Girlfriend Of Las Vegas Shooter Stephen Paddock Returns To U.S. From Philippines

[Purveyor]

Source: NY Daily News

The girlfriend of Las Vegas attacker Stephen Paddock was greeted by FBI agents after returning to U.S. soil from the Philippines.

Marilou Danley landed at Los Angeles International Airport around 7:30 p.m. local time Tuesday after a 13-hour flight from Manila, flight records show.

A Philippine immigration official said she left Manila on Philippine Air Lines flight 102.

Danley chose to fly back to the U.S. to clear her name of wrongdoing, a police official said, after her boyfriend, Paddock, launched the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. The gunman’s highrise massacre at a country music festival left 58 innocent people before he took his own life.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/girlfriend-las-vegas-shooter-stephen-paddock-returns-u-s-article-1.3539817

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Las Vegas Shooting: Gunman’s Girlfriend Arrives in U.S. and Is Expected to Be Questioned

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/us/las-vegas-shooting-live-updates.html

[ChubbyStar]

1. Must have been a hell of a greeting

Marilou has some talking to do.

[Purveyor]

2. Well at least she returned. I was doubtful that she would. eom

[ChubbyStar]

3. Yes thank goodness

Some insight from her will be helpful I am sure.

[TomCADem]

4. Think of Scott Dekraai Mass Shooting. May be due Domestic Dispute

Scott Dekraai was just sentenced for a mass shooting that was due to him going on a killing spree out of anger relating to his divorce.

http://www.ocregister.com/2011/10/14/seal-beach-shooting-court-documents-show-bitter-custody-dispute/

ORANGE – Court documents show Scott Dekraai and his wife, Michelle Fournier, had a strained relationship after their divorce in December 2007, which evolved into a heated child custody battle over their 7-year-old son in the past year or so.

Dekraai and Fournier were married in 2003, separated in 2006 and he filed for divorce, according to the documents. Dekraai alleged that Fournier was making harassing and threatening phone calls to him and his parents and that her behavior escalated and got progressively worse since he filed for divorce, according to documents he filed in connection with the divorce.

He stated that her conversations with his parents were often punctuated with expletives. During a phone conversation, he states, Fournier said to his father: “You are all loony toons. You better all shave your heads because I am going to get social workers and have all of you drug-tested.”

Fournier said in court records that Dekraai was not only diagnosed bipolar, but was also “physically abusive” to her during their marriage.

[SergeStorms]

10. He'd been divorced....

twice before though, so he was no stranger to relationships that didn't work out. I sincerely hope she can shed some light on that horrible man's actions. I sort of feel sorry for her though. She's going to be grilled unmercifully for an extended period of time, and some of those people can be downright hostile in their questioning. She'll never be able to escape the residue of this terrible event though. It'll be a dark cloud over her head for the rest of her life, even if she had absolutely nothing to do with it.

[SoCalMusicLover]

5. Possible Theory

She bailed on him, and went back to family in the Philippines. In an attempt to get her back, he sent her $100K. When she still refused, he went on his rampage.

Well, it's all a complete unknown right now.

[renegade000]

6. definitely plausible

Still wondering how he got all that money...

[OnDoutside]

7. Since there was so little known about him, yet he had plenty

Of money, I had been wondering if he was a contract killer.

[ChubbyStar]

9. Holy shit. I think you are on to something n/t

[OnDoutside]

11. I wouldn't even go there except for a case here in

Ireland where a woman attempted to bring in a contract killer from Las Vegas.

Here is the info on it.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/i-regret-not-doing-the-job-i-wish-id-done-it-lying-eyes-hitman-on-murder-contract-from-sharon-collins-to-kill-her-partner-businessman-and-his-sons-30912311.html

[ChubbyStar]

12. Shit that is a convoluted tale!

If fuck face shooter was a hired gun, it would explain the vapor background, loads of guns, and ability to mow people down without compunction.

[OnDoutside]

14. It probably won't turn out that way but it's plausible enough when you consider the amount of

weaponry, lack of knowledge of his background, and above all, the detail planning of this atrocity that he would have done beforehand.

[Pachamama]

15. +1000

This serious possibility occurred to me on Monday morning when I heard about the details of the shooting and the more that there was discussion about how this man Stephen Paddock had lived relatively low profile, but had a lot of money and was pretty much an "unknown" with no official military background, yet lots of cash and worked as a military contractor/auditor/accountant.

It wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility that this man was a trained assassin and that he either "lost it" (especially given his biological fathers reported mental illness) and this was his goodbye.....and he knew a lot and therefore wasn't going to be alive when this was all done.

Remember the movie "The Accountant"?

The movie is even appropriately named...Stephen Paddock was "an accountant"...he also had an awful lot of weapons and he set up the perimeter around the hotel room and suite very very professionally and methodically and very covertly and quickly. That isn't something that you just read about on the internet or books and then execute.

[OnDoutside]

16. +1 Yes this was clearly well planned out, this wasn't just a random act.

[yardwork]

27. Maybe Paddock got the idea from the movie.

[Not Ruth]

29. Excellent find

[Act_of_Reparation]

31. I spend most of my time in the religion forum.

I clarify that so you understand my meaning when I say, "This is the most ridiculous idea I have heard in a very, very long time."

[Pachamama]

34. You are entitled to your opinions

As am I....

Thanks for calling me ridiculous - first time I have been called that by a fellow DUer....always a first...

Maybe you should stay within your religion forum - as someone who grew up with a family that includes members in the intelligence community and even a family member who worked for years for Dyncorp - I can assure you that this isn't such a ridiculous idea I suggested....

[Act_of_Reparation]

35. Yes, I am.

And yes you are. But you are not entitled to your own reality, I'm afraid.

Maybe you should stay within your religion forum - as someone who grew up with a family that includes members in the intelligence community and even a family member who worked for years for Dyncorp - I can assure you that this isn't such a ridiculous idea I suggested....

I grew up with a family that includes biochemists and biologists. That doesn't mean I'm going to start reviewing NIH grant applications anytime soon.

[Pachamama]

37. Now you insult and attack me further by accusing me of living in my own reality?

I made a suggestion....a hypothesis based on known facts...facts such as the type of armory that Stephen Paddock had, the way he set up the perimeter with cameras and the speed and not being noticed, the known facts about how he lived his life and his former employment including for defense contractors. A hypothesis is a suggestion based on known facts. It has yet to be proven - it was a suggestion.

And by the way - there are many people who review grant applications and are not necessarily experts in that field that they review. Their expertise is in reviewing facts and details about peoples backgrounds and deciding whether they are qualified based on their resume to receive funding. Also - many a hypothesis has been made over centuries even about biological concepts by people not trained in the sciences. Your analogy makes no sense.

Stop with the personal attacks. Lets just leave it as you disagree with my hypothesis and move on.

[ucrdem]

17. And if he was a hitman was this a hit, and if it was who ordered it?

I've been wondering the same thing.

[ChubbyStar]

18. Maybe he went batshit and fucked something up himself?

Who knows?

[OnDoutside]

19. I doubt it was an ordered hit, since it looked like he knew there was no way out.

[ChubbyStar]

20. Reading my mind!

[ucrdem]

21. That would have been in the contract.

If he'd racked up a lot of gambling debts and didn't want to put his relatives in the poorhouse for example it might have seemed like a good idea. The bigger question is who would pay for such a service? But if this were so then it also seems likely that he wouldn't have known, or cared.

[JI7]

25. I don't think he has any relatives that depend on his finances to live.

[ucrdem]

36. I heard his younger brother say on Monday they had a 90-year old mother in Florida

that the shooter had been close to. This was on NPR. The brother said he used to send her giant boxes of cookies from all over the world and had texted him two weeks ago to find out if she'd made it through the hurricane okay. Evidently she had. On Monday night a BBC reporter said the relatives seemed "bemused" by their brother's sudden notoriety. And that's about the last I heard of the relatives.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. Contract killers usually known to police long before they have evidence enough to convict

Further, contract killers have lots of mob associations.

[ucrdem]

24. Sometimes sure.

Depends on what kind of work he did, meaning who he worked for, if he did.

[obamanut2012]

28. OMG he was a high roller gambler and real estate investor

He was able to retire in his mid 30s because of all of that. He was not a hitman.

[ChubbyStar]

8. Drug dealing

It is possible shooter man was dealing dugs and using the casino to launder cash. Meth heads are always around at casinos, I think the shooter was using and dealing. Hostess was using him, bad combo.

[yuiyoshida]

13. I knew she was Filipina... even my friend who

is Filipina told me she probably was.

[Achilleaze]

22. Flight 102 - The Untold Story

Coming soon.

[Baclava]

26. Girlfriend arrived at LAX, questioned by FBI, released

He left a note. They already know why, just want more details. I guess we'll just have to trust them.

[AtheistCrusader]

30. I hope people treat her decently.

As a society we have a tendency to abuse people who are a little too close to people who do bad things, even if they had literally nothing to do with whatever bad shit the actual bad guy did.

This country runs on misplaced anger, like it's an alternative fuel source.

[eppur_se_muova]

32. Well, you must not have read the previous replies to the OP, because it's already started - at DU.

Sad to see. Unfounded speculation needs to be kept to one's self.

[trotsky]

33. Alt-right assholes immediately jumped on it being her "husband" who was the attacker.

Problem is, this was just her boyfriend. However she had an EX-husband whom they doxxed and attacked.