The Vegas shooting was two years to the day after the
El Faro sank with the loss of all 33 crew. Before casinos like Mandalay Bay, there were saloons and gambling halls. The most popular game in the saloons and gambling halls of the old west was
Faro. As I mentioned in the
Robin Graham thread, there may be intentional disaster references in her 1970 disappearance and in a few probably related murders in the same area in 1968-79, which given the
El Faro "coincidence" may be relevant in understanding Paddock, since Paddock was in high school in the same general area when the disappearance/murders happened.
Rose Tashman and Robin Graham both were last seen alive after experiencing car trouble on the
Hollywood Freeway. Tashman's body was dumped in May 1969 along Mulholland Drive, named after the William Mulholland associated with the St.
Francis Dam disaster that happened two days after James Earl Ray was born. The bodies of Marina Habe and Montrealer Reet Jurvetson were also dumped along Mulholland Drive. Ray stayed at the St.
Francis Hotel in LA immediately before leaving LA a few weeks before killing MLK, RFK's middle name was
Francis, and President Ford was shot at in front of the St.
Francis Hotel in San
Francisco. John
Marshall High graduate Robin Graham vanished about 9.5 hours after the
Marshall University Football team were lost at the Tri-State Airport in Huntington, WV, in the crash of Southern Airways Flight 932 on November 14, 1970. Her father worked for LA Department of Water and Power, the same agency (earlier called the Bureau of Water Works and Supply) which built the dam when Mulholland led it.
Paddock graduated from John H. Francis Polytechnic High School in 1971.
Francis Polytechnic is just east of the
Hollywood Freeway in Sun Valley. Could Paddock have been abused when a high school student by whoever killed Habe, Tashman, Jurvetson, and Tashman? Perhaps he was brainwashed by the abuser into at least partially believing that there be some mystical importance to aligning murder with disasters. The same brainwashing individual or individuals may have caused a similar thing to happen to serial killer Herbert Mullin. In late 1972 and early 1973, Herbert Mullin is believed to have killed 13 in the Santa Cruz area at least partially as a sacrifice to the earthquake spirits, which he supposedly felt obliged to do from his having been born on the anniversary of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, the only California disaster deadlier than the St. Francis Dam disaster.
San Francisco is Spanish for
St. Francis, and three of Mullin's victims were Kathy
Francis and her two sons.