INTERVIEW WITH MANAGER WORKING AT COWBOY’S SMOKEHOUSE: Diligent says Ralph “can’t know one way or the other” because he wasn’t at Cowboy Smokehouse that night. So I spoke to the manager who was there that night filling in for Ralph Perkins. He had stopped in for a Coke and to check on the restaurant. It wasn’t packed, and he remembers getting a good look at the customer. He was sitting alone, where the restaurant typically puts customer’s who come in solo. “I just don’t think it was him based off of what I saw. And I got a good look” says the manager. I asked what the man was wearing. “He was wearing a red, white, and black hoodie, kind of gothic styled type thing.” He also remembered dark jeans and white sneakers. I asked whether the man had a hat on or seemed to be trying to hide his face. “No, he wasn’t wearing a hat. He wasn’t covering his face. I mean, to me, he wasn’t trying to hide himself at all, whoever this individual was” the manager said. The Dairy Queen image being circulated shows a maroon short sleeved shirt and a black cap. Tyler was seen wearing these clothes at a Dairy Queen in Orem, UT at 6:38 PM on September 10, 2025. When I asked the manager if that matches the description of the man eating at the restaurant he said “I don’t think the guy’s facial structure that I saw matches.” He also brought up the Gabby Petito case. He says he was at the restaurant when Petito and Brian Laundrie came in, although he wasn’t their server. When investigators later called, the restaurant pulled its records to help establish their movements. I asked him about identifying the couple in that case: “Oh yeah, no, absolutely. I mean, it was easy.” So what was different this time? What made anyone think this customer might have been Robinson? “The guy’s head shape was similar. I don’t think he had the same features. I think his nose was different and all of that.” He also questioned the route itself, and I asked him if Diligent would know about it. “If you’re driving from Salt Lake to St. George, Panguitch is not really, like, on the way.” He talked through the mountain crossings and the longer alternatives through Zion or toward Colorado City. And there’s another detail people keep getting wrong: the receipt shows payment at 9:47 p.m., not 8:55. 8:55 was when the order was entered. If someone is trying to build a timeline from Panguitch, 9:47 is the time they have to work from. I also asked whether the customer had a cellphone out. He told me the customer was scrolling on his phone. The customer had his cellphone out and was using it. I asked because if phone location or activity records exist, those could actually help test whether Robinson was there instead of leaving the whole thing to memory and blurry images. Then I asked what the employees themselves are saying now: “I’ve had a chance to talk with all of them.” About the female employee: “And the lady, she just told me basically the same thing I told you, that we saw him, we just don’t think it was him.” And about the young man whose interview Diligent keeps reposting: “I think he has some big regrets on how what he said was taken out of context.” Ralph had already told me that employee was mortified and unhappy with how the interview was edited. Now the manager is telling me the same “headless” employee has regrets, the female employee doesn’t think it was Robinson, and he personally got a good look at the customer and doesn’t think it was him either. Then he described what all of this has done to the people who work there: “We’re being harassed constantly on this issue, and I just don’t understand why that makes sense.” The manager who was there says he got a good look at the customer and doubts it was Tyler Robinson. And the employees Diligent keeps pointing to are not telling the same story he keeps selling to his audience.