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The Entire UnitedHealth CEO Shooting Comes Down To This Call

Who’s our suspect on the phone with 16 minutes before the assassination?

Ted Bauer
2 min readDec 9, 2024

Right there, above, is why I still think it could all involve the wife.

This photo is apparently from 6:29am. The shooting happened at 6:44am. There are very few people in one’s life that you call at 6:29am while walking down the street. I would say that list is normally spouse, mom, and maybe best friend. Boss might make it. That’s honestly about it.

Then you come to the biggest confusion point of this whole case: the UHG investor conference started at either 8am or 9am, but not 7am. So, to be right where your target is at 6:44am is almost a one-in-five-million shot. Because a big-swinging-dick CEO might leave his hotel at 5:50am to be there early and go over his remarks. He also might think he has life by the balls, and leave at 7:51am to get there a few minutes before the coffee and pastries portion begins.

Someone had knowledge of when Brian Thompson was going to leave that hotel, and that knowledge is being conveyed on the phone call you see pictured above.

Now, personally I am not out on the wife, even though I think there has been one statement along the way that “it’s not related to personal relationships.” I…

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

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