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10 Inches of Dirt Hauled Away Immediately

:::caution Legal Disclaimer Nothing here states as fact that any agency destroyed evidence or acted illegally. Biohazard cleanup and campus remediation are ordinary after a violent death. This page records what citizen investigators and a contractor have said about when soil left the tent courtyard and why residue analysts care. Unproven allegations are labeled as such. :::

If a small charge detonated under the tent on September 10, 2025, soil is one of the best residual surfaces left behind. Military explosives such as PETN are repeatedly described in public commentary as highly soil-absorbed — low water solubility means wash-down does not remove them; you dig. That is why the claim that roughly ten inches of dirt were stripped and hauled away under the tent before the landscaping crew even arrived sits on this residue-cover-up list as its own item — separate from the later cement / paver install.

The two-crew timeline (as reported)​

The public record, as assembled from contractor interviews and online amplification, describes two phases:

PhaseWho (as described)When (as reported)What
1 — ExcavationUnidentified "government" / state / grounds / biohazard teamBefore Sunday Sept 14 — some posts say within ~a day of the shootingStrip grass and soil (~6–10 in.), haul it off, power-wash
2 — HardscapeLandscaping / paver crew (Dan Merrell / Hardscape Utah in the dominant account)Sunday Sept 14 into MondayInstall pavers on already-dug ground under a "by Monday" deadline

The user's point is phase one: it did not wait for the ordinary 48-hour-plus landscaping schedule. The dirt was already gone when the paver contractor showed up. Full contractor detail lives on 10 in. of dirt removed (Cover-Up) and Dirt Removed Before Pavers (Tent). This page keeps the residue frame.

Dan Merrell's first-hand marker​

Utah contractor Dan Merrell (Hardscape Utah), in a Jimmy Rex Show interview widely clipped from May 2026, is the main named witness to the excavated state:

"When I showed up I took pictures of what it looked like, they had taken out about ten [inches] of it. It didn't cross my mind."

He describes himself as the second team. Per Candace Owens' retelling of the longer interview (clipped by @ProjectConstitu):

"before he had even arrived on that Sunday … they had sent another government team to the soil."

Merrell also relays that on-site coordinators said the job was "above our pay grade" and that "the governor and the FBI said they want this done by Monday." Neither the Utah Governor's office nor the FBI has, in materials reviewed here, publicly confirmed that quote. Merrell's role was paver install on pre-prepared ground — see cement and pavers.

Why residue theory fixates on the haul-away​

Candace Owens and parallel commentary argue:

  • PETN and similar compounds cling to soil.
  • Low water solubility means pressure-washing is not enough — published chemistry notes used in her segment say you would need to dig the soil out.
  • Therefore a deep, early excavation of the tent pad is exactly what you would do if you needed energetic residue gone before any independent sampler arrived.
  • Bomb-sniffing dogs and later swabs of the courtyard surface become moot once the matrix is in a dump truck.

Amplifying posts include @FurkanGozukara ("excavating 10 inches of soil… hide PETN"), @todd20006, and high-reach threads from Alex Jones framing the dig-and-repave as classic scene sanitization. A July 2026 post by @lime_joe claimed Judicial Watch obtained UVU employee texts and ~64 pages of cleanup records in which the FBI demanded soil removal ~10 inches deep — that document set has not been independently reproduced on this site; treat as an open lead.

Depth figures: six vs ten inches​

As explained on CoverUp — Dirt Removed, circulating numbers are not necessarily contradictory:

  • ~4–6 inches — biohazard layer of blood-soaked sod (ordinary remediation language).
  • ~10 inches — total depth Merrell photographed once paver base over-excavation is included.

Residue analysts care about any porous layer that left the site without a logged sample. Ordinary paving does over-excavate. The contested questions are who ordered the first dig, where the soil went, and whether any bag was retained for lab work.

Ordinary explanations​

  • Biohazard protocol. Blood-soaked grass is medical waste; universities and contractors remove it.
  • Scene already released. If investigators released the courtyard after processing the roof, woods, and body-related evidence, UVU facilities can alter the ground for reopening and trauma mitigation.
  • Lead investigator gap is process failure, not proof of residue. David Hull's reported testimony that he learned of paving from the news is serious chain-of-command criticism; it does not by itself prove PETN was present.
  • No court finding that soil was removed to hide an explosive.

What has not been established​

  • That PETN or any explosive was in the soil.
  • That the FBI ordered excavation for the purpose of destroying residue.
  • The identity of the first crew, the landfill or incinerator destination, or a disposal manifest.
  • Wrongdoing by Merrell, UVU grounds staff, or any named official.

Open questions​

  1. Exact calendar date and hour of the first excavation (before Sunday Sept 14).
  2. Manifest / CID number for hauled soil — was any retained as evidence?
  3. Were explosive-residue or metal-fragment screens run on retained soil before disposal?
  4. Do Judicial Watch / GRAMA packages confirm an FBI depth directive, or only biohazard cleanup language?
  5. Disclosure path: Tyler Robinson defense discovery and Fix laws.

X.com posts:​

Interesting In This Area​

  • PETN resists water, so soil, not wash-down, is where residue survives.
  • Merrell arrived to find ten inches already gone before his paver work.
  • The same list covers clothing, the SUV and the ceiling.
  • No public record shows any of it tested for explosives.

Interesting In Other Areas​

  • The Tent section documents the same excavation from the contractor side.
  • Cover-Up carries a parallel write-up of the ten inches removed.
  • Bomb dogs were reportedly kept from zones a K-9 would have screened.
  • Cause of death turns on evidence that ground would have held.

Other Pages In This Section​

Landscaping Crew Replaced Dirt With Cement / Pavers

Soil was hauled out of the tent courtyard and pavers went down over the exact spot where Charlie Kirk fell. If that ground would have shown residue, it is gone.

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Stew Peters — Broke the AES / Exploding-Mic Connection

Stew Peters states that he was the one who tied the exploding-mic theory to the AES defense order, two weeks before the plant blew up. The page records his claim and asks readers to help check the dates.

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cletus_jethro thread: USMC explosive breacher background statement

The Exploding Pendant — Shaped-Charge Crucifix Theory

A former Marine breacher argues the charge sat in the crucifix pendant rather than the microphone — same effects, different object. Presented as that author's analysis and set against the mic version.

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Annotated diagram illustrating the claimed LiPO battery and PCB path from the mic transmitter

Microphone — The Exploding Mic Theory

The lavalier clipped to his shirt may have concealed a small explosive — the leading conclusion among citizen investigators, and the thread that runs through video, audio, procurement, and post-event debris.

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Elsewhere In The Investigation​

UVU Sorensen Center courtyard with a wide strip of bare excavated soil across the foreground and a clean cut sod edge against the surviving lawn

10 Inches of Dirt Removed Before the Pavers

By the time the paving contractor reached the courtyard on Sunday, September 14, roughly ten inches of soil was already gone — taken by an earlier, still-unidentified crew described only as men working for the state.

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This low-resolution, slightly blurry outdoor daytime image shows several armed individuals, some in tactical gear, dispersed across a grassy and dirt area adjacent to a dense wall…

10 in. of dirt removed

Ten inches of dirt reportedly taken out of the courtyard, and pavers laid over the ground where he fell. Whatever residue that soil held is gone.

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Bomb Dogs Standdown

The reported claim is that bomb-sniffing dogs were kept from certain zones of the scene. If a device was involved, K-9 screening was the one method most likely to have caught it — days before the ground was paved.

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Visual Representation of Reported Injuries — anatomical chart marking, in red, the reported injury locations across the front and back torso, the neck, the internal chest, and two views of the brain.

Cause of Death

One page stating what most independent investigators had concluded by July 2026 about what killed Charlie Kirk and what did not. The official account is a single .30-06 round; this is where the reasons for rejecting it are gathered.

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