The most curious aspects of the FBI’s case against Brian Cole Jr. — as the alleged J5/J6 pipe bomber — are the multitude of characteristics common to an autistic, highly OCD creature of habit that must be dismissed in order to pigeonhole Cole (BCJ) into being that person. Let’s start at the top of his head and work our way down to the bottom of his feet.
1 – BCJ never wore a ball cap. His family cannot recall him ever even owning one. There is no family photography of him ever wearing one. On the FBI form FD-597 (Receipt for Property Collected/Seized), there is no listing of a ball cap seized for evidence during the raid of the Cole family home. But this alleged mastermind criminal genius, who managed to elude the world’s premier investigative agency, can clearly be seen wearing a ball cap — under the hoodie — in the scant number of videos released by the FBI.
2 – BCJ is always seen wearing a rather severe prescription pair of glasses. (I have a copy of that prescription. It’s five pages long.) In videos and photos of him looking at his phone, even with those glasses, he still must hold the phone 6 to 8 inches from his eyes to clearly see what he’s looking at. When the hoodie-wearing pipe bomber sits at the DNC bench the first time, ‘they’ hold ‘their’ phone in ‘their’ lap while scrolling through the screen. It has always been my team’s theory that the bomber was wearing dark sunglasses – not clear-lens glasses. Interestingly, on the FBI form FD-597 of seized items, they took a pair of “solar shield black sunglasses” into evidence. According to the family, they weren’t BCJ’s, as he never wore sunglasses. The seized pair had to have belonged to another member of the family. The FBI clearly also believes the bomber wore sunglasses, or they would not have seized that pair from the family home. (OCD autistic individuals with poor eyesight don’t suddenly break habit and replace their prescription glasses with dark sunglasses to walk around at night. The FBI/DOJ knows this. They know that we know this. They know that we know that they know this.
3 – BCJ is almost never seen without his trademark headphones. They are either on his ears or around his neck. Even in his FBI mugshot, they let him keep his headphones on, worn around his neck. (Hmmm. Why do you think that is?) According to family and BCJ’s neighbors, he ALWAYS had his headphones on when walking around the neighborhood with his dog or to the local 7-11. Something he did 3 to 4 times every day, for years. There is clearly no ‘headphone bulge’ seen under the hoodie worn by the pipe bomber. Again, the DOJ/FBI wants us to believe BCJ chose to alter an entire lifetime of OCD habits when he struck out to walk around DC on the night of J5 … WITHOUT his headphones.
4 – BCJ is always seen in photography wearing a lanyard around his neck which holds his house and car keys. Sometimes, even a pouch containing a set of gamer earbuds … when he can’t have his earphones. (Like when he’s at work or driving.) In many photos, he is seen tightly gripping that lanyard and keys — almost as if they are his ‘woobie,’ or security blanket. But in the FBI videos of the hoodie-wearing bomber, there is no chest imprint under the hoodie for a set of keys and an earbud pouch at mid-chest. The hoodie is always flat and smooth against the flat-chested bomber. DOJ/FBI wants us to believe that this highly OCD, autistic, creature of habit once again displayed criminal genius in eschewing his trademark lanyard so as to not be identified from blurry, frame-rate-reduced CCTV videos.
5 – As we have demonstrated previously, “Hoodie” is captured on video wearing a smartwatch. Hoodie is seen holding that smartwatch up to ‘their’ face 7 times while walking on J5 over the 20+ minutes of video we captured. BCJ has never owned a smartwatch. BCJ has never even owned or worn a watch of any kind. But the FBI knows the bomber wore a smartwatch because, according to Form FD-597, they seized his mother’s smartwatch as evidence. The DOJ/FBI knows the bomber wore a watch. They know BCJ never wore a watch. They know that WE know BCJ never wore a watch. They know that we know they know he never wore a watch. Still, they keep him in pretrial detention. (They are evil.) ***What’s the scorecard so far? The OCD, autistic, creature of habit who never wore a hat, never wore sunglasses, and never wore a watch … suddenly adorned himself with all those on his 45-minute trek through DC, while also ditching his trademark headphones, lanyard-holding keys, and earbuds.*** With me so far?
6 – BJC had an immutable daily habit, verified by over a decade of observation by both his family members and his neighbors (one of whom is a current FBI agent I’ve interviewed). BCJ always comes home from work each day and immediately changes out of his jeans and Converse ‘Chucks’ into a pair of shorts and Crocs. It doesn’t matter if it’s 100 degrees in July or 0 degrees in January; BCJ puts on those shorts and Crocs before beginning his daily walk with his dog and trips to the 7-11. In the winter cold, he wore a heavy jacket over his T-shirt, but always wore short pants. ALWAYS. Again … DOJ/FBI wants us to believe that this autistic creature of extreme habit (“Five minutes to Wapner”), completely altered his routine by wearing long pants and a hoodie (and a pair of shoes he’s never owned) on his 45-minute J5 walk to plant two explosive devices. Rather than his habit of only walking in shorts and Crocs … and a heavy jacket. Pure criminal genius!
7 – Finally. As we have demonstrated in previous articles — and confirmed by the FBI — ‘J5 Hoodie’ wore a distinctive pair of shoes. A pair of limited-edition, 2018 version, gray/black/gold colored Nike Air Max Speed Turf athletic shoes. The family confirms that BCJ never owned a pair of those shoes. The FBI produced no evidence that he ever purchased or seized a pair of those shoes. Most importantly, we have also demonstrated that the J5 bomber wore a size 9 or 9.5 pair of those shoes. I have personally held every pair of shoes that BCJ owns. Every tag on each pair showed he wore only size 12 shoes. In February of 2027, a D.C. jury will have to decide whether all of this (and much more) provides enough “reasonable doubt” to render a “not guilty” verdict … or they will have to convince themselves that Brian Cole Jr. is the genius criminal mastermind that managed to avoid detection by the world’s premier law enforecement agency for almost five years … and not until five days after I proffered a different possibilty. What do you think? What’s your verdict?
