(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Thanks to the help of the non-profit transparency group Judicial Watch, Headline USA has obtained a recording of the 911 call Thomas Crooks’s father made on the day his son allegedly tried assassinating Donald Trump during his July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Allegheny County—where...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) There were two snipers posted inside the second floor of the AGR building used by alleged gunman Thomas Crooks to shoot at Donald Trump. Both failed to spot Crooks before his assassination attempt.
Ever since then, excuses have been made for the failure of the local...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Headline USA has exclusively obtained a trove of records that detail the Pittsburgh Police Bureau’s unanticipated major role in the deadly July 13 Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The records, which were obtained via a Right to Know Law request, reveal the identities of the Pittsburgh...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Officials conducted two toxicology exams on the body of alleged Trump shooter Thomas Crooks in the wake of his death, finding no drugs of abuse—but discovering elevated levels of lead, according to records obtained by Headline USA.
The toxicology exams, which this publication obtained following a...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Headline USA has obtained the autopsy records for alleged Trump shooter Thomas Crooks following a roughly two-month legal battle.
The 14-page autopsy report from Allegheny County Chief Medical Examiner Ariel Goldschmidt—obtained by this publication on Monday—states that the autopsy was conducted at 9:15 a.m. on July...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) This week 42 years ago, a 12-year-old paperboy named Johnny Gosch disappeared in a case that would become infamous for decades to come.
Thrust into the national spotlight in 1992 by America’s Most Wanted, the Sept. 5, 1982, abduction of Gosch was one of the key...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) It’s the one-month anniversary of the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, and it’s still not clear what happened at that deadly July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Most of the primary evidence about the event—body camera footage, audio recordings, text messages and operations...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Headline USA has uncovered the identity of an anonymous Georgia prison inmate suing the state for a sex change, and can reveal that the plaintiff is a convicted violent sodomizer who was indicted in April on multiple federal charges for constructing and mailing bombs to...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The first article of this series chronicled the FBI's mid-2000s program to stage neo-Nazi rallies around the country as a means to conduct surveillance and recruit potential informants.
Those rallies were just the beginning of a sweeping multi-state investigation, Headline USA can reveal.
Indeed, after an FBI...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In 2007, Orlando residents were furious to discover that an FBI informant had organized a neo-Nazi rally through one of the city’s mostly black neighborhoods a year earlier.
“To come into a predominantly black community, which could have resulted in great harm to the black community? I would hate to be...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former FBI confidential human source David Gletty has provided Headline USA with a tell-all interview, describing how he went from a Florida redneck to infiltrating neo-Nazi and other anti-government groups in the late 1990s through 2007.
In the process, Gletty candidly told this publication that his...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department’s Inspector General has released its review of the FBI’s controversial report on “radical-traditionalist Catholics”—finding that the bureau violated professional standards, but didn’t have “malicious intent,” when it crafted a memo that painted Catholics as potential terrorists.
The DOJ-IG report, which was released last...