Marilou Danley: What we know about Las Vegas gunman's companion
Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend: Who is Marilou Danley?
Marilou Danley had been out of the country while her boyfriend, Stephen Paddock, opened fire during a Las Vegas music festival, killing at least 59 people. Who is she? And what clues can she reveal about Paddock's motives? Here's what we know about her so far.
The one person who can provide insight into the Las Vegas killer's warped mind -- and potential motive -- remained out of reach of U.S. authorities Tuesday. But they want to talk to her. Soon.
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Marilou Danley, the Las Vegas shooter's live-in girlfriend who left the country before Stephen Paddock gunned down 59 people outside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, was cleared as a "person of interest" in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, but on Tuesday evening, officials announced she was, in fact, a "person of interest."
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Marilou Danley was overseas during the Las Vegas shooting.
How and when did Paddock acquire his deadly arsenal? And why did he open fire on a country concert crowd, killing dozens and injuring more than 500 people?
Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said Monday that Danley, 62, is in Tokyo, although, on Tuesday, her location and estimated return date to America was not immediately clear.
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Marilou Danley was initially declared a "person of interest." Though that label was removed, police still want to talk to her.
"She was reported to have been in the Philippines at the time of the incident, but there are unconfirmed reports that she is no longer in the Philippines at this time," Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman Robespierre Bolivar told the Sydney Morning Herald on Monday. Bolivar added there was "no official confirmation yet on her nationality, original or acquired."
Police combing the hotel room Paddock used as a perch for his deadly rampage found Danley’s slot machine card, Clark County Commission Chair Steve Sisola told the Nevada Independent. Lombardo said Paddock also was carrying some of Danley’s identification.
Those items led police initially to declare her a person of interest and launch a search. But detectives later made contact with her and said that they "do not believe she is involved with the shooting on The Strip."
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“I've met her three or four times,” Paddock’s brother, Eric, told CBS News. “She's got a Facebook page; she sends my mom cookies.”
Danley’s LinkedIn profile reportedly listed her as working as a “high limit hostess” at Atlantis Casino in Reno between 2010 and 2013. The casino told the Reno Gazette-Journal it was cooperating in the investigation.
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An Australian newspaper said Marilou Danley is an Australian citizen originally from the Philippines.
An Australian newspaper, Brisbane’s Courier-Mail, reported Monday that Danley was an “Australian citizen originally from the Philippines.”
The newspaper said they believe she left the home she shared with Paddock in Mesquite, Nevada, around two weeks ago to head to the Philippines.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said American authorities contacted the country after the shooting for help trying to track down Danley.
"They did make inquiries of our authorities about her whereabouts, but she is no longer a person of interest," Bishop told Channel Seven, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
FAMILIES, FRIENDS OF LAS VEGAS VICTIMS SPEAK ABOUT LIVES OF LOVED ONES
Multiple media outlets have reported that Danley’s now-deleted Facebook page identified her as a "proud mom and grandma who lives life to the fullest."
She previously was married to Arkansas resident Geary Danley, until the pair divorced in 2015.
A person listed as her witness in the divorce records insisted Danley isn’t connected with Paddock’s behavior.
“She had nothing to do with this psycho,” the man, who was not identified, told the Reno Gazette-Journal. “The poor lady, she is in the Philippines visiting family.”
Authorities have said Paddock has no links to international terrorist groups, despite ISIS claiming him as “a soldier” who converted to Islam months ago, The Associated Press reported.
20-week ban clears House, faces uphill Senate fight
For the third time in five years, the Republican-led House has passed legislation that would prohibit most late-term abortions when the fetus can feel pain.
The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act cleared its first hurdle on Tuesday in a near party-line vote of 237-189 in the lower chamber.
It faces an uphill battle in the Senate, where Republicans don’t have the votes to override a filibuster from Democrats, who blocked similar versions of the legislation in 2013 and 2015.
Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life, said she remains optimistic about the bill’s chances. She compared it to the yearslong effort to pass the Partial-Birth Abortion Act, which was enacted in 2003.
“We have hope,” Ms. Mancini said. “Unless we start to make these strides on one side, then we won’t on the other side. The partial-birth abortion ban took a long time to get passed and ultimately enacted. So I see it a little bit like that.”
Introduced by Rep. Trent Franks, Arizona Republican, the Pain-Capable Act would criminalize the performance of abortion after 20 weeks of gestation except in the cases of rape, incest or threat to the life of the mother
