Just a Masked Assassin with Cash, Guns, Silicone Disguises, and a Congo Security Front – But Sure, Let’s Call Him ‘Lone Nut’

Just when you thought the Minnesota Murders story couldn’t get any weirder, guess what happened? First, over the weekend, the Star Tribune ran a dramatic story headlined, “Letter to FBI from shooting suspect made wild claims about Klobuchar and Walz, sources say.” Second, the FBI unsealed its arrest affidavit.

Vance Boelter, the curiously wealthy but unemployed Congolese preacher and master of disguise, who’s charged with shooting two politicians and their spouses, claimed in a letter addressed to the FBI —to Kash Patel— that Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) asked him to assassinate Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN). The one-page-and-a-half letter was described as rambling and “difficult to read,” but Boelter claimed he had been secretly trained by the U.S. Military and was asked to perform the killing so that Walz could run for Klobuchar’s Senate seat.

Police say they found the handwritten letter in Boelter’s truck.

Naturally, Walz called the allegations “deeply disturbing” — but only in the “this is very sad” kind of way, not in the “I definitely didn’t do this” kind of way. Prosecutors said they’ve seen no evidence backing Boelter’s story, and that’s fair, since as far as we know, it only described a private conversation that just two people would’ve known about.

Despite Boelter’s explicit, written allegation that Governor Tim Walz ordered a political hit on a sitting U.S. Senator, the media coverage has been painfully incurious. No mainstream outlet appears to be investigating any contacts or overlap between Walz and Boelter; tracing campaign donations, email records, or social media interactions; asking whether Boelter ever worked for or contracted with any state agency; checking whether Boelter’s “military training” claim has any verifiable kernel; or demanding to see the actual letter to the FBI, or whether it was logged, scanned, or buried.

Did the letter include any other details that might not have been leaked? Who knows. It’s hard to read.

The phrase “difficult to read” does a lot of quiet work here. It implies that the document is disorganized, emotional, and probably delusional. In other words, why even bother verifying anything in it? And those three words also preemptively dismiss any inconvenient leads the letter might contain, like timelines, names, patterns, payments, location details, or operational notes.

 
Add this to the growing mountain of weird: weekend reports revealed that, just hours after killing two lawmakers, Boelter bought a Buick and an e-bike off a stranger — a man he “had never met,” according to prosecutors — in a cash transaction at a bus stop.

So … Boelter met a mystery man at a Minneapolis bus stop around 7 a.m. in the morning, and paid him $900 in cash for a getaway vehicle and an electric bike. This, whilst being the most wanted man in the state, with helicopters buzzing overhead and a 70-target political kill list in his pocket.

Let me ask you this: If you were being pursued by the entire state government and every available fed, could you find a car to buy for $900 on the run?

Please. Let’s be real. You can’t buy a reliable car for $900 on Craigslist without getting ghosted, much less in person while evading an intensive manhunt. You don’t just stumble upon a guy with an e-bike and a sedan at a bus stop ready to part with both for less than a week’s rent.

As the corporate news kept leaking out, Belter seemed crazier than a bedbug. But I’ll ask again: where did the money come from? This high-functioning ‘lone lunatic’ somehow bought a million-dollar estate, his wife was caught flush with $10,000 in cash, he had multiple vehicles, dodged capture for days, used high-end silicone disguises, rapidly replaced his unmarked transportation, and had access to weapons, intel, and logistics well beyond what an unmedicated fantasist should possess.

Crazy? Or crazy like a fox? There’s a lot more to this story.

Next, the FBI’s unsealed affidavit (here it is) raised profound questions that corporate media is studiously avoiding. You can’t make this stuff up.

First, Jennifer Boelter, who was briefly nabbed and then released, was found with cash, a safe (?), guns, a bug-out bag, and the couple’s four kids. She told the FBI that she and Boelter were preppers, and he’d told her to “prepare for war.”

 
Second, the affidavit stated, “Boelter’s wife further identified that Boelter has a business partner from Worthington, MN who resides in Washington state and is partners with Boelter in Red Lion, a security company and fishing outfit in Congo, Africa.”

Wait, what? First of all: what business partner? Who is this mysterious person? The affidavit doesn’t say. Next, what a weird coincidence— the Congo, an unaccountable endless war zone. And that curious little phrase — security and fishing outfit — deserves more attention.

Red Lion smells less like a legit business and more like a front. It’s the kind of off-the-books stuff that thrives in lawless mining zones and conflict-adjacent states. As mentioned above, Eastern Congo, rich in cobalt and chaos, has been a mercenary playground for decades.

And “fishing” is exactly the kind of innocent cover that makes customs paperwork easier.

But the third one was the bombshell. The affidavit said that, after the shootings, Boelter went to the bank and emptied his accounts. Then— “A third party identified as REDACTED then drove Boelter from the bank in an automobile.”

It wasn’t some random Uber driver. It was someone Boelter knew —someone Boelter trusted right after two homicides— who helped him vanish during the largest manhunt in Minnesota history. There could be several reasons why the FBI redacted the driver’s name. They might be trying to flip him. He might be an asset they don’t want to burn. Or he might be a politically inconvenient link.

Whichever way— this is already a much bigger story than lone gunman strikes again. He’s far from alone. Just from the FBI affidavit, we have a wife with guns and cash walking free. We have a security partner with African ties who’s apparently vanished. And we have an unidentified driver helping a fugitive escape the scene of a domestic political assassination — and nobody in media is asking who the hell it was.

You’d think a masked man gunning down elected officials in their homes would be the biggest political violence story in a decade. You’d think the wife caught with guns, passports, and a bug-out bag full of cash would raise some flags. You’d think an unnamed driver helping a fugitive vanish from a bank would get, at minimum, a press inquiry or two.

 
On Saturday, even with access to the affidavit, the New York Times ran a full-length profile of Vance Boelter. They treated the whole thing like a human interest story with a tragic twist. They printed multiple photos, catalogued his time removing corpses from nursing homes, quoted sermons he gave in the Congo, and even described his gas station résumé — but somehow managed to bury every explosive thread under a soft blanket of quirky loner with a troubled past.

The Times’ story mentioned Red Lion only in passing, citing LinkedIn and not the affidavit (though it briefly mentioned the affidavit elsewhere, so we know they saw it). There was no mention of “security operations,” despite the affidavit identifying Red Lion as a security and fishing outfit. The article also completely omitted mention of Boelter’s business partner and the getaway driver.

The press isn’t investigating this story — it’s embalming it. From the moment Boelter was caught, corporate media slipped into damage control mode. The New York Times ran its sprawling profile that read more like a eulogy than a crime report: lots of gas station jobs, Bible school trivia, and vague “mental health struggles” — but no follow-up on the $10,000 in cash, no curiosity about the wife with weapons and passports, no mention of the vanished business partner, and no questions about the REDACTED driver who helped Boelter escape during the largest manhunt in state history.

 
The Times name-dropped Red Lion — Boelter’s sketchy “security and fishing” firm in the Congo — right into the memory hole. They quoted the FBI affidavit — but only the soft parts, leaving out the actual operational evidence and damning implications. The result was a neatly packaged “lone nut” story, ready for the assassin’s archive.

Let’s be honest: this whole thing feels less like a lone madman spree and more like a script rewrite from The Bourne Identity. A masked assassin dressed as a cop slips through a locked-down neighborhood, ditches his tactical SUV, vanishes into the city, buys a used Buick and e-bike from a random guy at a bus stop, pays in cash, hits the bank to drain his accounts, and disappears again.

Paging Jason Bourne.

At every turn, there’s a new mystery character the media forgot about: the getaway driver whose name is redacted, the wife with a mobile armory, the security partner in Congo, and now the used car guy who’s never named and apparently not questioned.

You can’t find this whole unfolding story in any corporate media report. Blech. Our media is worse than useless. I sure hope Kash Patel is paying attention.

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