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Paddock, 64, was a retired postal service worker, accountant and real estate investor who owned rental properties and homes in Reno and in a retirement community more than an hour away from Las Vegas
If he could go back to work today. >> reporter: tonight the biggest mystery continues to swirl. >> to me, the biggest mystery is the motive. i mean it's just very odd that we don't know why. when we look at not just mass shootings but anything, we generally know what the motive is fairly quickly. and the mystery to me is that here we are almost two weeks out, and we have no idea why this guy did this. i think that he didn't want us to know the motive. otherwise, we would have found it out by now. >> reporter: but investigators are still doggedly trying to piece that possible motive together. t...
Psychologically where he's been and where he's headed. and i think that's going to give us a real indication of his motive. >> let's talk a little bit more about that because maybe it's from his past. what's interesting here is the shooter's father was benjamin paddock. he's a convicted bank robber. the shooter was 16 years old when his father was put on the fbi's most wanted list back in 1969. is that significant somehow, jim? >> well, he could have been harboring some kind of anger towards either his father or the government or the people of the united states, because this was a very indiscr...
For 57 years. >> your father was a bank robber? >> that's correct. >> we're all prounot proud. my father was on the top ten list. benjamin paddock. i didn't know him. there's no -- he was in jail and broken out of jail -- >> does he have a history at all? >> he doesn't even have parking tickets! he has no criminal record. he has no record affiliations. he has nothing. >> what about mental illness? >> absolutely not. >> as far as i know, once again, nothing like that. he was a wealthy guy, and he liked to play video poker. he went on cruises. he -- he sent his mother cookies from -- i mean, big...