Diagram of the Claimed Fragment Path Into the Neck
What This Image Shows
The second of three diagrams published together by @ZREIKMIESTER on X on July 17, 2026. It illustrates the claimed path of the battery and circuit board fragments into what the author calls the neck sleeve — the soft-tissue channel he argues the components travelled through after the transmitter failed.
The reason the author frames the path this way is that it addresses a known objection to the exploding-mic theory. The published account of the wound describes a projectile recovered in the neck with no exit wound, and critics point out that an external blast alone would not obviously produce that. Naming the battery cell as the retained object is an attempt to reconcile the theory with the recovered-projectile description.
That reconciliation is the author reasoning, not a finding. Nothing recovered in this case has been publicly identified as a battery or a circuit board, and the official conclusion is a rifle round. The diagram is preserved as primary-source material for the argument, alongside its companions in this cluster. See Microphone — The Exploding Mic Theory, RODE Wireless PRO Mic, and Gun and Bullet Analysis for the ballistic account it competes with.
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Related Areas
- Cluster: The Microphone
- Section: Microphone — The Exploding Mic Theory
- All photo evidence: Photos