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Las Vegas shooter's father, 'Bingo Bruce,' lived colorful life of crime and deception
Posted on 10/2/17 at 12:13 pm
Posted on 10/2/17 at 12:13 pm
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The father of the gunman behind the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history robbed a string of banks in Arizona, escaped prison in Texas and tried to start a new life as the manager of a bingo parlor in Oregon, according to historical newspaper articles.
Eric, the brother of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock, who killed at least 50 people from his hotel room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino late Sunday, told NBC News and the Orlando Sentinel that their father was Benjamin Hoskins Paddock .
The elder Paddock, born in Wisconsin in 1926, had a host of other fake names and nicknames, including “Big Daddy” and “Old Baldy," and was on the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted list from 1969 to 1977.
Paddock was indicted in 1960 on three counts of robbing Phoenix branches of Valley National Bank, the Arizona Republic reported on Oct. 6 that year. He was accused of stealing close to $25,000 and was caught in the summer of 1960 by FBI agents after returning to Arizona from Las Vegas.
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The 6-foot-4, 245-pound Paddock was convicted and slapped with a 20-year prison sentence, but the lengthy jail term was cut short when he busted out of a federal prison in Texas in 1969, the Eugene Register-Guard reported.
An escaped federal prisoner poster issued by the FBI at the time said Paddock was “diagnosed as psychopathic” and “reportedly has suicidal tendencies and should be considered armed and dangerous.”
About six months after the escape, Paddock was involved in an armed robbery at a bank in San Francisco and was awaiting trial related to charges from that incident on Oct. 6, 1978, according to the Oregon newspaper.
Paddock, described by the FBI as being an “avid bridge player,” had managed to live a secret life centered on another game – bingo -- as a parlor manager in Springfield, Ore.
“My view is let him go… and good riddance.”
- Circuit Judge George Woodrich on Benjamin Hoskin Paddock's legal saga
The FBI said Paddock lived for years in the Eugene-Springfield area under the alias of Bruce Werner Ericksen and managed to stay one step ahead of law enforcement by constantly changing his appearance and avoiding contact with police, which may have resulted in fingerprinting, the Eugene Register-Guard reported.
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In 1987, the gig finally ended when the Oregon Attorney General’s Office filed seven racketeering charges against Paddock related to his bingo operation. On top of that, he was charged with rolling back car odometers.
Paddock settled the racketeering charges for $623,000 and pleaded no contest to the odometer case, while simultaneously claiming he had cancer.
Among his other life claims: being an auto crew racing chief, Chicago Bears football player and survivor of a World War II mine sweeper sinking, according to the Eugene Register-Guard.
When the final verdict in Paddock’s legal saga came in, and Circuit Judge George Woodrich decided to let him off with a $100,000 fine and no jail time.
“He could be conning everybody, but this is an economic crime and he’s an old man,” the newspaper quoted Woodrich as saying. “My view is let him go… and good riddance.”
Paddock then went back to the Lone Star state and lived there until his death in 1998. Laurel Paulson, a woman he met while living in Oregon, told the Eugene Register-Guard that he got by on a VA pension and helped her run a machine shop.
“He was a man that people either loved or hated,” she said. “He always said he was a dinosaur.”
This post was edited on 10/2/17 at 12:14 pm
Posted on 10/2/17 at 12:14 pm to Rakim
His nicknames were Big Daddy and ...Old Baldy? Did a gambling toddler give him the latter?
Posted on 10/2/17 at 12:16 pm to piggilicious
Mental imbalance runs in families that's a fact
Posted on 10/2/17 at 12:17 pm to Rakim
Genetically predisposed to be crazy
Posted on 10/2/17 at 12:18 pm to Rakim
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Mental imbalance runs in families that's a fact
Psychopath with suicidal tendencies does not equal mental illness.
Posted on 10/2/17 at 12:19 pm to piggilicious
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Hold my beer, dad.
Piggi, no.
This post was edited on 10/2/17 at 12:34 pm
Posted on 10/2/17 at 12:21 pm to Rakim
Starting to sound like this guy is connected to the FBI
Posted on 10/2/17 at 12:22 pm to Rakim
What did he have against the kind of people that go to a country music concert?
Posted on 10/2/17 at 12:22 pm to LSU Patrick
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Psychopath with suicidal tendencies does not equal mental illness.
Ummmmm
Posted on 10/2/17 at 12:23 pm to LSU Patrick
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Psychopath with suicidal tendencies does not equal mental illness.
It's OK. You can tell us. You're in the circle of trust.
This post was edited on 10/2/17 at 12:23 pm
Posted on 10/2/17 at 12:23 pm to Y.A. Tittle
What, you guys think that half the people in prison are mentally ill?
Posted on 10/2/17 at 12:23 pm to Rakim
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On top of that, he was charged with rolling back car odometers
There is a special place in hell for these type of people.
Posted on 10/2/17 at 12:24 pm to DownSouthJukin
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It's OK. You can tell us. You're in the circle of trust.
I'm a psychologist who works at a state psychiatric hospital.
Posted on 10/2/17 at 12:26 pm to LSU Patrick
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Psychopath with suicidal tendencies does not equal mental illness.
Say what now?
Posted on 10/2/17 at 12:26 pm to LSU Patrick
Are you deliberately conflating clinical criminal insanity with "mental illness"?
Posted on 10/2/17 at 12:28 pm to Rakim
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Mental imbalance runs in families that's a fact
Sounds like pop was a sociopath.
Posted on 10/2/17 at 12:31 pm to troyt37
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Say what now?
Psychopath and sociopath are pop psychology terms for various patterns of Antisocial Behavior. Even an individual diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder is not considered mentally ill. Many prisoners have suicidal ideation during incarceration and frequently after release. It is not uncommon at all. Some of them even report suicidal ideation in order to get put in isolation or too get moved to a psychiatric facility. The point here is that "Psychopath with suicidal tendencies" is not a psychiatric diagnosis and could describe a large portion of the criminal population at any given time.
This post was edited on 10/2/17 at 12:32 pm
Posted on 10/2/17 at 12:32 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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Psychopath with suicidal tendencies does not equal mental illness.
People say that being transgendered doesn't equal mental illness, but they are wrong.
Posted on 10/2/17 at 12:33 pm to LSU Patrick
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Many prisoners have suicidal ideation during incarceration and frequently after release. It is not uncommon at all. Some of them even report suicidal ideation in order to get put in isolation or too get moved to a psychiatric facility.
This guy wasn't in prison, you know.
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