Timeline by Year
This is the routing page. Each year of this case has a different character — 2024 is search data and nothing else, 2025 is a pressure campaign that ends in a killing, 2026 is a courtroom — so the year you enter determines what kind of evidence you are about to read. Below is the anchor chronology for each year with links into the detailed timelines. Times are Mountain Time. Tyler Robinson is charged, not convicted. The hinge between the second and third of those years is September 10, 2025, the day Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University — the cause-of-death question is what 2026 is still arguing about.
Where to Go
| Year | What the year is made of | Detailed page |
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| 2024 | Google Trends anomalies, plus the Grim Beeper capability context — no physical events in this case | 2024 Pre-Event Timeline |
| 2025 — the pressure arc | Donor and Israel-policy friction, TPUSA politics, aircraft, private meetings | 2025 Context Timeline |
| 2025 — the full calendar year | Everything: groundwork, pressure, the day-of clocks, custody, charging, autumn court | Timeline 2025 |
| Sept 10, 2025 | The assassination day, minute by minute | September 10, 2025 |
| Sept 8–13, 2025 | The compressed six-day core | Sept 8–13 |
| 2026 | Motions, discovery, the five-day preliminary hearing, the deferred bind-over | Timeline 2026 |
The two 2025 pages are not duplicates: 2025 Context Timeline answers who was leaning on Kirk and why, and Timeline 2025 carries the complete year including the forensic and legal record.
2024 — Searches Without Events
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Aug 2024 — Research notes describe searches for "Utah Valley University buildings" and similar terms, interpreted by some analysts as early reconnaissance interest and by skeptics as ordinary campus traffic (UVU campus location searches).
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June–Nov 2024 — Trends compilations report sustained interest in "Tyler Robinson Discord / Reddit / FBI / LDS / TPUSA / Israel" search strings, months before any public connection existed (Tyler Robinson and Lance Twiggs searches). Sceptic analyses counter that "Tyler James Robinson" shows near-zero 2024 Trends interest — an unreconciled data conflict laid out on 2024 Pre-Event Timeline.
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Sept 17–18, 2024 — Operation Grim Beeper: thousands of pagers detonate across Lebanon and Syria. Documented mainstream history, entirely separate from this case, cited only as a capability argument (Operation Grim Beeper, capability context). Capability is not use.
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Dec 2024 — Google searches begin appearing for key people and locations later tied to the case, per citizen research notes (pre-event searches and recon).
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Dec 8–14, 2024 — A one-week spike, peaking at 100 interest, for attorney Kathryn Nester — later a member of Robinson's defense team — reportedly originating entirely from Israel. This is the single most-cited 2024 anomaly, and no mainstream outlet has reproduced its absolute volumes (Kathryn Nester searches, Nester and Google Trends).
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Dec 2024 – Sept 2025 (continuous) — Searches for Lance Twiggs' townhouse address in St. George reportedly run continuously across the whole nine-month span (Israel IP search patterns). Twiggs is a living private individual accused of nothing; his phone becomes a central exhibit at the 2026 hearing.
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2024 (counterpoint) — Trends data cannot identify who searched. A single VPN exit node, a news aggregator, or a research firm can produce an identical geographic signature (Trends deletion and suppression).
2025 — Pressure, Then the Shot
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June 18, 2025 — Charlie Kirk goes to the White House to advise against regime change in Iran (Kirk against the Iran war).
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July 7–9, 2025 — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the United States (Israel PM).
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July 11–14, 2025 — At the TPUSA Student Action Summit in Tampa, Kirk platforms anti-Israel-war voices, the Dave Smith / Josh Hammer debate airs the split, and Tucker Carlson tells the audience to "go all the way" (Charlie–Israel friction, Carlson on evolving Israel views).
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July 18, 2025 (claim) — Some commentators assert a decision to target Kirk in Utah was made around this date; no public official record supports it (the July 18 decision claim).
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July 20, 2025 — The Egyptian/Israeli Air Force jet SU-BTT reportedly makes its first U.S. trip, to an Army base in Nebraska, on the same day as an alleged military meeting with foreign leaders on U.S. soil (foreign leaders meeting, Nebraska Army base).
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July 31, 2025 — An off-the-record White House meeting on "confronting the woke-right defamation of Israel," organized by the Faith & Freedom Coalition, the Latino Coalition for Israel and the Philos Project; Kirk and TPUSA were not present (July 31 meeting without TPUSA, why TPUSA was absent).
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~Aug 4, 2025 — The "Hamptons intervention," where pro-Israel figures reportedly confronted Kirk (Hamptons intervention, Israel Hamptons, the Hamptons intervention and the death question); Seth Dillon later publicly denied any "angry confrontation." In the same window, commentators allege a funding call from Netanyahu that Kirk declined — figures in circulation run from unspecified to ~$120–150 million and the sourcing is disputed (the billion).
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Aug 6, 2025 — Kirk speaks on Megyn Kelly's program about donor pressure (donor pressure as motive).
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Aug 17–24, 2025 — SU-BTT runs Paris → Omaha/Lincoln → Wilmington → Paris. Some compilations call this, not July 20, the jet's first U.S. arrival — see the conflicts table below.
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Aug 8, 2025 — Israel-origin search interest reportedly focuses on the ISR jet N1098L, 32 days before the shooting (plane search patterns).
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Sept 1–5, 2025 — In group chats Kirk reportedly says he has "no choice but to leave the pro-Israel cause" (reported quotes and warnings).
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Sept 4, 2025 — SU-BTT flies France → Provo and remains parked until the morning of the assassination (SU-BTT movements).
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Mid–late summer 2025 (claimed search ladder) — Beyond the single Sept 8 Fort Huachuca bullet, citizen investigators (@StewPetersNet / Ana Escobar materials) publish a July–September 2025 sequence of geo-associated image searches for security, TPUSA-communications, and intelligence-community names. Treat as unverified search-trend claims, not a proven meeting roster; local residents near the base have publicly dismissed grand-plot narratives as disconnected from on-the-ground talk (Fort Huachuca timeline).
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Sept 8, 2025 — Kirk posts publicly about leaving the pro-Israel movement; the same day, roughly twelve lieutenant colonels are said to have gathered at Fort Huachuca, with SAM-702 — flown against tail 99-0404 — departing at 00:49 on Sept 9 per one note and ~11:43 AM / 12:31 PM per the ADS-B figures (Fort Huachuca timeline, the JTF meeting, records reportedly withheld).
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Sept 9, 2025 — Kirk criticizes Israel to Ben Shapiro's face on air, attends a high-pressure meeting (distinct in the record from the ~Aug 4 Hamptons intervention — discourse sometimes merges the two), and reportedly texts "they are going to kill me" (the Sept 9 meeting).
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Sept 10, 2025 — 7:08 AM — SU-BTT departs Utah for Wilmington, hours before the shot.
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Sept 10, 2025 — 8:07–11:49 AM — A figure the State identifies as Robinson is captured on Ring, WYZE and UVU cameras near campus, with a reported clothing change (camera sightings).
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Sept 10, 2025 — ~11:47 AM — N1098L is reported at low altitude near Utah Lake; the exact minute varies by source (N1098L activity).
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Sept 10, 2025 — 12:23 PM — Kirk is shot at the UVU courtyard event; the first police report is logged at 12:26 PM, and some compilations use 12:27 PM for the shot itself (shooting time disputes, minute by minute).
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Sept 10, 2025 — ~12:24–12:48 PM — N1098L reportedly executes a second low pass; sources cite either 12:24 or 12:48 PM.
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Sept 10, 2025 — evening — N888KG departs Provo and its ADS-B goes dark mid-flight before it returns (other planes activity).
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Sept 11, 2025 — The surrender, the disputed 6:25 PM Miranda timestamp, the 7:57 PM Discord messages and the 10:00 PM booking-sheet arrest time (custody and surrender timeline, 6:25 PM custody and the Discord confession).
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Sept 11, 2025 — evening — SU-BTT departs the United States for Egypt.
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Sept 12–16, 2025 — Booking under #460956, the "33-hour manhunt" characterization — other compilations count 30 hours — and the Sept 16 charging announcement with a death-penalty notice (press conferences and statements, Kash Patel manhunt timeline).
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Sept 18, 2025 — A FARA filing for Brad Parscale's Clock Tower X LLC covers Israeli-government messaging routed through Salem Media, which already carried the Kirk show — eight days after the assassination. A disclosure filing is not evidence of a crime (FARA and the show's distribution).
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Sept 14, 2025 — The UVU courtyard is torn up and paved, destroying the scene (paving timeline, scene changes).
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Oct 9–10, 2025 — The AES explosives plant at McEwen, Tennessee explodes, killing 16 — the firm holding the miniaturized-charge defense contract at the centre of the exploding-mic thread (AES Tennessee explosion, DoD contract). Timing coincidence is not a link.
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Oct 15, 2025 — A later-2025 anchor tracked separately (October 15, 2025).
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Oct 27 – Dec 9, 2025 — A continuous run of decorum orders, sealing motions, transcript classifications and a news-media intervention moves through the Fourth District Court (case overview, discovery timeline).
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Dec 16, 2025 — Judge Graf issues a broad gag order on the court's own motion, closing the year and setting the terms of 2026 (gag orders and sealing).
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Dec 2025 — Year in Search — Google's Year in Search 2025 lists Charlie Kirk as the #1 trending U.S. query after the assassination (widely reported, e.g. @FoxNews).
2026 — The Court Year
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Jan 9, 2026 — The defense objects to the conditions of bullet-fragment testing, including the FBI's planned Virtual Comparison Microscopy and the denial of any right to observe or record it (ATF ballistics, the banned CBLA bullet-lead test).
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Jan 21, 2026 — A citizen-assembled discovery list is delivered to counsel (discovery and Brady disputes).
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Mar 10, 2026 — The defense moves to seal the four-page ATF report finding the autopsy bullet-jacket fragment comparison inconclusive; a media coalition opposes the seal (ATF ballistics, what is still under seal).
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Mar 27, 2026 — Sheriff Nate Brooksby resigns without public explanation (Brooksby resignation).
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Apr 15, 2026 — A GRAMA release of roughly 50 documents / 112 pages via the Daily Caller News Foundation puts the September 9 UVU warnings on the record (UVU GRAMA records, pre-shooting warnings).
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Apr–May 2026 — The discovery stall: roughly 600,000 files produced while the contested ballistics, DNA and chain-of-custody items remain hard to isolate (FBI discovery delays).
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Jun 2026 — Deputy Utah County Attorney Christopher Ballard is found in civil contempt over public statements about the strength of the evidence; the judge orders fee-shifting and declines to strike the death penalty as a sanction (prosecution team). Civil contempt of a prosecutor is a court event, not a criminal finding about the murder.
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July 6–10, 2026 — A five-day preliminary hearing — not four, as early summaries said — presents surveillance video, DNA and officer testimony, ending around noon MDT on Friday July 10. The judge deferred an immediate bind-over and set a briefing ladder (State July 28, defense reply Aug 11, State rebuttal Aug 18) with oral argument on September 1, 2026 (Preliminary Hearing, 2026 timeline).
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As of mid-July 2026 — Court-watchers note Tyler Robinson had not yet entered a plea; arraignment would follow only if the case is bound over. Older "pleaded not guilty" copy is superseded (case overview).
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Jul 9–16, 2026 — Parallel evidentiary threads: Cellebrite extraction of Lance Twiggs' phone confirmed in open court, and an anonymous Axon-user email challenging the "body camera died on the roof" account (Officer Bagley, missing bodycam and the GRAMA admission).
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July 2026 — records and citizen field work — Parallel to the courtroom: Judicial Watch university clean-up document releases and ongoing GRAMA fights (Utah officials timeline); citizen on-site interviews reopening Sept 10 evening clocks (e.g. Panguitch Cowboy's Smokehouse staff/owner accounts — post-shot escape).
Conflicts and Disputed Points
| Point | Version A | Version B |
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| SU-BTT's first U.S. arrival | July 20, 2025, Nebraska | Aug 17, 2025, Paris → Omaha/Lincoln, in the same source file |
| Time of the shot | 12:23 PM | 12:27 PM in several compilations |
| N1098L's second pass | 12:24 PM | 12:48 PM |
| Dairy Queen sighting | 12:38 PM (viral misread) | 6:38 PM (Owens / Community Notes; conflicts with Panguitch ~8:55 claim) (Dairy Queen, Orem) |
| Hamptons vs Sept 9 pressure | ~Aug 4 Hamptons intervention | Sept 9 high-pressure meeting (sometimes merged in discourse) |
| Arrest time | 10:00 PM Sept 11 (booking sheet) | 4:00 AM Sept 12 (affidavit) |
| Officer Davis's arrival at WCSO | 10:00 PM per the booking sheet | Near midnight per his own testimony |
| Robinson's arrival at WCSO | ~6:00 PM / ~9:00 PM in citizen accounts | 10:26 PM per the government document |
| SAM-702 departure from Fort Huachuca | 00:49 on Sept 9 | ~11:43 AM / 12:31 PM on Sept 9 |
| Military callsign for tail 99-0404 | SAM702 | SAM-000 / SAM-112 |
| Manhunt length | 33 hours (Patel, Brooksby) | 30 hours in other compilations |
| Kirk's aircraft on Sept 10 | Plane lands SLC 9:30 AM | N102DZ lands Provo 3:31 PM |
| The Paris-club payment claim | $1.5 million | $150 million — the source flags its own uncertainty |
| The RODE transmitter model | Wireless ME (@ProjectConstitu) | Wireless PRO (this site's mic page) |
| Preliminary hearing length | "Four-day" shorthand in early summaries | Five days, ending July 10, 2026 |
| What 2024 search data means | Pre-operational reconnaissance | Untraceable aggregate traffic proving nothing |
Open Questions
- Which 2024 search spikes survive independent verification against raw Trends exports rather than screenshots?
- Is there any documented event in 2024 — a meeting, a flight, a payment — or is that year entirely search data?
- Which of the two SU-BTT "first U.S. trip" dates is the tracker record and which is a transcription error?
- How many items now placed in 2025 will move once discovery produces primary timestamps?
- The two 2025 pages now divide explicitly — 2025 Context Timeline for the pressure arc, Timeline 2025 for the whole year. Which remaining entries still appear in both at full depth rather than as a one-line cross-reference?
- Does the 2026 court record ever resolve a single one of the 2025 timestamp conflicts, or does sealing keep them open?
Laws (Charlie Kirk)
- Raw Google Trends export data with originating IP ranges for the December 2024 Kathryn Nester spike, the N1098L flight tasking logs for the full day of September 10, the Fort Huachuca visitor and meeting records from September 8–9, and the SU-BTT flight plans for every 2025 U.S. arrival are things that the Charlie Kirk Investigation Laws may result in powerful truths coming out that aren't out yet.
Interesting In This Area
- 2024 is almost entirely one evidence class: search-trend screenshots.
- 2025 runs from donor friction to the December gag order.
- 2026 is the court year, ending in five hearing days.
- The investigation index routes you when you do not know which timeline.
Interesting In Other Areas
- The Charlie index carries his own chronology rather than the case's.
- The case overview is the state's version in one page.
- The Israel index tracks the pressure claims by evidence label.
- The cover-up index collects every withheld record in one place.
Other Pages In This Section
The whole calendar year in one scroll: legislative and appointment groundwork, the summer pressure campaign, the September cluster, and the autumn court fights. Read it when you want the year rather than the day.
Read thisSeptember 8–13, 2025: Full Timeline
Six days carry most of the case: the September 8 pro-Israel exit post, the September 9 meeting and the alleged text, the 12:23 PM shot, the surrender, and the charging. Almost everything else on this site attaches somewhere inside them.
Read this
Candace Owens Public Statements & Releases Timeline
What she said and released, in the order she released it: the September 9 three-sources claim, the donor texts, the flight-log episodes, the SUV photographs. Ordering the releases shows which claim was built on which.
Read thisElsewhere In The Investigation
The victim-and-motive memo. A refused $150M donation, a DOGE-style audit ordered a week out, and a board figure moved aside eight days before — every item a reported claim, not a finding. It indexes straight into the message record.
Read thisCase Overview — State v. Robinson
The caption, the docket, the charges, and what the state actually alleges — separated from what has been proven. The defense disputes the forensic links, starting with the inconclusive ATF comparison.
Read thisThe working memo for this whole section, sorted into a motive layer, an execution-adjacent layer and a response layer. Read it first if you want the map before the individual claims.
Read this
The routing table for the whole cover-up section, grouped by the kind of concealment alleged: scene alteration, kill mechanism, foreign-lead shutdown, digital records, narrative control and institutional secrecy. Start here if you do not yet know which page owns which question.
Read thisThis website's author is @HolonCitizen on X and YouTube/@HolonCitizen. Follow me there.
Interesting
- An Army-contracted signals-intelligence jet reportedly made two low passes near UVU that day.
- A foreign-ties review was reportedly ordered stopped once a suspect was in custody.
- Kirk reportedly texted "THEY ARE GOING TO KILL ME" on September 9.
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