Citizen journalists seem to have pieced together enough clues to establish the identity of Charlie’s killer. It will have to be regular people solving cases because FBI seems to be impotent.
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Citizen journalists seem to have pieced together enough clues to establish the identity of Charlie’s killer. It will have to be regular people solving cases because FBI seems to be impotent.
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I haven’t seen what they’re saying, but I have seen enough examples of online sleuths getting it wrong, that I will be surprised if this works out.
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I give it 50/50 odds.
I haven’t seen the current theory yet. But I’ve seen them get it right as well as wrong– I have a little faith that the LEOs are looking at the same folks, but keeping mum about it until they, you know, bust in the door and arrest somebody. It’s like reading TGP– you get all the hot rumors, but half of them turn out to be wrong.
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Skye Valadez is the popular guess.
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Oh, I think that one is like as not a dud, because all the pics I’ve seen are obvious AI– the graphic on the shirt is scrambled into a meaningless jumble.
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https://x.com/TimLangley17/status/1966225121758294435/photo/1
Have you seen anything more convincing than this? top left pic in that set, check the picture on shirt, compare to official versions of same from FBI. AI can’t figure out eagle and flag, hilariously turns it into kindergarten collage.
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I can’t spot likenesses in faces. Its an autistic thing.
But thank you for clarifying the mystery with the T-shirt. I was wondering why it looked so weird in some photos.
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That was me, from another device. Arg. After drawing them for decades I… still can’t do much with faces. But I’m OK looking at shoes (gray, converse), T-shirt graphics, hats, sunglasses, jewelry, etc and playing the does-this-guy-match-that-guy game. I’m kind of stumped by those in this case. I have it on good authority that exact shirt is available in every thrift store in NY, so kind of wonder if most of that getup wasn’t acquired secondhand. Not the Converse sneakers, those are hard to find in thrift stores (have found one pair ever, wrong size), those are probably his. But the hat looks old, I can’t get a read on the triangular logo, it’s not Adidas which was my first thought.
Others have pointed out, and I agree, that he has got some awkward stuff under his clothes, which you can see “printing” on his shirt and pants. Kind of pointy around the back of the right calf, right pocket might be holding an enormous phone, or maybe he’s limping because he’s stuffed a rifle, or some part of one, down his pants. He did somehow leave with it, if he ditched it in the woods– I’d really like to see how a Mauser breaks down, now, what shape the pieces are. Something definitely printing on his shirt, above his pants waist, in the center. In another context I’d wonder if he had a herniated navel. Extraordinarily lumpy person. Women wear tons of suffocating foundation garments to avoid that sort of thing.
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Already way too long, but:
https://x.com/FBISaltLakeCity/status/1966295141410373683
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1966327286249980123
Here’s someone *leaving* the scene. Backpack. But also a bag in hand, carrying something long and narrow– likely rifle. Terribly blurry but plausibly the same guy: dark clothes, dark backpack, light-color shoes. Atrocious resolution, but at a couple points, lighter blotch visible on front of shirt.
So… if the guy in the photos on the stairs is him *arriving*, and the guy jumping off the roof is the same guy *leaving*… where’s the rifle in the arriving photos? Was it stashed there ahead of time? He can’t have limped *up* the stairs with a rifle stock in his pants, but perhaps if modified in some way, shortened stock or something, he could have stowed it in pieces in the backpack. But he had to leave quick, and couldn’t take it apart again (or leave it behind I guess– though he ditched it in the woods? That doesn’t quite make sense)… and now suddenly it has its own bag. I’m puzzled by that and would like to understand the logistics.
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…some of which begs the question: if that’s *not* a rifle in his pants, what the hell kind of other equipment has he got taped on. Waistband holster for a small handgun might explain the shirt. Dunno about the leg.
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G0mvAsiXQAAx9wZ?format=jpg&name=small
What has it got in its pocketses?
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I wonder how much that person got hounded for looking like the shooter.
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I shudder to think. He never looked like any of the actual photos, only the freaky AI-“enhanced” ones. We have a serious problem with people taking that trash at face value.
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I’d be careful about endorsing them.
a) many cases where innocent people’s lives have been ruined after being wrongly identified by them.
b) Often, it’s law enforcement agencies that plant this info in places like 4chan. Then they don’t have to reveal their (unconstitutional) methods used to obtain this information. They can just say that they received a tip from an online forum and escape scrutiny.
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Maybe someone should tell the FBI that the killer was also antisemitic.
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