CHARLIE KIRK 7 Missing Seconds + The Missing Ending Explained - The #5 Clue Everyone Missed

[00:00] So realistically, it's not a huge fall

[00:02] on the security footage. It does make it

[00:03] seem a lot larger than it is. And for

[00:05] perspective, that security camera right

[00:07] there is where he was captured. So you

[00:08] guys will recognize this. This is where

[00:10] he was captured on camera. That's where

[00:11] he jumped off the roof. From multiple

[00:13] officers that we spoke to that actually

[00:15] worked the scene is the wooded area that

[00:17] the gun was supposedly stashed in.

[00:20] >> In this episode, we'll look at the

[00:22] number five clue everyone missed.

[00:25] >> I got nightmares in my head. I feel

[00:32] my mind feels like a creature

[00:36] me.

[00:39] I got nightmares in my head.

[00:44] Hello and welcome to True Crime Rocket

[00:46] Science. So that was footage from Taylor

[00:48] Hensen reenacting and recording the root

[00:51] of the suspected shooter. I'll be

[00:53] putting a link to that short video clip

[00:56] in the description. So, let's review

[00:58] what we know. The shot rings out at 1 2

[01:01] 2 3 30 seconds. Let's put those numbers

[01:03] on screen. Now, you can see from this

[01:05] screen grab that the CCTV provided by

[01:08] the FBI only starts 7 seconds after

[01:10] that. Many of you guys have gotten stuck

[01:13] on those missing 7 seconds, but that's

[01:16] just the starting line. After the

[01:18] shooter jumps off the side of the

[01:19] building, walks along the grass. By the

[01:22] way, do you notice he holds the towel

[01:24] concealing the rifle away from the white

[01:26] vehicle approaching the parking lot?

[01:28] Then after the vehicle passes, he

[01:31] switches it around so that it faces away

[01:33] from the traffic passing him on the

[01:35] left. Well, isn't that suspicious? Isn't

[01:38] he trying to hide something? And then

[01:40] the footage cuts off. What happens next?

[01:42] And where exactly was the rifle found?

[01:46] Before we get to that, if you haven't

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[01:49] Welcome to the thousands of you who have

[01:51] subscribed. Again, kudos to Taylor

[01:54] Hansen who went boots on the ground and

[01:56] verified this information himself. As I

[01:58] said, I'll put a link to his little

[02:00] video clip in the description. You can

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[02:09] let's get started.

[02:11] >> She spoke about the heartbreaking

[02:12] moments she had to tell their

[02:14] three-year-old daughter, Gigi, that her

[02:16] father was never coming back.

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[02:35] Let's remember that this isn't just a

[02:37] game. We are talking about someone who

[02:38] lost their life and the investigation

[02:41] and the trial to bring his murderer,

[02:44] Charlie Kirk's murderer, to justice. If

[02:47] you've been complaining that we don't

[02:48] see the starting line in terms of the

[02:50] footage, an equal issue can be made

[02:52] about the finishing line. After the

[02:54] suspect is seen walking along the road,

[02:56] what happens next? It's one of the most

[03:00] unexplored areas of true crime,

[03:02] post-meditation.

[03:04] If you're hearing that term for the

[03:05] first time, well, it's because I coined

[03:07] it. Premeditation and postmeditation

[03:09] hold hands. They are mirror images of

[03:12] each other. After the suspect is seen

[03:14] walking along the road, what happens

[03:16] next? The answer is that he immediately

[03:19] crosses the highway College Drive and he

[03:22] enters a small nondescript wooded area

[03:24] and this is where he abandoned his

[03:26] weapon, the towel and some of his

[03:28] clothing. Here's the view towards UVU

[03:31] where he crosses the road. Here he has

[03:33] his back towards the woods. And here's

[03:36] the opposite view from campus drive of

[03:39] the woods with his back to UVU.

[03:42] Note the red line on the sidewalk and

[03:44] the white line running in the road

[03:45] designating a cycling lane running

[03:47] parallel to it. Well, here is that exact

[03:50] spot being cordoned off. You'll notice

[03:53] the embankment slopes steeply downward,

[03:55] creating a dark forest canopy and

[03:58] blocking off line of sight, which

[03:59] provides additional cover. Taylor Hansen

[04:02] also goes down into this area and

[04:05] describes it as quite a good area if

[04:07] that is what you wanted to do, hide

[04:09] something away. This is the same area

[04:12] from a different angle. And here's an

[04:14] officer collecting evidence in that

[04:16] embankment.

[04:18] You'll also notice the area underfoot is

[04:20] longish green grass, longer than the

[04:22] lawn he ran across, and also sunless.

[04:25] Well, that's a match for the background

[04:27] of this image. Also, the dark shoe

[04:30] sticking out of the top corner of the

[04:32] image looks like it might belong to the

[04:34] FBI officer pictured above crouched down

[04:36] on one knee.

[04:39] This is that same area taken from

[04:41] another angle. Note the red line running

[04:44] along the sidewalk and the white line in

[04:46] this image as well. Here it's possible

[04:48] the engraved casings are being placed

[04:51] inside an evidence envelope.

[04:54] Can you make out what the officer is

[04:55] holding in his gloved hand? Could it be

[04:58] a dark towel? Now, when I did lighten

[05:00] the image, it didn't look like he was

[05:03] carrying anything. So, we must be

[05:05] careful to draw inferences just because

[05:07] we want to. In this image, the officer

[05:09] appears to be placing something metallic

[05:12] into the envelope. It looks to me like,

[05:15] what is that thing? It looks to me like

[05:17] it could be a buckle or a watch more

[05:19] than more than a bullet. The officer

[05:22] crouching over, holding the envelope

[05:24] open, is not wearing a glove and could

[05:26] be in trouble if there is some DNA

[05:29] contamination. Once again, you can see

[05:31] in this image the grass is thinner and

[05:33] longer on this side of the road. Another

[05:36] interesting question to ask is where the

[05:38] shooter scoped out the cops in the

[05:40] woods. I don't think he would have

[05:42] parked right across the road. Probably

[05:44] he would have had an aerial view from

[05:46] the parking garage. So if you take the

[05:50] text messages as being authentic

[05:54] and you want to test whether it's

[05:56] possible to see what he was seeing, what

[05:58] he said he was seeing, remember he said,

[06:01] "I had planned to grab my rifle from my

[06:03] drop point shortly after, but most of

[06:06] that side of town got locked down. It's

[06:08] quiet, almost enough to get out, but

[06:10] there's one vehicle lingering." Then he

[06:12] said, "Going to attempt to retrieve it

[06:14] again. Hopefully hopefully they've moved

[06:16] on. I haven't seen anything about them

[06:19] finding it. So, he's probably looking at

[06:21] the news as he's waiting or while he's

[06:24] waiting. He also says, "I can get close

[06:26] to it, but there's a squad car parked

[06:28] right by it. I think they already swept

[06:30] that spot, but I don't want to chance

[06:32] it. I'm wishing I'd circled back and

[06:35] grabbed it as soon as I got to my

[06:36] vehicle."

[06:38] Also, I worry about Prince. I had to

[06:40] leave it in a bush where I changed

[06:42] outfits. So, that's where he says he

[06:45] changed. He says, "The only thing I left

[06:47] was the rifle wrapped in a towel and I

[06:50] think the bullets that he engraved as

[06:52] well." Later on, he says, "All right,

[06:54] I'm going to have to leave it. This

[06:56] really [ __ ] sucks." So, we get the

[06:58] idea that he was he was surveilling them

[07:01] while they were investigating that

[07:02] scene. The question again is from where?

[07:05] The other part many miss is that the

[07:07] starting line isn't actually when he

[07:09] fires the shot. That's the halfway mark.

[07:11] The starting line is wherever he parks

[07:13] his car. Once he makes it back to his

[07:16] car, he's basically home free. So, it

[07:19] also makes sense that the direction he

[07:21] heads in after firing the shot is

[07:23] straight towards his vehicle. But for

[07:25] some reason, he doesn't feel it safe

[07:26] walking all the way to his vehicle with

[07:29] a rifle in his hand. And this is the

[07:31] riskiest part of the whole plan. If

[07:33] someone sees the rifle and sees his

[07:35] vehicle, you know, he reckons he's

[07:37] toast. So he wants to break up that

[07:40] ability to join the dots just as he

[07:42] dressed in different clothing to try to

[07:44] avoid detection. Do you see if we are

[07:47] going to join the dots, it's not only

[07:49] joining ABC and XY Z, we also have to

[07:52] join Z to A. And we can see that's

[07:56] exactly where he's headed. In this case,

[07:58] we can see he's heading from point

[08:00] number nine towards point number one,

[08:04] which is where his car is parked. He can

[08:06] get back to his car by changing shirts

[08:09] and then threading his way through the

[08:11] relatively quiet neighborhood to

[08:13] retrieve the firearm. Except then things

[08:16] go ary. Does that make sense? I can't

[08:19] really say why the FBI haven't provided

[08:21] the first 7 seconds or the last 7

[08:23] seconds. It could be that they want to

[08:25] preserve those scenes and don't want

[08:27] look trespassing or contaminating the

[08:30] scene. Right now, the area of the

[08:32] shooting is cordoned off and is under

[08:34] 24/7 surveillance. By the way, this

[08:37] perspective also confirms what law

[08:39] enforcement said when they spoke about

[08:41] the shooter's approach, which would have

[08:43] been from this side and would have

[08:44] involved stepping over the fence-like

[08:46] barrier and onto the gravel surface of

[08:48] the roof. Let's go back to the

[08:50] affidavit. The suspected shooting

[08:52] position is adjacent to an open publicly

[08:55] accessible walkway. To access the

[08:58] suspected location, a person must climb

[09:00] over a railing. Well, is there railing?

[09:03] Check. And then drop to the roof only

[09:05] slightly below. Is the roof only

[09:07] slightly below? Check. The UVU officer

[09:10] climbed over the railing and down onto

[09:11] the roof. He then walked to the

[09:13] suspected shooting position and

[09:16] confirmed a clear shooting corridor

[09:18] between the position and Mr. Kirk's

[09:20] seat. He also noticed markings in the

[09:22] gravel rooftop consistent with the

[09:24] sniper having lane on the roof.

[09:26] impressions in the gravel potentially

[09:28] left by the elbows, knees, and feet of a

[09:30] person in a prone shooting position.

[09:32] Prone meaning lying on the ground.

[09:35] Police reviewed surveillance from the

[09:36] camera covering the roof and discovered

[09:38] that it recorded an individual dressed

[09:40] in dark clothing cross the railing from

[09:43] the public walkway and drop onto the

[09:45] roof at at about 12:15 p.m. That's about

[09:50] 7 or 8 minutes prior to the shooting.

[09:52] This is important. Although the

[09:54] individual moved out of the camera's

[09:56] view for a short time, the camera again

[09:59] captured the individual running across

[10:01] the roof and then low crawling to the

[10:04] area the UVU officer recognized as where

[10:07] the suspected snipe had dropped down

[10:09] into a prone shooting position. So this

[10:13] low crawling area, this was actually

[10:15] recorded prior to the shot after a short

[10:18] time which matches the known time of the

[10:21] shot. 1 2 2 3 30 seconds. The individual

[10:25] arose and ran across the roof to the

[10:28] northeast and back into the view of the

[10:30] camera. So, we have confirmation here

[10:32] that the crucial area where the sniper

[10:35] lay was an area where the CCTV wasn't

[10:38] able to pick up the shooter, certainly

[10:40] not the continuous movements. You can

[10:43] also see that although there are several

[10:44] ladders providing access to the roof,

[10:46] these would be risky to climb given the

[10:49] huge crowd milling around. This is why

[10:51] the stairwell was chosen for more

[10:54] discrete access to the roof. In point of

[10:56] fact, this stairwell was a critical

[10:58] vulnerability, a crucial security flaw

[11:01] that the shooter took advantage of.

[11:03] Going forward, this security hole will

[11:05] need to be addressed by UVU staff. Fox

[11:08] News recently published an article

[11:10] stating, "A security expert says Tyler

[11:12] Robinson got extremely lucky finding

[11:15] access to the Utah roof to allegedly

[11:18] carry out the attack." Well, I'm not

[11:20] going to take it further than that. Are

[11:21] there any questions? Well, let me know

[11:23] in the comments. Thank you for listening

[11:26] and I'll see you guys next time.

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