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Las Vegas shooter's laptop missing its hard drive
ABC go ^ | Oct 25, 2017, 12:15 PM ET | Jake Date, Mike Levine, Pierre Thomas

Posted on 10/25/2017 9:50:07 AM PDT by DCBryan1

A laptop computer recovered from the Las Vegas hotel room where Stephen Paddock launched the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history was missing its hard drive, depriving investigators of a potential key source of information on why he killed and maimed so many people, ABC News has learned.

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To: Red Badger

>>IF THE LAPTOP HAD NO HARD DRIVE, WHY DID HE HAVE IT IN THE HOTEL ROOM IN THE FIRST PLACE? IT WOULD HAVE BEEN USELESS DEAD WEIGHT.................
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Exactly!!!


101 posted on 10/25/2017 11:35:00 AM PDT by Kalamata (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: DCBryan1

A laptop without a hard drive is a brick. Was he planning on throwing it at someone, or was it removed to cover up something. Is there any other logical explanation?


102 posted on 10/25/2017 11:38:45 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: Wiser now

“...Somebody else is behind this. Somebody with a political agenda, and this is not the only shooting commissioned by this somebody either....”

Antifa and BLM have sure been quiet since that shooting. IMHO, it all rolls back to the UniParty...and Soros. It’s their hatred for all things American...and Trump. They have to bury it because IF got out to the public what was really going on, every UniParty member in corrupt DC would be liable.


103 posted on 10/25/2017 11:39:39 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: DCBryan1

How was the shooter viewing these remote cameras in the hallway, presumably Bluetooth or WIFI, if not with the laptop?

Let me guess, the laptop went to the FBI lab?


104 posted on 10/25/2017 11:40:13 AM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: C210N

105 posted on 10/25/2017 11:43:27 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: DCBryan1

http://www.foxla.com/news/local-news/brother-of-vegas-shooter-arrested-in-n-hollywood-for-child-porn-sources-confirm

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-bruce-paddock-20171025-htmlstory.html


106 posted on 10/25/2017 11:45:17 AM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: DCBryan1; SkyPilot; Roman_War_Criminal; null and void

Obviously, the laptop had a center fuel tank which spontaneously exploded, destroying the hard drive.

Makes perfect sense; the science is settled.


107 posted on 10/25/2017 11:54:25 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: C210N

So, it just disappeared?

No, bleachbit? no hammer? no cloth?
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Wasn’t there was a hammer pictured in the room? ha!

Were the cameras downloading to the laptop like GoPros do? Guess we’ll never know since it went missing.....


108 posted on 10/25/2017 11:54:28 AM PDT by Ms Mable
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To: Brown Deer

If I am not mistaken, the same company that owns the hotel owns ABC, and Ellen probably has more viewers than the nightly news now-a-days. It was a simple business decision to x out the competing news orgs, IMO.


109 posted on 10/25/2017 11:58:06 AM PDT by Turbo Pig (To close with and destroy....)
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To: Brown Deer
Why was the security guard describing what happened to Ellen? Is she now ABC news?

Because Ellen has financial ties to Mandalay Bay. She even has her own Ellen slot machines there.

They put him on the Ellen show to make sure he sticks to the official Mandalay Bay approved narrative, and to make sure they have a friendly interviewer who won't ask any unapproved questions.
110 posted on 10/25/2017 11:58:22 AM PDT by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: cdga5for4

You don’t believe in criminal conspiracies? Or you only believe in the ones officially sanctioned by government authorities?


111 posted on 10/25/2017 11:59:53 AM PDT by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: Jimmy The Snake

So no hard drive but brother gets busted for kid porn. Pizza connection?
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Philippine children perhaps? I suspect $100,000 was sent to the woman for something along this line.


112 posted on 10/25/2017 12:00:37 PM PDT by Ms Mable
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To: DCBryan1

This is no biggy... Whenever I travel, I always take the hard drive out of my laptop.


113 posted on 10/25/2017 12:03:05 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Kalamata; Red Badger

If we are looking for the most simple and least nefarious explanation, then we would say that there was a hard drive in it at some point and he was using it, but the hard drive was removed. Again, most simple explanation: Paddock himself removed it before the shooting and disposed of it somewhere offsite.

There are other explanations. He could have been using an external drive of some kind. The drive (internal or external) could have been lost or misplaced by the authorities. An accomplice or accomplices could have taken it, etc., etc.


114 posted on 10/25/2017 12:03:26 PM PDT by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: veracious

[Deep darkness has filled the land]

I will say, the country definitely went down a rabbit hole with The Manchurian Candidate. The “weird” level really took off from 2008 on. A Rainbow White House, Stonewall Inn a national monument (really? - talk about flying in the face of God) - and people cheering it on. People shrug their shoulders about the skyrocketing debt. An organized propaganda effort against a legally-elected President. Criminal thugs allowed to go on looting, setting fires and assaulting without severe retribution? (not as much lately in mass numbers).

These are times I never expected to see in the U.S.A.


115 posted on 10/25/2017 12:03:33 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Some don’t believe it; they will.


116 posted on 10/25/2017 12:06:18 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: caligatrux

True. It’s when piece after piece of oddities occur, they begin to form a pattern.


117 posted on 10/25/2017 12:07:26 PM PDT by Kalamata (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: DCBryan1

Can you imagine being the family of the murdered and hearing all this crud?


118 posted on 10/25/2017 12:10:36 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: huldah1776

I would be furious. Especially after the break-in at Paddock’s house.


119 posted on 10/25/2017 12:13:38 PM PDT by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: PTBAA

My TinFoil Hat is like the ‘Cat in the Hat!’

Bet he left a slice of pizza on top of his laptop, as a mocking clue for FBI.


120 posted on 10/25/2017 12:13:48 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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