Creepy·
LAST TEXTS, LAST TRACE
A tangled thread emerges from Amy Eskridge's final messages, as online posts stitch together signal screenshots and non-Signal texts to question sourcing and motives around a high-profile tech venture.
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Amy Eskridge's last texts before her death were suddenly laid out on screen, and the first question was immediate: why were messages between her and her business partner being treated like a public record?
The post was titled with Eskridge's "last text messages before death," and named Samuel Reid as the person on the other end. Reid was identified as her business partner and the CEO of Geometric Energy Company, or GEC, the company the post described as "most known for the Doge-1 mission that was endorsed by Elon Musk."
The screenshots themselves were presented as Signal messages taken from Reid's X post. According to the poster, that X post was the source for the Signal material, which was reproduced in the thread as evidence of the exchange.
Then the post widened the frame. It said that "messages not on signal" had been added "for further context because I haven't seen anyone post them on reddit yet." Those extra messages were described as having been sent by Eskridge to a friend, Franc Milburn. The poster added that, to their knowledge, Milburn "removed most of his posted screenshots."
The result was a stitched-together timeline: one set of Signal texts attributed to Reid's post, and another set of non-Signal messages included to fill in the gaps. The post also offered alternate and source links for that material, as if trying to preserve what had already started disappearing.
One line at the end landed with particular force: "Remember folks, Samuel Reid is NOT suicidal."
That warning closed a thread built around Eskridge's final messages, Reid's posts, and screenshots that were already being backed up and re-shared. The post did not just point to a conversation, it framed it as the last trace of one person's communication, then tried to pin down where each screenshot had come from before more of it vanished.