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Seasoned law enforcement and military experts contacted by The Daily Caller News Foundation have expressed serious doubts about the thoroughness of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s preliminary report about the deadliest mass shooting in American history. [Snip] Here are some of the more important questions TheDCNF experts said were not properly addressed by the police. Still Unanswered: What Was Paddock’s Motive?Hosko, a former top FBI official, was blunt in his assessment. "They haven’t gone into the why," he said. "Tell me more about what was driving this guy. They interviewed many witnesses. What did they say? That part's not...

Police Department. It is shocking to find that the coroner says Stephen Paddock died one day after he committed suicide. “The autopsy report indicates they recovered a moderately deformed copper jacketed gray metal missile and fragment of copper jacket and gray metal between the occipital dura and partly into occipital skull. No corresponding exit. Trajectory front-to-back and upward.” The following is Stephen Paddock’s autopsy report: http://baltimorepostexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2.pdf This is the police report: https://www.scribd.com/document/369536524/Oct-1-Report http://baltimorepostexaminer.com/las-vegas-coroner-stephen-paddock-died-one-day-committed-suicide/2018/02/11 http://baltimorepostexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/1.pdf “ According to the Clark County Coroner Autopsy Report, Case Number: 17-10064, an autopsy examination was performed on the body tentatively identified as Paddock, Stephen Craig...

There is more strangeness coming out of Las Vegas with each new day. Stephen Paddock told a prostitute he feared he was an “experiment.” He, also, told her he was born with “bad blood.” She went on to say he performed bizarre sexual acts on her, and now she is missing. She told girls after work that she was scared something would happen to her. Paddock paid her $6,000 a night, and she said she had been with him the night of October 1, 2017. We know that the room service ticket showed he had two people in his room...

Search warrant records unsealed Tuesday show that in the first hours after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, Las Vegas police and FBI agents identified two people of interest along with the lone gunman, Stephen Paddock. The name of one of those people is blacked out in the court records. The other is Paddock's girlfriend, Marilou Danley. She was in the Philippines at the time of the attack and is cooperating with investigators.

Dozens of new photos were just released from the Vegas shooting investigation which provide a chilling look inside the room and vehicle of Stephen Paddock. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department finally released a substantial amount of information this week in the form of 28 crime scene photographs. The photos show the alleged shooter’s room, vehicle, security setup, and even the infamous note. While these photos give us more insight into the shooting, they also leave us with many more questions.

Las Vegas sheriff Joe Lombardo revealed that there is an ongoing FBI case against an “individual of federal interest” other than Stephen Paddock or his girlfriend Marilou Danley. Paddock opened fire on a country music festival on Oct. 1, 2017, from a room in the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, killing 58 people and injuring 546.

Investigators scanning computers belonging to Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock found “numerous” child pornography photos, the city’s sheriff revealed Friday, adding that the FBI is looking into a person of interest in the case. It was Joe Lombardo’s first press conference since Oct. 13, 2017. Police also released a 81-page preliminary investigative report on the shooting Friday, containing new photographs of Paddock's hotel suite and online searches he conducted before the attack, such as for SWAT tactics and other potential public venue targets. Craig Fiegener ✔ @CraigNews3LV “I’ve lost a lot of sleep over this,” bemoans Sheriff Joe Lombardo, of...

Child porn found on Paddocks computer. They still say he was lone shooter. Still investigating.

People have been asking since day 1 how on earth Stephen Paddock made his money. The "Professional Gambling" explanation obviously makes no sense. Guess we know the real answer now? Page 7, in the Search Warrant, seems like the smoking gun. Why hasn't the FBI or Las Vegas Police Department mentioned this? It describes an email exchange that could be read as Paddock selling arms to someone. It could also be read as him telling a buddy that there's a lot of firing ranges in Las Vegas with automatic weapons and/or bump stocks to try. The FBI seems to think...

The hunt for a second or third gunman in the Mandalay Bay Massacre in Las Vegas appears to be over, at least as far as the FBI is concerned. Whether premature or not. FBI officials told True Pundit late Thursday the focus of the case now is zoned in solely on Stephen Paddock as the lone gunman, per a directive from FBI headquarters in Washington D.C. The directive came as a shock, as FBI insiders said they were pursuing leads that while Paddock was sniping innocent victims from his 32nd-floor perch at Mandalay Bay, another gunman wielding an AR-15...

An hour before Las Vegas cops released Stephen Paddock’s name, Danley deleted her Facebook account, according to newly released documents about the Oct. 1 mass murder of 58 people attending an outdoor country music concert on the Strip. Danley was traveling in the Philippines when Paddock unleashed the bullet barrage from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay resort. When he was finally done with unleashing mayhem on thousands of innocents, he took his own life. Danley was “adamant that she had no prior inclination of Paddock’s intentions to conduct the attack,” says an FBI agent’s affidavit. But the documents...

On Friday a federal judge made public hundreds of pages of court documents that had been filed by the FBI in the days and weeks after the Las Vegas concert shooting. The judge did so in response to a lawsuit filed by CNN and several media organizations. On Sunday October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire on concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. The shooting left 58 dead and another 546 injured in the deadliest mass shooting by an individual in US history. Investigative journalist Laura Loomer posted a page from the report on...

FBI agents knew the gunman behind the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history left behind big caches of guns, ammunition and explosives when they sought warrants to search his properties and online accounts, according to court documents released Friday. A U.S. judge in Nevada unsealed the documents showing some of what federal agents learned about Stephen Paddock in the week after the Las Vegas shooting. Prosecutors didn't oppose the request from media organizations including The Associated Press to release affidavits that were filed to get search warrants.

Marilou Danley, the girlfriend of the Las Vegas shooter, informed authorities she occasionally helped Stephen Paddock load ammunition into magazines and, as a result, her fingerprints were probably on some bullets, according to unsealed court documents. No evidence suggested “criminal involvement” by Danley at the time the Oct. 3 document was published, but investigators also did not rule out the possibility. Danley was out of the country in the Philippines to visit her family when the Oct. 1 attack occurred. The documents appear to show Paddock exchanged emails about purchasing rifles and bump stocks several months before the attack. A...

If FBI brass was trying to bury the alleged investigation into the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay massacre, that task just got much harder. According to FBI sources with direct knowledge of the FBI probe of the Oct. 1 deadly shooting, federal agents have not seen any surveillance video showing alleged gunman Stephen Paddock loading up his hotel suite with rifles and ammunition.“No one has seen that on the video we were provided by MGM,” a FBI source said. “Vegas (PD) has looked at the same video. Paddock is on surveillance video but the guns are not. He’s not carrying...

During Paddock’s stay at the hotel, room service and housekeeping “had contact with Paddock or entered his suite more than 10 times,” according to a statement sent to CNN from MGM Resorts International, which owns the Nevada hotel. The Las Vegas Review-Journal first reported the extent of the hotel staff’s interactions with the gunman. Paddock opened fire from his 32nd-floor hotel room onto a crowd attending an outdoor country musical festival. He killed himself before police breached his hotel room door. Hotel staff performs a welfare check “after two consecutive days where a Do-Not-Disturb sign has been displayed on the door,”...

Saudi princes and businessmen rounded up in a corruption crackdown have begun handing over funds and assets to pay for their freedom, two people briefed on the process say. Several billions of dollars had already been handed over to the government, one of them said, as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman seeks to recover at least $100bn through the crackdown. More than 200 people, including some of Saudi Arabia’s richest businessmen, have been detained at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh since an anti-graft operation was launched this month. The Financial Times revealed that the authorities are negotiating settlements under which...

Gunman Stephen Paddock fired more than 1,100 rounds the night of the Las Vegas shooting, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Wednesday. The new total includes about 200 rounds fired from Paddock’s Mandalay Bay corner suite and into the hallway of the 32nd floor late Oct. 1, injuring hotel security guard Jesus Campos... Investigators have not determined why Paddock stopped shooting. Lombardo said they found about 4,000 more rounds of unused ammunition in the gunman’s suite. The sheriff also mentioned that “multiple weapons” had jammed

Gunman Stephen Paddock lost a large amount of wealth in the two years before the Oct. 1 shooting on the Strip, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said in an interview with a local television station. Lombardo told KLAS-TV, Channel 8, that Paddock’s wealth fluctuated because of gambling, real estate transactions and “everything else that he chose to do.” Paddock lost a large amount of money after September 2015, the sheriff said. Lombardo speculated that the financial losses might have contributed to Paddock’s decision to spray a country music festival with bullets, killing 58 people and injuring more than 500 others....

A month into the investigation of why Stephen Paddock indiscriminately rained gunfire on thousands of concert attendees, killing 58 and injuring hundreds at the Route 91 Harvest festival, investigators maintain that there is “absolutely” no indication the gunman was ideologically driven or affiliated with any international or domestic terror or hate group. But investigators have made significant strides. “We do know a lot more (about Paddock) than when we started,” Rouse told the Las Vegas Sun Wednesday afternoon. “I feel like we are going in the correct direction to understand why this happened.” Asked if investigators have pinpointed a possible...