[cornfedcowboy]

He apparently had never met his father. And the father was once in the FBI top ten most wanted.

[Enchante]

"He apparently had never met his father."

Where did you see that? I don't think it's true (but a lot of info is uncertain right now). One article said the parents and 4 kids lived together in Arizona as of 1961, when Stephen (the perp) would have been around 8 years old. Then the father was in and out of prison for years, and went on the lam after a prison escape. So it may well be true that it was a very broken family due to the father's criminal career, but we don't know what correspondence and meetings there might (or might not) have been over the years. It's quite possible he didn't have too much a relationship with his father after age 8 (or even before), but from what I've read they had some kind of family home in the early years.

[sorry I don't recall at this moment where I read about the family's life in the 1960s, I will try to find it, wasn't very detailed but the article certainly did not suggest that Stephen did not know his father at all]

[petitfour]

http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/100217_paddock_tucson/vegas-massacre-gunman-grew-up-tucson-father-was-fbi-most-wanted-list/