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Today, I am Pro-Erika; A Day on Team Erika - Ep 151
Baron Coleman
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Today, we take Erika's side and push hard for her to get her wishes with respect to the publication of evidence admitted in the preliminary hearing.
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Chapter 1: Intro Um, uh, Andrew, Blake, um, Erica, you guys picked a terrible week to go on vacation. Uh, I don't have braids. I feel like if I had braids at this point, I would be in a much better position to do a program because apparently braids are where it's at. Battle bun be darned.
Uh, battle braids, ladies and gentlemen, is where it is. Welcome in. Welcome in. Welcome in.
Uh, apparently this week's going to get rowdy. Apparently this week's going to get unbelievably uh rowdy. Hold on. Let me check here.
Okay. Make sure I didn't accidentally call 911 or anything. Um, get it off of them. Get off of Okay, guys.
Um, we got a lot to cover now. It's going to be a cap and gown day. It's going to be a cap and gown day. When you when you Some days you show up, you know, we have a good time and we have some fun.
Today, dawn your cap. D your gown. Uh uh we're going to school. We're going to school.
It's going to be a lot of education in happening here tonight. And I have to tell you, when they're right, they're right. And sometimes Erica Kirk is right. And I'm going to take her side today on a uh a particular issue.
I'm going to be on team Erica today. So don't say, you know, you got you everything you do is against this woman. No. No.
Not tonight. Not July 27th, 2026. No, we're we're team America. No, I'm sorry.
Team Erica. Yeah, team America. We are team Erica tonight. Uh before we get started, I have to clarify something.
Last night, I got a ton of messages. Holy mackerel. I got a ton of messages uh on last night's show and I had a lot of people giving me tips on which car they think that Tyler Robinson jumped in. And I responded to a few of them.
I was like, did I say he jumped in a car? They're like, yeah. Yeah. go back and watch it.
So, I went back and watched it and then all the things started making sense. Um, I was giving options. I was just giving every 2 minutesoption I could think of. Like, I went to the kitchen cabinet and I started pulling options out of the cabinet.
Uh, uh, I I'm not saying for sure he jumped in a car. I'm not saying for sure he ran to the library. I'm not saying for sure he he uh uh ordered up a cheeseburger on the roof. I'm not saying for sure that while he was standing at the top of the parking garage, he made a call or or communicated with somebody.
Uh, you know, I was just thinking of any option I could possibly think of that something might have happened in the clips that they took out. That's it. That's it. So, I don't know if he jumped in a car.
I don't necessarily think he did, but if he did, then let's figure out which car it is. All I was trying to do is say, why are they cutting all the video footage in half? Why are they shutting everything down? They had five days to present a preliminary case.
If you're going to give me a two-minute long video of him standing at the top of the stairs case, don't cut a minute of it out. Give me the whole two minutes. Let me see what the two minutes happens. That's it.
That's all. That's all, ladies and gentlemen. Just want to clarify that because I don't want people to say uh now keep in mind the trial's years probably two years from now. Year year and a half, two years from now.
Um but there will be people who make a note. Baron Coleman said on July 26th that he jumped in a car. He did not jump in a car. Baron is wrong.
He's a liar. He's an idiot. He a con man. Hey, no.
Uh I didn't say that. All I was saying was he might have. We have no idea. So that's all I'm going to say about last night.
Uh, but I am going to go into a little bit of more of the autopsy tonight. I'm very keen on the disposition of Charlie Kirk's body because um, as we as we proceed through this case, there seems to be one glaring problem. Everything well, there's a lot of glaring problems, but one major problem is a murder requires a body. If I if you're going to tell me someone died, I have to be able to look and see a dead person.
And so far, we've not heard from anybody who saw a dead body. We heard from people who heard from people who saw a doctor's report that might have indicated there was a dead body, but we've not seen an actual dead body. We've not seen the report of a dead body. We've not seen pictures of dead body.
And I don't want to look at the pictures. I'm not gruesome. I have no interest in looking at the picture. 4 minutesHonestly, that's that's a true fact.
I have no interest in looking at the pictures. Um I mean, if they came out, I would have to look just to to to do the job here, but uh I I'd have no interest in it. Absolutely no interest. But I would like to look at the report.
I'd like to look at things like what time did it start? Where would it take place? Who's in the room? uh what time did it end?
Where did the body go after that? Um and we'll talk tonight about why those records should be available. What happened to the biologic samples? Are they available still?
The defense seemed to indicate they might not have them. Should they? Is it a legal requirement in Utah that they do have them? Uh so we'll talk about all that and more because this case is very weird from front to back.
There's no doubt about it. It's very weird from front to back. Um and one of the giant weirdnesses What did I do in my opening? Did I close it by mistake?
I'll find it. Um, oh, there it is. I hid it from myself, ladies and gentlemen. I've been known to do that.
It's happened before. Uh, one of the weird things about this case is we had an autopsy that now we're trying to sort of get a handle on that might have been done in almost minutes. Almost minutes. And I'll be honest, here's what it looks like to me.
It looks like if there was not an autopsy done, they just kind of cooked up some sort of a report. uh if there was an autopsy done then it might have been done haphazardly. It might not have followed all the rules and it might not have been as thorough as it otherwise should have been in a major murder case. So I want to go through that but I do want to do an opening because this is not the first time that we've had a question in a case about where is the body.
This has been a thing. It's happened before. And I want to take you all the way Oh. Oh, people get mad when I don't do this.
This is your opening statement. I want to take Chapter 2: Opening Statement you all the way back to the summer of 1975. There was a young mother in Edinburgh, Scotland, and she experienced a loss that would define nearly five decades of her life. Her name was Lydia Anne Reed.
She was only 26 years old. She gave birth by C-section on June 26th of 1975 to a premature son. She named him Gary Robert Patton. And within days, young Gary was very fragile.
He was a premature baby. And he was transferred to Royal Hospital for Sick Children. And they had to have to do surgery to remove a catheter. After the operation on July 2nd, he reportedly suffered a brain damage incident.
He was placed on life support. Uh, Miss Reed agreed to withdraw the intensive care. And then later that night, the police arrived to inform her that young Gary had died. He was just 7 days old.
7 days old. Little tiny tiny Gary. Almost immediately, she had doubts. When the funeral staff from Scott Mid Cooperative showed her the body, Miss Reed looked at it and said, "That's not my son's body.
7 minutesMy son was tiny and dark-haired. This child is large and blonde. And of course, the staff does what sometimes medical staff does to people and they poo poo them, treat them like idiots, and dismiss her as having depression, postnatal depression. So, she goes to the funeral, and at the funeral, a little bitty coffin for a little bitty premature baby said the coffin felt unnaturally light in her arms.
Of course, how much does a little baby weigh? So, they kind of dismissed that. But she noticed a few other things that were weird. Rather than putting the casket in the back of the car, they just kind of put it into the front seat of the car and they put a coat over it.
And then the guy driving was flashing his uh ashing a cigarette. And the cigarette ashes were blowing down on the coat that was over the coffin. On the name plate of the casket, it spelled the word Gary with two Rs instead of one. They misspelled the kid's name on his own coffin.
And they uh they buried the coffin at a place called Sauten Cemetery. And this is where it gets heartbreaking because for more than 40 years, Miss Reed visited that grave every week. Every week, she laid down flowers even though she was never fully convinced internally that her baby was in the grave. And her suspicions began to intensify.
In the late 1990s, there was an elder pay organ retention scandal that erupted in England and investigations revealed that in a lot of British hospitals, including those in Scotland, in her area, they had routinely retained organs and tissues from young children who had passed away and they were using it for research and teaching and they were doing it without the parental consent. There was a report that was issued, it's called the McLaren report. It later estimated that Scottish hospitals held around 6,000 such specimens that had been collected between 1970 and 2000. Well, Miss Reed became a leading figure in the campaign group called Justice for the Innocence.
Among other things, she demanded her son's medical records and she learned that the organs had indeed been removed before he was buried. And this was unusual because they had assured her earlier that this was not the case. That they had not taken anything out of her son. Her entire son, organs and all, was in the casket.
A lot of families eventually recovered retained material, but the hospital maintained that it had nothing that belonged to Gary. So, Miss Reed continued to press for answers. At one point, she even chained herself to a rail in protest. She went on a hunger strike.
She fought for reforms that tighten the regulation on the handling of pediatric remains. And in 2017, 42 years after Gary passed away and after several years of legal efforts, Miss Reed secured a court order that allowed them to exume the remains. She hired a distinguished forensic anthropologist from the University of Dundee to supervise the work. They exume the remains and they recover a number of artifacts from the grave.
This includes a dis disintegrated coffin. There was a wooden shaw. There was a small hat that was placed on allegedly placed on Gary before he was put in the grave. A small cross and a name tag.
and she remembered all of those objects being present when she last saw who she presumed was her child. So those objects confirmed it was the right grave. However, the coffin itself had no body. There were no skeletal remains.
The expert confirmed there were no traces of decomposition and no hair inside the hat. And according to the expert, there should have at least been hair if nothing else. So the conclusion was pretty unambiguous. And here is the exact quote from the expert.
" End quote. Obviously, that devastated Miss Reed. Uh even if it validated her instinct, it's it was still devastating news. Uh she was quoted saying, "I wanted to be wrong.
" Instead, she was forced to confront the cold reality that an empty coffin had been buried while her son's body was somewhere else. The discovery triggered further official scrutiny. The police got involved. The Crown Office got involved.
There was a procurator fiscal service investigation, whatever that is. And she launched a legal action seeking the return of any samples that remained. And in a post-mortem situation, a lot of times they'll take samples and they'll keep them. somewhere.
We'll talk about that tonight. Uh and also she wanted compensation from the funeral directors 12 minuteswho very obviously knew that there was no body in the casket. In 2022, she was frustrated by delays. She was at that point 73 years old.
Keep in mind, she had been 26 when Gary died. She was now 73 years old. She was disabled. She went on a hunger strike.
She camped outside the Crown Office in Edinburgh, demanded a public inquiry, and of course the release of whatever remained of her child. A multi- agency review was conducted, and that they concluded Gary had been buried in 1975 and found no evidence of criminality or unlawful organ retention. Obviously, Miss Reed disputed those findings because they dug up the grave and there was no Gary. So, in 2023, March of 2023, just a few years ago, while she was lying terminally ill with bowel cancer in the hospital, authorities finally located and released the available remains.
And all that remained of young Gary were a few tissue blocks and slides. When I say slides, I mean the medical slides that go under a microscope. That's all that was left from the original examination. uh officials delivered them to her in a plastic supermarket bag, like a Kroger bag.
The uh agency was later forced to apologize for being so reckless and careless with Miss Reed's feelings. Uh she obviously expressed horror and then the materials were properly prepared by an undertaker. And on a beautiful Saturday morning in late March 2023, Miss Reed checked herself out of a hospital for a full 24 hours and finally conducted a respectful funeral for what remained of Gary. She did it at the Sauten Cemetery that she had gone to for nearly 48 years after his death.
The hurt has been horrendous, she said. Now I can bury him before I die. I feel great relief. She died shortly thereafter, June 2023, she was just 74 years old.
And even after the burial of the few tissue samples she had, questions about what happened to Gary's body very obviously remain. It's a reminder that some losses leave voids and no investigation can fill those voids. Uh, and that is your opening statement. It's a little dark.
It's a little morbid, but it is awfully um wait a minute. Why is my name trending on X? What have I done now? Um Oh, oh, sorry.
I didn't mean to get I just pulled it up while I was talking and then looked and thought, what's going on here? Um it it it's it's it's morbid and it's dark, but we have real questions that remain about what became of Charlie Kirk. Chapter 3: Utah Medical Examiner Required by Law to Preserve Deceased Body you know, he died in a rather fantastic event. It was a rather uh wild moment and everybody sort of looked around and assumed proper protocol would be followed.
The question is, was it? Because if it was, why do we not know to this day? What happened to his body? Was he buried?
Was he cremated? Did he have a funeral? Uh we won't we can't know because the participants at the alleged funeral, as Candace disclosed uh uh a long time ago, but again yesterday, I believe, or she believes, were forced to sign an NDA to go to their own family's funeral. Like, can you imagine being the cousin and having to sign an NDA with penalties attached to it?
Very bizarre. Very, very bizarre. Uh so, let's take a walk through this, shall we? because there are some legal requirements in Utah.
What happens to a body? And I'll just outline them broadly before we start pulling up statutes and looking at them because this is again going to be a dense day. Um, if you die in Utah, we talked about this yesterday. If you die in Utah and it's a suspected gunshot wound, in in most instances, there will be an autopsy.
But as we learned yesterday, to much to my surprise, over the weekend, I discovered an autopsy is not required. An autopsy can be waved by the medical examiner if nobody else asks for one. So if the county attorney or the attorney general asks for a autopsy, the medical examiner has to perform one. " They don't have to do one.
No autopsy is required. So what happens if the medical examiner takes custody? Because we're told the medical examiner took custody of the body. We saw a parade of people that included the medical examiner and that parade of people supposedly went to the medical examiner's office in Taylor'sville.
What's funny about that is there were news cameras all over the place and nobody seemed to remember him coming. But there is actually a statute of what happens when the death appears. This purple part right here where the death appears to have occurred under circumstances listed in 26B8-205. And I will submit to you that that is a gunshot wound.
subsection one of that has a gunshot wound. The person or persons finding or having custody of the body or jurisdiction over the investigation of the death, so that's the medical examiner or the county attorney or the police shall take reasonable precautions to preserve the body and fluids so that minimal minimum deterioration takes place. That's subsection C right there. So the medical examiner has a responsibility here until the conclusion of the autopsy.
has to be some sort of preservation of the entire body. But once the autopsy passes, is there any additional requirement? And if there is no additional requirement, does that help inform us maybe why an autopsy was rushed? Rushed.
I'll give you a followup here. Here are um situations where autopsies are authorized. And the reason why this two right here is a verb. The medical examiner shall perform an autopsy to aid in the discovery and prosecution of the crime.
So you want to make sure you protect the state's interest. Also to protect an innocent person accused of a crime. In other words, if we have a criminal defendant before we have a completed autopsy, the medical examiner is no longer just trying to figure out who died and how. But they actually have a statutory a statutory duty to the accused.
The medical examiner has a statutory duty to the accused, meaning Tyler Robinson in this case. When did we get Tyler Robinson? When did he show up? Well, he didn't show up allegedly until the night of September 11th.
He didn't show up till the night of September 11th. Well, where was Charlie's body the night of September 11th when Tyler Robinson showed up? It was in Arizona. It was in Arizona.
That's fast, ladies and gentlemen. When Charlie was not declared dead until the early afternoon, some point, , , , sometime like that in the afternoon on September 10th, you wouldn't think the body would already be in another state later. 33-hour manhunt. later, you wouldn't think the body would be in another state.
And this becomes an important factor when you think about the speed with which this entire thing was done because one of the things that can happen, one of the things that can happen with a um 20 minuteswith an autopsy with a body is the uh the criminal of the accused can request an extension. I'll show you this right here. This is a thing. This is a thing.
Uh release of the body for funeral preparations. Where a body is held for investigation or autopsy under this chapter, the body shall, if requested by the person given authority, so that would be the wife, be released for funeral preparations no longer than after the arrival at the office of the medical examiner regional medical facility. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we know when that took place. m.
on September 10th. That's when it arrived at the medical facility. And at that point, the clock starts running. They have to get the body ready and released.
They have to complete the autopsy after it arrives at the medical facility. m. It's about a 30, drive. Let's call it to get the body inside the medical facility.
That's when the clock starts running. That's when the clock starts running. If the medical examiner still has custody of that body within that whole and a criminal defendant comes along and says, "You got the wrong guy. " They can file a request in the District Court of Utah to hold the body, not release the body.
In other words, they can go to a judge and say, "Judge, this is very unusual circumstances. We think they've got it all wrong here. You need to hold the body and allow a more thorough investigation to take place. Allow potentially defense people second autopsy, second opinion.
That extension may only be ordered by a court. That's that section B right there. So, you might get some sort of an idea of why everything was sped up so fast. " Recall last night we talked about all of the autopsy pictures were taken on September 10th.
That means the autopsy, we believe, could have been done by midnight that night and released. They didn't even get to the They didn't get there until like 8, let's call it . Let's say they drove really fast on the way there and they wheeled the body in uh Yankin and Bankin. Is that what Brian Harpole called it?
Let's say they were yanking and banking on the way there and they just like catapulted the body into the building. You're talking 8:30 at the earliest. It was gone 3 and a half hours later. Like gone from the building there.
The autopsy was done. Are you kidding me? That's super fast. That's really, really fast.
That's like 20 and a half hours before the statutoily expected passes. But if you don't know when somebody might be arrested for the crime, and you don't know if that person's going to request an extension, and you really don't want a second set of eyes looking in on what's going on, and you don't want a court getting involved, and you don't want extensions being granted, and you don't want a court to say, "We need to hold this body for two weeks in the morg and keep him on ice because we're going to have to get a second team in here. " If you if you don't want any of that to happen, there's only one way to prevent it. Get that body the heck out of dodge.
" What What state medical examiner is going to look the vice president in the eye and say, "No, sir. We've still got time on our heads. We don't we don't have to release this body for another . Enjoy the tarmac, sir.
" Probably not going to happen. Probably not going to happen. " No, no, no. We're not.
You can't take the body. We've got time here. We're taking our time. We're letting the clock run.
We got to see what's going on. So, what does it take to get a body out of state in Utah? Because this seems extraordinarily fast. A lot of people have commented on this that this seems Chapter 4: Transportation and Disposition Permits Required to Move or Bury/Cremate Deceased Body extraordinarily fast.
Well, we have a rule on that. We have a rule on that. There's a Utah requirement. It's called a disposition permit.
A disposition permit, believe it or not. Uh this is it. This is the office of administrative rules authorization for final disposition of deceased persons. This is the rule for the removal, transportation, and preservation of bodies.
If you're going to remove the body, you have to obtain permission from the next kin. That's Erica. You have to determine whether the medical examiner has been notified that that was taken care of. Um, and this is 25 minutesto remove it from the hospital.
Um, and then you have to uh uh know where it's going. Right now, you got to transport it. If you're going to ship a body, and that's what happened here, that body has to be inbalmed by a licensed inbalmer. And then it's got to be placed in a particular uh uh shipping container.
Now we got to preserve it. You can't hold it in transit more than after death. After death, it has to be maintained at a temperature no more than 40° Fahrenheit. I don't know how they did that on Air Force 2.
Maybe put it down in the cargo hold and just let it freeze with the rest of the luggage. I don't know. And then there are penalties associated with this here. Um, but you have to get this permit.
You have to get this disposition permit. It's a It's a um Let me see if I can There it is. A burial transit permit. And this has to be filed with the state.
The burial transit permit has to be filed by the state. In other words, state offices aren't open in the middle of the night. the middle of the night. In order to transfer the body from one place to the other, you've got to create a record.
So, we we have to know where it went. There is some record out there that will tell us where Charlie Kirk's alleged body went. These are the burial transit permits right here. Another code section.
I told you it's going to be a little cap and gowny, at least at the beginning. It's going to be a little bumpy for those of you who don't like words. And some of you don't. Some of you don't.
uh requis uh a registration prerequisite to internment burial transit permits. We know there was a certificate of death um for deaths and fetal deaths which occur in this state. No burial transit permit is required for but let's see it's not going to be in the state because uh we we're going to need one because this is disposition occurs in the state. Well, that didn't happen.
disposition occurred in allegedly Arizona and the bur the burial transit permit shall be issued by the local registar of the district. So this is a this is something you have to get approved by a government official. This is something that cannot happen in the middle of the night. A burial uh that's bodies coming in right here.
And so you have this you've got this requirement. Again, there's a paper trail that's coming up. A lot of people alerted me to this. " I had a I had a grandma die in Utah and we wanted her to take her back to Colorado to bury or back to Nevada to bury.
And um what I've learned is a lot of people have ties to Utah, but they live in the surrounding states. And so they want to be they die in Utah or they want to be buried in Utah, one or the So, you have to get these permits going back and forth. Most people tell me these permits take weeks to get like your body stays on ice for two weeks, four weeks because these permits take forever. Not when you're Charlie Kirk.
Not when you're Charlie Kirk. Uh there's actually a requirement in Arizona for incoming people. Uh we have that statute. If you are so bored and would like to read it as well, I'll go ahead and flash it up here just so you know we're not making it up because we get accused of that sometimes and it's not true.
This is the disposition of disposition transit permits. This is for human remains coming in from out of state. You have to they have to be involved and they have to have this permit. They have to have a permit.
Funeral establishment responsible person must submit the information required and get this again another state record. So now we'll have a state record in Utah. We'll have a state record in Arizona. And the reason this is important is you can't just go cremating somebody or burying somebody without telling without filing with the state where you're doing it.
So if Charlie Kirk has been buried, we're told he was buried. I think they hinted he was buried. Maybe maybe we weren't told he was buried. We were hinted he was buried.
We're told there was a funeral at a at a cemetery. Most people when they go to funeral at the cemetery assume the body goes in the ground, but there are a lot of people questioning that. So if he went in the ground, there's a record somewhere. Someone in Arizona has access to that record that you can't just you can't just put somebody in the ground.
Now, let's say they decide we're going to fake a burial and we're going to cremate them instead. We're going to fake the burial. We're going to have all the family show up. They're going to sign NDAs.
We're going to put the casket out there. We're going to tell everybody we're going to bury him. Then they're going to leave and then we're going to go cremate them. You still have to have a record.
You still have to have a record. Meaning there's some bureaucrat in Arizona that has access to that database. And that bureaucrat, not just one, there's probably hundreds of bureaucrats in Arizona that have access to that database, could search by his name and it would pop up and it would say whether he's been cremated, where it was done, who presided over it, or where whether he was buried, where he's buried, and who presided over it. If it h if the final disposition took place in Arizona, that would be on the record somewhere.
Someone in Arizona working with the state is able to confirm that. probably not on the record because I don't think they're allowed to do that. But you know how people are. " I hear all this conversation about he wasn't buried.
Let me just look it up real fast. And they would be able to tell you real quickly. Was he buried? Was he cremated?
Or do we have a record of neither? Nor do we have a record of him being transferred out of the state, which means he's just hanging out somewhere. He's just on ice somewhere. literally on ice somewhere.
But the point of this is the more administrative headache that the state requires with all these disposition permits with all these registars with all these documents that have to be filed, the more time elapses, the more time things take. If you've ever gone to the state for any kind of thing, you show up at the vital records department and you want a copy of your own birth certificate. It takes time. Takes time.
You mail in a thing and three weeks later maybe you get a copy of your birth certificate. Maybe three weeks later you get a copy of a letter that says you need more information before you can get a copy of your birth certificate. I've been through that. I've been through that.
So you have those types of records. Now what else is required? What other records would be available? And the reason I raise all this is if we're Chapter 5: Utah Medical Examiner Required to Keep Detailed Records of Every Single Step of Autopsy and Location going to have a criminal trial, we should be able to see some of these records.
You're going to have to produce some kind of a dead body. you're going to have to produce some sort of evidence of of the fact that this all took place. So, this is an example a a a list of some of the things that the medical examiner is required to keep. This is back in Utah now.
So, this medical examiner, Guardo and Amaro, they are required to their office is required to keep all these records. There's some records custodian somewhere that has access to these in theory. Medical examiner shall maintain complete original records of the medical examiner record. They shall be properly indexed, giving the name Charlie Kirk or Charles Kirk.
Uh or otherwise identifying every individual whose death is investigated, the place where the body was found, UVU or Tempenogus Hospital, the date of death, September 10th. I can go ahead and fill this paper in for you. I mean, if I if if you know someone's taking notes, you can create one of these. Uh the cause and manner of death that's going to say gunshot wound um manner uh that's the cause manner would be homicide indicate the occupation of the deedent I don't know wildly successful podcaster slash uh nonprofit CEO slashauor slash what else did he do I I don't even know what all he did uh include all other relevant information concerning the death and a full report of the detailed findings of the autopsy and a report of the investigation.
So, all that stuff should be preserved somewhere. That's going to come into play here in just a second because this is where we go on team Erica when it comes to this record. Believe it or not, Erica and I are on the same side on this. So, um that last thing it said all other relevant information, there's something called a secure facility body intake log.
This is a timestamped log. And this timestamp log documents the exact second that the transport van arrived to the medical examiner's office. It'll identify the driver of the transport agency. It'll identify the physical integrity of the body bags forensic seals.
In other words, they don't just wrap them up in a sheet and toss them out into the minivan. They they they do it in a dignified manner. They put them in a bag. They seal the bag off.
they sign the seal. So, if they don't have it, let's just say they don't have this. This is something that's not available to them, they're going to come, they're going to have trouble when they go to the trial. They're going to have real trouble because there's a rule of evidence in Utah 901 and the requirement of authenticating or identifying an item of evidence.
They have to produce sufficient evidence to support a finding that the item is what they claim it is. In other words, they're going to have to bring somebody in from the office of medical examiner to say, "Yes, that record was kept in the ordinary course of business, and it is precisely the way it is in our record book. " You know, we're not going to give you the original, but this is a real copy. They can't admit these things without someone standing in the stand saying that stuff.
There will be an internal chain of custody tracking sheet. This is an internal log. It's step by step. It tracks the body as it was moved within the medical examiner's facility.
This is cold storage. This is over to the X-ray fac the X-ray part or maybe they bring the X-ray to the body. Over to the autopsy table back to cold storage. Every step of the way there's a signature.
There's an entry. There's a probably electronic these days, but but there's some sort of a record to the second of when that happened and where it went. And this is going to be very important because again, this seems to be very, very fast. One of the requirements of an autopsy is that the body be cool.
You're not going to cut into a brand new hot body. He hadn't been dead that long. Erica testified he was still warm when she showed up. That was at .
So, she shows up at . He's still warm according to Erica. Well, if he's warm at 4:00 and he doesn't go to the medical examiner's office till , when did they cool the body down or , , whatever? When did they cool the body down to a sufficient temperature?
Because the rule in Utah is the body has to be below 40 before they dig in below 40. So, you've got to get the body and you got to put it in cold storage. You've got to put it in what they call, I don't know, the morg or whatever they have. But you slide the body into a basically a giant cooler.
You see these on like uh CSI Miami. I don't know. Again, I don't watch TV. I have no idea if there's a cooler, more modern show, but that's the last cop show I remember.
But you see, they pull the body out of the morg. They're cold. They pull they're literally in cold storage, 35 to 39 degrees usually. And you have to bring that body down to temperature.
Why? Because an autopsy takes time. An autopsy takes two, three, ometimes four hours or more. If you're working on a body for three or four hours and it's not down to temperature when you start, it's going to deteriorate very, very quickly.
Bodies begin decomposing almost immediately. As soon as your body stops, the heart stops beating, the oxygen starts, stops coursing through your veins, the bacteria begins to grow. You begin immediately to to suffer the effects. Gases build up.
I mean, it's it's gruesome stuff, but it's it's nature taking its course. This is normal. In fact, a lot of the bacteria in your lungs, I was reading about this um back when I used to do HIV litigation. A lot of the bacteria in your lungs, scient certain scientists believe is there to speed up the decomposition process because the lungs are right there in the middle of your body, kind of like from your head to your uh from bow to stern or whatever.
um the the lungs sit right there in the middle. And if they're just courarssing with with um with bacteria, the second you die, they start immediately uh amplifying, consuming, and they start that decomposition process. Well, you're going to want to cool the body down and keep the body cool. If the body doesn't show up to the morg until 8:30 or to the medical examiner's office till , when do they cool it down to get it out of there by midnight?
To get the thing done by midnight? That that seems very very compressed. A very very compressed timeline. There's a body release form custody transfer log.
This is legally required. It's a receipt document. When the body is released from the office of the medical examiner into um usually a mortuary service will pick it up and take it back to the mortuary to do the inbalming or whatever. There's a log.
There's a log at that point and this is a little gruesome, but when they're released, they're not like funeral ready. You can't just like roll them out to the funeral later. Uh the mortuary service actually does quite a bit. They sort of piece the body back together.
They sort of sew it back. I mean, there's a lot that goes into this, but they um that takes time as well. That takes time as well. m.
It could have been as early as midnight because that's when all the pictures were done being taken. m. roughly is when it arrived to get to Air Force 2. And so if there's no custody transfer log, the state now has a gap.
They have a gap, and it's at least a 12-h hour gap. It could be as much as a 16- hour gap where the primary physical evidence in a capital homicide, meaning the the the crime scene, the body itself, is sort of floating around out there. And there's private parties. There's third parties that are in possession of this body.
It's unsecured. It's unmonitored. And keep in mind, all of this is before we've ever heard the name Tyler Robinson. All of this is before Tyler Robinson gets a lawyer who can say, "Hey, wait a minute.
You can't slow down. Slow down. We have a right to preserve everything. " It was almost as if there was a race.
Let's get this thing out of here before we have a criminal defendant because once we get a criminal defendant, everything may stop dead in its tracks and we can't have that. And so you'll have transport logs, transit logs, there'll be dispatch logs. Uh there'll be GPS tracking data. We're in the year 2026.
We'll have GPS tracking data. There'll be an escort vehicle that follows a private transport van. All of this is available. All of this is supposed to be documented.
So if they don't have it, if they can't produce evidence of that 40mm or so transport from Tempenoggus to the medical examiner before or from the medical examiner back to the mortuary service and then they can't prove where the body went and I think they're going to have trouble proving where it went because there were people standing outside the medical examiner's office and they don't recall seeing a Now to team Erica. This is the part that's fun. Chapter 6: We're on Erika's Side in Wanting to Release All of This Information This is the part that's fun. I'm going to go to a filing of hers.
I'm going to go to a filing of hers. This is a filing Erica made. Now again, Utah allows this weird situation where um the actual wife or or whoever it is here, let me close it. the the victim representative they have in Utah can actually file stuff.
And this is an example of what she filed, a supplemental notice concerning access to evidence presented in open court. In other words, Erica has an opinion on what we the people should be able to see. And I happen to agree with her in this case. Uh she's the widow and duly recognized victim representative buying through the undersigned council.
Uh notice supplements the notice yada yada. As before, Miss Kirk asserts her right upon request to be present and heard on the matter affecting her interest and so does so on behalf of the victim's family. The victim's family position is simple. Good.
At a minimum, at a minimum, every exhibit entered into evidence during the preliminary hearing must be visible to every person lawfully present in the courtroom. To receive evidence in a manner shielded from those seated in the courtroom, as happened today, is not transparency. and in the absence of transparency, speculation, and conspiracy theories will continue to proliferate in the public domain relative to the tragic assassination of Mr. Kirk, breeding doubt and trust into the judicial system.
