchi saw what an abortion JFK's autopsy was. And he's like, this is not happening here. This is not happening. And so he brings in a whole team of actually qualified people to observe that autopsy. And no, you don't have general sit around smoking cigars, you know, and doing whatever and people that are not credential to be there. They don't do it in an amphitheater. You know, we talked about that. You know, with JFK, there were actually, I think there were actually stands in there, you know,

Starting point is 01:04:43 gradually. It was like an episode of the Nick. Yeah. Yeah. It's absurd. So in this particular case, they're going to follow a standard procedure relative to the autopsy. They will have done a thorough external examination. They will have collected his clothing. There was some kind of surgical intervention. Remember, the surgeon makes the comment about the, he's seen the moose and the elk and all of that. So they would have had to have collected his clothing, Charlie's clothing, because all of that is going to have some trace evidence value, either to include or exclude. Because even though you see it on camera, you're not just going to assume that, okay, I'm going with what I see on camera. I'm going to examine this clothing. That would have collected his clothing if it was cut away or pulled off of him. that will go into evidence.

Starting point is 01:05:34 I mean, everything that he was wearing, okay, period. That may or may not be brought to the morgue. My suspicion is, is if it was at the hospital, crime scene people would have gone to the hospital, collected said clothing, and entered that into evidence. Sometimes, sometimes the pathologist will say, I want to see the clothing.

Starting point is 01:05:55 You know, of course, in the case of JFK, I think those quote unquote pathologists, these Navy guys that did the autopsy on JFK, they didn't see his shirt for like six months. That's helpful. Okay. Anyway, times have changed. The evidence would have been collected relative to that. They would have done a thorough external examination on Charlie Kirk's remains.

Starting point is 01:06:22 They would have done all of the external imaging, everything, whatever radiography, you know, regarding x-ray, they would have done if they did a CT, they would have done that. And he would have done all of, he, the pathologist would have done, or she, would have done all of the external measurements. We do things like with the defect in the neck. They'll do the distance from here to the center of the defect to the top of the head. How far to the left of the midline it would be, since it would be on the left, how far from any other kind of anatomical feature like, I don't know, we'll say the sternoclavicular joint that sits right here. How far superior is it to this point?

Starting point is 01:07:07 So you kind of triangulate it to get an idea measurement-wise. They're going to examine the back of the head, see if there's any trauma back there. You know, there's many times, and I've actually had this happen. I wrote about this in my memoir. a chapter called the earache where I had a kid that was shot with an AK-47 in a drive-by and a round came in through his jaw and lodged right behind his ear, and it was partially hanging out. And sometimes you'll palpate that area and you'll feel the round just beneath the

Starting point is 01:07:45 surface. It won't completely exit. That was an AK-47 that I just mentioned, 7.62 by 39. and that is lodged. His had partially exited right there. And that went through several bony structures there, went through the jaw and then through the base of the skull right here. So back to Charlie Kirk,

Starting point is 01:08:08 if this round is sitting back here, they still can't appreciate it, but they will take these radiographs, all the imaging, they'll put them up on a board, and they're going to look at it before they ever pull out the cold steel to do the autopsy. And they're going to look at this, just like a doctor would relative to a fracture.

Starting point is 01:08:26 Right. Before they go into surgery. All right. A couple things just to get my timeline right. Yep. He's declared dead. Well, was it deep? Maybe somewhere around 2.30-ish local time?

Starting point is 01:08:37 Something in that area? Okay. When a homicide victim has now been worked on officially in an emergency room, he is declared clinically dead. The doctor stopped working. I would imagine very quickly the, the medical examiner's office takes custody of the body. That's fair to say. Yeah, that body is the biggest piece. The body, no disrespect, but that body now is evidence.

Starting point is 01:09:04 100%. Yeah. Okay. And we laid out that the office where in Utah, this usually takes places in Salt Lake City. Okay. What was it, Provo, Utah where we were shot? Is that the name of how far of a drive from Provo to Salt Lake City is it defy floor? Let's look that. I don't want to miss any details because, you know, we'll get lit up for that. Yeah. Okay. I want to say it was at least a few hours. I just haven't looked at this in a lot.

Starting point is 01:09:35 It's 44 miles away. So it's a 44 minute drug. Okay. So that's not that bad. No. So provostole like, meaning they can get the body there in like an hour or less. Oh, yeah. Right.

Starting point is 01:09:48 Yeah. So that puts us at like 3.30, 4 o'clock. like that. They would start, in your experience, especially for something high profile like this, they'd start working on that pretty quickly, right? They're going to get geared up. They're going to go in probably immediately and begin to work this case. Okay. And as quickly as they possibly can, they'll set everything up and be ready to rock and roll in all principles that are involved in this case. It's always been my preference.

Starting point is 01:10:25 I always invite, even though they don't take us up on the invitation, you'd be surprised. We always want the police there. And we also want their own photographer there in addition to the morgue photographer. What about a video, and I mean this dead seriously, what about like a videographer or something like that to actually capture these days? Yeah, I guess videography could. be useful, particularly now, with the digital world that we're in. And you would want as much documentation as you want too much. As a matter of fact, you want to do this because here's the

Starting point is 01:11:04 thing. It's like, you know, it's like you get one swing at it. And because once his body's gone, it's gone. Right. So you have to touch all of the bases relative to this the first time out or you're going to run in some major problems. So everything has to be considered. They would have done, I can, and it sounds ridiculous, but this is, this is kind of procedurally the way you do it. They probably would have even have swapped his hands for gunshot. Yeah, for gunshot residue.

Starting point is 01:11:39 Yeah. Like in any gunfire related case, many times, you'll bag the hands of the victims. And just to do it, just to do it to say this. you've done it, they would do that sort of thing in this particular case. All right. Let me ask a broader question here for you, then get down in the wheeze and explain all the details like that.

Starting point is 01:11:57 For a one shot victim, it's not like there was 40 shots or stuff like that for one wound area overall. Yeah. And everything you know about the case. Let's start here. How long do you think a full, proper, we got everything we need, autopsy. would have taken to do. For skilled forensic pathologist, no longer than probably three hours.

Starting point is 01:12:24 Okay, that's what I thought you were going to say. So now, including like the residue thing, can you just go through every single thing that they would have done? Yeah, sure. Like if you were in charge of that office and you were running the perfect autopsy on Charlie Kirk based on what you saw, what's everything you would have done? Well, all of the external stuff that I refer to, all the measurements, I mean, they do everything from height to weight.

Starting point is 01:12:45 They do crown head to the heel to do the height, all right? Heights is going to play into this, okay, because when dimensionally what you're thinking about, and they would actually do, they could, I've seen forensic pathologists actually do what's called, they do this on kids, but I've actually seen in shooting cases where they'll do what's referred to as a rump to crown height. So from the rear end to the top of the head.

Starting point is 01:13:12 So if you're in a seated position, you know, how tall are you, right? So dimensionally, when you're, you know, running through this thing and you're trying to think, is this consistent with the round entering the body? That might be a measurement that they're going to do. You will do an anterior examination. That means all of the front.

Starting point is 01:13:38 You're going to do lateral examinations externally. You're going to do posterior examinations, looking for anything on the body whatsoever. The body would have been photographed from stem to stern. And I mean probably tens and tens of images that will have been taken, maybe hundreds. I would imagine, I'd say probably 150 to 200 photographs externally, probably because with a digital camera,

Starting point is 01:14:07 you can just snap them off like that. You'll see them done with scale and without scale. What does that mean? So you have a static scale. You've seen these in crime scene images. We use them in the morgue. There's something called an ABFO ruler, which is a right angle ruler like this. It's got a gray scale on it that is developed by the American Board of Forensic

Starting point is 01:14:29 Odentologists many, many years ago. You'll see it placed over an area. Let's say you have an injury right here. It'll be placed here. You'll do macro to micro photography. You'll do it with scale. You'll do it without scale like that. and any other kind of anomalies he might have on his body.

Starting point is 01:14:47 Even the most passive thing, maybe he's got a birth mark or he's got an old scar. That'll all be documented and it should be in the autopsy report. That's just externally, okay? And when you're working in a morgue with a forensic pathologist, they have this thing. It's like a dance almost. Everybody knows their job. There's very specific things. Every forensic pathologist is different in the order.

Starting point is 01:15:13 in which they want to do stuff. But you do all of the external stuff first. Then you block the body. That is, you put the body up on the block between the shoulder blades, and you work out scalpel. And the first thing that would have done is open the chest. Okay. They're going to do an examination of all of the organs

Starting point is 01:15:33 inside the chest cavity, the abdominal cavity. And then they're going to make their way to the head. The head is always generally the last. thing unless you've got two assistants working on a body with a single pathologist. In this case they would have probably really have taken their time and worked on the trunk first. All the organ weights, organ dissections, sampling of tissues, any kind of physical anomalies that he may have had, if they're seeing any types of disease in his body, standard pathology kind of stuff. Once they're done,

Starting point is 01:16:13 here, this is really graphic. I can tell you they would have gone into the neck. And here's one other thing. Before they opened the body, there is a high probability. They would have taken a trajectory probe and put that into the neck. A trajectory. Is that the green thing you were telling me about? Yeah, I can explain that? So there is a probe that can be inserted. into a defect. And we use them, say for instance, at crime scenes, now use lasers a lot. But there's a static probe.

Starting point is 01:16:54 It's a post. You can look it up on any of the crime scene supply. And they'll come in like brilliant yellow, orange, lime green, you know, is a choice many times. And that rod will go into the defect. And you have to be very gentle with this. and you insert it and leave it in the position. You don't try to manipulate it in any way.

Starting point is 01:17:18 You just kind of drop it down in there very, very slowly. You're not moving it left or right or back to forward. And what are they going to do the end? Well, what they will have done is they will go in profile. Okay. The photographer will move to the left of the body if the wound is here. Okay. And in profile, they're going to take a shot of the body

Starting point is 01:17:41 with a trajectory rod coming out of it. Okay, and it'll give you an idea. If it's what they're saying it is, and again, hasn't been confirmed yet, right? We don't see that report. It should have an indication of the rod being pitched up like this. So if he's in this position, seated, right? And he's shot, enter right here, above to below. The rod is going to pitch up like that, and you'll see that demonstrated at autopsy.

Starting point is 01:18:11 Here's the question. if they have that image, is that something that they would show in court? Well, that might be rather prejudicial, right? But it'll be a reference point, you know, for the DA, the defense would see these images, that sort of thing. And they're going to move to try to get a lot of images excluded. So you'll take it from the left side. You'll also take it from the right side. What's the legality of getting images?

Starting point is 01:18:34 Like, how, as a defense attorney, can you get images of, say, an autopsy that's professionally done excluded? I have sat. That's a great question. I've actually sat in a three-day hearing with images. I think this is a long, long time ago. This is back in the 80s. I had a triple execution shooting. It was a organized crime group out of Korea that executed a father and his two sons. And then the shooter tried to shoot himself and blew off his chest. chin and the tip of his tongue and the tip of his nose and he survived. He actually went to trial. I was involved in the nutty case. Anyway, I think we had, get this straight, it was close to 1,600, 800 images. And defense had filed a motion in the same. We had to literally go into court with the judge. And each one of these images was displayed. And it was such a, kind of a ticky-tack kind of legal thing. I remember sitting on the stand, is this, you know, they'll ask you, is this image true to the best of your knowledge, right? Now, I'd have to do the

Starting point is 01:19:58 provenance of the image, right? What's the purpose of this image to demonstrate so and so? And then the two sides would argue. And it went on, I feel like it went on for three days. But the defense would be arguing, like, he took it from the wrong angle and the jury could think, like that kind of thing. And then, yeah, they'll talk about stuff like that. And then they'll talk about the graphic nature of it. Because, look, if you've got mom-paw kettle sitting on the jury. Mon-pa who? Kettle.

Starting point is 01:20:24 That's an old reference, all right? Thief's an old soul. I'm an old soul. Yeah, there you go, Dee. You know mom-pa kettle. Okay, there you go. So, anyway, they're used to sitting at home and about as close to a crime scene as they ever come. is the ID channel or oxygen.

Starting point is 01:20:48 The lawn order. Right. Yeah. Now they're in a courtroom and they're sitting on jury and you've got blood everywhere. You've got organs that are being demonstrated. You've got traumatized bodies, all these sorts of things. That is going to be incredibly impactful on their psyche. That's right.

Starting point is 01:21:10 So will it prejudice them? And that's what the defense consistently argues in photography. Cautography cases, in cases involving images. That's going to come up in this trial. I don't know when it will be done, but they'll talk about what images will be admitted or allowed. And the reason I think that this is a salient point is because so many people want to see. So many people want to know. And they want to see every jot and tittle of information that is out there.

Starting point is 01:21:42 And there will be certain things that are viewed in court. and that won't. Now, whether or not those would be broadcast to the public, probably not. They'll black the screen at that particular time. They've done that in the preliminary hearing. There's certain things that they have not allowed, they have a single camera guy in that proceeding right now, and there's certain things that they block out when they're discussing them in open court. So if you think that's intense, wait until it gets through the trial. Yeah. I think so going back to the timeline though of like the autopsy it would appear to me that they could have been done everything to your satisfaction by maybe 830 9 10 that night something like that oh yeah okay so you also explained to me because I was I had been unfamiliar at the time I referenced this earlier when I was talking given that preamble but you explained to me that like do you know how funeral homes work when it's out of state and things like that

Starting point is 01:22:42 And you said it's like an underground railroad, if you will, like, okay, we're going to do this for you because we're going to be releasing the body to use. So as you understand it, it would have been perfectly normal for a funeral home right there locally in Utah to do the initial embalming to the standards that the Arizona funeral home would have wanted as far as like what they communicated to them and then release the body to be able to be put back to Arizona. That's all perfectly kosher. I'll give you an example. You're familiar with FTT, the floral service, FD. You know.

Starting point is 01:23:16 Tell me about this. Yeah. Funeral homes are set up the same way, right? So if you go to FTT online and you order flowers for a person, you know, those flowers are not going to come from, you know, it's going to come locally, right? So funeral homes are networked like that. So they have people that they are networked with in one state and they'll go to their big. I just got three bodies. How about you?

Starting point is 01:23:40 Oh, four. Wow. What a day. Good one. So you've got this list and they will contact and they'll say and they'll tell them what they want. They'll say, go ahead and do this, you know, as far as embalming or whatever it is. And this conversation that we had, I remember now it kind of stimulated me to ask this question because for years and years it's been held that in order for a body to cross the state line it has to be embalmed. people have stated that for a long, long time.

Starting point is 01:24:17 And I can't find any specific law that is a federal law that actually says that. And I think that it's done state to state. So whether or not he was embalmed or not in Utah, I don't know. I think he was. We have a video that clearly shows you was, I mean, you know, maybe people out there can correct me. But if you look at the video that Erica Kirk herself released publicly at the time of her over the casket, I mean, he's clearly embalmed and the body was still in Utah. Well, there you go.

Starting point is 01:24:47 So they prepped his body there. They probably would have done the hair and the makeup. Everything that they do, they would have had a suit. So what's left to do when he gets to Arizona? Barrier. And they'll handle all of that. There's also their legal requirements relative to a burial certificate. You have to have a death certificate or a preliminary death certificate

Starting point is 01:25:12 that generally flips a switch on a burial certificate in order to get the body buried. All right, you know, and they'll go through whatever, you know, procedures they have to go through that are dictated by the local government or the state government. Okay. Where you can dig a hole, place a crypt in there and then place a casket inside the crypt in the ground. Okay. Or they're going to be in a mausoleum or wherever they're going to be interned. So at least on this point, everything to this day from what we know and timing of one is,

Starting point is 01:25:42 went down would appear to check out with how they handled it afterwards and we'll find out how good a job they did I guess at trial well yeah you very will might I've never been in a situation where where the the activities of a funeral home came into play with a homicide other than I've had I've had funeral directors God bless them that have discovered trauma on bodies that turned out to be homicides that we didn't know about, which is kind of a, it's kind of a, from an investigative standpoint, you were not notified about it.

Starting point is 01:26:21 It just may have been a, you know, Memol passed away in her sleep, and then they go to prep her body, and well, Memo's got all of these bruises all over her body, you know. Choke marks. Yeah, exactly. Or, you know, some kind of contusion in the back of the head or whatever it is.

Starting point is 01:26:38 They do get involved there. But you imagine like your mid-in-bomb and you're like, what? I know. Steve, don't say anything. It's 85. It's not a big deal. Well, I have had funeral homes where they'll say, stop, stop the process. Stop the process.

Starting point is 01:26:57 We're going to call the corner of the medical examiner. So, and, you know, you have to roll out to, I've been called out to bodies that were just about to be put into the oven for cremation. I know. Where you had to do, there was something that they had seen that they picked up on. Now, in a case like this, I don't really see that happen. They would have gone, they would have been very, very thorough relative to their examination right down the line.

Starting point is 01:27:34 All right, here's another question. Yep. And how not normal would this be? for something high profile like this, you know, would there be a reason once you're done? You're the medical examiner's office. You just did the autopsy of your life, right? It's 10 o'clock at night and you're like, we got, we, boss, we left it all on the floor. It's all there. Right. Is there a reason to be like, hey, before we turn over this body, maybe we need to give it another

Starting point is 01:28:04 day or something like that? In case, for example, the family wants an independent. examiner to come in to do something or something else comes up and they're like, ooh, maybe we need to check this now because new information has come out. Like to me, it seems like my priority wouldn't be to make sure the body's ready for being ready to be embalmed within 24 hours of the guy being dead. My priority would be let's make sure we have turned over every rock here. Is that ever a normal priority in a case like this? If the medical legal authority, and I'm saying that to say corners and medical examiners,

Starting point is 01:28:42 if the medical legal authority comes into some kind of information, or maybe even the police come into some kind of information relative to this particular event that's going to change their view of it, let's hold off. Let's don't release the body. And there are tons of cases out there where you'll see in the news where families are saying we still haven't gotten the body, literally, you know, where bodies have been held for protracted period of time. That happens a lot with skeletal remains, those sorts of things.

Starting point is 01:29:12 But, you know, the fact that they did it within this window is not outside the norm for probably any other homicide case that they're working, you know. And this is where you get into a dangerous area here. Because what you're saying is that, okay, you've worked other homicides. you worked other homicides, why did you guys decide to go outside your standard practice here? Yeah.

Starting point is 01:29:47 Why this case? You don't do this for everybody else. Right. And that's that's the devil's playground relative to lawyers, right? So if you deviate from that normal practice, what is normally accepted practice, you know, you run into trouble. Yeah, my thought, and again, totally from the outside of

Starting point is 01:30:11 here, I don't, this is your world, it's not mine. If there is one place where I would consider deviating, if this is in fact still a deviation these days, it would be, you mention all the photos they take of the autopsy, you know, there's always the argument that like the FBI, when they interview someone, they don't have to videotape it, but a detective is not a, FBI, local detective does. And then you have that video forever. Within autopsy like this was someone that prominent, I'm not saying for the public to get it or whatever, but just for the sake of knowing you have it, I would think you just video the whole thing so that you can see every little thing that happened in there. Now that immediately in my head, and I'm sure you'll say this,

Starting point is 01:30:57 a devil's advocate is like, then you can have a defense attorney pick apart every single thing that happened in there. But if you're not doing anything wrong and you're doing it by the book and doing it correctly, would there even be anything to pick apart? Potentially. And not to, we'll get to this eventually, I think, today. But let me just give you states exhibit 1A here. Okay. You look at what's happening with the D4VD case, isn't it? David? David, yeah, yeah, the singer. Well, just drop this week. The medical examiner's office, coroner's office in L.A. County is under investigation right now because multiple investigators and staff have looked at all of those files. And there is even a hint that they've disseminated some of that stuff to the media.

Starting point is 01:31:50 TMZ and stuff. L.A. County medical examiner workers probed after leaks in David murder case. employees are being interviewed over allegations. They viewed the medical examiner's investigation files without permission, following media reports that included grisly details from the Celeste Rivas Hernandez case. And essentially what's being alleged here is that this underage girl who was like 14, he killed her and left her body in a car and a band. Yeah, I mean, it goes, and I'd love to dig into this case with you because there's,

Starting point is 01:32:23 because of the nature of it and the way it's been handled and now with this revelation relative, to this. Quick sidebar on this. We'll come back to Charlie, but let's do this real quick. No, let's go back to Charlie. Yeah, sure. But yeah, so, you know, you're talking about documentation and that sort of thing. Who are you going to trust? Who are you going to trust with the videography, if it's a single person doing it? And, you know, one of the things that you wonder about, if the defense has this, what are they going to do with it? And, you know, and obviously you have to ask the same question about the prosecution. If they're driven by some kind of motivation. But, yeah, just from a practical standpoint, yeah, they could take it and break it down.

Starting point is 01:33:05 Here's one of the problems with using videography. And I came across this actually happening in a case that I covered several years ago with a case that was a homicide that was. perpetrated by a cop killing his wife and his child and his kid uh drowned them both bathtub and the police used videography and walked through the house with a camera which and this is an older case so it was like a handy cam or whatever and they didn't turn the volume off and when they got to her body in the bathtub, one of the officers was standing there and made comment about this dead woman's anatomy. And prosecution was not aware of it. And defense got that videotape. And they heard it.

Starting point is 01:34:11 I'm not going to say what they said. It was ghastly. And, you know, with videography, if you are going to do videography in the morgue, all right, well, Are you just going to see images? Are you going to have volume? And hear all of the conversations that are going on in the background. Oh, Jesus. You know? Yeah, boys, go ahead and break out the saw, you know?

Starting point is 01:34:36 And, yeah, put a little bit more pressure here. Let me dissect this out because that's the kind of conversations we're having in there. Yeah. Is that, you know, is that what we're going to do? I mean, it's fine. They can pick it apart. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:34:48 Yeah. So that's, it's. God, you're damned if you do, damned. Yeah, you really are. that's not. Particularly nowadays. You don't know. And that's why I think to a great extent, I have students, you know, they'll come to me, you know, Professor Morgan, let's go to an autopsy. Can you take us to an autopsy? No. Those days are gone. We don't take students to autopsies anymore. It's hard to get students into the door to go see an autopsy. That's why I have my own anatomy lab now.

Starting point is 01:35:20 I have cadavers at my university that I do dissections on or pro sections on for my students. So that just started last year. And because I can't get people into autopsy suites anymore, period. First off, you can't trust the people that you're bringing into the autopsy suite. And then, you know, when you look at, when you look at the bodies themselves, what did I say about Charlie Kirk's body? after the medical team is done with his body, that body is the biggest piece of evidence that you have in the case, right? And it has to be treated in a manner in which, well, it's kind of sacrosanct, I guess, but it has so much value. You're not going to invite anybody into that space anymore.

Starting point is 01:36:07 Right. And yeah. And it's like then how to people who become the future of this stuff learn. It's a hard spot to be in and everything. But yeah, like you got to. I assisted with autopsies down in Macon, Georgia, years ago, with the state medical examiner in Georgia. And Julian, they were so Mercer University. I'll never forget this.

Starting point is 01:36:32 They have a medical school. They had so few bodies for their gross anatomy program down there, and they eventually wound up going with, I think they wound up doing digital autopsy stuff, where I don't know what status of it is now. I'd have medical students lined up outside the door on a Saturday morning just so that they could see a body. Because you have to see the bodies. And we were doing homicides and those sorts of things from all over the state of Georgia. And they would just want to be in there. They'd handle a mop just to clean up so that they could be around a body. And so from that tree comes to knowledge.

Starting point is 01:37:08 And you have to have this knowledge in order to work in the field. But it is truly a double-edged sword. Hell yeah. Real quick, I got to go to the. bathroom. We got a lot to talk about the actual scene in the aftermath. So we'll do that when we get back. You bet. All right, we're back. Before I get into it, by the way, every time I look at my knife holder,

Starting point is 01:37:26 I think of you, because I know you'd be proud of me. It's historically accurate. Like, as far as I know, because I know you've done a lot of work on the autopsy of Julius Caesar. So this is Julius Caesar knife holder. A two? But yeah, but this is like where he got stabbed and everything, like where I put the knives in. Right? The first autopsy. First autopsy. Documented.

Starting point is 01:37:46 That's right. And here it is. The beauty of this is that his attending physician, you were looking at each other like I'm going to go off on a tangent. I like a good tangent. I'm just enjoying my Julius Caesar knife holder. The first autopsy. The first documented.

Starting point is 01:38:04 Yeah. And they did the autopsy in allegedly in Caesar's apartments. And his personal physician did it. And here's the beauty of it. Did you know that the physician constructed a wax 3D model of Caesar's body and put it on a rotating pedestal to demonstrate all of the injuries? And when he showed it to the crowd, he did a public demonstration. They wanted blood because he showed, because they couldn't see, you know, they were his, he was their emperor, right? And he was beloved by the citizenry.

Starting point is 01:38:47 And they wanted blood after they saw it. And it's the first time, like, it's demonstrative of what you can do in a public display to try to make people understand what happened in a dynamic event, like him being stabbed. One other interesting little point to Caesar's homicide is that his groin was attacked. like I think he was stabbed a couple of times in that area. They thought that that was like a sign of trying to emasculate him. Right. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:39:18 And other people have said that he knew that it was going to happen. He wanted it to happen. He wanted to get killed. Because he had epilepsy and he saw his self as diminished. And he was just going to let. But I don't know how he validated that. I don't know how he validated that. But I guess I got to get some more knife holders down here.

Starting point is 01:39:33 There you go. There you go. I love this though. If it's a little high up, I don't know if people would see it. But they're like kind of high up right here. But if we put, then it would be accurate. I got to tell you. I would envy that.

Starting point is 01:39:48 I would like to have that. I'll get you one. Thank you. I got you one. I literally thought about you when I bought it. I'm like, that looks fucking awesome. That's what you think about. Oh, my God.

Starting point is 01:39:55 Well, you're the bodies guy, the death guy. I know you're into that. But that was also one of the coolest openings of an episode ever when you came in here the second time for 170 and 171 where we were talking about Julius Caesar or we were talking about JFK. And you're like, Mom's, man. me of the assassination, Julie Caesar. I got an autossey for that. I'm like, wait, what?

Starting point is 01:40:14 Yeah. I just see you pouring through like the old, like ancient Roman texts. Like, oh. No, I really want. It was really hard. That was one of my favorite episodes of my podcast. And so I love going back and doing the histrionics. I've done Caesar, JFK.

Starting point is 01:40:31 I've recently done RFK. Oh, I just did Michael Jackson a week ago to, go over his autopsy, talk about it. And I've got a few others on the slate. I love going back and doing the history of things. I'm going to do a whole series on the history of forensics as well. Oh, let's go. Every practice and how it impacts today.

Starting point is 01:40:55 And so because every story, every practice within forensics has an origin story. And it's really pretty fascinating. You know, it's like, what do we need in order to solve this? and so I'm looking forward to getting into that. Is there a main character of that origin story? Like a historical main character you think of as like, that's the godfather. Oh, well, for me, from a trace evidence standpoint, it's going to be Lecard. What years did he live?

Starting point is 01:41:27 Well, he was late 19th century into the 20th century. he formed the first known fully functional yeah fully functional Edmond Lecard crime scene or crime lab

Starting point is 01:41:50 and it was in Leon France I was going to say he sounds that's a French ass name yeah he was called back then he was called the the French Sherlock Holmes only he was real and his this is this principle that he talks about with LeCard's principle of exchange and it's every contact leaves a trace.

Starting point is 01:42:11 So and it even applies to digital. It applies certainly to DNA. And he came up with this theory a long, long time ago. So just sitting here at this desk, wherever I'm going to make you guys really aware of yourself right now. My students, I love to do this. So wherever we're sitting right now, where your hands are placed, you're leaving a trace behind at a molecular level. So we're sloughing skin cells. We're at a chlorox level like Matondi. Right there. There you go.

Starting point is 01:42:47 Whoever is sat in the seat prior to me, they have left a trace of themselves behind, all right? Vis-a-vis they're behind. And now, you know, I'm contacting the surface and I'm going to take a little bit of them with me. Hey Ontario. Come on down to BetMGM Casino and see what our newest exclusive The Price's Right Fortune Pick has to offer. Don't miss out.

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Starting point is 01:44:22 and it makes you very thoughtful about what you're going to do when you walk into a crime scene. Because anything you touch, anything you alter, it's going to leave a trace behind. So you want to create as little disruption in that environment as you possibly can. So for me, he's the godfather in forensic pathology. Dr. Helton from OCME, the original Mac Daddy of Forensic Pathologist. Mac Daddy. Yeah. I'm feeling a TV show getting ready.

Starting point is 01:44:55 Here we go, baby. Let's roll. I've got a pit. Yeah, so, yeah, Dr. Milton Helpern, he was one of the forces behind modern forensic pathology. And, you know. This guy? Yeah, yeah, there he is. Over on the left with the skull.

Starting point is 01:45:13 Wow. Yeah. Fascinating character in himself. And he was something else. And then there's a lot of people that descend. It's interesting because forensic pathology, is a small practice. There's less than, I don't know the number exactly now.

Starting point is 01:45:33 I'm sure that there are less than 600 board certified forensic pathologists nationwide. There's more neurosurgeons, all right? It's the only forensic practice that you go into, the only medical practice that you go into with the more education you get, the less money you're going to make. You wind up becoming a bureaucrat. Isn't that interesting? But anyway, there are these specific kind of family trees.

Starting point is 01:45:56 And I got to work. One of the guys that I worked with that was a big influence on me was Dr. Bill Eckert that descended out of this family tree. I caught him late in his career. Worked with him in the morgue. I've met a lot of these old guys. I knew Dr. Weck really well. Cyril Weck. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:46:18 He was JFK. He had. He's the only dissenting voice on the panel. with JFK, he felt like that, yeah, there's Dr. Eckert there, worked with him. Dr. Weck, who was in Pittsburgh. Didn't he just die? He did, yeah. We've lost several this past over the last couple of years.

Starting point is 01:46:46 I've talked about him. I think Werner Schmidt, yeah, there's Dr. Weck, God bless him. Very generous man, very caught man. When we did the JFK episodes, he was still alive. Do you know that he, Dr. Weck was the first person that ever went into the JFK, to the schoolbook depository museum in Dallas. He was the first person that went in there with a dissenting view. You can't go into that.

Starting point is 01:47:16 The narrative that they paint inside of that museum is all about Lee Harvey Oswald, did it. He's the one that, you know, famously back and to the left. you hear that, you know, kind of in the JFK movie with Oliver Stone. He did that demonstration for years and years. Dr. Weck did. And just talking about the nuttiness of, you know, the magic bullet with our on Spector and all of that. Yeah. So we lost Werner Schitts, who another giant.

Starting point is 01:47:47 He was on the CBS special. Remember CBS got sued over the Jamba. a case. And it was because of that series. Yeah, they did like a limited series. And he appeared, he appeared in that. Dr. Spitz wrote probably the seminal text, him and Dr. Fisher, who was from Baltimore, from the state medical examiners there. It's called Spitzin Fisher, medical legal death investigation. The first edition came out in 66. And Spitz and Fisher. Spitz and Fisher. Yeah. Yeah, and it does sound like that.

Starting point is 01:48:27 Do we cheat them in the hell? Yeah. And so, yeah. And we've begun to lose this generation now. You know, they're gone. Oh, we still have you. No, I'm not a forensic pathologist. Don't want to be one.

Starting point is 01:48:41 I've had to work with them for a long, long time. But yeah, so, yeah, it's an interesting, certainly an interesting, interesting world to say the very least. That's for sure. Yeah. We're going back to the Kirk case. Nice little tangent. I love your tangents.

Starting point is 01:48:57 Don't act like I don't love those things. It's not that I don't think you love them. That's why I do. It's like I think you're trying to draw me in. I always, that's all I'm trying to do, George Scott Morgan. We've just got distracted with some good stories. But I do think of TV shows in your future writing about one of those guys, that could be really, really good. Yeah, that could be fun.

Starting point is 01:49:15 But with the actual scene of the crime with Charlie Kirk, you know. And obviously, both. Before I say that, some of the points you'll see raised by a lot of people on the internet, obviously like Candace Owens has raised these points and stuff. Who? Is that Candace Sowns? Who? Yeah, Desones.

Starting point is 01:49:33 Oh. If you say three times in the mirror, something going to happen. Is that what you're doing that? I don't know. I have, hopefully she won't appear, but go ahead. Beetle cheese, beetle cheese, right? I know, like, as a death investigator, there's some things, obviously, that I guess she's done in her case going through it, that you're like, I don't think that could happen or things like that. But when you're looking at some of the circumstantial things leading up to his death

Starting point is 01:49:57 where she ties it to different people and looks at like, wow, did Israel when I'm dead or something like that, I do have to say, there's some weird shit there for sure. You look at those text messages and things that were going back and forth. You look at all the people that he had stood by as it pertains to that issue, who in the last months of his life, he was like, yeah, I don't know about this anymore. Like, we've got to stop this war over there. And they're like, no, no, no. then he got money pulled from him and you know now you have like guys like ben shapiro who he's charlie's on record like behind the scenes he did not like him he was not a fan of him you know ben shapiro it was on a live stream i believe when charlie kirk was killed acting like he was finding out all

Starting point is 01:50:43 the information with the rest of us like us being the world and then he admitted a few days ago that i i don't know if it's a 40 and slip or whatever but he was like, yeah, my security team was on the phone with his security team while he was in the car minutes after he was shot. Stuff like this is weird. And so what I try to do, because again, I said at the beginning, this has not been my lane going through every single detail of this case or anything. So I'm not going to sit here and speak from a level of expertise. But what I try to do when I look at very complex things like this is come 30,000 feet out and ask myself,

Starting point is 01:51:20 can there be a lot of things true at the same time? And sometimes can some of those things be gross incompetence? Can they be conspiracy or all the above? For sure. But the fact of the matter is, what you go off of is you are looking at what do I see at the scene and what do I see as to how it was handled. So I want to emphasize that to people out there today. What we're not doing is doing a podcast with Joseph Scott Morgan about all the circumstantial

Starting point is 01:51:45 things that happened long before September 10th. That's for someone else to do. What we can do is figure out with the investigation at hand trying to determine exactly who did it. If there were other people involved, things like that, what evidence do we have to go off? So, number one, we talked about this earlier and then we didn't get to what happened after. We just talked about like the actual shot. Once the shot is there and Charlie's body is being worked on. Yes.

Starting point is 01:52:12 One of the things that's come under scrutiny is like, do they do CPR? Do they not? Would you ever do CPR for someone who had a massive neck wound right there? Would that be kind of counterintuitive? I think that to a great degree it would be counterintuitive because what are you doing if you do chest compressions with that? Blood is pumping. Yeah, I mean, any chance that he might have. Now you try to stem the bleeding, right? And apply direct pressure without choking him out and then get him to medical services because what you've got to do is stop this bleeding. Okay, that's the most critical thing. And how are you going to do this? that. Well, somebody is going to have to do some kind of surgical intervention in order to get to

Starting point is 01:52:53 those vessels. And it's a tough decision that has to be made at that particular time if he goes into cardiac arrest. If you get it stemmed, then how much pressure are you going to apply in order to revive him if he goes under? And what drugs are you going to apply? There's a whole list of these things. And, you know, my suggestion to that is look at the standard procedures that are performed in advanced life-saving, you know, that, you know, emergency that paramedics apply to, RNs apply to the emergency room physicians, people on ICU, and there's a standard process. And you have to factor that in with the level of trauma that you're seeing. So, you know, if you want to say, you need to hop on top of him and start doing chest compressions. and, you know, doing respirations for him and this sorts of things, knock yourself out. I don't know what good that's going to do at that point in time because he would have been bleeding profusely. If they didn't get that stemmed immediately, this is a kill shot. So I don't know that there's anything that they could have done.

Starting point is 01:54:06 Now, whether or not they would have had that recognition at that point in time, I'd be interested to hear and see, and I think this is going to be one of the keys. when you have firsthand accounts of people that were immediately adjacent to him, these individuals we called as witnesses, so a lot of the speculation can maybe dissipate at that point in time. I don't know. People like to have this as a hobby. They'll continue to talk about it.

Starting point is 01:54:32 But what did they see at that particular time? Did they detect any kind of pulse at that particular time? What did the blood flow look like that was coming in? We saw the initial shot, right? And we saw the blood begin to issue for him. And that was a large volume of blood that was coming from him at that moment, Tom. And then what was the assessment of the emergency personnel that treated him initially when they first saw him? What were his vitals looking like at that point in time?

Starting point is 01:55:00 And what was the emergency assessment that the physician, first-hand-on physician, saw at that point in time? We need that data. We need that information in order to make a correct assessment about how he was, Eventually, in the initial onset, how he was treated then, then how he was triaged when he got to the facility. So another question that arose is like obviously. Oh, one other thing. I'm sorry. Going back to the autopsy, I'd be very interested to see if they could assess the level of blood loss as well.

Starting point is 01:55:39 Right. That's going to be significant. And sometimes we can't assess that at autopsy to a certain. degree a shot to the neck would kind of be difficult you know when we go to do blood draws many times if we have an individual that has what's referred to as having exsinguinated which is ten dollar term for bleeding out we actually have a tough time doing blood draws and we'll go directly into the heart into the aorta we call it a dry aorta you go in and you draw blood and you can't get any blood and because they bled out that profusely it's hard to it's hard to

Starting point is 01:56:14 measure the volume of blood at a scene, particularly if you're talking about a grass area where it's absorbed into. Yeah. It was a lot. Yeah, it was. Well, actually, even a quick question, I should ask this earlier. If the carotid artery and the jugular are hit like that, is there any way you could possibly... Cancel Christmas. Yeah. Cancel Christmas. Yeah. It's very difficult. I'm covering right now the... the Courtney Clenney case, which is... Courtney Clemmy. Yeah, she's a real piece of work. She's the only fans model that had her boyfriend living down in Miami.

Starting point is 01:56:56 She claims that she took a kitchen knife, a steak knife, and threw it and hit his subclave, which is a major vessel that runs literally beneath his clavicle. You can actually hear him. I know. No, let's, let's don't. Yeah. And, you know, she's like some kind of major assassin that took a knife and through it, hit his subclabe vessel.

Starting point is 01:57:31 And those only fan girls, man. They got a lot of talents. Well, she's cray cray. And so there you go. And she's been cooling her heels in jail down in Florida for a while. Anyway, she, you know, she hit the subclave. with this knife, he bled out. What a bloody scene this was.

Starting point is 01:57:51 And she's covered in blood when they get there. And it seems like you could hear him on the 911 call, and you can hear his voice kind of fading like this, you know, as he's bleeding out. And unless you had like a team of like a cardiothoracic surgeon there, that could open him and close that thing off, there's no hope. So now you're talking about even here,

Starting point is 01:58:15 where, you know, the brain is the single most vascular organ in the body. It demands the most blood, period. Running right behind the brain is the liver. So it's demanding so much from you, or it's demanding so much from the blood supply. When that is interrupted, and we don't know what structures were interrupted at this point in time, I'd say it's a major structure

Starting point is 01:58:42 because you've got such a volume of blood that appears to be coming out. in that initial videography that we saw. Oh, and by the way, that's not the only videography. You had hundreds of people that were there with cameras, and we cannot even begin to fathom the data that they have pulled off of those phones from multiple different angles that the FBI may have taken.

Starting point is 01:59:04 Who knows where it is? I don't know. Is that going to pop up in trial? So you'll have multiple perspectives on this thing. Yeah, because we've only had right now, it's like four or five, I want to say. that have been publicly seen, be it iPhone, and then I think eventually there was footage

Starting point is 01:59:20 that Candace Owens released that was from the camera behind. I'll get to that in a minute. But like, to your point, you had whatever it was, a thousand people there. The role that we live in right now? I mean, you can just imagine. I mean, everywhere we go, people are videotaping.

Starting point is 01:59:35 Meaning the cops were able to see that and went to the people and got the evidence and it just has not been released. Yeah, let me give you another indicator of this, why I know that there's even more video. geography out there. The university police claimed that they were expecting a crowd of like 600 people. Well, this thing was published.

Starting point is 01:59:56 How in the world, you know, because they only had very limited, you know, it's campus police. You know, how much can you ask of these people, you know? I put that on his security team as well, you know, we should know better because we know that there's threats out there. We know that there's people that really don't like him. they had thousands of people that showed up. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:00:22 And if you've got thousands of people that are driving to, I mean, I've never been there. Sounds like a lovely place. But you don't wind up here by accident. You know, there's people that are specifically coming to this location to see him. If people are going there to see him, guess what they're doing? They're going to be videotaping. There's people that go and watch the Pope now go by. There's like this image of,

Starting point is 02:00:47 this little lady standing on the side of where you've ever seen this before and everybody's got their iPhones out. And only the lady doesn't. And the lady's like extending her hand out to the Pope like this. I mean, you know, however you feel about the Pope. But I'm just saying most people don't live in the moment. They're going to videotape this. And so now you've got all of these lenses on this.

Starting point is 02:01:07 And we don't even know how much of the stuff is out there, what they have at this point in time. Yeah. Well, what we did. see in some videos after the fact is the body's been taken out of there and we all saw the video as well of them like carrying him through the back which someone said this the other day but i didn't look into it at all so i i don't remember this detail deep but maybe we can look it up was there an ambulance on site because he got taken in the car by the security team and again things happen fast they're acting very quickly so it's not like you know like oh can we do choice a choice b or choice c but that said

Starting point is 02:01:47 Like how close would that ambulance have been? And should the people there, whose literal job would be to like, if something happened, jump in, should they have jumped in? No ambulance. No ambulance at all. Okay. And again, that's why. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:01:59 Even at a high school football game, you have, you have an ambulance? Yeah, that might have been. You know what I'm saying? That might have been what I saw. Because I'm remembering that back of my head. It might have been someone saying, like, why wasn't there an on-site ambulance when you have an enormous crowd like that on a college campus or something? But they were planning on 600 people.

Starting point is 02:02:16 But even for 600, you would think like a bunch of people gathered, you know, it's like a sports event in a way. Right, right. Yeah, for a school that size in particular. And you would think that just, you know, just for, you know, the elderly couple that comes out there and grandpa's got diabetes and his sugar drops, you know, or maybe he's got a heart history or grandma's got a heart history, at least you would have some kind of medical staff on site. And I think that's a, that is, that's a good question. and that's something that would need to be answered. And I'm sure that maybe depositions or something that have taken place, some kind of interview, that question may have been asked of the security team

Starting point is 02:02:55 and certainly of the campus police. I would think, yeah. Because you would think, like, if they had been there, again, like if they're there, a couple of EMTs and stuff with an ambulance and they didn't jump in, that would be crazy. But you would think it would have been like, oh, well, this is our moment. Like, let's go. Pull that thing up. Let's get rip.

Starting point is 02:03:12 And again, that goes to whoever's doing it. the initial assessment. I don't mean this in a medical sense, but whoever's triaging him at that moment, maybe they've got some kind of background where they can assess trauma on some kind of limited amount. They're seeing the amount of blood. Right.

Starting point is 02:03:30 It's striking. It's striking. Right. And you've got this guy. You've just heard the crack of a rifle or report of a firearm. You put two and two together. You see blood springing from this defect.

Starting point is 02:03:44 you're not, hey, where's the ambulance? Right. Somebody call 911. You're not going to do that. You're moving. You're moving. You're moving. You're moving.

Starting point is 02:03:53 You're moving. Getting him in there. Getting him to the hospital. I'd be curious as well. You know, if you look at like presidential, you know, motorcades, I know it's not the same thing. But most people that run security operations that are like really class acts at what they do. And they have a principle that they're protecting. They know where the closest hospital is, right?

Starting point is 02:04:14 They know where to go, what route they're going to take in order to get there. So I would question or I would have to ask, you know, what was the level of, what was his threat level? You know, did they have snatches of intel that had come into them? Because I got to tell you, if they were really worried about it, they would have put people up on the roof, I would think, you know, looking around. But we've seen about roofs, right? Yeah, something about roofs, you know, you forget they're there. maybe they're a little too sloped, you know? No comment.

Starting point is 02:04:48 Yeah, no comment. We forgot about him, huh? Yeah. Don't hear nothing about that no more. And the empty apartment. Yeah, case closed. Down doing shots outside D.C. with federal officers and, you know. It's nutty.

Starting point is 02:05:03 Hey, listen, they shot him. He's dead. Quote Bill Gates. He's dead. So. Yeah, can we move on? Yeah, yeah. Can we move on?

Starting point is 02:05:10 Yeah, can we move on from that? But when you look at the videos that people were taking once the body have been taken out there and they're in the van and a lot of the crowd is dispersed. You see, for example, someone immediately taking down the camera angle behind him. Now, I do try to put myself in the shoes of chaos in the sense that we all look at this now and we're looking for every little detail because we know what happened. Charlie Kirk was killed. We now know it was some form of like an assassination, you know, someone trying to kill him for his beliefs, however you wanted to find that. And there was a lot of

Starting point is 02:05:47 things going on. And so we can pick apart with hindsight being 2020 every single thing. What I try to remember is that people in the moment are in shock. It's not like they showed up that day. And they're like, well, he's going to get shot in 30 minutes. Everyone get in your place. You know what I mean? And so the guy, I forget who it was, but whoever was like removing that camera that was lined up behind Charlie for content purposes, who then took it down and did something with it, he might hypothetically be in a state of shock where he's like, I'll just move this and not be thinking, like, oh, well, that's kind of an important piece of evidence. Or it's like, was he a part of covering up? Right, right. Either question you're asking is a reasonable question to ask.

Starting point is 02:06:32 Yes, it is. Yes, it certainly is. And that, first off, let's think about this. At that moment, Tom, at that moment, Tom, was anybody considering seeing security, okay? Because people in that crowd, even his security team, probably I can't get inside their minds. And even the campus cops, they're not thinking about that as a crime scene at that moment, Tom. You're a lot more thoughtful in that period of time after the chaos has died down where you're beginning to think, is this, in fact, a crime scene at that point in time. and then you go back and secure it. Well, it's everything that happens before that's declared that becomes a problem, right?

Starting point is 02:07:17 So to the little, you know, police department that's handling this thing, they're trying to manage a crowd. They're running about. They're not thinking about, well, we need to go and secure this point, this point, this point, this point, and this point. That's easy for us to do in hindsight. And, you know, and there are all kinds of questions that have been asked about, a multiplicity of cases that are not exactly like this, but have some similarity. You know, what were you thinking at the time? Why did you not do this at that particular time? Or why did you, in fact, do you realize how bad this looks?

Starting point is 02:07:56 I don't know what that guy's purpose was for removing a card or the camera itself. Whatever it was he was doing. But here's the beauty of it. I would imagine that that's going to have to explained. That's why we have court, right? That's why we go to trial. And, you know, some people have a particular interest in that. And I don't know that the answers that they'll receive on it to that point will satisfy them. But it really doesn't matter. It matters. Does it satisfy the court at this particular time? Right. Okay. What about the fact that he's on this platform area? and the crime occurs, and then, as you say, at some point that day, within whatever it is, 15 minutes, or at some point it's a crime scene.

Starting point is 02:08:49 Yes. Why are they paving over it and getting rid of the whole place, like four or five days later or whatever it was? Yeah. How soon was – I want to get that right, D. how soon was it? But it was very quick. Okay. My understanding is the institution did this for whatever reason, kind of like the institution had the Idaho house torn down. which I have a major problem with.

Starting point is 02:09:16 And I've talked about that extensively. But that was like a month later or something. No, it was much longer than a month later. But it's still, the thing hadn't gone to trial yet. Agreed. Okay. They started paving over it two days later? Started two days, yeah.

Starting point is 02:09:33 So you're upset at one that was, I thought it was a month. You're upset at one that was months later. Yeah. This one's two days later. Right. And so my question is, what's, What's your rationale for this? And you're looking at if that decision, which I understand, or have an understanding at least,

Starting point is 02:09:52 that decision was made by the university to do that. So that would tell me that the police, the investigative agency that was tasked with this, had released the scene. And why would you do that? Well, the only thing I can think of is that this is an open public space. How are you going to secure it? I'm not saying that they should. should have done it. I'm saying that's the argument that they're going to make. We don't have the

Starting point is 02:10:17 ability to secure this area. But why so soon? Why? You know, why so soon? Because the appearance of it, the appearance of it, this is one of the biggest things for me. The appearance of it is it stinks. I mean, it's bad practice. You're telling me that you have completely assessed this area within in this short a period of time. That's problematic. What could you have done? Well, you could have cordoned off that area, secured it. I don't know.

Starting point is 02:10:50 You could have called in any number of security forces that could have come in there, even if they're hired security. It wouldn't be the state police or somebody like, I guess if they wanted to throw resources at it, but maybe they didn't value it. Maybe they felt like they had assessed it at that point in time. That's crazy. It is nuts. I mean, you have to know that.

Starting point is 02:11:10 This was the largest political assassination in a long time. Yeah, and, you know, one of the problems is that when you're talking about going in and paving an area, there's all kinds of prep work that has to be done for that, right, in order to facilitate constructing this, right? So you, it's not like you're going down to the local Home Depot or Lowe's or whatever, and you're getting pavers, and you're just kind of throwing them around and that sort of thing. You're going in if they want it to look nice, which is what I think that they want to do in order to get rid of all the memories. That's what the people in Idaho said.

Starting point is 02:11:49 You know, it's too ghastly. We don't want it here. And so they want to put as much distance. You use that term optics, which is a very popular term to use. The optics are really bad here because you're going in and you're disrupting the topography of this, right? Any kind of little nuanced area. where you're doing elevations on things, for instance. Elevation is a big deal here because we're talking about trajectory of around this fired from a specific static point going down to that location.

Starting point is 02:12:18 Now you've altered that. You're not going to be able to go back out there and restructure this thing. Yeah, remember the – it's reminded me the first episode we ever did, 1-46 right after they found Murdoch guilty. And now that's all the thing. That'd be a side tangent. But like they took the jury on a field trip to the location and they got to look at everything. Yeah, they did. They're never going to be able to do that.

Starting point is 02:12:39 No, they're not. And I talked about this with Idaho comparing it to, it's, I'm drawing a blank, Parkland, Parkland High School, where that moron went in and shot all those kids in that building. And Parkland, you know what they did there? They put up a 12, 12 foot high fence and secured it for years. For years. When they went in and they took the jury in there, you know that happened on a Valentine's Day. Have we talked about this?

Starting point is 02:13:07 Yeah, 2018. Yeah. They, the pool reporters that were with them said that there were dried up roses and little teddy bears that were laying around. There was still blood everywhere. Like old blood, degraded blood that was laying around. The jury walked into that environment and immediately they began to see this. They were there. They were there for that moment, Tom.

Starting point is 02:13:31 And even the two press pool guys that were part, you know, you're selected if you're going to be part of the press. to go with a jury like that to document the things you could they were shaken by it um and look it's not understand it's not the same thing but when you you look at the pace that they were moving to hate to use the word alter but it is an alteration now whether or not there's specific intent relative to this alteration that can be problematic and it's it's it's it it's bubbling up. That's a legitimate question. And it should be asking.

Starting point is 02:14:11 It should be answered. Yeah. Now, Tyler Robinson and all this, there's, we saw the video from far away of, you know, someone that is purported to be him jumping off the building shortly after the shots would have fired out. I haven't seen that video in a while, but wasn't it like he had the broken up gun in his bag or something at the time? Well, he had it wrapped in a towel.

Starting point is 02:14:36 they're saying. Yeah, yeah. And he jumps, he looks like Spider-Man coming off the front of that building and falls to the ground. And they have videography of him egressing up the stairwell. And he's walking, well, moving up

Starting point is 02:14:53 and moving toward that spot. And he's walking with a noticeable limp, whereas they had videography of him earlier in the day in a different set of clothes, just kind of trucking down the street with no problems whatsoever. the next thing you see he's fully clad and he's he's walking with like a stiff leg and they they are opining that the rifle was stuck down his pants now I don't know is that realistic I think that

Starting point is 02:15:21 it's because the weapon I've seen that has the scope on it is rather robust yeah now there was a screwdriver up there too you know that was found up there I've heard a couple of people say it would have been difficult to break this weapon down in this short amount of time. Yeah, I've heard a lot of people like that. So I don't know, I don't really understand what configuration it was in, if there was an attempt to break it down. I've heard people say that the screwdriver was utilized to Jimmy a lock, perhaps, or to have it in place to try to get access.

Starting point is 02:16:01 But I've heard other people say that, well, it's, you just walk up. there. You know, it's no problem. One of my questions is, had he ever at any point in time been there prior to Kirk's arrival, I want to understand that, had Twigs been there, the roommate? His roommate. Yeah. Had he been up there at any point in time? They're saying he has no knowledge of it. I mean, okay, that's fine. But I want to know how accessible this is. Did you send deep those texts, by the way, before? I did. I think I did.

Starting point is 02:16:40 Didn't I do? Okay. All right. Yeah, please continue. Yeah. So I want to try to understand that. They're saying that some people have referred to it as a sniper's nest. Some people have called it a sniper pad, which sniper pad is kind of a misnomer because pad implies

Starting point is 02:16:59 that you have like a yoga mat to lay on or something like that to make yourself comfortable. They're saying that you can see contact points where for knees and feet, arms, hands, there's, I think they found fingerprints that were up there, shoe prints, these sorts of things. He's wearing a pair of Chuck Taylor's, I believe. That's an interesting story. If you've never heard that, converse, Chuck Taylor's. You know what the name for those are in police circles? No idea. Felony Flyers.

Starting point is 02:17:37 Felony Flyers? Yeah. It used to be, the old story was there have been more crimes committed by people wearing those shoes than any other shoe. And the FBI actually had a class on footprint impression stuff revolving around felony flyers. Chuck Taylor's. And now they're all the rage. You know, I'll say they're all the rage. Everybody, you know.

Starting point is 02:17:59 They had a big comeback tour. Yeah, a big come back, a slab of rubber. the most uncomfortable. But, you know, he apparently was wearing these. So, yeah. Dave's got like seven pairs of them. Yeah, my wife does too. I buy her a pair, you know,

Starting point is 02:18:12 and a variety of different colors. I still want to get the ones with a skull and crossbones online. Yeah, you haven't met the Mr. Hyde version of him at night. Yeah, I'm staying away. Yeah. But yeah, they're very, they're very popular. So we're talking about a lot of, we're talking about things like impression evidence,

Starting point is 02:18:29 putting him in that location that, they are saying he was in, he fired from that position, how much pre-planning had gone into this, I think, is something that they're going to explore at trial. And even in the preliminary hearing, we're getting little snatches of that, you know, any kind of prep that may have taken place. Because that, you don't, you don't have to prove in court. You don't have to prove motive. That's not part of the calculus when you're, you know, it's good to have it, you know. But and sometimes it's intimated, you know, in a trial. They want it to be fact-based and motive can be many times kind of nebulous.

Starting point is 02:19:20 It's like people that ask, you know, you know, I hate the question why. Because it's why. You know, it's one of those things. I mean, we can speculate as to why it was done, but I'm more interested in how. How was it pulled off? What was he purposed in and all this from a physical science standpoint? Okay. Actually, if you don't mind, I want to stop for one second because there's someone I want to call.

Starting point is 02:19:53 Yeah. On a couple details and just get his thoughts. And maybe if I can get him on, we can throw him on FaceTime real quick just to go over. a couple of those points. We'll be right back. All right, we're back. I got my boy Clint Russell on here. You remember him? He was on the show a couple months ago. Clint, Joseph, Joseph Clint. Hey, Clint. Okay. So Clint has been all over this case, like from the beginning, going through it from the whole buildup to it to the actual case itself and some of the investigative issues that had been raised publicly. And Joseph, you and I have obviously now been talked about this for a couple hours.

Starting point is 02:20:28 and there are some, obviously, you would agree, there's a lot of optics issues with how they've talked about this publicly. And it was the biggest political assassination in a long time. And I think the public has every right to be very upset at how things have been handled by people in and around the case. But, Clint, can you just lay out for us, you know, you have the floor here. You're three, four, or five biggest issues with the actual investigation itself that you think are completely unanswered questions right now. And then we'll have Joseph. respond to some of that. Appreciate the opportunity and thank you for taking my questions, Joseph.

Starting point is 02:21:05 Oh, yeah, sure. So, I mean, there's, I've got way more than three or five, but I'll give you kind of the primary concerns that I have. I think first and foremost, what has really bothered people is the crime scene itself, the stage or the ground beneath Charlie that was within five days was, to the tune of 10 inches of soil, was excavated, removed, and then immediately paved. That job was completed in Utah on a Sunday, the Sunday after the assassination, highest profile political assassination of our lifetimes.

Starting point is 02:21:40 People are really disturbed by that, including myself. And this is the other thing that you may not be aware of. But according to one of the, I don't know if he was the actual contractor or one of the employees of the contractor, but he went on a podcast and he talked about this came from the governor of Utah and the FBI to get it done. And I quote, quickly and quietly. So given your experience, I would like to know why in God's name, the governor of Utah and the FBI would be instructing them to, in my opinion, destroy a crime scene in less than a week. So that's number one. So if you can give me some.

Starting point is 02:22:18 Yeah, Clint, Dief is writing these down as well so that when you're off, Joseph's going to go through them one by one. So keep going. Okay. All right. Number two. I'm not sure where to start. I would say I've had a really hard time understanding the nature of Tyler Robinson getting the rifle to the rooftop by which he took that shot.

Starting point is 02:22:44 If you've looked at all of the surveillance footage, it is very hard to imagine a Mouser 98 is in his pant leg slash in his backpack slash under his shirt. Now, to be clear, I have seen the video. from the preliminary trial where he's limping seemingly. I still find it very hard to believe that there is a rifle stock that is in those pants. They seem to be very skinny pants. So if you have any opinion as to how he actually got that rifle up there. Additionally, if the rifle was broken down, I'm very disturbed by how you would do so,

Starting point is 02:23:23 put it all back together with a screwdriver within, I believe he had a four-minute window So before he goes prone and he takes a shot without re-zeroing the rifle and making sure that's actually, you know, targeted in or sited in from 140 yards out, that seems a little unrealistic to me. So I'd like your feedback on that. Also, the woman who lived across the street, who's, you know, there's reports that Tyler Robinson went back to UVU. Very bizarre story. I don't know if you're familiar with this. So this would actually be interesting for you to unpack. But Tyler leaves, drives away three or four hours, gets a monster steak dinner after having Dairy Queen.

Starting point is 02:24:07 So he eats two massive meals within a few hours. And then he drives back to UVU at midnight. Most of us assume that it was probably because he was trying to recover the rifle, assuming that he had dumped it. But the woman across the street who has the ring camera, which allegedly catches Tyler Robinson, exiting that vehicle, said that she believed that a bold man was driving that car, and that car had four people in it. Tyler Robinson allegedly worked alone.

Starting point is 02:24:37 So if that's true, we've got a real problem on our hands because why the hell were three other people with Tyler Robinson. And then I've got about 50 others I'll go with, I don't know. Why did he meet, why did he allegedly meet with a TPSA representative around 11 a.m. the morning of the attack?

Starting point is 02:24:57 that seems extraordinarily bizarre and also why did TPSA withhold that information from us, given that Blake Neff has now acknowledged that, or he hasn't said it explicitly, but he implied that he was aware that Tyler Robinson had met with TPSA employees a few hours before the attack. I think that's worth unpacking. Clint, did you also, just to add one in there, did you also have questions around timing or content of the text messages, with Tyler and his lover?

Starting point is 02:25:32 Had as many problems with the nature of the messages, people saying it's too Shakespearean or whatever. It's like, people are weird, you know? So maybe he's a weird young guy. But I do have a problem with the conveyance of that information to the court. I don't understand why we're looking at photos of screenshots of text messages I also don't understand why the Discord chat, why Discord said that Tyler Robinson was not using their platform.

Starting point is 02:26:09 So maybe you could unpack that. That would be really helpful because that's like probably the most damning confession. Because he's like, hey guys, it's me. I did it. If he actually sent that and you can prove it through, I don't know, IP or whatever, that would be very damning. but the fact that Discord allegedly says he didn't do it, he didn't use it, I think that that has to be proven in a much more valid way than photos of, you know,

Starting point is 02:26:40 photos of screens of him saying that. I think it's just the way they're conveying his confessions and his messages come across very unusual to me. So I would love to hear your explanation as to why. Why are they doing it this way as opposed to, I don't know, pinging, Discord, getting them to prove out, here's what was said, here's when it was said, here's where it came from, here's who we think that login belonged to. Like, that seems like the much more normal way of actually taking a man's life or putting him behind bars for the rest of his life if he's in fact guilty.

Starting point is 02:27:15 All right. Excellent stuff. Thanks so much for hopping on like that short notice, Clint. But we're going to go through all that now and I'll let you know this is coming out in a couple days. Good to meet you, Clint. Have fun on Twitter. Thanks, guys.

Starting point is 02:27:30 Clint's awesome. He's a funny guy, but he's also like, you know, he's in this stuff. Like he's looking at it all the time. So we have, there was like five there, right, Thief? Yeah. Yeah. All right. So let's start with the point because this is actually perfect because you and I had just

Starting point is 02:27:44 covered the paving over, but he added in a point that I don't even think I was aware of that. The governor and FBI, is that what he said? Yeah. So there, I saw it when I was doing the Google search before I just didn't look at it. out of yet, but I guess an employee of the contractor that was hired for this job went on some sort of podcast and said that the state government and the FBI told them to make it a quick and quiet job. Is that odd? It would be very odd. If, you know, if you can validate that,

Starting point is 02:28:17 what does the contractor say about it? Because I think that that's, you know, that's who you would really try to dig down into. This thing has got such a high profile at this point in time. I would, this guy is saying that he worked for the contractor. So how does he have knowledge of this? And from what font does this spring? Okay. All right.

Starting point is 02:28:47 So I think that that would be one of my big questions. Now, going back to what Clint had said about the paving, the fact that they would have removed that much dirt, which I had heard, because there has to be kind of an underpinning. This is going to disrupt the topography, as I previously stated, relative to elevations and everything, and how you go back out and reconstruct the crime scene. Now, for all I know, they took every resource that they possibly had

Starting point is 02:29:25 both with the state police, okay, in Utah, and with the FBI, with their ERT, their evidence response team, that shows up at the request of the locals that would have come in and they would have applied their technology to it. Maybe they felt comfortable enough with their assessments out there, but I still, with the information they gleaned, but I cannot understand for the life of me. What was the rush? I mean, literally, what was the rush in order to get this done? And we're not talking, again, I go back, you're not going down to the hardware store and buying pavers and throwing them out there. You're altering the landscape of this, of this, you know, of this moment in time, which let's face it, I'll put it to you this way. Decades from now, there will probably

Starting point is 02:30:24 still be people that will go back and visit that spot for whatever their interest is to have a photo made or, you know, to weep at it or do whatever it is that people choose to do. This is going to be something that will be memorialized publicly. And it ain't nothing like it looked at that particular time, okay, because it's been completely altered forever and ever, amen. This actually just made me think of another, before we go to Clint's second point, another thing I had been thinking about earlier if I got to ask you about is as we ended up finding out once they arrested Tyler Robinson, this is somebody who lived in Utah, drove from a place in Utah to another place in Utah to commit a crime in Utah and that is why it is a state case

Starting point is 02:31:12 now and it is in state court and handling by state detectives because it's their jurisdiction. However, right when the crime happened, the FBI came in and was like handling everything. Yep. For a manhunt like that, would you say that that is standard or not? First off, the FBI has to be invited in. Okay. Think of them as a vampire. As a vampire.

Starting point is 02:31:41 Yeah. You got to invite them into your house, right? So I'll do respect. Yeah, what did they do to you? Yeah, I've worked a lot of cases over the years. It's one of those organizations. where a lot of information goes in and nothing comes back out. Right.

Starting point is 02:32:00 Okay. So, I mean, they do a great job and the things that they do. But they could also justify them being there because they view this as a terroristic act. All right. This is a threat, perhaps, to Homeland Security. I don't mean the agency. I'm literally talking about Homeland Security, such a high-profile individual. That could be a motivation.

Starting point is 02:32:25 there would have been a specific request that was put into the feds. We need you here. And they will oblige you. They will show up. Remember, I talked about ERT. There's probably an ERT in Salt Lake City, okay, which these people, many of these people that are on these teams are graduate-level forensic scientists that are also FBI agents. And they come out and specifically work these highly complex scenes.

Starting point is 02:32:52 And they bring all the bells and whistles with them. They have things at their disposal that the local constabulary does not even at a state level, you know, because they can bring force to bear that you cannot even begin to fathom, whether it's digital technology, satellite technology, just boots on the ground, the latest cutting edge stuff that they can bring to bear there. and they work really well in high-profile environments that are very dynamic and changing because that's what they do. They're called in to do these sorts of things. So if you've got no disrespect to Utah State Police, they're a fine organization and they have their own crime scene people. But when you come into a situation like this that is so massive,

Starting point is 02:33:44 massive in the sense of how it's kind of impacting. the national conversation, this sort of thing. You defer to them. And isn't it interesting, you never hear about people with the FBI making comment on anything, do you? Mm-mm. Isn't that interesting? That is interesting.

Starting point is 02:34:04 So, because they don't do that, they work at their own pace. So let's say that they come involved in a case, right? You ask them to take the lead. Guess what? automatically you lock down the information because they're processing it and as they process it they hold on to it they hold on to that data and they don't have press conferences they're they're not like the local sheriff that oh cash betel does well yeah he does but what i'm saying is traditionally

Starting point is 02:34:33 the everyday FBI sack right just senior senior agent in charge they're not going to call a presser, okay, and come out. And Patel has made comments in the public, whatever his motivation is, you know, from making those said comments. I have no idea, all right? I don't know if he does either. Well, I was wondering, was he working the case? No, he wasn't. He wasn't. He's a bureaucrat. He's a bureaucrat. He's a political. He is a political animal, right? Right. Ministry of Silly Walks. So anyway, he is, he's out there doing his thing, but you don't see the FBI making comments. So once you open that door to the FBI and they take the lead on things, mute.

Starting point is 02:35:31 It goes dead silent because they're actually controlling everything at that point in time. They're going to control the narrative. They're going to control what is released and what is not going to release. Yeah. But they did give it back, though, once they, meaning, gave the state the lead on it once he was apprehended. Yeah, but there are certain conditions that you have to adhere to. If you're going to dance with them, there are conditions that you have to adhere to relative to the way they view things and they handle things. Now, we've heard some of the stuff that's come out in the preliminary hearings, talking about how, you know, certain evidence was routed, you know, toward them,

Starting point is 02:36:10 toward the ATF and on a variety of different platforms relative to what was collected and who is handling it. But I don't think you're going to hear anything, say, for instance, relative to data about how the ERT actually processed the scene out there. You see? I don't think that that's going to happen. They're going to play it very close to the best. And all shall be revealed at trial because you will have.

Starting point is 02:36:39 Better be. You're going to have FBI agents that are going to be subpoenaed. They're going to give statements. They're going to give testimony. They're going to be asked very specific questions. You're going to have their not just boots on the ground crime scene folks. You're also going to have their digital people. They're going to be there too.

Starting point is 02:36:58 And there's going to be specific information that they will have that will try to fill in the blanks, if you will, relative to in just about any area of, evidentiary collection, security, and assessment. Got it. All right, Dave, what was the second thing, Clint had there? Understanding the nature of how Tyler Robinson could have gotten the rifle onto the roof and just the logistics of all of that. And he said setting it up. Four minutes, right? Yeah, four minutes and not even zeroing the sites or anything like that.

Starting point is 02:37:35 You see an issue with that timeline? Yeah, if he broke it down, I'd see a. a series, because, you know, everybody I've talked to has said that this is not the easiest weapon in the world to break down. Right. Was it actually broken down? Well, when we see that image of, sorry, we lost Joseph's Mike for one second. So just from the top of what was making the point on.

Starting point is 02:37:57 Yeah, this is, this Mouser is a rather robust weapon. I can, in fact, see why people would have trouble grasping the idea that he is walking stiff-legged up that stairwell with that weapon in his pants. And again, you see him being stiff-legged. You don't really see the outline of the weapon and you don't know how far up it extends. I think one of the most prohibitive things about that weapon is the size of this freaking scope that's on the thing. It's very robust. And, you know, I had wondered early on, and this It's one of the reasons I've, you know, I'd ask those questions, had he been there before? Because I was thinking at any point in time, did they ever get any indication that he had been up to that area?

Starting point is 02:38:56 Would he have run the risk of taking a weapon and pre-planting it up there and having it there for his availability? So I think that it's a legitimate question to ask because that weapon is, in fact, so large. Yep. All right, what we have for number three, Dee. Next one being talking about the witness, the woman across the street with the ring cam. So he brought up how Tyler Robinson, there's reports he went back at midnight. And that woman claims that she saw a bald man driving the vehicle with three others in there. So making a total of four. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:39:33 I've seen the CCTV, I think, of that image where he stops. And there's a cop in the road. And the cop actually thought it was suspicious because he goes back. He gets a partial license plate. And that's kind of what turned the case, I think, where they were able to come back to that car. And the car had, I think it was registered to Robinson and his mom, if I'm not mistaken. I've had questions about the car as well. What's the status of the car?

Starting point is 02:40:04 Where is the car? and if there were people in that vehicle, guess what you could do? It goes back to LaCard's principle. If there were three other people in that car and law enforcement secured that car, guess what I would urge anyone to do? I would go in there and I would sweep that car for DNA. And because you talk about deposition of biological material, the things of what is it is a challenger or charger some kind of whatever the two-door version of the Dodge vehicle is.

Starting point is 02:40:42 I think they're discontinued. You realize how small that backseat is? So if you've got, if you're saying that there are three plus one, right? So you've got the driver, you've got the other people. Everywhere in that vehicle. Dodge Challenger. They're in the back seat. You've got two people that would be in that back seat.

Starting point is 02:41:01 It's like this. They're touching. You're also touching all of the surfaces in there. The person that would have been seated in the front passenger seat, they're leaning. Center console, they're leaning on the armrest. You're worried. You're perspiring. You're sweating.

Starting point is 02:41:20 You're going to leave DNA in that space. So it's a legitimate question. If they have a vehicle, how was it processed? Because that damn vehicle should have been processed. I hope it was thoroughly processed because I'm going to be looking for things in there like, well, rounds, live rounds, spent rounds. I'm going to be looking for any kind of biological sample that might be in there, whether it be blood. I want to know if there was anything going on in the back seat at any point in time. I don't care what kind of medium it comes from, whether it's blood, semen, feces, saliva.

Starting point is 02:41:57 I don't care. If it's back there, they should sample the entire area. say, okay, these are the profiles that we have. These are male profiles. And then if they really want to pursue this any further, they could do forensic genetic genealogy and find out specifically who these individuals are. Good breakdown.

Starting point is 02:42:16 All right, what else we got, Dave? Why did he allegedly meet with the T.P. USA rep around 11 a.m. the morning of the tech, and why would they withhold that information? I can't really, that's kind of beyond my scope. I was just kind of, you know, taking a stab at it. I would say to put up a front, you know, to validate his existence for being there or maybe trying to check out positions or whatever it is. I have no idea.

Starting point is 02:42:49 They're saying that he did, in fact, meet. I would assume that whoever those reps were from Turning Point that were there, they have probably been interviewed. I'd like to know what that conversation consisted of. What was his demeanor, his affect like? You know, as they were talking to him, what questions, you know, had come up. Was there any kind of statement that was made?

Starting point is 02:43:09 And that should also be on the record, too, and it's something that would be examined in court. Yeah. And you always have to remember if you're dealing with, if this is, in fact, like Tyler Robinson worked alone and was like a deranged shooter, you're dealing with someone who is mentally not like you and I. They're unwell.

Starting point is 02:43:28 their brain processes differently for all the wrong reasons in this case. So it's hard to say like, well, if I were this, I would definitely be worried about being caught or I would have definitely, if I wanted to do this, maybe I would have for sure killed myself afterwards. And that would have been the whole point. You don't know that. Like his brain's operating differently. I don't know if I've said this publicly before. But I did speak to someone the day after he was apprehended. So he was apprehended, I want to say Thursday night, late Thursday night, Friday morning Trump went on Fox News and said we got him. I believe that was the timeline. We can double check that deep.

Starting point is 02:44:10 And I remember on that Saturday, I was on the phone with someone who, and I did not see this for myself. But they had allegedly, they had seen a picture of him from him. around the time of the apprehension. That's what I'll say. And this person described him as having a complete, and this is a person who would be able to describe this quite well based on their life experience, had a complete thousand yards stare,

Starting point is 02:44:47 like a 2,000-yard stare. And he described other people that he saw in the image. I'll leave it at that as not having that. And being very distraught. And that always stuck with me because it's like, you know, we're living in a crazy world now where we don't know what to believe anymore. We don't know if what we see is even what it is. You know, we have all this AI floating out there. We have the world in chaos all the time.

Starting point is 02:45:13 We have more access at the click of a button to see things. And we've also seen the craziest things that would have previously been like, well, that's a conspiracy theorist, what dream that could never be true actually turn out to have some truth to them. What I try to be careful with is then not just suddenly re-correct on the other side and therefore make every single goddamn thing be like, well, it must automatically be the opposite of what they told us. Like I feel like that's how the powers that be win if we do that. So I always try to be very careful with that. But sometimes I look at this and this is going to be on your scope as a death investigator here.

Starting point is 02:45:47 Yeah. But I look at this and I wonder like, you know, call me crazy, call me total tinfoil hat, but could this be like an MK? Ultra situation? Yeah. Like where he's just, you know, brain zapped and just, well, must kill. I know. And like, does your mind just on a spec level when you go outside of looking at the facts,

Starting point is 02:46:09 do you ever just go, fuck, man, this world's so crazy? Maybe. I got it. After our red chaos. After our red chaos, it made me question a lot of things in this world. Tom, right? Tom. Yeah, Tom.

Starting point is 02:46:25 What's his last name, Tom? Neil, is it Neil? Tom O'Neill. Tom O'Neill, yeah. Holy smokes. Yeah, that had me twisted every... Great book. Fantastic read.

Starting point is 02:46:36 Oh, my... And you talk about dense. Yeah. The... In my world, in my world, the world that I previously inhabited and now that I teach, it's an interesting thing.

Starting point is 02:46:52 I think that a lot of people think that... In forensics and death investigation, it's like being in a Scooby-Doo episode. Mr. Chalmers, you know, and they rip the mask off, and there's some kind of dark entity. Most of the time you've got you've got really, really troubled people that commit these acts. There is, in my experience, and, you know, I'm chief among sinners here. I can be the biggest idiot in the room. Okay.

Starting point is 02:47:30 And, but I've never walked into a scene and think, wow, this has got Illuminati written all over it. You know, I just, it's just, I try to look at the science of it and try to explain again, the what and the how, you know, and try to stay away from all of the other peripheral static that's out there because my Lord, there's enough of it. I don't see how you stay sane. I really don't, my friend. I mean, we've been doing this. We've known each other a long time now. And I know those worlds, you know, that you move around in. And it's really hard to understand.

Starting point is 02:48:07 And that's a big problem. I think that we're going to encounter more and more in forensics and crime scene investigation is, you know, the old adage, the old, the old commercial about, is it real or is it Memorex? And most of the audience is too young to remember Memorex. But, you know, that, you know, what do my lion eyes tell me? And can I go back to the science? It's kind of like the DNA in the car. You know, that's got to be our baseline. You know, as much as AI is advancing with everything

Starting point is 02:48:42 and how we can be kind of virtually fooled, concurrently, you've got this rise of DNA technology as well. And it's very damning. And it is rooted in reality. It's numerical reality. And it's really, really difficult to escape that. It's kind of this interesting little seesaw effect that we have right now. Yeah, what was that?

Starting point is 02:49:07 I had that tweet, Dief. I think I texted to you. I have it right here. So they presented this that, I guess, at the preliminary hearing, that the DNA on the screwdriver that you referenced, Yeah. The government has presented it at 30 quintillion to one of a probability that... How many zeros is that, do you?

Starting point is 02:49:31 It's a lot. It's a lot. That it's... Robinson's, there's DNA on the rifle at 1.7 octillion to one. Is this your friends, by the way, doing this? No, that's coming from the FBI. Yeah, this wouldn't be that. Okay.

Starting point is 02:49:47 He told his... And then it talks about, like, some of the other... circumstantial evidence that's damning he told his family referring to robinson that he did it his parents helped him surrender he texted his roommate i am i'm sorry he engraved hey fascist catch on the ammunition a month before he used it but like focusing on the hard evidence right there like the DNA when you're presenting stuff like that i i do think for me that any idea that like footage is changed or you're not seeing what they're showing you you're seeing it's like well unless they can find a way to completely lie about that in court and get away with it, which I guess isn't

Starting point is 02:50:26 impossible. It's like, it would appear he was there. It would appear he was 140 meters away. It would appear that's who we saw on the video. It would appear he at least was involved in a weapon that was firing the shot. Now, if there's more of the story beyond that as to how he got there, who put him there, what caused him to get there, okay, cool. I unfortunately got to be open to that these days. As you referenced, I've covered some stories that are so... I hope that you are. Yeah, I truly do. You know, I cover some things that are so much. blowing that it's like you have to now ask questions like that but it would appear that like the basics of him being around and involved are pretty clear it unless something massive changes pretty

Starting point is 02:51:05 pretty clear yeah we're you know and I guess because I know the question of DNA planting has come up you know how how do you acquire his DNA in order to plant it in specific areas in this specific dynamic who was facilitating that. And then if you follow that logic, that begins to expand the universe that you're talking about. You can go down all kinds of rabbit holes with that. Is that even, and why him? Out of everybody else in this world, why him?

Starting point is 02:51:38 Why is it that they would collect his DNA and place it on all of these various surfaces that he's been in contact with and also place it on some of the items of his person that he's involved? in an intimate relationship with. It's a lot of... Yeah, and that's why the, you know, mathematically,

Starting point is 02:51:59 just mathematically, it's the numbers and my friends that are DNA scientists when I speak to these people, you know, it's like they live in a world that few can actually imagine. Right. They're working in these laboratories. and what person that would go out and do all of this work to achieve those levels would stick

Starting point is 02:52:27 their neck out over this guy? And that's the thing. You have to look at this and be like how many, if you're going to look at it and be like how many things have to line up for the worst case of like this is far deeper than we ever thought to line up to be true, how many have to line up for your end? And I'm saying this a little wrong right now, but like how much on the conspiracy end has to line up for all that to be true as well. It has to, you have to ask the question both ways, which means maybe a little bit of both is true. I don't know.

Starting point is 02:53:02 I'm not the expert. But like, I just, I can feel that this year because of all the other bullshit unrelated to this that we've seen just happened this year. Yeah. And you're referring to it. But like, you know, Dief and I investigate the Epstein files like crazy. I've investigated it for years. What we saw on the latest tranche that came out in January was beyond my wildest dreams of how bad this could get, though. And there are things that are just so blatantly insane that now you're like, is anything I see real.

Starting point is 02:53:31 But again, that's where I pull myself back. And I'm like, okay, what am I getting here? What is rooted in math? What is rooted in fact? What is rooted in footage that's at least not digitally altered that we can see? And let's go from there. And if the truth ends up being somewhere in the middle, I don't know if the word's great, but like, all right, cool, fine. But like, I don't want to sit here and suddenly be like, it is definitely this or definitely that.

Starting point is 02:53:57 I will say, like, this smells or that smells or that smells. And there's a lot of that here, to be clear. But it's helpful to have someone like you that's, like, going through just the step by step of the death investigation itself. Yeah, I find it fascinating, particularly, you know, we think about, you know, when you talk about major crimes and all. all these sorts of things. When you take it from Hollywood's perspective and you think that these things only occur in some large town somewhere, you know, I love training rural investigators. And one of the reasons is, is a case like this. You know, who would have thought that in this little area of the country that something that is so.

Starting point is 02:54:45 You feel the ground shift beneath your feet could happen there. Or in Moscow, Idaho. You know, how'd you know that that was going to happen? The 2026 Chevrolet Tracks is the stylish SUV for those on the move. And with the standard Chevy Safety Assist Package, you have the backup to handle every turn with confidence. The 26 tracks. Start your build at Chevrolet.ca. You know, where you feel the ground kind of shift,

Starting point is 02:55:12 certainly, and many people have not necessarily been following at K, cases. You think about the Petito thing with Brian Laundry. And that was one of those moments where, you know, you felt at least in our world, the ground kind of shifted. And those are things that are done in these small, isolated areas. Anything can happen anywhere. It's not just going to be in some kind of major crime-infested city.

Starting point is 02:55:41 And you have to be prepared for that. Dollars to donuts, man, they woke up that morning. They knew he was coming to town. Do you think those cops at that little school, you know, said, yeah, well, we're going to have this thing that's going to happen here that is far going to exceed the impact of him speaking here. It's going to be something that's going to put the microscope on us for years and years and years to come. Nobody expected that. you know, you just, you don't, you know, you don't anticipate that anything, you know, the little town up in Scotland, I can't remember the name of it, when that was it the Pan Am flight that just came raining down on that little town up there all those years ago and devastated a town,

Starting point is 02:56:30 kill people on the ground, and that was a terrorist bombing. They woke up that morning. They were going to pub in the evening, you know, just hanging out. they didn't know that that was going to be kind of this moment, you know, that was going to happen. It can happen in places of isolation. Oh, yeah. Now, what was the last thing? I think there was one more thing, Thief, Clint brought up.

Starting point is 02:56:49 Discord. He's bringing up the Discord stuff. Yeah. I won't be able to answer this. I don't think to his satisfaction or anybody's satisfaction relative to that. But what I will say is that going back to the electronic or digital forensics. that the powers of B, that are investigators in that area, that you're going to see this kind of completely laid out by,

Starting point is 02:57:20 I would imagine it will be somebody from the FBI that will have gotten access to a lot of these conversations. And whether or not they're going to be able to fill in the blanks or not. And whatever the people with Discord are saying, they're going to try to explain that. in some way, the prosecution will. They'll try to explain it in some way, but will it pass the sniff test at the end of the day? What kind of electronic bread crumbs were actually left behind in all of their communications?

Starting point is 02:57:51 That day and leading up to that day and then afterwards, I don't know, but I can tell you the people in digital forensics will be all over this, and they're going to try to tell that story. Yeah. And I wonder if Discord had denied all this, and then it comes out that that's not the case and it was in fact all over that and it's provable i wonder what the civil at least ramifications are this whole thing still remains a fantastic mystery if you're trying to figure out a puzzle and you don't have all the pieces yet because that's what people are trying to do and it's really

Starting point is 02:58:23 easy to insert yourself in it it'd be really easy for me to just absolutely positively say that this is the way it is i don't have that data no one actually has that data outside of the prosecutor and the defense at this point in time. Probably there's stuff that multiple investigators have been working on this from different perspectives depended upon their area of expertise. Some of the people involved in certain areas that involve specifically their expertise are not going to be aware of what other things were going on. And that's the job of the prosecutor is to paint, take those little tiles and create this

Starting point is 02:59:03 huge mosaic in court. the defense is going to try to pull down foundationally that whole thing and implant reasonable doubt into that to make that structure collapse kind of like cousin Vinnie right? Yeah, yeah, a little bit. Everything that guy just said bullshit.

Starting point is 02:59:19 That's right. That's my lawyer right there. There you go. Anyway, that movie, I think I saw that when I was like 12. I never wanted to be an attorney to be clear, but I was certain after seeing that movie, I didn't want to be an attorney because I'd be like I'd be held in contempt every goddamn day. And then you got to face,

Starting point is 02:59:34 Fred Gwynne. What a great job he did. But it's like you get the, you get a judge up there. They're wearing, you know, the black suit or whatever. And then suddenly they say something that you think is bullshit. You, you see me do this show. I'm like, I think that's bullshit. You know, and then that's, they don't like that when you do that. You don't look lawyerly. That's it. Yeah. Well, I definitely don't look lawyerly. But you were also telling me before when we were talking that you've been paying very close attention to the Lance Twigs early, I guess, like testimony here happening in the hearing and Lance Twigs is the alleged. Is he back to being a guy now? Is that what it is? But he was trans or something? I don't know. But I have no idea. But whatever's going on there. He need a playbill to kind of keep up. Yeah. By kind of morse in and out of things. I have no idea. But like he and Tyler Robinson were like an item. That's what's being reported and everything. But what has been most interesting about the early testimony you've gotten here from him. Just trying to understand the dynamic of that relationship, how long they'd been involved, they occupied the space in the townhouse together,

Starting point is 03:00:44 what was said, what wasn't said. I found it kind of interesting, you know, in the prelim stuff that we heard yesterday. You know, they showed the, they showed the videography of twigs, and he's dressed in a suit, you know, he's wearing a tie, you know, when they're deposing him there. I think that was back in April when they were interviewing. Yeah, so when you're listening to him

Starting point is 03:01:13 and his testimony didn't really reveal a lot. It was more of the investigator that was kind of interpreting the stuff. They had him up on the stand. I found it very interesting how it seemed as though that

Starting point is 03:01:29 twigs rolled over on Robinson, essentially, you know, kind of, you know, like he's, you know, he kind of put the cherry on top of the Sunday, you know, with the whole thing, trying to understand the dynamic, you know, what kind of, what was this relationship like? Not that it necessarily matters, but I think that you can, if people are into the motivation behind things, they'd ask him questions, had he, let's see, what was it, had he ever said anything derogatory? or had he, no, had he ever commented about being pro-L-G-B-T-Q at any point in time?

Starting point is 03:02:13 And I think that Twigs had said in the interview, we didn't talk about politics, we didn't talk about that sort of thing at all. That's interesting. That's fascinating. Yeah. You know, you're dressed as a bunny rabbit. You know, this is your identity. and you don't or whatever facsimile that was and you don't have conversations about the current zeitgeist in culture that you're right in the middle of.

Starting point is 03:02:48 I don't. But then he kills allegedly someone who was at the forefront of those cultural conversations. Yeah. So I don't understand that. I want to understand the measurement of it. it's going to be interesting if they put twigs on the stand, though. I think that that's going to be in court. Why wouldn't they put him on the stand?

Starting point is 03:03:10 Well, I think that they're going to because they've given him limited immunity. Limited. Limited, yes. So if he says or does anything that could lead back to him relative to planning or anything like that, They're going to say, you know, we're going to hold you partially responsible, perhaps. So, yeah, I'd have to have that more specifically defined for me, I think, relative to limited immunity. You know? Yeah.

Starting point is 03:03:42 Who knows? Now, just out of this preliminary hearing portion, though, that obviously is, like, important for the public because we're getting some previously unseen view into this. What are you most at the end of the five days worth of hearing? what are you most looking to have cleared up or has it already have those things already been cleared up for you well uh selfishly um comes down to the medical legal aspect the medical examiner appears on the list as one of the individuals that's supposed to be there i had that list i should have sent it to you guys uh but you might have it i don't know what the order of appearances were going to be and the evidentiary concerns and that sort of

Starting point is 03:04:28 thing. I'm interested about the dynamics of that round. I want to know. I want to know to know to what degree was it intact anatomically. Where was it discovered? What was the nature of the track and the trajectory? That's really, you know, for me personally, you know, I want to understand that. I want to know what the assessment of the back of the neck was like. You know, what did they find back there? Was there any even partial defect where maybe a frag? Because I've had that happen before where the body, the main body of the round will stay within the anatomical structure, but you can have these little satellite defects that will appear externally and it'll create a little exit wound. But it's not representative of the totality of the projectile itself. I want to understand that.

Starting point is 03:05:23 I want to understand the dynamics of that. You know, because, you know, I've heard, I think there was something about a camera. At some point in time that some person's holding a camera and there have been people that have been saying that, you know, there was a round that was fired, you know, from some kind of hidden firearm contained within a camera. One other thing that was kind of interesting that the responding officer, did you hear about the pistol holster that was found on the ground, that he noticed on the ground? and it wasn't collected. And he talked about this in the preliminary hearing. Interesting. Yeah.

Starting point is 03:06:02 But it's interesting in the sense that because that was not secured and collected, that will always be a question. Right. Because now you've got a fragmented ground. All right. You digging what I'm saying? So who would leave a pistol holster, you know, laying on the ground? And what a random thing to find.

Starting point is 03:06:25 again you got weird that like the george zin guy being there and then he finally goes down he's been arrested over the years for so many different things but now they find CP on his stuff and he goes to prison for that as you should by the way obviously but like a lot of weird stuff yeah and you want like you wonder if a kid like Tyler Robinson whatever coerced him to do it himself whatever he really did want to kill Charlie Kirk and he went up there but then he never you know it was like maybe he's not the one maybe the shot comes from somewhere else i only ask this because like you look at the Kennedy assassination look at these other ones where there's diversions right lee harvey oswald i think it's pretty clear was up there in the depository i think lou harvey oswald probably

Starting point is 03:07:15 fired a shot too but like we know there was more there as well are people used as a patsy diversionary tactic because they're motivated to want to do the same thing, but you need to make sure it's carried out clean. Do you think there's any possibility that something like that could have happened? And there could have been a shot like he was actually shot, but it was shot from somewhere else. And Robinson didn't actually get to fire the fatal shot. That's why the trajectory rods are so important. Because you have an individual that is allegedly firing from an elevated position, significantly elevated, that is a very specific trajectory. signature that's going to be left behind.

Starting point is 03:07:56 And the beauty of this is that they're going to, one of the things that you will see in court here, and we haven't really talked about this, they will do a complete and total digital reconstruction of this scene. And it will, if this goes to trial, if he doesn't plead, if it goes to trial, that will be displayed in the courtroom.

Starting point is 03:08:15 And you'll see the dynamicism of this. From these, and it'll be for, from different perspectives. They have, there's a camera system that is utilized at crime scenes now that takes thousands of images, spins like this. It's got multiple little mirrors

Starting point is 03:08:42 and it's capturing images from all different perspectives. And they can take all of that data and plug it in. And I'm not gonna say, It's like the Hologdeck, you know, Star Trek next generation where that show was. However, it will transport these, that moment in time, it will transport the people in the court to that location. Depending on how well it's done, the FBI does this regularly. That'll be displayed. So in answer to your question, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to go far afield with that.

Starting point is 03:09:16 But that's why determining trajectory, going back to the body, what do we say, you know, the corpus delecti, right? right, the center of the case. That body, Charles Kirk's body, is going to be the centerpiece to all of this. Where was he positioned at the time of the shot? We kind of know that from the videography, if we believe our line eyes, right? Right. And then what did they find at autopsy relative to the trajectory of this round? And one other thing I think that I'd like to know is how many other forensic

Starting point is 03:09:54 pathologists came into that suite to speak to the who is who is the pro sector did they have a bunch of eyes on this you know you i know i'm kind of going back a little bit here but the beauty of having a state medical examiner's office with a staff of board certified forensic pathologists that all come from different areas of their training and have different expertise i can imagine that there were probably more, there was probably more than one forensic pathologist in that suite. And, you know, the guy that is the pro sector, who is the primary, primary guy doing the autopsy, he's going to say, what do you think about this? You know, how does this look to you? You know, that sort of thing. Sometimes you can get in trouble with that because those people are subject to be subpoenaed as well.

Starting point is 03:10:47 And you don't want them having, you know, differing opinions, but it happens. They'll come into the sweet and they'll talk. So be interested to see what their perspective is. It is going to be interesting to see a play out. There were you and I were talking before. There were some other huge cases we were probably going to dig into today. Sure. We've been talking for over three hours. So I don't think we're going to get to them. I think

Starting point is 03:11:09 what we got to do is we'll let the trial play out where we, if it goes to trial and all that, where we get even more information. And then some of these other cases also, there's some active things playing out there. And then I'll bring you back again, maybe towards the end of this year, and we can go through all of it. I think that would be great. But this is, I really appreciate you doing this and given just like the academic breakdown of things. I know people get really heated about this one and the whole case, obviously, because there's a lot of controversy around it.

Starting point is 03:11:40 But, you know, we're going to look at it as best we can here and let you guys decide for yourselves at home and also decide for yourselves on the evidence that has yet to come out. So great stuff as always, my friend. I love having you in here. Thanks, brother. I love coming here. All right. And you got a great show, Bodybags with Joseph Scott Morgan, which is now on camera, on YouTube. It is, dude. Finally, thank God. I haven't broken the camera yet.

Starting point is 03:12:00 So you have not broken the camera. You look great on there. But we will link that down below. So everyone will go check that out. If you are interested in any of the storytelling you have heard today for the great Joseph Scott Morgan or any of the breakdowns of any important case, pretty much that's happened in the last 15 years, go to body bags. Because it's in there, including the history of Julius Caesar and all the knives. Hey, there you go. All the knives in his back.

Starting point is 03:12:21 too brute. Great to see you as always, my friend. We'll talk again soon. All right, pal. All right. Everybody else, you know what it is. Give it a thought. Get back to me. Peace. Hey, guys. If you're not following me on Spotify, please hit that follow button and leave a five-star review. They're both a huge huge help. Thank you.

Julian Dorey Podcast - #448 - "Kirk BULLET!" - Death Investigator BREAKS SILENCE on Charlie Kirk | Joseph Scott Morgan

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