Everyone has done such great work and it’s time to bring everything we’ve got together. It's been well over 9 months, and we’ve certainly all drawn from the astute eyes and ears of one another and researchers all over the world 🌎. This community had spent countless hours looking at the footage from many different perspectives, angles, with an open mind to the analysis of others. The reason we’re here has never been about any one of us having everything right, but rather, coming together to get as close to the truth as possible as a genuine crowd-sourced research community.
Imo, I still firmly believe the evidence supports an alleged mic exploded under CK's shirt. That alone could’ve been lethal, with just a shockwave being that close to someone’s chest potentially passing through the skin, causing severe damage to the vital organs (heart + lungs) e.g. caridiac arrest, internal hemorrhaging, etc. But examining the footage with an open mind, I still think what struck his neck was simply an unplanned secondary blast projectile caused by the powerful blast wave transferring significant kinetic energy to the surface area of the passive pendants that initially rested on his chest. And, the chain being literally looped around his neck would have only reinforced the trajectory toward the path of least resistance: the neck.
A rapid, pronounced bundle shifted up toward his left neck side. A cross form appears to be captured, followed by a much smaller round form, and then a 2-piece linked object (much like an inverted shield pendant, with a teardrop or pine nut shaped bail stemming off) that promptly falls out of the neck wound. Note- there’s drops of blood in the frame where the object ejects, but the blood is completely black whereas the object ejecting has a contoured darkened border with a ‘highlighted’ or ‘hollowed’ center, similar to how a reflective object creates a specular highlight on film, with less detail on the surface area.
Based on this compounding evidence pattern, I think we should at least consider that the objects that shifted toward the neck could have been the set of 3 pendants that were featured in the Nov 5 2025 Fox interview with EK + JW. Imo, there’s actually plenty of alleged evidence supporting that both an alleged mic explosion under CK’s shirt that
@jonaaronbray has championed + a potential unexpected wildcard—the pendants whipping + possibly the St. Michael shield amulet puncturing—that could have occurred in the split seconds leading up to his death.
For review: I’ve included some mockups of a Rode circuit board alongside the object coming up in CK's upper left collar (top l/r 📸), plus images (bottom l/r 📸) of the David Yurman chevron cross next to the a close-up of a cross-like form (right angled negative space, shorter top beam/longer base bean, a bright ‘highlight’ at the base raised end-cap, plus a slight ‘braided’ texture from the center patina). In addition, the necklace chain can be seen clearly severed, imo in line with the cross’s position, as it whipped high above CK’s right shoulder. Meaning, the cross likely ‘anchored’ the chain onto his shirt, keeping it from completely falling off his body even as he was carried away. For further analysis via Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/hoodyr…