Shooter Claimed in Confession Letter He Killed to Help Walz, Per Reports
Boelter wrote that he had been trained “off the books” by the military.
Early last Saturday, Vance Boelter allegedly murdered Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in their Brooklyn Park home, and shot State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in their Champlin home (reportedly a combined 17 times) shortly afterward.
Following “the largest manhunt in the state’s history,” Boelter, 57, was arrested on Sunday night. He was captured in a field located near his Green Isle home in Sibley County.
“Multiple sources with direct knowledge of the investigation” told local media outlet Alpha News on Friday that Boelter had written a so-called “confession letter” to FBI Director Kash Patel in which he blamed his deadly rampage on Gov. Tim Walz.
Alpha News reported:
The handwritten letter was discovered by law enforcement inside the Buick that Boelter purchased just hours after [the shootings].
The charging documents indicate that a handwritten note from “Dr. Vance Luther Boelter” was found and that Boelter confirmed that he was the “shooter at large in Minnesota involved in the 2 shootings.”
The charges also indicate that Boelter bought the Buick and an e-bike for $900, from a man he didn’t know, at a bus stop in north Minneapolis.
That man drove Boelter to a U.S. Bank where Boelter emptied $2,200 from his account.
The Minnesota Star Tribune provided more details about the letter. According to “two people familiar” with its contents, Boelter claimed that Walz had asked him to kill Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) so that he could run for Senate.
Additionally, Boelter wrote that he had been trained “off the books” by the military.
The letter is also said to contain Boelter’s confession to the shootings.
The sources described the letter as “incoherent, one and a half pages long, confusing and hard to read.”
Boelter’s allegations are, of course, delusional. They are the ramblings of a madman.
But you may recall that in the immediate aftermath of the shootings, and particularly after police released Boelter’s “hit list” of potential targets, which included more than 60 Democrats and even abortion clinics, Democrats were quick to brand him as a MAGA extremist, blaming Republican rhetoric for inciting his brutal attacks.
But if anything, Boelter’s letter revealed that, in his own distorted mind, he felt more aligned with Walz than with any Republican.
That leaves more than a few conservatives wondering if news of this letter is the reason why coverage of this rather sensational story, “was out of the news by Tuesday.”
And that's why this was out of the news by Tuesday. https://t.co/yZKeH38szA
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 20, 2025
Following the news about Boelter’s letter, RedState’s Bonchie concluded, “It’s pretty clear why the story disappeared.”
[Republicans were] being broadly blamed by the press and Democrats because of who the targets were. Networks like MSNBC and CNN went so far as to directly point the finger at President Donald Trump. Yet, [the] letter … points in a completely different direction.
According to the Star Tribune … Boelter believed he was operating under orders from Democrat Gov. Tim Walz.
Early on, it was revealed that Boelter was appointed to a government workforce board by Walz. What their actual relationship was remains unclear, but it appears the killer thought they had a relationship. For whatever reason, Boelter had convinced himself that he needed to kill others so that Walz could run for the U.S. Senate.
In other words, Boelter is just an insane person. Nothing in his letter makes logical sense, and there is no indication he did what he did in support of Trump or anyone else on the political right. Instead, he seems to have been infatuated with Walz and created a justification to kill in service to him.
PJ Media’s Matt Margolis arrived at the same conclusion in a Friday night post titled Now We Know Why the Minnesota Assassin Story Disappeared Overnight.
Initial media coverage was rife with speculation, with left-leaning outlets eager to cast Boelter as a MAGA Republican, hastily blaming the GOP and even President Donald Trump for inciting his shooting spree.
Walz appointed Boelter to a government workforce board, a fact that seemingly fueled his delusion of a personal relationship with the governor. But this imagined relationship was the extent of any link, as the letter’s ramblings make clear. There is no evidence that support for Trump or any conservative cause motivated Boelter’s actions. Instead, his violent spree was rooted in a deranged fixation on Walz, a far cry from the media’s initial narrative that sought to weaponize the tragedy against the pro-Trump right.
In short, Boelter is just a wacko. His letter is a testament to his fractured mind, not a manifesto of political grievance. The media’s rush to blame conservatives and the governor’s passive complicity in allowing false narratives to spread are failures that demand scrutiny. The truth matters, and in this case, it exposes a grotesque distortion of reality by those eager to score political points amid a horrific crime.
I think they may be on to something.
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You just can’t hate the media enough. Left leaning? Puhleezeeee. They are part of the progressive misinformation coalition. Will they correct the story? Nahhhhh,,,,,
The guy is loony but the FBI should investigate Tiny Tim anyways. Maybe roust him out of his bed at 3am and toss his wife’s panty drawer. After all both Tiny and his wife are loony too so anything is possible.
If you’re gonna toss that skank’s bloomer drawer you better bring the hazmat unit. Yuk.
Give that job to the lowest-seniority agent on the team.
Builds character…
They would first have to do a bureau investigation to determine which panty drawer is Tim’s and which is his wife’s.
Does no one else find it strange that of all the potential victims mentioned by the press, the only ones actually shot were the two party traitors?
Or that the guy had a long list of Democrats to shoot, and yet first managed to shoot four people who didn’t appear on that list at all.
The narrative is clear now: The shooter is politically a lifelong MAGA Republican, but shot these politicians as a PERSONAL favor to please Tim Walz, who was his clandestine lover.
He received paramilitary training off the books — specifically off the Little Golden Books. (I bet you never noticed all the dogwhistles hidden in there, did you?)
Or… perhaps the real answer is that Tim Walz is himself a clandestine crypto-MAGA Republican. 51 retired intelligence professionals are currently following all possibilities, including this one.
There were no party traitors involved. A deal was struck and someone had to cross party boundaries to vote for the other side’s proposal. The women killed was a party leader and took it upon herself to cast the vote.
They weren’t traitors at all. They voted out of duty to their party. But it’s possible that this lunatic didn’t understand that.
The story around this guy gets curiouser and curiouser.
Perhaps a vial labeled “drink me” was involved?
The other label is more prevalent when Tim Walz is involved.
Probably “smoke me”
The whole thing seemed odd right out of the box from the murders to the cops who responded and the speculation that followed. This is a classic example of the talking heads rambling with little to no information and once again being entirely wrong.
Sometimes there is no deep explanation other than someone is a crazed lunatic.
“Come on, man!”
“We have no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing, but the seriousness of the allegations and the weight of circumstantial information compel an effort to establish the facts,” said House Speaker Thomas S. Foley (D-Wash.) and Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-Me.) in a joint statement. This was in reference to the conspiracy theory that Reagan & Bush delayed the Iranians turning over the hostages in order to win the 1980 election
Them’s the rules: Republicans need to give Tim a deep colonoscopy, er, investigation