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Who is Stephen Paddock? Multimillionaire Las Vegas shooter, 64, was a hunting enthusiast, licensed
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 10/2/17 | dailymail staff

Posted on 10/02/2017 2:06:54 PM PDT by ColdOne

Full title.....................Who is Stephen Paddock? Multimillionaire Las Vegas shooter, 64, was a hunting enthusiast, licensed pilot and gambler with no criminal record who owned a $400,000 home in Nevada retirement community........................The man suspected of opening fire at concertgoers attending a country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday night was a local resident with no prior criminal convictions in the state of Nevada.

Stephen Paddock, 64, lived just 90 minutes outside Las Vegas in the city of Mesquite, where he purchased a home in a retirement community for just over $369,000 in 2015 according to public records.

He lived there with his 62-year-old girlfriend Marilou Danley, the same woman police announced they were seeking to question on Sunday night as they began their investigation into the horrific terror attack.

Paddock had both hunting and fishing licenses according to public records, as well as his pilot's license, but no criminal record in the state of Nevada.

The retired accountant had worked as an internal auditor at Lockheed Martin for three years in the late 1980s, and was a manager and investor in apartment complexes located in Mesquite, Texas and California which made him millions according to his brother.

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KEYWORDS: gambling; lvmassacre; mandalaymassacre; millionaires; paddock; paddockbio; stephenpaddock
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To: madison10

***Mental health problems can be hereditary.***

I remember a couple who hanged themselves, in the same barn or room their dads hanged themselves.


261 posted on 10/02/2017 4:45:48 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: nickcarraway

how is the “13” tattoo on the neck being explained.


262 posted on 10/02/2017 4:46:27 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: ColdOne

I bet he was a bigtime Democrat and wanted revenge on Trump Voters who didn’t vote for Hillary. I bet most in the consert were Trump Voters—Just saying—its a theory.


263 posted on 10/02/2017 4:46:28 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Davy Crocket

He obviously had plenty of time to bring everything in a little at a time so as not to arouse too many suspicions.


264 posted on 10/02/2017 4:50:08 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Windflier

Possibly. That sort of thing is being asserted but so far there are no specifics (that I have seen) about what buildings he owned where etc., whether he really was so successful in the ways claimed, etc. It’s all pretty vague so far. How do we “know” that he was not a drug runner & money launderer (or in other criminal enterprises) who used real estate as a front to handle proceeds from his nasty doings? I don’t think we yet know a whole lot about the guy.

He lived in a LOT of places, reportedly. Given that his father was a rather notorious bank robber and prison escapee, there is plenty of reason to wonder if Stephen took after the old man in any way.


265 posted on 10/02/2017 4:51:08 PM PDT by Enchante ( I lost my tagline, has anyone found it???)
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To: Yardstick

+ Makes perfect sense.


266 posted on 10/02/2017 4:59:03 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever)
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To: TheConservativeParty

Apparently, crazy runs in the family. Maybe kept under control with drugs for the most part.


Paddock the son of Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, a serial bank robber who ended up on the FBI Most Wanted list back in 1969 when he escaped from federal prison in Texas while serving a 20 years sentence.

The FBI kept him on the list for the next eight years, and he was eventually found one year after he was removed from the list in 1978 while outside an Oregon Bingo hall.

The agency said that the fugitive had been ‘diagnosed as psychopathic’ and also had possible ‘suicidal tendencies.’


267 posted on 10/02/2017 4:59:14 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Windflier
He does not seem to have established any stable long-term base of operations -- This seems remarkable to me for someone supposedly highly successful in real estate investing:

"In total, Paddock had lived in an astonishing 27 residences in Nevada, Florida and Texas over the course of his adult life."
268 posted on 10/02/2017 5:05:00 PM PDT by Enchante ( I lost my tagline, has anyone found it???)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

The idea I see as the most plausible is the money angle - that his financial situation was a house of cards, and was collapsing on him, and he “blamed society”, and in particular Las Vegas, and this was his revenge against Las Vegas and the world. As for killing all those people - it meant nothing to him - it was just the most horrible thing he could think of to do.


269 posted on 10/02/2017 5:08:31 PM PDT by dr_lew (I)
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To: posterchild

The guy in the Austin school tower had a brain tumor


270 posted on 10/02/2017 5:27:29 PM PDT by mom4melody (,)
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To: Enchante
He does not seem to have established any stable long-term base of operations -- This seems remarkable to me for someone supposedly highly successful in real estate investing

It actually isn't, when you consider the fact that most investors who own multi family rental properties, don't actually manage them themselves.

At that level of the real estate game it's all mailbox money. You have no need to maintain a stable base because you're essentially independently wealthy. That sort of business mostly runs on auto-pilot.

271 posted on 10/02/2017 6:13:02 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Enchante
...so far there are no specifics (that I have seen) about what buildings he owned where etc., whether he really was so successful in the ways claimed, etc. It’s all pretty vague so far.

True, true. It'll be awhile before all the hard facts are in on this guy.

I'm only going on what I've seen reported, thus far.

272 posted on 10/02/2017 6:18:20 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: smokingfrog

I think this evil being was a deranged Trump hater and knew most at the concert would be conservatives. Just like the demonrat that shot the congressmen, they were both hunting republicans.

The lying media and democrats have whipped up their followers and the nuts are cracking up.

I’d bet the farm the guy was a lifelong democrat. I have no doubt at all.

I found out this afternoon that a young relative of mine was there with her husband. They ran for their lives and were unhurt physically but are very shaken up.


273 posted on 10/02/2017 7:05:01 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty (Battlecry "COVFEFE !")
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To: JediJones
Alfred Pennyworth: "Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn."

These words many be from a movie, but it makes them no less true and I am surpised how many don't believe that there are such people in the world. They are misable lonely haters of people, all people and eventually they decide they want to see what comes next so the pull the pin on the grenade and step into a crowd, because hey if nothing comes next they don't want to be the only one paying the price.
274 posted on 10/02/2017 10:12:52 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: ColdOne; SunkenCiv; Ann Archy

Added to this research / discussion thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3591183/posts?page=194#194


275 posted on 10/03/2017 6:10:56 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Support gun control so that undocumented border crossers can sell machine guns.)
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To: Objective Scrutator

He didn’t have a Facebook page and the picture of him at a rally was a random old dude.


276 posted on 10/03/2017 9:23:19 AM PDT by WVMnteer
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To: Yardstick

I agree with you. It looks like he was expecting compatriots who would use some of the weapons.


277 posted on 10/03/2017 11:13:09 AM PDT by syriacus
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To: madison10; ColdOne; All
Wow. Motive is NOT apparent here,

Perhaps the fired CBS exec
has inadvertently identified
the Motive:

"Kill Trump Voters"

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
278 posted on 10/04/2017 10:03:36 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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