Las Vegas Massacre Is Just A Minuscule Fraction Of Gambling Crime

There is an increasing amount of evidence to indicate that there might be some very unusual things about the Vegas mass shooting; however the fact that there was a major violent incident in Vegas shouldn't be surprising at all!

There are enormous problems with violence related to gambling that have gone back decades, since when the mafia controlled large portions of it; and now that it is controlled mostly by corporations trading on Wall Street it may not be that much better, although since it is treated as a legitimate business now and they donate an enormous amount of money to political campaigns and spend even more on advertising, both the media and political establishment have an enormous incentive to avoid talking about it!

Until now!

Maybe!

The following article points out that “Everyone is trying to make a connection between his gambling and what he did," except that it isn't quite true especially many of the highest profile people on TV; and when the media including this article does make this connection they often try to downplay it:

What, If Anything, Does Stephen Paddock’s Gambling Have to Do With the Las Vegas Shooting? 10/06/2017

He was a dedicated — addicted? — gambler who tethered himself for hours at a time to high-stakes video poker slot games known for their 99.17 percent “hold.” He was also a heavy drinker, known to demand high-end cognac and treat cocktail waitresses and his own girlfriend rudely, according to a source in guest services at a casino he frequented. He was a lousy tipper and a loner who spoke as little as possible, but also a man who enjoyed free, fancy meals and rooms to keep him happy, said the same person, who asked not to be identified.

And now that 64-year-old Stephen Paddock is also the gunman responsible for the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, the question is whether any of that has anything to do with the horrific thing that has made him infamous.

“Everyone is trying to make a connection between his gambling and what he did, but the way he played wasn’t as abnormal as it sounds,” said Leslie Smith, a semi-professional poker player who visits Vegas once a month and believes he saw Paddock playing at the Cosmopolitan resort a few years ago. “It sounds exotic and a little weird to people who don’t know any better, but it’s something some wealthy people do because it’s fun. Complete article

Determining the exact motive and back ground of Stephen Paddock will take time assuming they actually figure it out and it is virtually guaranteed that some of the stories being put out already will have a certain amount of misinformation; however there's enough research from past incidents to help narrow things down, although the mainstream media almost certainly on't report on the best of this. This excerpt might be better than most of the reporting from the mainstream media, going out now, but it still probably isn't the best:

Las Vegas Shooter Stephen Paddock Had an Unusual Financial Life. Here's What We Know 10/04/2017

Medfis told Seeker.com that Paddock's high-stakes gambling habit is noteworthy. While Paddock's apparent wealth makes him atypical of mass shooters, "he was also a prolific gambler, so it would not surprise me at all to learn that he recently suffered a significant financial loss,” Medfis said. “That said, mass killers do not just ‘snap.’”

Other research indicates that pathological gamblers can often also be diagnosed with psychopathic personality disorders, as well as a higher likelihood to have problems with alcohol and commit crimes in general. There is no conclusive cause-and-effect relationship, however, and it's unclear the degree to which people are born with psychopathic tendencies or develop them over their lifetimes. It's worth noting that Paddock's father was a notorious bank robber who escaped from federal prison and was on the FBI's Most Wanted list in the 1960s and 1970s. Complete article

In 2014 I did a series of articles about the leading causes of violence based on characteristics that were more common in certain states, including How does gambling and gun control impact violent crime? and others listed below. Gambling and Gun control are almost certainly not the most important factors when it comes to contributing causes of violence as I pointed out in numerous articles including a recent one Panic About School Shootings Won’t Help! P.S. They’re Going Down! and more listed below, the most important contributing factor is almost certainly child abuse and corporal punishment leading to escalating violence later in life. The second most important contributing factor is probably abandoned inner cities, although the evidence of that might not be quite as conclusive and this probably isn't a major factor in the Las Vegas shooting.

Even when other factors are present, including gambling or states with little or no gun control, early child abuse or neglect is usually a major contributing factor. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a psychologist and author of "Guilty by Reason of Insanity" claims that in all cases where she looked close enough to find evidence of early child abuse in the back ground of murderers she was able to find it, without relying solely on claims from defendants that might have a motive to lie, often including police or hospital reports or corroborating witnesses to verify this. Other good researchers including James Garbarino and Lonnie Athens have also made similar statements, although they haven't gone quite so far as to say they found this evidence every time.



As I said, it's still too early to know for certain what made Stephen Paddock go to such extreme's to kill so many people but there's already circumstantial evidence to indicate that there probably is some early abuse, including statements from an alleged escort that accompanied him to Casinos at times and his father being on America's most wanted and abandoning him at the age of seven. This isn't direct evidence of early abuse, of course but it is a common characteristic of people who were abused indicating that if a thorough investigation were done by a thorough researcher like Dorothy Otnow Lewis, stronger evidence might turn up.

According to a deposition taken four years ago he didn't drink but was on Valium for anxiety and he often gambled a million dollars a night, and when the questioner said "That's a lot of money," he responded by saying, "No, it's not." there should be no doubt that this was a problem gambler. There are plenty of myths about professional gamblers that beat the Casinos, which actually works as great advertising for the Casinos, since many gamblers fantasize about being one of those glamorous gamblers.

Do these professional gamblers actually exist or are they just advertisements faking it to give gamblers something to dream about becoming?

There're certainly a lot of stories about them and sometimes they name names for gamblers to keep track of. And if they do exist Stephen Paddock appears to be one of them; or if they don't this would be a hypothesis that would lead to far-fetched false flag theories like the ones about Sandy-Hook which would require significant evidence to take seriously. However if they do exist and they're beating the odds and the Casinos are still making massive profits with enormous expenses that means the odds must be fixed that much more against the majority of players who must be the big losers!

Furthermore, if these professional gamblers do exist, they must go on massive losing streaks once in a while, as described the in the Movie "Casino" that openly claims that in the end the house always wins and they get the "pros" that they "comp" back and eventually they lose it back to the house. The so-called "comps" or complimentary meals and rooms they give to big gamblers isn't a charitable donation; they're investments, because they know that they routinely get that money back and much more.

It's not uncommon to combine multiple risk factors or contributing causes, whether it's early abuse as a child, Valium, other drugs or alcohol, or other potential causes of violence with gambling at Casinos, which means that it shouldn't be surprising if there is higher violence at Casinos or related to gambling, often after leaving the Casino. Instead of educating the public about how to prevent child abuse from escalating to more violence the pharmaceutical companies often try to solve this problem by using profitable drugs, even though the side effects of them sometimes do the opposite of what's intended. Instead of reminding the public about how the odds must be fixed for Casinos to thrive and profit, the media constantly tries to convince them how fun it is and they they "can win big" even though this is practically never the case.

I can't rule out the possibility that some depression drugs or other medications are worthwhile but when they're prescribing them without exploring other options at the encouragement of pharmaceutical salesmen that are trying to maximize profits it often does more harm than good. And the media and political establishment gets an enormous amount of campaign donations and advertising dollars from Casinos, pharmaceutical companies and many other large corporations that contribute, either directly or indirectly to crime; and the media only covers candidates catering to these interests ensuring that the most important issues won't be discussed and crime reduction opportunities will only take place at the local level when grassroots people learn on their own through alternative media outlets and force their local leaders to act.

Las Vegas: Stephen Paddock 'gambled $1m a night' and had Valium doctor on retainer 10/10/2017

Killer's Boast to Hooker reveals how Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock acted out violent rape fantasies and bragged: ‘I was born bad’ 10/08/2017

Las Vegas Gunman’s Criminal Father Vanished From Sons’ Lives 10/02/2017 No one could fathom that Pat Paddock, the big, jolly father of four young boys who owned a small business in town and was a special deputy at the sheriff’s office, was really Benjamin Hoskins Paddock, a serial bank robber with a rap sheet that stretched back to Chicago.

Las Vegas Shooter Stephen Paddock Had Recent Large Gambling Transactions 10/02/2017

However, regardless of why Stephen Paddock went on a massive killing spree shooting up a crowd that didn't do anything to him, even if he did have some legitimate grievances with Casinos, which hasn't been adequately reported assuming it exists at all, there's still evidence of a massive problem of crime associated with gambling, and there may be a significant amount of evidence to indicate that it is also related to lack of critical thinking skills that should have been developed in early childhood if children were raised properly.

First of all why would anyone in their right mind spend a significant amount of money at a Casino in the first place?

Don't people know that in order for Casinos or any other form of organized gambling to cover expenses and make a profit they have to rig the odds? And since there are an enormous amount of expenses and massive profits they have to rig them a lot!!

If people had a minimum amount of critical thinking skills no doubt they would know this and there would be no way this industry would be this big!



The entire industry is based on fraud and it could never survive without help from both the mainstream media and the government, both of which could educate the public about this fraud and the enormous amount of violence associated with organized gambling, as indicated by many studies including a lot listed below. It's not hard to find these studies once you look for them on the internet but they're almost never mentioned by either the traditional media or the government, which is because they're both run by people who have a financial incentive to suppress reporting on this subject as I reported previously on The tragedy of gambling politics in United States; the media gets an enormous amount of money in advertising revenue from organized gambling institutions and they also have investments in organizations like "Fantasy Football" so they have an enormous incentive to downplay reports of violence at Casinos. And Politicians are much more likely to get the support of players who are actually victims if they remain silent on the subject, since these loser want to believe they can win and are often more likely to blame the messenger who tells them they can't, than the people promoting gambling.

They're committing epidemic levels of fraud, and, at least to some degree, it's intentional; and they're studying how to convince people to accept their losses without committing violence on the premises. However as many of the studies the media refuses to report that often leads to violence at home and it doesn't even prevent a lot of the violence at Casinos, instead it just minimizes it so they can cover it up easier.

Some of this educational efforts to convince people to leave peacefully accepting their losses may have been described may have been described by Patrick Swayze, in "Road House," which the police are apparently using for training now according to the following article:

NYPD using ‘Road House’ movie to teach cops how to ‘be nice’ 02/24/2015

The NYPD has turned to Patrick Swayze to teach city cops how to behave.

Police bosses are using a scene from the 1989 action flick “Road House” as part of the mandatory, three-day retraining course for 22,000 cops, The Post has learned.

“You have to have a thick skin,” an instructor told cops forced to take part in the $35 million program before hitting play on the two-minute clip from the cult classic, sources said.

In the scene, Swayze — playing a tough-guy bouncer, Dalton — teaches his goons at the rowdy bar Double Deuce how to handle unruly customers.

First, he spells out three rules, with the third being simply, “Be nice.”

“If somebody gets in your face and calls you a c–ksucker, I want you to be nice. Ask him to walk. Be nice. If he won’t walk, walk him. But be nice. If you can’t walk him, one of the others will help you, and you’ll both be nice,” he says.

“I want you to remember that it’s a job. It’s nothing personal.” ....

The scene also includes Swayze’s most important message: “I want you to be nice, until it’s time to not be nice.”

“Well, how are we supposed to know when that is?” asks a mush-mouthed bouncer with a big black eye.

“You won’t. I’ll let you know,” Swayze says.

The clip had the audience at the Police Academy smirking and stifling laughter.

“It’s just ridiculous, the stuff they’re showing us,” the cop said. “It’s crazy. They’re showing us something from a movie and they want us to act like that in real life. It’s not realistic — it’s Hollywood.” Complete article

The cop saying that real life isn't like Hollywood is, of course, right, at least partially; however some of these suggestions might actually be a good idea, or at least they would be if they were taught in the right context for the right reasons.

It really is a good idea to "be nice," to avoid escalating violence whenever possible and it's also a good idea not to take things personal.

However, the biggest reasons this isn't like the real world or that this isn't the most effective solutions to violence is that it involves waiting till the last minute to deal with problems just before they potentially escalate; instead of teaching the public how to prevent child abuse from escalating to more violence or solving other social problems like creating fair local economies that solve social problems before the last minute.

However, police or security guards will of course argue that this isn't their job, and they would be right. Or at least the police would be right when dealing with violent offenders; but this wouldn't be true when it comes to dealing with protesters that are trying to convince their government to address these social problems; when that happens if police use violence to suppress protests not only are they committing violence, but they're also aiding and abetting in efforts to prevent solutions from happening.

The claim that Road House isn't like reality could just as easily go for the media coverage of mass shootings, or anything else for that matter, even though they're supposed to be reporting on news in a realistic manner.



The media came up with dramatic footage hyping the coverage of this shooting within no more than a few hours of it, presumably to drive up ratings for profitable purposes, which is now routine. However they provide little or no coverage of the most important causes of violence so that it can be prevented in the most effective way possible; instead quickly going into the usual obsession with gun control debate that never accomplishes anything. One side of the gun control debate seems to think that the most effective way to solve problems it to allow as many people as possible to have guns so they can shoot the perpetrator as quick as possible; the other side thinks they can stop it solely with gun control even though it is only limited control and it doesn't address any of the social problems leading to violence.

When it comes to Casino Security the bigger problem is that their objective may be to keep it peaceful so the gamblers go quietly, for now, then come back and lose more later, so Casinos can maximize profits which often come from problem gamblers, and if these problem gamblers happen to take it out on their family, that might be considered a "negative externality," as they say in the business world, so it wouldn't be considered a high priority if it's a priority at all.

However for public relations reasons they wouldn't want to come out and admit this, so if they can't keep it completely quit they might prepare an effort to at least make it seem like they're trying to address this problem like the following advertisement for a Domestic Violence Coordinator, for Seneca Niagara Casino, which is one of the native American Casinos running at the time of this article being posted:

Domestic Violence Coordinator (1FT) for Seneca Niagara Casino October 2017

Salary: $18.84/hour
Job Description
Responsible for intervention, treatment, advocacy and coordination of services for victims of domestic and sexual violence. Initiates and maintains effective communications with outside service and legal agencies. Maintain all appropriate case files, and report directly to the Chief Community Services Officer and Court Administrator

Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Human Services, Social Services or related field with two years experience in community organizations, volunteer recruitment, management, counseling victims of crime, mental health, substance abuse, domestic violence or human services. MUST have a clean, valid NYS Driver's License. Must have knowledge of the Seneca Nation Tribal and outside Court Systems, understand Seneca culture and the communities service by the SNHS.

Seneca or Native preference given to qualified applicants.

Pre-Employment Drug Screen Required. Complete article
This advertisement will presumably be retracted within a few weeks or months of this article being posted but other ones will almost certainly show up at various casinos.

Is a Casino really the organization we want to be hiring "Domestic Violence Coordinators?" Or for that matter being in charge of security of policing? Intentional or not that is what is happening; and these Casinos have an enormous incentive to put their profits ahead of efforts to reduce violence, whether it's on native American reservations or in the Casinos.

Anyone familiar with research in various fields including, crime prevention, security or economics knows that the people that finance research this often create biases in the results that look the other way at how profits from that organization might impact security.

Another legitimate consideration is how they treat these so called professional gamblers that at least claim to be big winners, and for short times, at least some of them probably are. One of the most famous ones appears to be James Grosjean who supposedly bankrupted a private detective firm and demonstrated how the Casino industry would go to great lengths to make sure few if any people actually beat the odds, although they have to pretend otherwise to lure suckers in as demonstrated in the following article.

James Grosjean isn’t just a professional blackjack player. He’s a master card counter, author, and member of the prestigious Blackjack Hall of Fame.

In gambling circles, Grosjean may be best known for his legal battles against casinos and investigation agencies. To card players who use legal means to beat the house, Grosjean’s victories in court have been a boon to the entire gambling community.

On September 13th, 2005, Griffin Investigations was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to legal costs and damages stemming from a successful defamation lawsuit against the company by Michael Russo and James Grosjean. Griffin Investigations had long worked for the casinos, compiling information on cheaters, card counters, and other "undesirable" casino patrons. In many cases, casinos would detain or ban customers based on the information provided by the firm. The lawsuit stated that Russo and Grosjean had both been improperly detained, labeled as cheaters, and arrested, all due to information provided by Griffin Investigations. In July of 2005, a jury in Clark County District Court issued a $45,659 judgment on behalf of the two gamblers. Russo was awarded $25,000 in damages and $15,000 in punitive damages, and Grosjean was awarded $25,000 in damages and $10,000 in punitive damages.

Needless to say, the downfall of the hated Griffin Investigations was celebrated throughout the gambling community, making James a most beloved figure and leader in the fight for gambler’s rights.

But the lawsuit against Griffin wasn’t the only legal case that James would file and win. While he has lawsuits pending against both Caesar’s Palace and two Nevada Gaming Control Board agents, he also won a $400,000 verdict against the Imperial Palace in a wrongful imprisonment suit.

Grosjean contended that he was detained at Caesar’s Palace in April of 2000 and later at the Imperial Palace. Grosjean and a friend were detained at Caesar’s Palace for five hours, accused of cheating, then arrested and taken to the Clark County Detention Center. While his friend was released the next day, Grosjean was held in custody for 4 1/2 days. While they were charged with cheating, Grosjean maintains that the sloppy dealer had been continually exposing the hole card. Despite numerous surveillance devices, the casino could offer no proof to substantiate their claims of wrongdoing.

Several weeks later, Grosjean visited the Imperial Palace and found himself confronted by a security guard. "I wasn’t even playing," Grosjean was later quoted as saying. "I noticed a guard watching me, so I left. But he followed me, and he did get physical. He put his hands on my chest, and he blocked me from leaving."

Grosjean was then handcuffed and taken to a holding cell by six guards. His pockets were emptied, and he was then interrogated and threatened. Complete article

Does anyone have any idea how much time our courts spend, at tax payers expense settling petty argument from Casinos, which are fraudulent industries and scam artists that are trying to beat them? Or how often it leads to violence?

There are far more lawsuits and criminal investigations at tax payers expense than most people know about including some described by Ben Mezrich, listed below; and, of course, Stephen Paddock was apparently involved in one of them a few years ago which is what his deposition was about.

Did Stephen Paddock encounter similar treatment that James Grosjean complained about? He may have although it this was retaliation it was against all the wrong people although he could damage the Casinos indirectly by scaring off their customers.

Regardless of of why Stephen Paddock went on his killing spree, even though it is almost certainly the worst Casino related mass murder, it is still only a minuscule fraction of the violence caused by organized gambling, and it is virtually impossible to find out just how extensive the full problem is; however there are an enormous number of studies that all seem to come to the same conclusion, as far as I can tell, that there is a major connection.

Why is it so rare for the mainstream media to mention this at all?



Is there any doubt that the enormous amount of advertising revenue they get from Casinos is part of the reason for lack of coverage? MSNBC has also reported recently that they have direct investments in "Fantasy Football" as well while reporting on a story about it, although the disclosure was only mentioned briefly and few even noticed. Mandalay Bay is apparently owned by MGM Resorts International which according to Wikipedia is not currently affiliated with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM; however a quick search through their history indicates that they have, or had ties with each other and at least four of the six major corporations that control over ninety percent of the media at one time or another, and they almost certainly have some ties and common investors now.

How many other news organizations also own stock in gambling institutions and is that giving them further incentive to minimize coverage of violence?

Who's Casinos are having the biggest problems with violence? At least for a three year period in Atlantic City, apparently it was Donald Trump's Taj Mahal after he cut expenses for security!

This was apparently reported during the presidential campaign on the internet in at least a couple articles; however I didn't hear about it until searching for a connection with violence and Casinos for this article. It certainly didn't get obsession coverage like a lot of other stories and there were probably very few other people that heard about this. And, if you remember the times Hillary Clinton mentioned Casino gambling it wasn't to speak out against the corruption of the industry or the damage it does to society, including violence, but to ridicule Donald Trump for losing money at his Atlantic City Casinos when his companies declared bankruptcy.

Neither of the candidates the media provided obsession coverage to seem concerned at all about addressing this problem and the biggest owner of some of the most violent Casino's and Hotels is now president and has a major incentive to look the other way as he has in the past!

Although the mainstream media practically never reports more than a minuscule fraction of the problems with violence or crime in Casinos or caused directly or indirectly by organized gambling there are a few articles exposing a cover up, or at least part of it including Casino high rollers getting away with everything but murder 07/29/2016, which quotes Glen Costales, the pit manager, saying, “All men are created equal except in the casino.” This clearly indicates that tehy're not even trying to prevent troubles from escalating in many cases if they think they can keep the high rollers gambling.

According to Star Casino violence three times worse than official crime statistics, leaked report says 10/31/2016\ Sydney Australia's Star Casino has been accused of hiding the full extent of violence at the venue with leaked documents showing nearly two-thirds of assaults on site are not being reported to police. There are few reports that I know of that are quite so clear in the United States; however after looking through the enormous volume of crime studies and reports below, there should be no doubt that even without such a report for the United States Casinos it should be clear that if they can get away with covering things up they clear will, and are!

Insider Vegas Secrets You Really, Really Don’t Want to Know About Las Vegas Hotels 01/11/2015 doesn't provide facts that can be easily checked; however, once again after reviewing the stories below there's little doubt that most of what they report is either true or very close including high problems with crime violence and even people so caught up with gambling that they simply piss on their chairs instead of going to the bathroom.



The following are some of the articles exposing the high crime problems at Trump Casinos:

Trump Taj Mahal Slashed Security. Then the Murders Started 06/02/2016

Between 2008 and 2011, 1 in every 8 murders in Atlantic City took place at Trump's Taj Mahal casino 06/02/2016

Oh Look, Another Violent Psycho With Close Ties to Donald Trump 04/06/2016

Another Poker Murder - Death at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City 04/07/2008

Murder charges filed in fatal Atlantic City carjacking 09/20/2011

Trump Taj Mahal worker dies from customer's gunshots 05/28/2009

A Top Gambler Is Killed Owing Casinos Millions 01/12/1992

7 arrested in connection with shooting at Trump Taj Mahal 03/30/2016

Police: Shots Fired Inside Room At Atlantic City Casino 05/02/2014







All the studies that I have found indicate that there is a major problem with violence and Casinos or other forms of organized gambling; although I have no doubt that corporations profiting from them might create some of their own biased studies; however most of the biased studies that I've seen from the industry focus on what they consider economic benefits, which actually go to a select few. They probably prefer not to even discuss potential violence studies since they aren't likely to hold up. 

Clicking on the Memes above will link to some studies about Gambling and violence and the following are more; although there is much more where that came from, which could be found through additional internet searches:

The Dark Side of Casinos Studies indicate that people who are addicted to gambling generate a disproportionate amount of profits for casinos: five percent of casino patrons are addicted, generating 25 percent of the casino's profits [Source: PBS]. Economic studies show that the net value of a casino to a community is actually negative [Source: UIUC News Bureau].

Casino Watch

Correlates of Gambling Among Youth in an Inner City Emergency Department March 2009

Problem Gambling Associated with Violent and Criminal Behaviour: A Danish Population-Based Survey and Register Study. March 2016

Studies: Casinos bring jobs, but also crime, bankruptcy, and even suicide 10/30/2012

Video Gambling Linked to Crime Spike: Study 08/23/2017

The Elusive Link Between Casinos and Crime With a study of the impact of Philadelphia’s SugarHouse Casino, a heated debate gets fresh ammunition. 07/29/2014



Will a mass murder keep you from going to Las Vegas? 10/05/2017 Fluff pieces like this are much more likely to get coverage from traditional media trying to convince people that they shouldn't let terrorists, or mass murderers interfere with "our way of life," implying that this would be letting them win! However as the following articles along with the studies above indicate "our way of life" at least for those most obsessed with gambling often includes an enormous amount of violence crime and suicide after they lose everything to organized gambling institutions, although you won't see reports of just how extensive this is.

Mom, daughter killed by husband in murder-suicide months after winning $2M lottery 08/10/2021

This list seems very long, and it is; however the only reason it isn't much longer is because I just don't have time. I have no doubt that searching various words including "Casino murder," "stabbing," "brawl" or "violence" along with names of Casino cities or specific Casinos will turn up at least three to four times as many articles, if not ten to twenty times as much!

Coroner identifies two dead in murder-suicide 09/16/2009 Edward Wayson was a legal advisor to Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn, according to an obituary in The Washington Post. Wynn got his start at Wayson's Bingo, a 750-seat hall owned by the Wayson family in Annapolis.

Police: 2 dead in Excalibur murder-suicide 12/14/2012

Woman's Dead Body Found Stuffed Down Laundry Chute of Hotel During Las Vegas Birthday Trip 02/24/2016

Man shot to death in Caesars Palace employee parking garage 10/22/2016

The Amount Of Mysterious Deaths At This Las Vegas Casino Will Haunt You...And So Will The Reason Why 06/02/2016

Security guard stabbed in Palazzo casino on Las Vegas Strip 08/09/2017

Tourists’ stay ends in murder-suicide 09/28/2004 A tourist committed suicide this morning by jumping off Hoover Dam after calling 911 and reporting that he had killed his girlfriend in a room at Treasure Island, (A Las Vegas Hotel and Casino) Metro Police said.

10 Most Famous Crimes In The History Of Las Vegas

Straight Flush: The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt Their Way to a Billion Dollar Empire; and how it all came crashing down By Ben Mezrich

Busting Vegas: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees By Ben Mezrich

Casino security guard dies after subduing assault suspect 05/07/2017

Man Shoots Himself at Seneca Niagara Casino 04/05/2007

Man sentenced to life in Arizona casino shooting death of retired officer 05/02/2017

Police kill suspect after 2 injured at Hon-Dah casino 08/02/2014

Biker faces murder charge in casino gunfight 04/29/2002

Anonymous tip leads to arrest in 2004 murder of casino winner 03/24/2010

Sioux Falls Man Convicted of Murder in Casino Shooting 03/23/2017

Seminole Tribe shields against releasing records in Hardrock death 11/09/2008

Shooting by Seminole Tribe police officer was a first, spokesman says 04/22/2011

“Why are people plunging to their death off the garage at the coconut creek casino????” 08/06/2014 customer review

Funeral held for man found shot to death inside car after leaving casino 07/21/2016 Alex Eichmann, 48, found with gunshot wound outside Pompano Beach McDonald's

14 years from murder to conviction in slaying of Miami Subs founder 07/04/2015 It was the beginning of the end of one of South Florida's most enduring criminal cases — featuring shady business deals and mob connections and culminating in the execution-style murder of Miami Subs founder Gus Boulis on a Fort Lauderdale street.

Wikipedia: Akio Kashiwagi 1992 murder victim inspiration for character in "Casino"

New York City Murder Suspect Arrested at Foxwoods 01/24/2015

Foxwoods Casino patron dies after being shot by police and falling off of parking garage 09/20/2017

Police: Reno casino security guard charged in man's death 04/10/2014

Shots Fired East of Downtown Reno 11/05/2016

1 dead after officer-involved shooting in Eldorado Casino in downtown Reno 02/24/2017

No gunshots fired in burglary of store at Bellagio in Las Vegas 03/25/2017

Vegas Strip Briefly Closed After Shot Fired Near Bellagio 08/07/2017

Massacre Comes Amid Soaring Gun Violence in Las Vegas 10/02/2017

He beat a murder rap in a casino killing. Now, he’s accused of a rap-studio robbery 09/26/2017

Floyd Mayweather Boxing Club Volunteer Arrested for Murder of Sometimes Las Vegas Roomate 10/03/2017

“Disturbing violence and confrontations outside casino” 06/30/2016 personal account

A Brawl Between Motorcycle Gangs Turns Fatal at a Nevada Casino 04/28/2002

36 die of suffocation when gunman storms Manila hotel-casino and starts a fire 06/01/2017

Customers shocked by deadly violence at Silver Nugget Casino 05/20/2016 8 News NOW spoke with some of the casino customers. It turns out, most of them knew the suspect, who was also a security guard.

These are just a few more related articles.

Yahoo!, Disney and CBS should score financial touchdowns thanks to the increased popularity of fantasy football. 08/11/2006

Trump was once so involved in trying to block an Indian casino that he secretly approved attack ads 06/30/2016

The Mad Violence of Casino Capitalism 02/25/2016