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Text Messages — Recovered From Lance Twiggs' Phone

This is the message set with the clearest forensic chain, and the fact worth stating first is that the chain does not run through a device attributed to Tyler Robinson. The Sept 10–11 exchanges were recovered from the phone belonging to his roommate and partner, Lance Twiggs.

Where They Were Stored​

On Twiggs' handset, in the ordinary messaging store, alongside everything else on that phone. That matters in both directions. It means there is a physical device that was seized, imaged and testified about — a far better position than a screenshot. It also means every message in the set is a copy as received, and the sending device is not the one that produced the record.

How They Were Extracted​

According to the investigation record, the extraction used Cellebrite forensic tooling, and the recovery of the Sept 10–11 Robinson–Twiggs texts — including the thread referencing the note left under the keyboard — was confirmed in open court through Agent Davis' testimony. That is the strongest evidentiary footing any of the four message sets has on this site.

Cellebrite DI Ltd. is an Israeli company headquartered in Petah Tikva, and its presence in this case has drawn commentary given the Israel questions raised elsewhere in the investigation. That commentary is worth recording and worth keeping in proportion: Cellebrite tooling is standard in police work in all fifty states and 150-plus countries, and it appears in enormous numbers of cases with no Israel angle whatever. The one substantive precedent commentators cite is the Karen Read case, where Cellebrite's parsing of a Google search timestamp was disputed and the company subsequently updated its software to flag ambiguous timestamp artifacts. That is an example of parsing fallibility — a derived value presented with more confidence than the underlying data supports — and it is routinely overstated as "Cellebrite altered metadata," which is not what happened.

Filed As State's Exhibit 16.1​

The State's memorandum supporting bindover, published July 29, 2026 by @aburkhartlaw, numbers this material State's Ex. 16.1 and cites it page by page up to at least page 17 — making it by far the largest of the message exhibits. The related Discord set is Ex. 16.2 (two pages) and the note is Ex. 16.3.

The memorandum quotes the following from Ex. 16.1, attributing each to Robinson:

  • "I am [the one who did it], I'm sorry." (at 2)
  • "I had hoped to keep this secret till [I] died of old age." (at 2)
  • "Why did I do it? … I had enough of his hatred. some hate can't be negotiated out." (at 3)
  • "[I have been planning this] a bit over a week I believe." (at 3)
  • "if I am able to grab my rifle unseen, I will have left no evidence. going to attempt to retrieve it again, hopefully they have moved on. I haven't seen anything in the news about them finding it." (at 3)
  • "im wishing I had circled back and grabbed it as soon as I got to my vehicle, because it sounds like the police couldn't get in for a long while because of the traffic." (at 5)
  • "remember how I was engraving bullets? the fuckin messages are mostly a big meme. if I see 'notices bulge uwu' on fox news I might have a stroke." (at 8)
  • "judging from today I'd say grandpas gun does just fine idk." (at 9)
  • "delete this exchange" (at 9) — and an instruction not to speak to police (at 17)
  • "I'm going to turn myself in willingly." (at 15)

Those are the state's quotations from its own exhibit, offered in support of probable cause. They are not findings, and Robinson is charged rather than convicted. The last two items are notable because they are what Counts 5 and 6 — the obstruction and witness-tampering counts — rest on: the memorandum argues the demand to delete the exchange and the demand not to speak to police each establish the elements of those counts.

What The Messages Reportedly Contain​

The affidavit-derived summary in the investigation record describes content referencing:

  • A need to retrieve a rifle from a drop point
  • Leaving the rifle in a bush, wrapped in a towel
  • Watching the area where the rifle was left
  • Engraving bullets, a scope, and the rifle being "unique"
  • Having changed outfits

Screenshot threads circulating in July 2026 added further exchanges framed as Robinson confessing to Twiggs, including a claim summarized by @ginamilan_ that a rifle was dropped at a drop point and could not be retrieved because vehicles were still lingering. Those are screenshots in circulation, not authenticated exhibits, and should be read as such.

The short exchange most often quoted — "look under my keyboard," answered with "I am. I'm sorry" — is the hinge between this page and the handwritten note.

Twiggs' Status​

Twiggs is treated in the record as a cooperating witness and has not been charged. Nothing on this page alleges that Twiggs knew of or participated in any attack. Where his messages are quoted, they are quoted as a witness's own words.

Open Questions​

The device seizure logs and write-blocker forensic reports have not been shown publicly, and the same state filing that shadows the Discord material — the one reportedly stating the state did not intend to offer evidence obtained through forensic extractions of seized electronics — sits awkwardly beside a testified extraction. Whether that filing was superseded, narrowed, or applies only to particular devices is a docket question readers should check rather than assume.

For the courtroom treatment of the device itself, see Twiggs Phone. For the screenshot transcripts in circulation, see the Lance photo cluster.

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