Prior Owners and Connected People
:::caution No living person is accused of wrongdoing Every name below appears because it is on a deed, tax roll, business registration, or published obituary. Ownership of a house that later became the subject of a citizen-investigation lead does not imply knowledge of, participation in, or connection to the September 10, 2025 shooting. Where status is known, it is listed. Living persons (if any) are described only with attributed public records. :::
The deed chain runs: Broderick → Markides → Theobald → Utah Valley University. This page is the people-facing companion to that instrument log.
1. DeRae and Pauline Broderick — developers / early title
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Names | DeRae (De Rae) Broderick and Pauline Sharp Broderick |
| Role | Early fee owners / College Heights subdivision developers; construction-company registration at this address |
| Status | Deceased — DeRae June 4, 2019 (Orem); Pauline June 5, 2021 (Orem) |
| Connection to case | None found beyond historical title and subdivision of the land |
Public records. Utah County shows Pauline S. Broderick as an early owner of record on serial 36:443:0006, with a 1993 quitclaim from DeRae Broderick (as trustee) to Pauline, then a warranty deed the same week to the Markides family. A Florida foreign-corporation filing for Broderick & Howell Construction Company listed 691 W. 925 South, Orem, UT as an address, with Howell, Leland also named — consistent with citizen-investigator notes that the firm was registered there in 1991. DeRae's obituary (Sundberg-Olpin Mortuary) places him as a longtime Orem resident who died days after the house closed to UVU in May 2019 — chronological coincidence only; no case connection is claimed or found.
Sources: deed chain entry 17408–17409-1993; DeRae Broderick obituary; Pauline Broderick obituary; Sunbiz entity detail for Broderick & Howell Construction; X discussion of the construction registration by @artisbrutal2021.
2. Kostas and Karin E. Markides — mid-1990s owners
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Names | Kostas Markides (also spelled Markidas on the obsolete serial 36:214:0001) and Karin E. / Karine E. Markides |
| Role | Owners 1993–1998 per warranty deeds |
| Status | Unknown (no reliable public obituary located in this research pass) |
| Connection to case | None found |
Public records. They took title from Pauline Broderick in March 1993 (WD 17409-1993) and sold to Paul and Dorothy Theobald in December 1998 (WD 125453-1998). A 1996 quitclaim put sole title in Kostas. The older county mobile-view page still shows "Markidas, Kostas" with mailing address at the house — that is a stale serial, not current ownership. No document reviewed for this page ties either person to the 2025 events.
Sources: deed chain; old serial 36:214:0001.
3. Paul H. and Dorothy H. Theobald — long-term owners who sold to UVU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Names | Paul Homer Theobald and Dorothy Carol Henderson Theobald |
| Role | Owners roughly December 1998 – May 2019; sellers to UVU |
| Status | Deceased — Dorothy August 21, 2012 (at home in Orem); Paul April 1, 2021 (St. George, age 93) |
| Connection to case | None found. They sold the house to the university six years before the shooting; Paul died in 2021 |
Public records and family context. Deseret News and Daily Herald obituaries document an ordinary Utah family life: marriage December 15, 1947; Dorothy died at home in Orem in 2012; Paul later married Beulah Barney (November 23, 2012) and died in St. George in 2021. Board minutes and Facebook-circulated local-news extracts call the property the "Paul Theobald house." A 2002 Deseret News missionary-reunion notice lists the reunion location as 691 W. 925 South, Orem, contact Jae Theobald — evidence the family was using the house as a private home well into the 2000s. People-search aggregators still list Jae Theobald among historical residents and name relatives (Paul, Beulah, Brent, Elizabeth, Grace, and others); those are directory echoes, not accusations.
Neighbor property note (not this parcel). Utah County still shows Theobald and Theobald Northeast LLC connected to 665 W 925 S and related parcels on the same block — the family kept nearby real estate after selling 691. That is ordinary estate/property management, recorded here only so researchers do not confuse 665 with 691.
Sources: Dorothy Theobald obituary (Deseret); Paul H. Theobald obituary (Herald Extra); 2002 missionary reunion notice; UVU June 18 2019 minutes; deed 46392-2019; FastPeopleSearch address page (historical resident list — use with caution).
4. Utah Valley University — current owner
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Owner | Utah Valley University (public institution) |
| Since | Warranty deed May 24, 2019 (Entry 46392-2019); board ratification June 18, 2019 |
| Stated purpose (2019) | Master Plan extension; expand campus footprint north; "hosting events or housing campus visitors"; "excellent access… from Campus Drive" |
| Status | Living institution — not a private person |
| Connection to case | Owns a campus-edge house near the shooting site. No public document reviewed here states that UVU used the house as a staging site for the assassination, and this page does not claim that. Institutional ownership means keys, staff access, and GRAMA-reachable use records — see Records Requests. |
Full purchase context is on Ownership on Record.
Cross-check against the investigation file
For this research pass, names Broderick, Markides/Markidas, Theobald, Jae Theobald were checked against the public site structure and open web results for any pre-existing case connection beyond property ownership. No charging document, court filing, or law-enforcement statement reviewed here names any of them as suspects or witnesses in the Kirk case. The only living-person caution on the block that does appear in court media is the Noble household at 680 W 925 S — cooperating Ring-camera witnesses, not suspects — covered on W 925 S Block & Court Video.
Open questions
- Who had keys / occupancy rights under UVU in August–September 2025? (GRAMA to UVU.)
- Is Kostas / Karin Markides still living, and do they have any residual connection to Utah County property? (Not required for the staging lead; listed for completeness.)
- Did any Theobald family entity retain a leaseback or use agreement after the 2019 sale? (None on the abstract; would be a contract/UVU file item.)
Laws (Charlie Kirk)
Private family history is not the point of this investigation. The point is whether a university-owned, campus-edge house was used in any way connected to September 10, 2025 — a question only use logs, canvass files, and device data can settle. That is what the Charlie Kirk Investigation Laws are written to force into the open.
Interesting In This Area
- The deed chain records each instrument by Utah County entry number.
- UVU bought the house from the Theobald family in May 2019.
- A construction firm was registered at this address back in 1991.
- Tax rows end as ordinary residential billing after the 2019 transfer.
Interesting In Other Areas
- The key individuals roster organizes every peripheral figure by role.
- People profiles cover the victim, the accused, witnesses and officials.
- Every location in the case is indexed alongside the people involved.
- The university that now holds title has its own response record.
Other Pages In This Section
691 W 925 S — Records You Can Request (GRAMA)
Four ready-to-send GRAMA requests: the Orem police canvass file, UVU's own use and key-issuance records for the house, city license and permit files, and UVU Police reports. Filing one accuses nobody and costs nothing.
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Everything downstream of 12:23 PM on September 10 — surrender, paving, gag orders, resignations, visa enforcement, and the residential block north of campus. Start here to read the aftermath as one connected thread rather than seven separate fights.
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Site Changes and Crime-Scene Handling
The ground where Charlie Kirk was killed was torn up and paved within days, on a finish-by-Monday schedule that included a Sunday. The lead investigator reportedly learned of it from the news.
Read this691 W 925 S — Neighborhood, Cameras and Witnesses
ATF and police went door to door on these blocks for doorbell video, and one homeowner's camera caught the man authorities identify as the suspect. The page also separates three different grey Challenger claims that are routinely merged into one.
Read thisElsewhere In The Investigation
The investigative roster of everyone peripheral to the killing, organized by role, with links through to full profiles and the case threads each person sits in.
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A hyperlinked index of every location that matters: the courtyard, the roof, the custody chain, the airports, the hospital and the disputed properties north of campus.
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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.
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Interesting
- A citizen walkthrough claims trucks barricaded it, sightline to Losee roof.
- The Presidential Medal of Freedom was conferred while the full autopsy and FBI 302s stayed withheld.
- Who ordered the takedowns of evidence video remains an unreleased record, per this page.