Posted on 10/02/2017 10:09:49 AM PDT by oh8eleven
The father of Las Vegas madman Stephen Paddock was a “psychopath” himself — a bank robber who escaped federal prison in the late 1960s and landed on the FBI’s most-wanted list, according to reports.
Paddock’s dad was serial felon Benjamin Haskins Paddock, according to the Daily Mail and a tweet from NBC.
Benjamin Paddock had been locked up in 1960 for robbing an Arizona bank, escaped in 1968 and spent nearly three years on the run before the FBI caught up to him in Las Vegas in 1971, at which point he tried to run down an agent with his car, according to archival editions of the Tuscon Daily Citizen.
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Nut doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Took the words from my keyboard.
Careful - there are quite a few Stephen Paddocks out there.
So the father was a criminal.... His son was a “dreamer” then...
Spending one’s tender years with a psycho can be damaging too.
Neither environment nor heredity seem to be reliable though, maybe it’s a combination plus, of course, free will.
Do we even know the occupation of the shooter yet ???? or what he did before retiring ???
See the thread one up from this one.
It answers your questions.
The father looks like Raymond Reddington (James Spader - The Blacklist).
“Prison escapee to stand trial on bank charge”. The Register-Guard. September 15, 1978. p. 17.
At what level of criminality is the perpetrator’s middle name to be used?
His father warrants it. All the John Wayne _____’s qualify, but leftist mass murderers don’t?
He was an accountant.
The more I read/hear, the more I’m leaning toward he was a patsy. The bad guys picked a lone drunk dude who had a room on the preferred side of the hotel. I’d be interested to see when the autopsy puts his time of death.
The windows the “lone” shooter was firing from were too far from each other to be the same room. Fishy.
Wonder if he was related to the original owner of Paddock Pools here in Az.
“Careful - there are quite a few Stephen Paddocks out there”
I know, I see democrat look alikes all over the place.
“Do we even know the occupation of the shooter yet ???? or what he did before retiring ???”
Rental property manager and gambler.
He had a large suite.
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Easy enough to do if someone wanted access to a room on that side.
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