People magazine interviewed criminal profiler John Kelly, who believes Paddock was “born a killer.”
“What would drive somebody that is so methodical and structured in life to go insane in a very structured and methodical way?” said Kelly, a criminal profiler for nearly 20 years who never met the killer. “Paddock was a pathological gambler, psychopath and a sociopath. He was predisposed from birth and childhood to harbor extreme internalized shame, low self-esteem, depression, and aggressive anger.
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“As a therapist I decode messages from severe emotional trauma victims, people like Stephen Paddock. Such people consciously bury the real meaning of their trauma. Nevertheless, the trauma remains constantly frozen in the back of their minds. It’s as if the threat of the trauma’s reoccurrence remains there, deep in their unconscious. It’s an unconscious post-traumatic stress disorder.”
He cites Paddock’s reported statement to his girlfriend, Marilou Danley: “I want you to take a trip home to see your family. I found a cheap ticket to the Philippines.”
He believes it represents Paddock’s own “trip down bad memory lane,” based on his father’s actions, as a criminal bank robber and later a fugitive from prison.
“Secretly he implies the shocking realization, ‘I was just a cheap ticket to my father, of no value, degraded by him. He was more concerned about money and robbing banks than me, and robbing me of a father.'”
Hodges also notes Paddock’s decision to send money to Danley “to buy your family a house.”
“Read his projection: ‘I deeply wished my father had bought us a permanent house, provided a stable family.’ Instead, [Paddock] was deeply cheated, robbed of a home,” Hodges said.
Hodges explains Paddock’s father already had served prison time when Stephen was born, then was arrested again, while the family was in Las Vegas, for a series of armed bank robberies “during which he attempted to murder an FBI agent.”
“His father never returned home and would never be seen again by Stephen. … Unconsciously he experiences his father as totally destroying his life — a murderous attack.”
He elaborated: “When Paddock kept killing and wounding hundreds of innocent concertgoers – unconsciously he was looking at his abusive father. He shot him over and over, shouting out his unbearable unconscious secret: his father had destroyed him as if he had shot him a thousand times with his repeated abandonments and abuse. He was inflicting his deep haunting sense of being a cheap ticket on all his cheap ticket victims at the concert.”
Hodges wrote: “This is Stephen Paddock’s story: Father destroyed/murdered him deep down. He wanted to murder father as payback. He then re-enacted it on others and finally suicided because of guilt. The great abuse three-step. It’s so powerful, only the unconscious super intelligence can tell us the truth about it in its metaphoric messages.
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