So, what, can't he walk where he wants? Between her and the Mrs. Kravitz lady, he had some weird neighbors.
If the paint easel was Marilou's then she didn't pack all her stuff and leave like the neighbor's say.
Ok, we can see where the feds are leading us. He had a medical problem. That brain tumor the brother said off the cuff or mental problems passed on from his dad's DNA.
I can’t speak to how he got his money(but real estate is a valid assumption)
But the reason for this horrendous act has been staring at us from nearly the start(IMHO)
Res Ipsa Loquitor
(The act speaks for itself)
Allow me to explain my theory.
Every father wants his son to do better than he did and every son wants to prove to the old man that his is every bit as good as he and maybe better.
He had no wife, no children and no family business to pass on to his heirs.
The guy is a schuck. Sure he made some serious dough(from whatever source) but he had no legacy.
Now there are plenty of childless men out there but how many men had fathers who were on the FBI Ten most Wanted List?
HIS father achieved “fame” by being a bank robber and an escaped convict. Thus Paddock decided to go into the “family business” and “do better” than his old man in one giant “Cl%sterf$ck”
Bank robbers are a dime a dozen and to gain headlines and the attention of the American Conscience for years to come his “Opus Grande” would take the Wagnerian route, a.k.a. Hitler, kill as many people then off oneself.
Hey, if you cannot succeed big, fail big! (It worked for Madoff!)
He couldn’t up his father’s crime by himself(wasn’t that smart and it would take others to pull off an “Ocean’s Eleven robbery” Plus failure at this point meant spending the rest of his life in prison so that wasn’t an option.
It is all the explanation we will ever get.
Not politics.
Not major grievances
No vast conspiracies to undo America, the casinos or the Republican Party
Just an aging nobody who wanted to be somebody.