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Day two of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on prosecutors’ effort to connect Robinson to the Utah Valley University campus and to the physical evidence recovered after Charlie Kirk was shot. Investigators introduced additional surveillance footage they said showed Robinson moving around UVU before and after the shooting, while the State also turned to forensic evidence recovered along the alleged escape route. A screwdriver found on top of the Losee Center and a towel recovered from a wooded area near the rifle became major points of testimony. The State Bureau of Investigation introduced an FBI laboratory report concluding that DNA from both Robinson and his roommate, Lance Twiggs, was present on the screwdriver and towel, evidence prosecutors argued helped connect Robinson to the rooftop area and to the abandoned rifle. The hearing also featured argument over the State’s allegation that Kirk had been targeted because of his political and religious views, an issue relevant to the victim-targeting enhancement prosecutors had attached to several charges
The defense spent much of the day attacking how strongly the forensic evidence could actually be interpreted. FBI forensic examiner Amanda Bakker was questioned for roughly three hours as defense attorney Michael Burt dug into the technical details of the DNA testing, mixtures, statistical interpretation and the limitations of what the results could establish about when or how DNA was deposited on the objects. Robinson’s lawyers also pushed back against the State’s motive theory, challenging the attempt to characterize the killing as being driven by Kirk’s religious beliefs in addition to political disagreement. By the end of day two, prosecutors had added important physical evidence to the surveillance case presented on day one, but the defense had begun laying out the approach it would use throughout the hearing: concede that certain items contained Robinson-associated evidence while aggressively challenging what that evidence actually proved about possession, timing, motive and the circumstances of Kirk’s killing.
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Day two of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on prosecutors’ effort to connect Robinson to the Utah Valley University campus and to the physical evidence recovered after Charlie Kirk was shot. Investigators introduced additional surveillance footage they said showed Robinson moving around UVU before and after the shooting, while the State also turned to forensic evidence recovered along the alleged escape route. A screwdriver found on top of the Losee Center and a towel recovered from a wooded area near the rifle became major points of testimony. The State Bureau of Investigation introduced an FBI laboratory report concluding that DNA from both Robinson and his roommate, Lance Twiggs, was present on the screwdriver and towel, evidence prosecutors argued helped connect Robinson to the rooftop area and to the abandoned rifle. The hearing also featured argument over the State’s allegation that Kirk had been targeted because of his political and religious views, an issue relevant to the victim-targeting enhancement prosecutors had attached to several charges
The defense spent much of the day attacking how strongly the forensic evidence could actually be interpreted. FBI forensic examiner Amanda Bakker was questioned for roughly three hours as defense attorney Michael Burt dug into the technical details of the DNA testing, mixtures, statistical interpretation and the limitations of what the results could establish about when or how DNA was deposited on the objects. Robinson’s lawyers also pushed back against the State’s motive theory, challenging the attempt to characterize the killing as being driven by Kirk’s religious beliefs in addition to political disagreement. By the end of day two, prosecutors had added important physical evidence to the surveillance case presented on day one, but the defense had begun laying out the approach it would use throughout the hearing: concede that certain items contained Robinson-associated evidence while aggressively challenging what that evidence actually proved about possession, timing, motive and the circumstances of Kirk’s killing.
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A Florida woman, Jennifer Percival, pleaded guilty in federal court in New York to falsifying records in order to obtain money from a compensation fund for Jeffrey Epstein victims. Percival had applied to Epstein’s estate-funded victims program in late 2020 and was found ineligible for compensation. Years later, when she applied to a separate $290 million JPMorgan Chase settlement fund for Epstein survivors, prosecutors said she altered her original rejection letter to make it appear that the Epstein estate program had approved her claim and paid her $500,000. Based on those false representations, the JPMorgan fund paid her $750,000 in 2024. Percival later admitted that she fabricated the documentation because obtaining the money gave her a “sense of validation.
The fraud deepened after the FBI began investigating. When agents confronted Percival in late 2025 with the genuine rejection letter, she falsely claimed she had successfully appealed the decision and then provided her lawyer with fabricated emails that were submitted to federal prosecutors in an effort to secure a deferred-prosecution agreement. Percival eventually admitted wrongdoing and arrived at her plea hearing with a check covering the $776,031 she owed in restitution. Prosecutors have not said whether she was actually one of Epstein’s victims, only that the records she used to obtain the settlement money were fraudulent. Under the plea agreement, federal sentencing guidelines called for roughly three to four years in prison, although the judge was not bound by that range.
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Florida woman pleads guilty to defrauding fund for Jeffrey Epstein victims - ABC News
The amended warrants for YouTube, DoorDash and Amazon showed how investigators in the Moscow murders were using digital records to reconstruct both Bryan Kohberger’s activity and the movements surrounding 1122 King Road. The DoorDash warrant focused on deliveries to the King Road residence, including the approximately 4 a.m. food delivery Xana Kernodle received shortly before the murders; investigators ultimately cleared that driver, but the records helped tighten the timeline of the victims’ final hours. The YouTube warrant sought subscriber information, device identifiers, login data, cookies, locations and other account information that could show who accessed particular accounts, from where and on what devices. The broader purpose was to determine whether digital activity could connect Kohberger to the victims, the house, relevant searches or videos, or movements before and after the killings.
The Amazon warrant was more directly tied to the suspected murder weapon. Investigators sought Kohberger’s click activity involving knives and accessories, payment methods, items placed into or removed from shopping carts, wish-list activity, reviews he viewed, advertising data and devices associated with the account. The warrant covered March 20 through March 30, 2022, and November 1 through December 6, 2022, and was amended in May 2023 after investigators discovered a date error in the original paperwork. Amazon later returned responsive data, which was placed into evidence. Taken together, the three warrants showed investigators trying to build a digital timeline from several directions at once: DoorDash for the final activity at the house, YouTube for online and device behavior, and Amazon for possible interest in or acquisition of a knife and related equipment.
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Bryan Kohberger’s defense relied on a series of declarations from experts and outside professionals to challenge different parts of the State’s case and to support requests for greater access to evidence. Sy Ray, a former law-enforcement investigator specializing in cellphone-location analysis, attacked aspects of the State’s interpretation and production of AT&T records, particularly the absence of Timing Advance data that he said could provide more precise location information. Ray argued that investigators had obtained such data for thousands of other devices and suggested that the lack of comparable data for Kohberger’s phone deserved scrutiny. Genetic genealogist Gabriella Vargas focused on investigative genetic genealogy, warning that law enforcement had sometimes obtained genealogy results in ways that violated database terms or internal policies and arguing that the defense needed the underlying IGG records to determine whether that had happened here. Stephen Mercer, an attorney with extensive experience litigating forensic DNA issues, made a similar point, arguing that the defense could not meaningfully test the reliability of the genealogy investigation without seeing how the SNP profile was generated, how the family tree was constructed, which relatives were identified and how investigators moved from an unknown sheath-DNA profile to Kohberger.
Grace Wong’s declaration served a different purpose. As a Court TV representative, she supported the media coalition opposing the defense request to remove cameras from the courtroom, explaining that Court TV had followed Judge John Judge’s restrictions, used a variety of courtroom shots and could adjust its coverage to comply with even more specific limitations without eliminating cameras altogether. Her declaration therefore did not support Kohberger’s innocence or challenge the forensic case against him; it addressed courtroom access and argued that responsible camera coverage could coexist with Kohberger’s right to a fair trial. Taken together, the declarations illustrated how many separate fronts were being litigated before trial: Ray challenged aspects of the cellphone evidence, Vargas and Mercer pressed for deeper disclosure of the genetic-genealogy process, while Wong addressed the public-access fight surrounding one of the most heavily covered criminal cases in the country.
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Gary Michael Hilton was a drifter and convicted serial killer who became known as the “National Forest Serial Killer” after targeting people in remote wilderness areas across Georgia, Florida and North Carolina. His known killing spree unfolded in 2007 and early 2008, with victims including elderly hikers John and Irene Bryant in North Carolina, Cheryl Dunlap in Florida and 24-year-old Meredith Emerson in Georgia. Hilton preyed on people in isolated hiking areas, abducted them, robbed them and in several cases used their bank cards before killing them and attempting to conceal or mutilate their bodies. He pleaded guilty to murdering Emerson after investigators linked him to her disappearance and found evidence in his van, and he later admitted killing the Bryants.
Hilton was also convicted in Florida of kidnapping and murdering Cheryl Dunlap, whose decapitated body was found in the Apalachicola National Forest in December 2007. A Florida jury unanimously recommended the death penalty, and he was sentenced to death in 2011. He received additional life sentences for the Bryant murders, while his Georgia sentence for Emerson’s murder was life imprisonment. Investigators also examined Hilton in connection with other unsolved disappearances and killings, including cases involving people who vanished near hiking areas, though not all of those suspicions resulted in charges. His crimes stood out for their predatory use of isolated public lands, where he could approach victims with little chance of witnesses and then use the surrounding wilderness to hide evidence and bodies.
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Gary Michael Hilton was a drifter and convicted serial killer who became known as the “National Forest Serial Killer” after targeting people in remote wilderness areas across Georgia, Florida and North Carolina. His known killing spree unfolded in 2007 and early 2008, with victims including elderly hikers John and Irene Bryant in North Carolina, Cheryl Dunlap in Florida and 24-year-old Meredith Emerson in Georgia. Hilton preyed on people in isolated hiking areas, abducted them, robbed them and in several cases used their bank cards before killing them and attempting to conceal or mutilate their bodies. He pleaded guilty to murdering Emerson after investigators linked him to her disappearance and found evidence in his van, and he later admitted killing the Bryants.
Hilton was also convicted in Florida of kidnapping and murdering Cheryl Dunlap, whose decapitated body was found in the Apalachicola National Forest in December 2007. A Florida jury unanimously recommended the death penalty, and he was sentenced to death in 2011. He received additional life sentences for the Bryant murders, while his Georgia sentence for Emerson’s murder was life imprisonment. Investigators also examined Hilton in connection with other unsolved disappearances and killings, including cases involving people who vanished near hiking areas, though not all of those suspicions resulted in charges. His crimes stood out for their predatory use of isolated public lands, where he could approach victims with little chance of witnesses and then use the surrounding wilderness to hide evidence and bodies.
to contact me:
bobbycapucci@protonmail.com
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