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Stephen Paddock gambled large sums of money, kept child pornography on his computer and purchased more than 55 weapons in the year leading up to the largest mass shooting in modern American history.
The last sighting came when police breached the door at the Mandalay Bay and found him in a long sleeve brown shirt, black pants, black gloves and gray shoes — dead.
originally posted by: kurthall
a reply to: TheAiIsLying
Yes, he does exist, and he was the shooter. I am not going to look at the photos of his dead body again to look at the earlobes though.
Why not? It's the whole point. If the guy who's lying dead in the photos has unattached earlobes and Paddock has attached earlobes then it's not him. You can't change that.
As to what the hell actually happened, well take your pick. The story has changed so many times that it's descended into farce a long time ago.
originally posted by: ClovenSky
Wait a second, didn't they claim that his hard drive was missing from the computer? Did he have more than one PC with him?
This is getting ridiculous. I don't think the truth will see the light of day.
originally posted by: ARM1968
originally posted by: ClovenSky
Wait a second, didn't they claim that his hard drive was missing from the computer? Did he have more than one PC with him?
This is getting ridiculous. I don't think the truth will see the light of day.
Yes. They absolutely said the hard drive was missing.
This is such an obvious and consistent ploy. People still fall for it. Clearly building a narrative. The truth will never be known here.
Paddock is believed to have removed the hard drive before fatally shooting himself, and the missing device has not yet been recovered, sources told ABC News.
Investigators digging into Paddock’s background also learned he purchased software designed to erase files from a hard drive, but without the hard drive to examine it is impossible to know if he ever used the software, one source said.
The absence of substantial digital clues has left investigators struggling to piece together what triggered Paddock to kill 58 innocent concertgoers and injure more than 500 others on Oct. 1.
Four laptops were found in Paddock's rooms, along with three cell phones. The report showed Paddock had searched other sites that he might have also been looking to target. Searches included Fenway Park in Boston, "summer concerts 2017" and "biggest open air concert venues in USA." Another query found on a laptop asked: "How crowded does Santa Monica Beach get?"
One laptop included "several hundred images" of child pornography on the hard drive. After the shooting, Paddock's brother, Bruce Paddock, was arrested in Los Angeles for possessing child pornography.
Dave Newton: I saw a few phones-- laptops, a couple laptops he had in there. A lot of drills-- drill bits, all kinds of tools
originally posted by: TheAiIsLying
a reply to: MotherMayEye
OMG! There's now 4 laptops? That has never been mentioned anywhere, not even offhandedly. This is yet another attempt at quietly changing the narrative.
The last OS had the central theme that we'll never know because he had a laptop but somehow managed to remove it AFTER he'd shot up everyone, despite no mention of a screwdriver anywhere, and then placed it in a wormhole so it now doesn't exist.
Bit hard to find child porn on a non-existent hard drive so now there's 4! Yeah, that makes sense. I routinely carry around 4 laptops. So what's on the other 2?
The sad thing about this whole event is that it's being memory holed. There's so much Trump garbage being flung around in the media that no one seems to be interested in following this up at all. Biggest, loudest mass shooting in the US ever and it's like it never happened!