Charlie McDowell is a friend and business associate of Daniel Shipman.
After The Order killed Chris and Alex's families, Daniel posted a video of him and Charlie drowning their sorrows with Jack Daniels, swearing at Jacob, taunting the Order's stupidity and discussing how events turned out.
In the video 2014 - Alex woke up, Chris and Alex attempted to contact Daniel, but were unable to do so. However, the managed to contacted Charlie, who explained that Daniel had vanished and that he wasn't even sure if Daniel was alive or not. According to Charlie, he and Daniel were gathering information as always but Daniel made a blunder that attracted too much attention from the Order and invoked their wrath. It seems Daniel was confronted by operatives of the Order as he expected but not by the ones he was expecting. Charlie believed he was confused about the situation. He shouted something to Charlie who fled the scene and got cornered by police officers who proceeded to interrogate him. Six weeks later, Charlie got a message from Daniel's boyfriend who had a contact for Charlie and told him Daniel had some hidden information left in his apartment that was left over from his research. Charlie left it at a dead drop in Massachusetts for Chris and Alex.