Suspect's (Padilla's) years in South Florida were troubled

The Miami Herald ^ | 6/11/02 | WANDA J. DeMARZO, BETH REINHARD AND MARTIN MERZER

[Fred Mertz]

At the time [age 21], Padilla was described as being 5-feet-10 inches tall and weighing 170 pounds.

Does this match the John Doe #2 stats?

[Clemenza]

Don't mean to be too hard on Broward. Remember the Dade/Broward/Palm Beach are the axis of evil of the Sunshine State.

Despite a shared identity, at least to outsiders, I always found it interesting that none of those counties want anything to do with one another. Palm Beach looks down on Broward, which looks down on Dade, etc...

[TankerKC]

John Doe from OKC

[TankerKC]

Jose Ali Bomber

[TankerKC]

New Thread on this resemblance. ^

[browardchad]

Thanks.

I’m not an expert on OKC (though there are many on FR) but here’s a thread with the “trial evidence” drawing (Post #140) of the “middle eastern” man.

From various other sources:

"One resident told Dallas FBI Agent Jim Ellis that the driver was “clean-shaven, with an olive complexion, dark wavy hair, and broad shoulders,”

“foreign-looking man with an olive complexion and thick black curly hair poking out of a ball cap”

I'll leave the rest to the experts...

[stimulate]

Answers to what?

[aristeides]

After his release from jail in 1992, Padilla continued to get in occasional scrapes with the law until he left Florida in 1998 for overseas, authorities said. He is believed to have lived and traveled in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Middle East, officials said.

He was on probation from Aug. 5, 1992, to Aug. 4, 1993, in Broward County, according to Sterling Ivey, spokesman for the Florida Department of Corrections.

[aristeides]

FYI.

[aristeides]

FYI.

[hchutch]

Okay, given this, and the resemblance to the sketch of John Doe #2, we need to take a closer look at that possibility. This might not be much, but it's worth a much closer look at this point in time, IMHO.