What specific FOIA requests or FBI Vault entries exist related to Sascha Riley or William Kyle Riley?
Executive summary
No publicly documented, specific FOIA requests or FBI Vault entries for "Sascha (Sasha/Sascha) Riley" or "William Kyle Riley" are shown in the sources provided; the FBI’s Vault exists as a searchable FOIA library but the supplied material does not produce a discrete Vault file or FOIA docket explicitly named for either individual [1] [2]. Independent reporting and aggregator sites note mentions of the surname "Riley" in Epstein-related documents and writers claim that some FBI or military records about the people in question can be obtained by FOIA, but those are assertions about possible records rather than citations of concrete Vault entries or FOIA control numbers in the publicly available FBI collection samples provided here [3] [4].
1. What the official record (the Vault) actually shows and does not show
The FBI’s online "Vault" is the agency’s FOIA library containing thousands of scanned records and a tool to check FOIA/Privacy Act requests, and it is organized for public search and weekly status updates — but the specific Vault pages cited in the reporting are general index pages and category pages, not individual files tied to Sascha or William Kyle Riley in the materials provided [1] [2] [5] [6]. The search results given to this brief do not include a named Vault file such as "Sascha Riley" or "William Kyle Riley" with a visible file header or FOIA tracking number; the available FBI links point to the top-level Vault, recently added files, and categorical collections rather than a record specifically about these names [7] [5] [8].
2. Claims in independent reporting and social media about FOIA-retrievable records
Several independent sources and social-media posts claim that FBI reports, military court-martial documents, and child-protection materials relevant to Sascha/Sasha Riley and William Kyle Riley exist and "are obtainable by FOIA" — notably a Substack thread by a reporter saying FBI reports on "WKR" and a military court-martial report are obtainable via FOIA, but that post does not cite Vault file numbers or produce an accessible FBI Vault entry in the material supplied here [4]. Aggregators of the Epstein document corpus also list multiple "Riley" mentions in Epstein-related documents and characterize at least one "Bill Riley" as an investigator-type presence in that corpus, which indicates appearances of the surname in primary-source document dumps but not a confirmed FBI Vault file for William Kyle Riley specifically in the provided cache [3].
3. Public-record sleuthing versus confirmed federal FOIA documentation
Open-source sleuths have circulated biographical claims (age, residence, military background) about a William Kyle Riley and linked the name to Epstein-related mentions in released emails or testimony, but those are social-media and people-search results rather than citations to a specific FOIA request or FBI Vault entry inspected and logged by the FBI in these sources [9] [10] [11]. Where sources state that "some evidence has been suppressed" or "some is obtainable by FOIA" (Substack), that should be read as a claim about potential discoverability, not proof that a particular FOIA release or Vault file exists and is publicly accessible — a distinction the FBI’s FOIPA guidance underscores by pointing requesters to the agency’s FOIPA status tool for checking or tracking existing requests [6].
4. What reporting cannot confirm and what a researcher should do next
The supplied documents and links do not confirm the existence of a named Vault entry or a tracked FOIA request for Sascha Riley or William Kyle Riley; absent an explicit Vault filename, FOIA control number, or an FBI-posted record in the provided sources, the available reporting is best described as suggestive and investigative rather than documentary [1] [2] [4] [3]. For anyone seeking confirmation, the FBI’s FOIPA status/search tools on the Vault are the official starting point to search for existing FOIA releases or to file a fresh FOIA/PA request; independent journalists’ claims about records being "obtainable" should be followed by FOIA requests specifying custodial offices (FBI field offices, military FOIA offices) and by insistence on production of control numbers or Vault file links if a public record is quoted [6] [8] [12].