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The only part I don't get now is the cell phone

I assumed he had some help with the timing via the burner phone

But this all looks very lone wolfish now



https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037870412-...

If real, he scheduled a post to be released everyday at ~6pm EST. If he wasn't caught that day he would delete the scheduled post, and reschedule for the next day at 6pm.

I say 6 because it was the earliest snapshot of the site. Looks like the post just got taken down off sub stack and I can't view the exact time of post.

That's likely how it happened


I still don't get how he knew where the guy would be


If you're a shareholder you get a postcard in the mail with the time and address of public meetings.


But not "he will leave the building at this 30 second interval. As needed for a walk up on a busy city street that is well policed.


Honestly I think it was luck.


He had 10 days to find out on site.


Yeah, the timing is a question I still have. At first it sounded like he was only there a few minutes before the CEO appeared. Later information sounds like he might have been hanging around outside for longer. I haven't seen a knowledgable evaluation of how plausible it is that he would have known where Thompson was going to be based only on public information.


Yes, how do you know the whereabouts of a CEO?


> Yes, how do you know the whereabouts of a CEO?

You might know about their public appearances such as for shareholder meetings but how would you know which hotel they're staying at and that they would leave said hotel at 6:45 AM(!) and walk(!!) to the meeting venue?

Either massive luck on the shooter's side or there is a source of information that hasn't been discovered yet.




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