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Charlie’s “Freedom” Shirt Disappears. Another Witness Recalls Erika & Epstein. | Ep 354

Explore episode Jun 24, 2026
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The Eyewitness Who Changed Her Story Twice

Charlie’s “Freedom” Shirt Disappears. Another Witness Recal… · Jun 24, 2026 True Crime

Student Sarah Tewell gave three separate interviews on the day of the shooting. In the first she graphically described Kirk being hit in the heart. Fifty-one minutes later she said it was the neck. By the third interview with ABC News, she had become a ballistics expert estimating 200 yards — a figure that conveniently matched the Pelosi Center distance.

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Conflicting eye witness statements

At 19:00 · chapter starts 17:36

This segment is the episode's most viscerally compelling sequence. Candace plays three successive interviews given by Sarah Tewell on the day of the shooting. In the first, recorded at 1:17 PM, Tewell gives a graphic, confident account: she watched Kirk get hit directly in the chest, 'blood gushing right out where his heart is,' and she was in the fourth row with her mother. In the second interview, just 51 minutes later, the wound location has moved entirely — 'it was in the neck.' By the third interview with ABC News, Tewell has somehow become an expert in sound ballistics, estimating the shooter was 'about 200 yards away,' a figure that precisely matches the Pelosi Center distance. Candace notes no one around Tewell disputes her original account, no obvious external pressure is visible, and there is no logical reason for a genuine eyewitness to improve her testimony this dramatically in a matter of hours — unless the original account was coached and then had to be revised when the official narrative changed.

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