ABLECHILD: Cracks in Utah’s Robinson Case – Who Crafted Texts and Narrative?

Much of the prosecution’s case against Tyler Robinson begins with the alleged “Text Message” Robinson allegedly sent to his lover Lance Twiggs just after Robinson allegedly shot Charlie Kirk. The contents of the alleged “Text Message” are made much more interesting because of the person the Robinson family allegedly used to help Tyler turn himself into authorities.

Before discussing the absurd story line of retired Sheriff and family friend Mike Mitchell let’s recall just how insulting the alleged “Text Message” is. Afterall this is the information that is being used as proof that Robinson “confesses” to his lover that he killed Kirk. The extremely bizarre “text message” allegedly sent by Robinson to his fury partner, Lance Twiggs, while Robinson waited to retrieve the rifle from the woods, is of great interest because of Robinson’s unique ability to see into the future…the alleged assassin is a clairvoyant.

For example, one statement made in the “text message” explains to Twiggs “I haven’t seen anything about them finding it.” Robinson is referring to the rifle while waiting in his Dodge Challenger to retrieve it from the wooded area where he left the rifle on the run. Then Robinson writes in the “text message” “the feds released a photo of the rifle.”  No. The feds did not release a photo of the rifle while Robinson was allegedly texting this message on September 10th.

More importantly, whoever put the ridiculous “text message” together, sent on September 10^th (the day of the shooting) got the sequence of events out of order when Robinson reportedly writes, “my dad wants photos of the rifle…he says grandpa wants to know who has what, the feds released a photo of the rifle.”

The release of the photo of the rifle did not occur while Robinson was allegedly sitting in his car texting his partner. According to statements made on September 11^th (the day after the shooting) to the police by Robinson’s parents, Robinson’s father did not contact his son until the day after the shooting when the alleged shooter’s photograph was made public.

According to the State of Utah charging document on September 11, after seeing a photo of the shooter on television “Robinson’s father contacted his son and asked him to send a photo of the rifle.” Unless the alleged shooter is clairvoyant and can see into the future, this information in the “text message” is false and the confession is insultingly fake.

Finally, in case there is any confusion about the date of the reported “confession” text message, the State of Utah charging document reports “Count 5 Tampering with a witness…in that on or about September 10, 2025, in Utah County…attempted to induce or otherwise cause his roommate to (ii) withhold testimony, information, a document, or an item, to wit: directing his roommate to delete incriminating text messages.” Get it? The confession “text message” was sent on September 10^th.

Ironically, the State of Utah charging document appears to have an error when in Count 6 it refers to September 11 in Utah County Robinson tried to induce his roommate to stay silent if police questioned the roommate.

According to all news reports, Robinson was back at his apartment on September 10 and that residence is located in Washington County, three and a half hours from Utah County. Further, it is made clear in the September 10^th Text Message that Robinson allegedly instructs his roommate “don’t talk to the media please, don’t take any interviews or make any comments… if any police ask you questions ask for a lawyer and stay silent.” So, it is anyone’s guess what Count 6 is referring to because no text message has been made public that was sent on September 11.

The oddities associated with the alleged September 10^th confession text message gets a little more interesting when one considers that the retired Sheriff and family friend Mike Mitchell was, according to press accounts in the late 1990s and early 2000s, doing undercover work in online chat rooms, where Mitchell intentionally crafted deceptive online communications to draw out suspected child predators.

Mitchell apparently provided testimony in 1999 about how he understood how offenders used language, typos, and persona-building to manipulate perceptions in digital spaces, and how to construct convincing online identities for investigative purposes. In a nutshell, this family friend and former Sheriff is an expert in shaping narratives.

For example, according to the unsealed search warrant “on April 11/2025 Sheriff Smith with the Utah County Sheriff’s Office received a phone call at approximately 2004 hours from Sheriff Brooksby with the Washington County Sheriff’s office. According to Sheriff Brooksby, he had received a phone call from a former deputy who had previously been employed with the Sheriff’s Office. The former deputy, identified as Mike Mitchell, explained that he had received a phone call from the father of Tyler Robinson. Mike Mitchell explained that Tyler Robinson confessed to his father that he was the shooter at Utah Valley University. Tyler Robinson’s parents worked with law enforcement to arrange a way for Tyler Robinson to turn himself in without confrontation. Mike Mitchell coordinated with law enforcement to have Tyler Robinson meet with law enforcement at the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. Tyler Robinson arrived at the Washington County Sheriff’s Office accompanied by his parents at approximately 2226 hours.”

Furthermore, Utah County Attorney, Jeffrey Gray, reported the surrender this way: “They talked about Robinson turning himself in and convinced Robinson to speak with a family friend who is a retired deputy sheriff. At Robinson’s father’s request, the family friend met with Robinson and his parents and convinced Robinson to turn himself in. The family friend spoke to police and reported telling Robinson that it would be best if he brought all evidence with him to the sheriff’s office to avoid police having to search his parent’s home…”

So, it appears that family friend and former Sheriff, Mike Mitchell, was the coordinator of the alleged Robinson surrender. Of course, there is no video of the surrender as those tapes are reportedly deleted every thirty days. And it can’t be lost on anyone that it’s just a little odd that the narrative of how Robinson surrendered is not directly reported by Mitchell, but rather by Utah Governor Spencer Cox,  Washington County Sheriff Nate Brooksby, Utah County Sheriff Mike Smith, Utah County Attorney Jeffrey Gray, and everyone else reporting on the surrender.

Shaping narratives is important to this case because, to date, no signed documents, no signed affidavits, have been made public by the neighbor and family friend about what was and wasn’t said leading up to the surrender. According to official reports, it’s clear that Mike Mitchell was instrumental in assisting in the surrender of Tyler Robinson and now, an apparent master of deception, is credited with the narrative that has become gospel in Robinson’s murder trial.

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