What a shocking development. Why would he bring his laptop with him to the hotel room after he had already removed and discarded his hard drive? Inquiring minds want to know.
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.
Paddock is believed to have removed the hard drive before fatally shooting himself, and the missing device has not yet been recovered, sources told ABC News.
Investigators digging into Paddock’s background also learned he purchased software designed to erase files from a hard drive, but without the hard drive to examine it is impossible to know if he ever used the software, one source said.
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The absence of substantial digital clues has left investigators struggling to piece together what triggered Paddock to kill 58 innocent concertgoers and injure more than 500 others on Oct. 1.
Authorities are examining every aspect of Paddock’s life — from his family, friends and associates to his travel patterns, health and finances. So far, a motive has been elusive to investigators.
Paddock, however, left behind no such writings or evidence.
He is not the first mass shooter to destroy or hide digital clues.
In 2007, Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung Hui removed the hard drive of his computer and disposed of his cell phone shortly before the massacre. Authorities even searched a pond for the missing digital media, but the devices were never recovered.
The 2008 Northern Illinois shooter, Steven Kazmierczak, removed the SIM card from his phone and the hard drive from his laptop, and neither was recovered.
In 2012, Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza had removed the hard drive from his computer and smashed it with a hammer or screwdriver.
I am sure the hard drive will turn up down the road in investigation,they are just using some “hillary wipes” on it at moment!
So Paddock was an organized and methodical man. Makes sense he would remove the hard drive if, for no other reason, than to spare people he had dealings with from being investigated by the FBI. The computer monitor was brought probably to connect to his corridor cameras.
Another testament to his methodical nature was that he had a phone charger that didn’t fit his phone. For some reason it was only compatible with CIA kit.
Obviously he removed the hard drive and tossed in in a dumpster the night before. Not sure how this is a story. What gets me is that his brother knew the FBI would be up his ass with a 6 foot ungreased probe and yet he apparently didnt delete or destroy anything and everything even remotely incriminating.
Strange how all these hard drives and i phones seem to magically disappear or are destroyed, never to be recovered after the crime.
Hypothetically, if this was a deep state gun running Fast-and-Furious-ISIS-edition gone wrong, and Paddock’s corpse was the patsy….the shooter(s) would take his hard drive. I see people are using this as evidence to establish it was Paddock, when the missing hard drive is indeterminate.
No you have not heard that.
Get a clue, Rob…and check the CIA’s Vault 7 spyware, released by Wikileaks some months ago.
I’m shocked I tell you!!! Shocked!!!!!!!!!!
Does anyone believe anything the authorities or “sources close to the investigation” say?
Me neither.
Does anyone here really think that was Paddock lying dead on the floor? Geez…did you buy the single bullet/Lee Harvey Oswald story, too?
The hard drive has gone to find all the missing surveillance footage.