ABLECHILD: No Bullet, No Answers – Charlie Kirk Autopsy Under Fire in Utah
No Bullet, No Answers: Charlie Kirk Autopsy Under Fire in Utah
Republished with permission from AbleChild
Officials in Utah have yet to publicly confirm whether the bullet that fatally struck Charlie Kirk was recovered, a critical piece of evidence in the ongoing assassination trial. The autopsy, carried out under Utah’s Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Deirdre Amaro, is central to the case but remains shrouded in secrecy, fueling questions about transparency and accountability. FBI Director Kash Patel stated in an interview on Fox News’s Fox & Friends, “I can report today that the DNA hits from the towel that was wrapped around the firearm and the DNA on the screwdriver are positively processed for the suspect in custody,” underscoring the importance of DNA evidence linked to the case while leaving key forensic details, including bullet recovery, undisclosed. At no point has it been officially confirmed that DNA was found directly on the gun itself.
Dr. Deirdre Amaro, Utah’s Chief Medical Examiner and a key figure on Governor Spencer Cox’s Fentanyl Task Force, is under intense scrutiny as she manages the autopsy process in the trial of Tyler Robinson, accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk in an event that captured worldwide attention. Despite her pivotal role, no official public release has been made of the autopsy report or confirmation that the fatal bullet was recovered and matched to the firearm involved.
State law mandates Dr. Amaro conduct the autopsy but does not compel public disclosure of the findings. This silence has raised significant questions, as officials have refrained from confirming whether the bullet was recovered or linked to the rifle—a vintage Mauser bolt-action weapon found wrapped in a towel near the scene. The DNA evidence, publicly acknowledged by FBI Director Kash Patel, establishes a physical connection to the suspect but leaves open questions about forensic completeness.
Dr. Amaro holds multiple board certifications, including forensic pathology and neuropathology, and leads one of the nation’s few fully centralized statewide medical examiner systems. However, the medical examiner’s office has faced criticism. For example, in 2023, Utah declared the death of 16-year-old Arianna Duenez at Vive Adolescent Care—a state-contracted behavioral health facility—“undetermined,” despite the involvement of multiple psychiatric drugs and troubling care failures that led to minor sanctions against the facility. In addition, Utah failed their overall audit of the medical examiner’s office in 2022.
Governor Spencer Cox has expressed condolences for Arianna’s family and called for behavioral health system reforms but they never materialized. Cox has not addressed the repeated question regarding the employment of the mother of the accused assassin, Tyler Robinson, within the state behavioral health apparatus, where she serves as a care coordinator for intermountain – a contractor with a $750,000 state contract. This is just bizarre; why not just address her role within the Utah behavioral system?
Skepticism grows over whether Dr. Amaro’s office properly monitors drug-related deaths and the data that is provided to Governor’s Cox Fentanyl Task Force when they cannot confirm psychiatric drug related deaths. The nondisclosure of basic key autopsy details in Kirk’s case worsens public distrust. Utah’s complex ties to behavioral health vendors and big pharma interests—including among the accused assassin’s mother connected to this case—underscore the need for transparency.
Basic forensic facts remain unreleased, including confirmation of bullet recovery and its forensic matching to the rifle. This omission erodes public confidence, despite clear acknowledgment of DNA evidence linking the suspect to associated items at the scene.
As the trial unfolds, Utah is the epicenter of a political assassination, big tech AI, big pharma, and the mental health/behavioral health industrial complex influence looming large, Utah’s medical examiner office faces scrutiny over its forensic integrity and public accountability.
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I’m a forensic pathologist. Medicolegal autopsies are not trivial to do. It commonly takes a long time to get a report out, because you don’t do every possible test all at once on the day of the autopsy. It usually takes a couple of weeks to get toxicology results back. It may take longer if you ask for a consultation report. Moreover, because you can’t afford to do everything all at once on the same day, you do a lot of things sequentially. For instance, I recently did an autopsy on a death in a jail. The decedent had heavy lungs, so I took tissue for histology. After a week, I go the initial microscopy slides back. After looking at those, I decided that it was an atypical appearing pneumonia, so I ordered special stains on the tissue. After another couple of weeks, I got those slides back and looked at them, which provided me with an indication of what was going on. During this time, I also reviewed the decedent’s medical records, investigation reports, etc. Once I had all of the circumstantial, anatomic, toxicologic, and laboratory information, I wrote my report. It is common practice in many offices for deaths in custody and high profile cases to be reviewed by peers before release in a so-called “peer review conference.” Accordingly, my case is scheduled for peer review next week. I’ll probably sign it out after that. The entire sequence will take about 60 days. It’s not like they make it out in television shows. The initial autopsy standing a the autopsy table might only take two or three hours, but the amount of work to finalize a repor is 8-20 hours spread out over weeks. These consultants who run to the microphone after taking a quick look are superficial and usually wrong.
All of your details are of course correct…doing these important tests and follow ups do take time.
But, releasing a simple fact of having a bullet or not, it does match the rifling of the weapon we have or not, and came from this angle…are really quick and decisive test 99% of the time, and not so critical to a case to not be released especially if it all matches the suspect in custody.
Thank you for a detailed explanation. I give much credit to medical examiners who have enough of a tough job, let alone pressure to find results quickly. The only thing I believe could help would be to at least address the bullet issue – where are the results from it, so this one piece in the puzzle could be put to rest. IMO.
Where is the damn bullet? That’s the most important aspect of the whole case!
Would you agree that a missing bullet could impede on quality of autopsy?
Probably not disclosing the DNA on the gun and other details because they want to keep the evidence close to their vest. Why disclose such information to the defense at this point? Not everything is a conspiracy.
TOTAL COVER UP.
Zero confidence in the stories they sell.
Kirk was hit in right side neck, Exit wound on the left.
The entire time the GOVERNMENT word has been a lie.
The Killer was in the building on the right of that stage,NOT on the roof of the left centre building.
Damn shame they can’t all be Quincy.
The rifle has changed a couple of times. From the antique rifle that Grandpa had to a modern Savage, in a cardboard box, with a scope mounted all the way to the rear to guarantee an eye cut.
SONAR21 had inside information on the bullet and says it fracmented and was NOT from a 30-06.
So it fragmented hitting soft tissue and never left the body?
Fragmented meant it was not a supersonic round, which would have gone through Charlie AND the next person behind him.
Unacceptable.
TH FUCKING MOSSAD JEWS DID IT.
Early on one of the reports supposedly from the Police said there was no exit wound. If you saw the one video that was fairly close then you saw the blood coming down Charlie’s left neck onto the left side of his shirt. What does that mean? It means the bullet exited out the left side of Charlie’s neck.
I have a feeling the blood video was AI, because it was only one video showing a lot of blood. Three men were hovering around Charlie’s body and had no blood on them. The other videos really don’t show a lot of blood coming out instantly, which it should have.
It’s funny how everyone is a self-proclaimed expert these days. I also remember 20-plus years ago how nobody believed in a single conspiracy theory. Now a large part of the population believer everything is a conspiracy theory. Both views are extremes that should be avoided, but humanity is rarely good about striking a rational balance.
Just another cover-up in a long line of cover-ups…. this was a professional hit by the powers that be, the controllers of this world,…. and Kirk was making a lot of difference in our youth that the education system run by our government has been destroying, and someone out there didn’t like it. To many phones out there, can’t cover-up like the government used to, to many eyes…