691 W 925 S — Ownership on Record
:::caution No owner is accused of anything This page reports public property records and public university board minutes. Naming the university, the prior owner, or the seller here is a matter of record only. Nothing on this page alleges that Utah Valley University, the prior owner, or the seller knew of, participated in, planned, or is in any way connected to the September 10, 2025 shooting or the staging allegation. No record reviewed for this page links any of them to wrongdoing. An innocent explanation — a university buying an adjacent home to expand its footprint years before the event — fits every document below. :::
The headline record: UVU bought this house in 2019
The single most important ownership fact is documented in Utah Valley University's own governing-board records: the university purchased 691 West 925 South several years before the assassination.
| Field | Value (from UVU / Regents board records) |
|---|---|
| Property | 691 West 925 South, Orem |
| Buyer | Utah Valley University (a public institution) |
| Seller | the Theobald family (the "Paul Theobald house") |
| Price | $900,000, the appraised value, paid with institutional funds |
| Lot | 1.239 acres |
| Home | 7,486 square feet, described as "in good condition" |
| Relationship to campus | "contiguous to campus" — the purchase was framed as a way to expand the campus footprint to the north |
| Stated use | the home "could be used for hosting events or housing campus visitors" |
| Approvals | UVU Board of Trustees and the Utah Board of Regents, 2019 |
Sources: the UVU Board of Trustees agenda, January 17, 2019; the UVU Board of Trustees meeting record, June 18, 2019; and the Utah Board of Regents agenda, May 17, 2019.
Two consequences follow, and both matter to every other page in this section:
- The current owner is a public university, not a private family. That is unusual for a "staging house" theory and cuts in more than one direction — a university-owned property has institutional keys, staff access, and event use, but it is also subject to open-records law.
- The property is next to campus, not miles away. UVU's board called it "contiguous to campus." That directly contradicts the real-estate-aggregator description of a home in "Sunset Heights" several miles off, and it lines up with the citizen-investigation video that places the building directly across from the Losee Center. See the location page for the geography.
Current county parcel (resolved 2026-08-09)
The live Utah County serial is not the old Markidas snapshot. It is:
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Serial | 36:443:0006 |
| Serial life | 1994… (open) |
| Taxing description | LOT 2, PLAT J, COLLEGE HEIGHTS. AREA 1.239 AC. |
| Acreage | 1.239 |
| Owner of record | UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY (2020… / 2020NV) |
| Tax-notice mailing | 800 W UNIVERSITY PKWY, OREM, UT 84058-6703 |
| Title instrument | Warranty Deed Entry 46392-2019, recorded May 24, 2019, THEOBALD, PAUL H TEE (et al.) → UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY |
Source: Utah County Property — 36:443:0006. Full instrument log: Deed Chain. People behind historical title: Prior Owners. Values: Tax & Assessed Values.
UVU still holds title on the abstract through early 2026 — no later warranty deed out of the university appears. A February 2026 easement entry (22694-2026) involves other parties and the City of Orem; it is not a sale of the house.
Board minutes — exact ratification language
The June 18, 2019 UVU Board of Trustees minutes state that the Executive Committee had already voted in May to approve the purchase "as an extension of the Master Plan," that a contract pending Trustee and Regents approval "was accepted by the Theobalds (owners) for the appraised value of $900,000," and that the full board ratified the purchase of 691 West 925 South, Orem without opposition (motion by Trustee Rick Nielsen; second by Trustee Taylor).
Local circulation of the board action (preserved in community Facebook posts quoting the cover sheet) added: the house has "excellent access to the University from Campus Drive" and "could be used for hosting events or housing campus visitors." Homes for sale along the south side of 925 South were framed as a chance to "expand the campus footprint to the north in a logical manner."
Sources: 6-18-2019 trustee minutes (PDF); June 18 2019 PMN packet; Jan 17 2019 trustee agenda; June 18 2019 public agenda extract.
The older county land record (obsolete serial — keep for audit trail)
A separate, older Utah County land-records entry for this address still surfaces online and is preserved here because pages only grow:
| Field | Value (from the county record) |
|---|---|
| Property address | 691 W 925 South, Orem |
| Parcel serial | 36:214:0001 (query serial 362140001002) |
| Owner / mailing name | Markidas, Kostas |
| Mailing address | 691 W 925 S, Orem, UT 84058-6784 |
| Acreage (county) | 0.82 |
| Serial life shown | 1983–1993 |
| Last document on record (this view) | 12694-1987 |
Source: Utah County land record for parcel 36:214:0001.
This record's serial life ends in 1993 — it is an older snapshot, not the live title. The live chain spells the same family Markides and shows them selling to the Theobalds in 1998. Use 36:443:0006 for current title.
The deed chain (summary)
Full entry numbers live on Deed Chain. Sequence:
- Broderick (DeRae / Pauline) — College Heights developers; sold 1993.
- Kostas & Karin Markides — 1993–1998.
- Paul H. & Dorothy H. Theobald — Dec 1998 – May 2019 ("Paul Theobald house").
- Utah Valley University — May 24, 2019 → present.
Paul Theobald died April 1, 2021; Dorothy died August 21, 2012. Neither is accused of anything; they sold a campus-edge home to the university years before the 2025 event. See Prior Owners.
How to read this record
- Ownership is public; involvement is not implied. That a public university owns a house says nothing about what any third party may have done in or near it. See the staging allegation page for why the two questions are kept strictly separate.
- A stale serial is not the current title. The Markidas entry is an artifact of re-serialization, not evidence of present ownership.
- A university purchase for "events / visitor housing" is an ordinary, documented reason — recorded here so readers weigh the innocent explanation alongside the lead.
What is still unknown
The recorded deed instruments for Markides → Theobald and Theobald → UVU— resolved on Deed Chain (entries 125453-1998 and 46392-2019).Whether UVU still holds title— yes, on abstract through early 2026; re-check if a later deed appears.- Whether the home was occupied, vacant, staff-used, or made available to any third party in September 2025 — see Rental & Listing History.
- Whether any lease or use agreement (not a deed) touched the property in 2024–2026 — would sit in UVU facilities files, not necessarily the recorder index.
- How UVU actually used the home after promising "events / visitor housing" in 2019 — still unanswered in open search.
Verify it yourself
- Current parcel: 36:443:0006 · Abstract.
- Obsolete serial (audit only): 36:214:0001.
- UVU owner name search: UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY (lists 691 W 925 SOUTH among campus holdings).
- UVU / Board minutes: Trustees minutes Jun 18 2019 · PMN packet · Regents May 17 2019.
- GRAMA: because the owner is a public body, use records may be obtainable — see Records Requests.
Laws (Charlie Kirk)
Confirming who owned, occupied, or used a university-owned property tied to the case — and when title or use changed — is exactly the paper trail the Charlie Kirk Investigation Laws are written to make public.
Interesting In This Area
- The deed chain runs Broderick, Markides, Theobald, then the university.
- Prior owners are deceased or unconnected; none is tied to the case.
- Public ownership is why GRAMA requests can reach this property at all.
- The 2019 tax adjustment matches a mid-year transfer to a tax-exempt owner.
Interesting In Other Areas
- The same university faced GRAMA questions over its own post-event records.
- Four proposed federal laws would compel leases, work orders and device data.
- Sealed discovery fights show what happens when records stay closed.
- Campus and university response is tracked as its own thread.
Other Pages In This Section
691 W 925 S — Prior Owners and Connected People
Broderick, Markides, Theobald — the people behind the deed chain, with status and public records for each. Every name appears because it sits on a deed or a tax roll, and none is connected to the case.
Read thisWest 925 South Block — Neighbors, Ring Video and Court Record
Court-admitted Ring video puts a grey Dodge Challenger parking at 680 W 925 S at about 00:30 on September 11. That is real evidence about the block — and it is not the same claim as the citizen footage said to show a car at 691.
Read this
Media Narratives and Censorship After the UVU Event
Two information environments formed after September 10: the wire-copy manhunt story, and a citizen ecosystem chasing the paving and the ballistics. The page maps where they split — including a witness who says the FBI asked him to delete his 4K footage.
Read thisEvery instrument that moved title, entry number by entry number: Broderick to Markides to Theobald to Utah Valley University in May 2019. Ownership records only — nobody on this list is accused of anything.
Read thisElsewhere In The Investigation
GRAMA records, undelivered warnings, emergency alerts and the university's handling of its own files — the institutional half of September 10. The same institution turns out to own the house north of campus.
Read this
Four federal laws modeled on the Epstein Files Act, drafted to force disclosure and mandate a real investigation. Every unanswered question in the aftermath is downstream of records nobody can compel today.
Read thisA reported 600,000-file production arrived while the DNA chain-of-custody material the defense asked for reportedly did not. The fight over what the defense received is now the fight over what the public will ever see.
Read thisHow UVU and the wider university world responded — alerts, statements, counseling, and the records the institution did and did not release.
Read thisThis website's author is @HolonCitizen on X and YouTube/@HolonCitizen. Follow me there.
Interesting
- The crime-scene surface was replaced on a rushed work order with no public bidding, per registry threads.
- A witness said "one shot to the heart" — yet no chest wound.
- A tour founder reportedly said "we're fucked" minutes after the shooting in the BeLo livestream call.