He never saw his sons again... He died of liver cancer at the Southern Nevada Correctional Center
This makes me sad. No matter what you did in life, all the ups and downs you go through, to die alone like this...
spoiler... Honestly, I read up to the climax believing it was a hoax, never thought for a moment it was actually a real bomb! Here's a thief, decieve and steal. What good is it too have a armed bomb in the box.
The extortion demand was for $3M. The repair bill was $18M. The bio of the mastermind stated that he lost significant amounts of money gambling at that exact casino.
This suggests that the bomber was motivated as much by the casino not having that money as he was in getting it for himself. Not only did he have motive to use an actual, armed bomb, but he might have also included some form of secondary, such as incendiaries, to start fires in the damaged structure and make it a total loss rather than repairable.
So he lost alot of money, that's motive for getting it back. I can't see the link from 'i want my money back' to 'i'm going to blow you to smithereens'. If the plan had worked out, it wouldn't have mattered real or fake, he'd have his $3M.
And it'll take alot less time, less risk of accidental detonation and be easier to implant.
Unless you're saying that he took the loss personally and there is only one part which alludes to it, where he was 'humiliated' by the hotel staff asking him to vacate the room that was reserved for him as a former high roller.
I'm not saying everything's unicorns and fairies but I didn't get the motivation to cause actual harm and therefore the plan felt wasteful to me to have a real bomb. And why would he say that if 'there was a double cross, I'll come back at a later date to do it again'. That just totally ignores what he said at the beginning of the letter about not giving instructions of there was any deviations to the plan and also contradicted to the bomb being real and destined to go off anyway with a unstoppable 3rd timer.
I'm actually kind of amused by that. All the stubborn casino owner had to do was pay the guys off and hope the cops finally caught up to them. But pride and "acting on principle" ended up costing him an extra $15M.
hindsight's a bitch, there's a reason why the US govt doesn't negotiate with terrorists and the like. Plus they had gone past the 24hr mark and so ppl had more unanswered questions.
Having said that, what were they expecting to come out of putting fake money in the bag!!! Had everything gone to plan, and the bomb was real, the result would have been the same!
This makes me sad. No matter what you did in life, all the ups and downs you go through, to die alone like this...
spoiler... Honestly, I read up to the climax believing it was a hoax, never thought for a moment it was actually a real bomb! Here's a thief, decieve and steal. What good is it too have a armed bomb in the box.