I recall hearing that the WTC hijackers spent some nights before the big operation in a strip club.
I think jihadi murder wipes out all prior sins. It also throws the cops off your trail.
How long before his act was he drinking heavily? How long before was he wearing that cross? How often was he seen in a church? Maybe he wore it because it was gold—another way to store value. Maybe he wore it as camouflage.
He didn’t, couldn’t have made that kind of money off the back of a Las Vegas casino.
He was laundering money the old fashioned way, real estate and gambling. Maybe the gambling took over and he came up short? What then? Maybe somebody bailed him out, gave him perks, showed him the way, and pinned him in a corner.
There are two organization that come to mind, who would have that kind of money to launder. Both are ruthless. A debt to them would be a death sentence to your entire family and circle of friends. Maybe they’d let you live a while longer to see it go down. Of course they might offer an option: killing somebody else. If you do the job(s) and get away, you’re clear. The odds of that are nil, but if a guy thinks he’s smart enough...
Finally, you have to figure who they’d want you to take out. One organization would send you after a specific target, the other would want a lot of random deaths; it would favor bombs and fire. It would want chaos and terror.
Stephen delivered, but it didn’t quite work out like he hoped.
Have any of you seen Ozark? Seems this could be a situation like that.
If some group did force this guy to do this for some reason they certainly covered up any connection in a professional way. That he is such a blank slate lends credence to exactly what you are saying - looks like a job he was told to do.
Maybe he was recently diagnosed with a terminal disease and decided to go postal for no other reason than he was an A-hole, or maybe follow the money- who benefits from an attack like this? It’s Hegelian Dialectic Problem Reaction Solution.
I thought for sure he was a libtard until it was revealed he cased other music festivals. I don’t think he needed help to do this, but it does seem very possible he was forced to do it for some reason. What is a person capable of if their entire family is threatened? Is that why the brother acts so strange? Does he know Stephen had to do this and why? That would explain his strange behavior in interviews.
Will we ever know? Doubtful.