What I Sincerely Hope Will Be My Final Phrase on this Epstein Conspiracy
Editor’s observe on April 16, 2026 on the backside.
A fast observe on pronouns: Within the final 2 articles, I referred to Sascha Barros Riley utilizing “he/him” pronouns, trusting that Lisa Noelle Voldeng obtained Sascha’s pronouns proper. In the one stay footage I can discover of Sascha in 2026, they use they/them pronouns. I’ll check with Sascha utilizing these pronouns under.
Beginning within the winter of 2026, I started digging right into a story I had seen making some inroads on social media. This was the story of William Sascha Barros Riley, hereafter “Sascha” (there are numerous Rileys on this story). Sascha claimed that within the late Nineteen Seventies he was adopted by a Vietnam veteran named William Kyle Riley, hereafter “Invoice.” Invoice, per Sascha, was a pilot and personal detective in Jeffrey Epstein’s make use of. He offered his son and different youngsters to function bare-knuckle fighters and intercourse slaves for the amusement of Donald Trump, Andy Biggs, Jim Jordan, and a variety of different well-known, rich Republicans – notably, although, not together with anybody who was a well-known, rich Republican within the early Nineteen Eighties, when these occasions allegedly occurred. This community additionally made snuff movies and CSAM, which Sascha maintained was out there to at the present time.
I believed the proof that this didn’t occur was overwhelming, for a variety of causes. The implausibility of the areas and timeline, the extent to which Sascha’s allegation didn’t match with the extant and better-corroborated claims in opposition to Trump and Epstein, and the surreality of most of the claims all appeared to me like this got here from delusions. The lynchpin of Sascha’s story, in spite of everything, was the time that, at age 10, Sascha tricked Trump into anal intercourse by masking a tent peg with a condom, inserting it into Trump’s rectum, after which kicking it to the purpose that Trump now has everlasting bowel issues.
I feel for those who imagine that story, there’s a actual likelihood you don’t perceive anatomy, or intercourse, or crime. I attempt to not be too graphic on this weblog, however I’ll simply say that I’ve seen fewer crimson flags at a Hoosiers dwelling soccer sport.
Folks obtained actually mad about this, arguing that I used to be failing to imagine victims, which is solely begging the query. You’ll be able to’t imagine somebody as a result of they’re a sufferer when the very topic in query is whether or not or not they’re a sufferer in any respect. On the time, no main media shops or attorneys had picked up the story. The only supply for entry to Sascha was a girl named Lisa Noelle Voldeng (don’t fear, we’ll discuss her) who posted the uncooked audio information of her dialog with Sascha on her Substack. On the time, Voldeng had promised that she would submit the proof simply as quickly as she had it. Then she cancelled plans to launch the proof. No different proof emerged.
So, on the time I had written my second weblog about this, I believed – certainly, I dearly hoped – I used to be performed writing about this eternally. I’ve been attempting to maintain my head down and end the manuscript for which I’m really getting paid (updates on that coming quickly). I wished this story to away by itself. Ultimately, there have been actually solely two choices an individual may take relating to Sascha’s story. You possibly can imagine it as a result of Sascha mentioned it, or you can not, due to the absence of proof within the face of extraordinary claims.
To at the present time, the one a part of Sascha’s story that has been corroborated in any respect is the next: Sascha actually was adopted by Invoice Riley, raised by him and his then-wife Lynn, and Riley actually was within the army. From there on, all the pieces else depended utterly on Sascha. There isn’t any corroborating proof for some other claims. Both you’re taking Sascha at their phrase, otherwise you don’t.
However the story didn’t go away. As a substitute it obtained weirder.
There’s two issues that occurred that made me understand I had extra I wished to say about this story.
The very first thing that occurred is that, on April 9, 2026, Brandy Zadrozny printed the primary prolonged main investigation into Sascha Riley’s claims. Zadrozny was in a position to communicate to some key figures, together with Invoice Riley (who denies the allegations), members of Sascha’s household and buddies from childhood (who discover this all implausible), and members of the family of Lynn Riley (who deny that she was a intercourse trafficker and sadist).
This really issues as a result of these are the sorts of conversations that may open up new avenues of investigation. Even for those who don’t take Invoice at his phrase – and also you shouldn’t, you must weigh everybody’s testimony critically – a plurality of witnesses does really matter right here. It’s not terribly widespread for an abuser to have just one sufferer. Discovering one other one who noticed Invoice or Lynn’s darkish aspect would have gone a great distance in direction of establishing the chance of those allegations.
The second factor that occurred is that Sascha Riley and Lisa Noelle Voldeng, the blogger who initially publicized these allegations, had an extremely public falling out.
That is Voldeng’s model of what occurred. I’ve linked the entire doc, however briefly, evidently Riley was overly public about their location in a method that Voldeng thought put herself and all the opposite supposed survivors she is representing in danger, that they’d character conflicts with different concerned folks, and, uh, this occurred:
Oh!
Then again, that is Sascha’s clarification of the… RICO prices, murder-for-hire investigation involving highly effective mafia figures they have been concerned in at age 12.
So what really occurred?
I don’t know. I don’t imagine actually any of this. I don’t imagine Voldeng has twenty different survivors who want to keep up good OPSEC in an effort to be stored protected from the US authorities. I don’t imagine this as a result of in accordance with Sascha, Donald Trump has gone greater than forty years figuring out precisely which child brought on him a everlasting, humiliating harm and did completely nothing with this info whereas persevering with to make use of their father. Nobody is searching for these folks. Nobody from the US authorities is searching for Sascha. Sascha is completely protected in the US. Voldeng and Sascha might imagine in any other case, however the proof just isn’t on their aspect. One way or the other, Sascha made it from 10 to 52 with all probably the most harmful and violent folks on this planet figuring out the place they’re – certainly, using their father! – and nobody has acted on that info. If Sascha hasn’t been assassinated but, they by no means will likely be.
Nor do I imagine that Sascha was charged with homicide for rent at age 12 owing to Sascha’s involvement with mob bosses they met by their in depth connections with middleweight boxing champion trainers.
Nor do I imagine… nicely, any of these items.
Do you suppose Marvin Hagler traveled frequently within the early Nineteen Eighties to coach Sascha Riley to field when Sascha was a baby? As a result of I don’t imagine that. I feel you’d must be very gullible to imagine that. I additionally suppose that if somebody tells you a narrative like this, you must possibly rethink the validity of different tales they’ve informed you. For instance, you may surprise in regards to the time this individual supposedly put a tent peg within the president’s rectum.
I hope this provides you an concept of the sort of knowledge I’ve needed to wade by.
So why did Sascha and Voldeng fall out? I don’t know. They appear just like the sorts of people that would get into fights with one another. Nobody on this story sounds significantly well-balanced or mature.
By the point this all began to occur publicly, I used to be getting contacted by individuals who knew each Sascha and Voldeng personally, and with out going into element or freely giving anybody’s identification, I felt increasingly appropriate on daily basis. The story that was regularly rising was what I all the time thought was true: Sascha had a sequence of great private points and well being points that culminated in a sequence of abortive makes an attempt to influence those that they’d been trafficked by their father to well-known politicians, till they came across Voldeng.
Voldeng’s story was – nicely, I’ll simply say I can’t get quite a bit additional than Zadrozny did:
After two hourlong cellphone calls along with her, asking as many alternative methods as I knew how, I can’t say with confidence what Voldeng does.
If Voldeng has a profession, I don’t know what it’s. The one factor I can say with confidence is that she’s chronically on-line and commodifies consideration.
What I may also say is that, between platforming George Tonks, who has labored to discredit feminine survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, and nicely as posts like this, invalidating the ladies and ladies who did survive Epstein has all the time been a part of this mission, even when Voldeng didn’t intend it to be. Even when Voldeng didn’t intentionally set out to do that, it has all the time been true that insisting on specializing in lurid claims about very younger youngsters is an element and parcel of reframing claims of assault in opposition to teenage women and girls as “not that unhealthy.” By far, the perfect corroborated claims about Epstein are that he and his shoppers victimized teenage ladies and younger girls – not that he victimized prepubescent boys. It’s laborious for me to clarify specializing in these anomalous and poorly based claims, other than their potential to attract focus from the actual and well-known issues Epstein did.
Did Voldeng imply to relativize violence in opposition to teenage women and girls? I don’t know. Nevertheless it’s a part of the story.
So what else is there to say at this level? One is that we do study one thing vital about Sascha’s story by trying on the first supply to imagine it and publicize it.The marketplace for this story appears to primarily be individuals who merely don’t require additional proof in an effort to imagine one thing – Sascha’s phrase or anybody else’s is solely ok. Voldeng just isn’t a journalist. She has repeatedly promised to supply proof to validate Sascha’s story and hasn’t. Sascha has not supplied something both. To be clear, that is anomalous. Once we discuss believing victims, we normally imply in apply “believing proof that victims present,” as a result of by the point a congressional listening to or a newspaper is keen to print one thing there’s some supporting proof the occasion really occurred. Christine Blasey Ford wouldn’t have ended up in entrance of Congress if she had no proof however her personal phrase. She didn’t. She had earlier witnesses exhibiting that this was a narrative she had believed she was assaulted by Brent Kavanaugh lengthy earlier than he grew to become a family title. Sascha Riley explicitly doesn’t have that, and mentioned so to Brandy Zadrozny. They didn’t have any recollection of being abused by well-known politicians till nicely after these politicians have been well-known.
It additionally appears to have an viewers amongst individuals who discover that the better-corroborated Epstein allegations go away one thing to be desired. Both they don’t plainly implicate their very own least-favorite politicians sufficient, or as a result of as a tradition we’re nonetheless not fairly satisfied it’s incorrect to sexually exploit somebody so long as they passably resemble a girl.
In order that brings me to the Brandy Zadrozny article. What did we study, if something?
Why Did Sascha Go from Not Figuring out Trump to Figuring out Trump between 2019 and 2021?
One factor I seen weeks in the past is that Sascha has a protracted, extremely political social media historical past, and earlier than 2021 none of it exhibits any indicators of Sascha considering they know Trump personally.
So far as I can discover, Sascha didn’t even title Epstein as considered one of their abusers till 2025. This is smart of why Sascha Riley’s allegations don’t seem in any of the general public Epstein information, whilst many different equally lurid, excessive, and unfounded allegations do. Even when Sascha did go to the police, their particular complaints don’t appear to have ended up within the Epstein information – probably as a result of, I believe, Sascha’s authentic complaints didn’t point out Epstein in any respect, so there was no cause to go something on to the FBI.
(You’ll discover that in considered one of my final articles, I discussed that Sascha had a OSBI enterprise card from submitting a report, not an FBI card. I believe it’s because, within the absence of any Epstein-related claims, they handled this as a state degree offense.)
So it’s all the time been true that to some extent, this was a fluid story. The unique 2021 allegations title 5 figures: Sascha’s adopted father, Sascha’s deceased step mom, Donald Trump, Andy Biggs, and Jim Jordan. By 2025, we’ve added Vladimir Putin, Clarence Thomas, Lindsay Graham, and critically, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. By 2026, we’ve additionally added Les Wexner and Chuck Grassley.
So why has it been fluid? Now we have two explanations from Sascha Riley, and one from Pearleen Riley (hereafter Pearleen), their ex-wife.
Right here’s one clarification from Sascha:
Round 2020, although he can’t fairly clarify how, Riley began to “unlock” recollections of abuse he mentioned had been “repressed.” Riley mentioned the recollections got here in fragments: replayed conversations and imprecise recollections of his father, highly effective folks and ache. Riley informed me he spent months alone, listening to music, till the recollections “solidified.”
Right here’s the opposite clarification:
So in accordance with what Sascha informed Zadrozny, these recollections did emerge round 2020. In keeping with Sascha’s Threads account, although, they all the time had them, however weren’t prepared to discuss them. What’s plain is that Sascha can’t be telling the reality each single time. Both they’d the recollections and didn’t need to talk about them, or they took effort to get well them within the 2020s and that is what got here out.
The one story with a corroboration is the second. Right here’s what Pearleen mentioned:
She mentioned Sascha all the time had a mood, however his new recollections — she thought of them psychotic delusions — scared her and the children. She mentioned he would spend days mendacity in mattress together with his laptop computer, studying and posting about politics, in addition to “researching.” There, he got here to the conclusion that he had dissociative identification dysfunction, previously often known as a number of character dysfunction, a uncommon situation during which an individual can develop distinct identities and lapses in reminiscence, typically in response to extreme childhood trauma… Pearleen mentioned Sascha would typically tackle the character and the accent of a younger woman, whom he mentioned he knew as a boy and who was additionally the sufferer of the kid abuse cabal.
So we have now two witnesses for this being a recovered reminiscence – Sascha, and their ex-wife. We even have the pretty novel clarification of Sascha having DID, which was not talked about in any respect in any of the earlier materials. It doesn’t appear to be a situation Sascha has now, at the very least so far as I do know.
Recovered recollections of dramatic, years-long traumas that protect no proof apart from the individual having the reminiscence are themselves inherently suspect. I imagine that, in your fifties, an individual may confront or contextualize a clean spot of their recollections. I don’t imagine that, nicely into center age, somebody ought to instantly recall a world conspiracy with themselves on the coronary heart of it that left no traces besides what they not too long ago remembered – though this perception is on the rise but once more. One of the best clarification for such an expertise is clearly a delusion.
In order that’s query one. Why didn’t Sascha appear to know they have been a Trump sufferer earlier than 2021? The reply is, as a result of Sascha didn’t learn about this till 2020, or as a result of Sascha didn’t need to discuss it but. Sascha has mentioned each, however I feel the stronger clarification is that Sascha abruptly began believing these tales throughout 2020-2021.
What’s Up with “Samantha Jackson?”
One element I seen early on is that Sascha’s Sammy/Samantha modified roles dramatically from 2021 to 2025. In 2025, Sammy is kind of interchangeable with the opposite ladies, however that’s not true in earlier strata. In 2021, she’s a “most important character” of kinds within the story, a baby supervisor of a kid brothel who carried a weapon and had a variety of heroic escapades.
Some of the vital issues to notice about Samantha isn’t just that she was an armed madam and skilled bookkeeper. She was additionally a implausible lover, whose electrical sexual chemistry with Sascha was exactly why they each have been in demand as intercourse objects.
Oh, and so they have been each ten.
I soft-pedaled the hell out of this in my final blogs, however I do need to be somewhat extra ahead about this right here. Sascha’s tales are perverse, and it’s not simply due to what they describe. There’s one thing unsavory in regards to the language Sascha makes use of that may’t be decreased to frankness, and that I don’t know methods to clarify.
The above screenshot is Sascha speaking about how their stepsister, age fifteen, from time to time loved being raped by her stepfather. That’s not a factor that I might count on a sexual assault survivor to say.
It’s unattainable to disregard the truth that Sascha Riley’s narrative is lurid, and never in a method that’s inevitable for the fabric. I don’t know why. This isn’t scientific dialogue of graphic recollections of horrible crimes with as a lot deference as potential.
Whereas it’s not hostile, this lurid language additionally exhibits up round Sammy, or Samantha Jackson. The factor that I already suspected was occurring on this authentic narration of Sammy is that Sammy represents want success. Sammy is, in these tales, Sascha’s stunning, hyper-competent, sensual, aggressive, gifted, fun-loving, no-nonsense, robust, courageous lover. Sammy emerges as a great accomplice on the very time throughout which Sascha was getting a divorce. The necessity that this delusion serves is a reasonably apparent one. Sascha might need been left by one spouse, however they’d fond recollections of the superior, earlier spouse who wouldn’t have left, and in reality was cruelly taken away.
I used to be usually keen to acknowledge that for Sascha, “Sammy” might not likely be ten, as they stay in Sascha’s thoughts. Sascha by no means actually ascribes infantile attributes to her. Narratively talking, Sammy is unattainable to tell apart from an grownup lady.
However then we get to 2 different crucial tales that Zadrozny found. One is that Sammy first emerged as a result of, in 2020, Sascha started to imagine that they’d dissociative identification dysfunction, as a result of they’d undertake the have an effect on and character of Sammy.
She mentioned he would spend days mendacity in mattress together with his laptop computer, studying and posting about politics, in addition to “researching.” There, he got here to the conclusion that he had dissociative identification dysfunction, previously often known as a number of character dysfunction, a uncommon situation during which an individual can develop distinct identities and lapses in reminiscence, typically in response to extreme childhood trauma. (Analysis has discovered that social media content material about DID has fueled a wave of self-diagnosis.) Pearleen mentioned Sascha would typically tackle the character and the accent of a younger woman, whom he mentioned he knew as a boy and who was additionally the sufferer of the kid abuse cabal.
Dissociative identification dysfunction is, to say the least, a fancy and controversial prognosis. What Sascha appears to explain in themselves, although, and what Pearleen noticed, seems extra just like the web subculture of “multiplicity” than DID as is normally seen in a scientific setting.
Even in Sascha’s personal phrases, Sammy appears to have emerged first as an alter ego, after which later as somebody Sascha believed they’d recognized.
So why may this have occurred?
As uncomfortable as I’m with a few of this language, there really does appear to be a very unhappy story right here. And that’s the story of Sascha’s sister.
In keeping with Invoice Riley, and at the very least partly corroborated by extent paperwork, Invoice adopted Sascha once they have been 4 years previous. Invoice did this, he says, as a result of Sascha’s organic father was in jail, their organic mom was negligent, and Sascha was largely left to handle their child sister. When Invoice was prevented from adopting each siblings, he adopted Sascha alone.
Invoice remembers assembly Sascha in Germany, the place he was stationed after a number of excursions in Vietnam. He mentioned Sascha was about 4 years previous and making a bottle for his toddler sister, heating the milk on the range and testing it on his wrist. Sascha’s organic dad, an Air Power serviceman named Manuel Barros, was in jail. And Sascha’s younger mom, he mentioned, was not in a position to take care of her children or occupied with doing so. Invoice took care of Sascha for his mom on the weekends and obtained hooked up…So Invoice adopted Sascha — he mentioned the German authorities wouldn’t give him each children — and introduced the little boy again to the states, settling in Alabama, the place he labored as a flight teacher.
I can’t even think about how traumatic that might have been for four-year-old Sascha, and I actually need to cease and emphasize right here that a number of issues could be true on the identical time. Sascha’s language about their stepsister makes my pores and skin crawl, and that doesn’t imply that Sascha has by no means been by something horrible. This can be a horrible story. At age 4, Sascha was already accountable for an toddler. They have been separated from them, and their household, and brought to a different nation. That should have been devastating.
So who’s Samantha?
Samantha undoubtedly seems like a wish-fulfilling delusion for a spouse. She emerges as a personality in the intervening time Sascha is dropping their marriage. However Samantha’s additionally a wish-fulfilling delusion for Sascha’s sister. In actual life, Sascha didn’t get to know their sister as a baby. They didn’t get to avoid wasting her and handle her. They didn’t get to be their hero. However within the fantasy world, Sascha did. Sascha did get to be Samantha’s hero, and obtained to know her, and beloved her. However within the delusion, Sascha’s relationship with Samantha ends on their very own phrases. They mercy-kill Samantha, at Samantha’s request. The loss continues to be there, however this time Sascha isn’t passive.
I don’t suppose Samantha was ever in a brothel. I don’t suppose she’s buried in Alabama. I feel she’s Sascha’s sister.
Why Doesn’t Sascha Riley Aggressively Pursue Proof that Would Show This Occurred?
Folks usually take it as a right that an allegation about an previous, previous crime would depart no proof, however that’s really not true. In spite of everything, E. Jean. Carroll efficiently sued Donald Trump due to the energy of her modern corroborating witnesses. And that was only one perpetrator, and one sufferer, of a sexual assault. Absolutely there’s really tons of proof on the market for the sorts of crimes Sascha had alleged.
One can see all types of potential proof implied in Sascha Riley’s story as nicely. In keeping with Sascha, they knew the placement the place one of many youngsters, Samantha, was killed, and the positioning of her burial. Absolutely somebody may simply go affirm the existence of these areas, or possibly even discover a physique. Discovering the physique of a teenage woman would undoubtedly drive a felony allegation. Wouldn’t it? Why hasn’t Sascha identified the placement?
What in regards to the CSAM materials that Sascha has repeatedly cited by title and mentioned is in extensive circulation? Sascha has gone as far as to say that they’ve been acknowledged by a couple of stranger from CSAM – a declare I discover stunning, however there it’s. Absolutely a cybercrimes professional would have the ability to affirm the existence of such materials. Who has been requested, and what have they mentioned?
Or what about all of the individuals who knew Sascha as a baby? Sascha says they spent a number of months in a brothel the place they have been pressured to make snuff movies. Absolutely some buddies, step-siblings, and cousins bear in mind the 12 months Sascha was gone for a protracted whereas. Sascha additionally spoke of the numerous events they have been overwhelmed severely and even almost to dying. Weren’t there any days a trainer requested the place he obtained that black eye, or damaged rib?
What about character witnesses for Invoice and Lynn Riley? Invoice Riley apparently had an entire second life the place he was making tons of cash in harmful work, and had years of expertise in organized crime even earlier than he adopted Sascha. Absolutely such an individual would have at the very least some enemies. Or what about sexual sadist Lynn who flew right into a rage when she was denied the chance to homicide a baby for her personal gratification? There’s no method that she went her complete life in a position to efficiently disguise such an excessive pathology from everybody. She should have had different victims, proper? Sascha even says on Threads that Invoice and Lynn victimized each their stepsiblings. Absolutely they’d be desperate to convey the crimes in opposition to them to gentle and get justice for a fellow sufferer.
You’d count on Sascha to think about all these items and bend over backwards to supply all this plain proof. You’d count on that. Proper?
Flawed. When Zadrozny requested about who she may comply with up with for leads, Riley couldn’t consider a single individual, besides for somebody they’d met on the web who had the same story. When Zadrozny pursued leads of her personal, all she discovered was individuals who mentioned that they’d recognized Sascha and didn’t see how something Sascha mentioned may probably be true.
I’ve all the time been considerably puzzled by Sascha’s passivity in demonstrating the reality of their very own allegations. To me, it appeared like the most important flaw in my concept that Sascha was sincerely satisfied of what they mentioned. I may consider dozens of how to corroborate this story and have been repeatedly flummoxed by Sascha’s resolution to not pursue any of them. It’s laborious for me to not surprise that, even when Sascha is totally satisfied of what they’re saying, that there’s a little concern there of investigation. Exterior proof contradicting a recovered reminiscence is a widespread cause for retraction, which is a annoying and embarrassing expertise.
So, I suppose Zadrozny answered my second query. Why doesn’t Sascha pursue proof about their claims aggressively? I feel the clearest reply is “as a result of it doesn’t produce corroborating proof.” Each path is colder than the one earlier than it, and I feel at some degree Sascha should anticipate that that is the case. I can title ten folks proper now who may testify to the weeks of college I missed after I had mono after I was eight. However Sascha, when requested to call somebody who may testify to the truth that they have been frequently overwhelmed to dying and that every one the members of their household have been raping one another in convoluted configurations, couldn’t consider anybody who might need suspected one thing was incorrect?
That’s bizarre, isn’t it?
It’s noticeable that when Sascha broadcasts plans to research their very own case (and let’s be life like right here: Sascha has had six years to do that, whether or not or not this occurs is anybody’s guess), it’s all the time proof that has most potential for ambiguity.
We all know Sascha has had a big variety of bone accidents, owing to their service in Iraq. Demonstrating that Sascha has bone accidents proves nothing about their allegations. How may we probably inform the distinction, in 2026, between a rib that was damaged by an IED in Iraq in 2003, and a rib that was damaged by Jim Jordan in 1985?
You’ll be able to’t. However, if you wish to imagine, you’ll imagine the second story.
Identical with a polygraph. Polygraphs are, for one factor, famously unreliable. However in addition they can’t do greater than show deception. If Sascha is totally satisfied these items occurred, then a polygraph is not going to present that Sascha is attempting to be misleading. It doesn’t imply it’s true.
Why doesn’t Sascha extra aggressively pursue proof? As a result of the identical factor occurs each time. The lead goes chilly. Nothing emerges. Insinuations and free connections are suggestive for individuals who need to imagine. The remaining is silence.
Zadrozny obtained caught with the identical downside that many people have ended up with – that in the long run, all you are able to do is use chilly leads. There’ll by no means be a solution to show past doubt that nothing Sascha mentioned really occurred. What proof may we probably discover that might show past doubt that Donald Trump by no means killed puppies? Or that he by no means had a tent peg shoved up his rectum? Or that Jim Jordan, throughout his undergrad years, by no means as soon as took a small aircraft to the south to pay $5000 to beat a baby? What would proof that this didn’t occur appear to be?
You’ll be able to’t discover the proof that one thing like this didn’t occur.
All you are able to do is preserve searching for proof that it did occur and preserve realizing it doesn’t exist. And in some unspecified time in the future, when that retains taking place, it’s important to ask why.
Both Sascha Riley has had probably the most consequential life in human historical past and it left completely no traces in any way besides in Sascha’s reminiscence, or this didn’t occur. Sascha has met extra celebrities than any non-celebrity I’ve ever heard of – and the roster just isn’t restricted to victimizers. Sascha additionally has a laundry checklist of well-known connections within the sports activities world. One would at the very least suspect that Sascha’s extremely public boxing trainers would have remembered Sascha having extreme accidents, deformed legs, and damaged ribs – proper? That may’t have occurred in a standard bout – proper? Have you ever ever seen a boxer break each legs within the ring? I haven’t. Didn’t anybody suppose that was stunning?
Once I consider how a lot proof this story would depart behind, the truth that in six years nothing has proven up makes this baffling. Nobody can discover proof of the aircraft or the helicopter that Trump or Epstein used within the Nineteen Eighties. Nobody can discover even incidental references to Invoice Riley or Lynn Riley within the Epstein information. Trump’s time within the Nineteen Eighties is exhaustively photographed and recorded, and nobody appears to have the ability to discover proof of him disappearing for weekends in a small plane. Nobody can find any of the farms or brothels the place these occasions occurred, or who owned them. Nobody has discovered the our bodies. Nobody remembers the time when Trump was critically ailing within the early Nineteen Eighties. Nobody experiences remembering Jim Jordan or Andy Biggs having uncharacteristic quantities of cash or unexplained absences. Nobody is searching for any of the lacking ladies. Nobody has the courtroom information for the RICO case Sascha was caught up in. Nobody remembers Sascha’s accidents or lengthy absences. Nobody has discovered the footage, whilst Sascha frequently insists it’s broadly in circulation.
The crimes that Sascha alleges would have left lots of of witnesses throughout a number of states, together with property information, flight information, and in depth video and images proof. A lot of that proof may simply be offered to regulation enforcement or the general public with none threat of implicating oneself. When you lived close to a farm in rural Alabama and remembered the weekend that numerous helicopters arrived and there have been dozens of gunshots, that’s info you can simply share with the general public. However nobody has.
That is extremely suspicious. An elaborate, years-long occasion with lots of of witnesses that was spontaneously recalled in 2020 that left no proof in any respect must be handled as a delusion till confirmed in any other case. It’s, by far, the only clarification for what’s occurred.
However does the vacuum of proof “disprove” the story? No, it doesn’t. Nothing can disprove the story. There isn’t any proof that might exist that might show this story didn’t occur – together with Sascha saying that they made your complete factor up. Folks would nonetheless suppose that Sascha should have been pressured into retracting this.
There isn’t any solution to debunk a narrative this huge and this imprecise. Which implies that so long as Sascha needs it to go on, it’ll.
However there’s one more reason this story will stick round, and it’s this: it seems that, in the long run, Sascha was sort of proper.
Right here’s what I don’t imply.
I don’t suppose it’s true that Sascha was trafficked in a bunch of rich Republican politicians that, on the time, contained precisely zero rich Republican politicians. I don’t imagine Riley was trafficked in a community of billionaires that consisted of 1 billionaire and virtually totally working to center class folks. I don’t imagine Trump has gastric issues due to a tent peg accident. I don’t imagine he kills puppies for enjoyable. I don’t suppose Sascha strangled a prepubescent brothel supervisor. I don’t suppose this story is true.
However right here’s the query that Sascha raised on Threads within the wake of Zadrozny’s article:
Let’s take that query critically.
Why was Sascha so indignant? Why wouldn’t they be? Sascha’s personal organic father wasn’t there for them. He was in jail, and their mom was apparently negligent. Sascha’s organic mother and father have been keen to give away their very own youngster who was sufficiently old to talk and bear in mind them, and was apparently keen to offer away one other one apart from the intervention of the German authorities.
At age 4, Sascha was ripped from all the pieces he’d ever recognized to be raised by a brand new couple, considered one of whom doesn’t appear to have remained in his life after this (the lady on Sascha’s adoption certificates just isn’t the lady who raised Sascha). They then spent their childhood transferring across the American south. Sascha had behavioral points, which many little boys who weren’t adopted internationally at age 4 even have. This will’t have made bonding with educators and new stepfamilies straightforward, which is a disgrace, as a result of Sascha presumably had to do that pretty usually because the household moved round. This finally grew to become extreme sufficient that Riley required in-patient therapy, after a sequence of fights.
Invoice Riley may have been the perfect father on the planet and the chances that Riley ended up with advanced trauma in spite of everything that might nonetheless be actually good. Sascha by no means had a steady second of their childhood. Sascha lived by a kaleidoscope of stepparents, stepsiblings, faculties, states, crushing duties, and heartbreaking loss. I don’t know what sort of a father Invoice was, however we do know that Invoice most likely had his personal trauma. He appears to have had comparatively unstable marriages till his final one. He served a number of excursions in Vietnam. Was Invoice able to mother or father a severely traumatized preschooler? I can see how he wouldn’t be.
Each Invoice and Sascha appear to agree that their relationship was unhealthy sufficient that, in Sascha’s late teenagers, they utterly misplaced contact. Then they reconnected. Then they fell out once more.
Then Sascha went to Iraq. Then they have been topic to extreme conflict violence and trauma. Then they got here again. Then they began to see issues. They began to see wealthy politicians, throwing round handfuls of money, glorying within the slaughter of youngsters and treating violence as a sport that they might go away at any time when they wished.
When you concentrate on the place Sascha was in 2020, it is smart why these have been the photographs that got here to them.
It’s true that presidents, congresspeople, and overseas leaders orchestrate hideous violence that they themselves won’t ever must endure by. It’s true that as a society, we spend large quantities of sources on a meat grinder that chews up human lives once we may spend that cash on principally the rest. It’s true that youngsters have few rights in a world that usually regards them as commodities and property, and they’re usually the primary casualties in conflicts between highly effective males that they themselves don’t have anything to do with. Sascha Riley noticed this for themselves in Iraq, simply as their very own father did in Vietnam.
If you wish to perceive what it feels wish to be an American in 2026, an remoted compound the place politicians spend cash, youngsters are massacred, and no assistance is coming isn’t a loopy picture to land on.
However what this doesn’t imply is that Sascha is telling the reality.
That is the place I really need to take a second to acknowledge that Sascha themselves could also be studying this, and the place I need to acknowledge some issues about Sascha that I don’t suppose have gotten as a lot consideration as they need to have. I can’t discover proof that Sascha has ever consciously lied. I can’t discover proof that Sascha has made cash from their claims. I can’t discover proof that Sascha has requested for cash in change for these claims. I don’t know precisely who Sascha is and why they do what they do, however I preserve right here what I’ve mentioned in each different article about this: I feel Sascha thinks they’re telling the reality.
That doesn’t imply Sascha’s story hasn’t performed hurt. It has. It additionally doesn’t imply Sascha themselves haven’t performed hurt. Sascha’s youngsters have most likely seen one other aspect of them that the web hasn’t. I actually have been frank about how uncomfortable a few of Sascha’s statements make me, significantly these about their stepsiblings.
Besides, right here is the place I need to tackle Sascha immediately. So right here we go.
Sascha,
The issues that occurred to you might be severe. The load of accountability you carried at age 4, the lack of your organic mother and father and siblings, the instability of your childhood formed by adoption, divorce, and remarriage – I’m so sorry that occurred to you. That should have been brutal. It was severe, and it was extreme. Don’t ever let anybody let you know it wasn’t.
If that was brutal, then your excursions in Iraq are past description. You have been utilized by politicians. You have been someplace you shouldn’t have been. Horrible issues occurred to you and also you have been pressured to make choices you didn’t need to make. It was evil, and it was incorrect, and it shouldn’t have occurred.
I don’t know if the rest occurred to you. However even when that’s the finish of it, you’d nonetheless be carrying extra ache than any human coronary heart and physique ought to ever must bear.
You didn’t ask for my opinion, however for those who’ve learn this far, I hope I did an okay job. Hear me out one final time.
I feel your recollections replicate actuality. I feel the problem of determining precisely what that actuality is is the duty you now must bear. It’ll take a really expert medical workforce that can assist you work by these recollections and perceive the place they got here from. However you deserve it. You need to be joyful and wholesome. Your youngsters deserve a father. They deserve the soundness you by no means obtained.
Go dwelling. Discover a psychiatrist. Get off the web and take time to focus in your well being. Get healed. It’s okay if the fact these recollections replicate just isn’t the one you suppose it displays now. You’ll be able to all the time stroll away from this story. Nobody will choose you. You could be an bizarre, joyful individual. It’ll take time. It could take years.
If there’s a story inside the story right here – if there’s a reminiscence right here – you’ll not discover it on the web. One can find numerous fleeting validation, however it’ll devour you. Discover folks you may see and listen to and contact who will speak to you. Be in relationships with individuals who see you as an entire individual, not an avatar for their very own political want success. Allow them to assist you determine the following steps of what it means to cope with the grief you’re carrying.
I really want you nothing however the perfect. I want you therapeutic and deliverance and wholeness and luxury. I additionally want you fact and understanding. I hope you discover it, and I want you the energy to search for it. And I imply that from the underside of my coronary heart. -Laura
William “Invoice” Kyle Riley died on April 3, 2026. His household has requested, in lieu of flowers, that donations be made to Venture Lifesaver, which supplies tools to guard people affected by dementia and Alzheimer’s.
Editor’s Word as of April 16, 2026.
Since I printed this text, video and audio footage of Sascha Riley publicly and unapologetically describing incidents during which they violently assaulted a girl have come to gentle.
If I had seen that footage earlier than I wrote this, the tone of this text would have been considerably totally different.
No matter has occurred to Sascha doesn’t erase the truth that they appear to have dedicated severe acts of home violence, and it’s not clear that they imagine such acts are incorrect.
Editor’s Word
American Crime Journal wish to thank Dr. Laura Robinson for her in depth analysis, evaluation, and reporting on the claims superior by William “Sascha” Barros Riley.
This report is vital as a result of it addresses a precept elementary to each journalism and justice: extraordinary allegations require cautious scrutiny, unbiased verification, and proof. Dr. Robinson’s work examines not solely the claims themselves, but additionally the out there information, witness accounts, timelines, corroborating proof, and the challenges investigators face when making an attempt to confirm or refute allegations of this magnitude.
At a time when social media usually rewards virality over verification, this investigation serves as a reminder that accountable journalism calls for greater than repetition. It requires examination, corroboration, context, and a willingness to comply with the info wherever they lead.
Whether or not readers finally agree with each conclusion is secondary to the worth of the method itself. Dr. Robinson’s reporting demonstrates the significance of asking troublesome questions, testing claims in opposition to proof, and sustaining mental honesty when confronting narratives that generate robust emotional reactions however restricted unbiased verification.
American Crime Journal is grateful for Dr. Robinson’s dedication to evidence-based inquiry and her contribution to an knowledgeable public dialogue.
Readers occupied with Dr. Robinson’s work can comply with her analysis and commentary: Not Peer Reviewed: By Laura Robinson on Substack.
Sources & Additional Studying
Sascha Riley and the Lengthy Hangover of the Satanic Panic
“I Have Debunked Your Article On Sascha Riley”
Assertion on William Sascha Riley – by Lisa Noelle Voldeng
Marvelous Marvin Hagler – Wikipedia
Exposing Maria Farmer – by Jessica Reed Kraus
California professor Christine Blasey Ford, author of confidential Brett Kavanaugh letter, speaks out about sexual assault allegation | The Washington Publish
The conspiratorial left wanted proof Trump is a monster. They settled on Sascha Riley.
The Return of the Repressed: The Persistent and Problematic Claims of Lengthy-Forgotten Trauma | PMC
Self-Identified Instances of Dissociative Identification Dysfunction on Social Media: Conceptualization, Evaluation, and Therapy | PMC
Investigating the Reminiscence Reviews of Retractors Concerning Abuse | Revista de psicología
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