S20 Ep51: Money Machine: Mass Murder & the Suicide That Changed Las Vegas w/Mike Turber
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🗓️ 29 April 2025
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Summary
Mike Turber is an investigative Reporter/ Former Security Consultant who was called in to take a look at the worst mass shooting in Las Vegas history, and in the process, managed to change the official narrative and find the truth behind the shooter, Stephen Paddock, and his reign of terror on the Route 91 Harvest Festival.
Mike has managed to do everything from finding evidence that shouldn't exist, to uncovering blatant lies, proving that the service elevator and back hallways of Mandalay Bay were hardly "impenetrable" (to the tune of 57 times since the shooting), the same area where Paddock was free to sneak in his weapons to the 32nd floor with ease. And even point out corruption by officials after the shootings!
On today's TCT, we dissect the Route 91 Harvest Festival case with Mike. Discuss Stephen Paddock's motives for the crime and how he was one of the only media members to develop a relationship with Stephen's brother, Eric! We also discuss the corruption that developed in the days after the shooting and how money truly dictated the narrative of this case!
See the video of the Route 91 Harvest Festival Shootings from multiple cameras here (Parental Discretion is Advised): https://youtu.be/BDbIVu_H45o?si=0ccQtTuIA0my69qt
Mike managed to get into the security elevator that took him up to the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay 57 TIMES after the shooting! See the footage he took with a Fox reporter walk around the bowels of the MB here: https://youtu.be/ul3kkTF-2e8?si=Y5ulPYLHwMmgoKne
Check out the documentary, "Money Machine" here: https://www.facebook.com/MoneyMachinemovie
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into the best in True Crime Podcasting. This is True Crime Tuesday. I'm your host, Tim Dennis. |
| 0:28.0 | October 1st, 2017. I can tell you exactly where I was. I was in my living room and I'm pacing back and forth and looking at my phone. And there's a story about the Route 91 Harvest Festival. |
| 0:40.9 | And I know for a fact that my buddy Wayne D. is on stage and he's helping to host that festival. |
| 0:47.4 | He's working for an IHeart radio station in Las Vegas. And I'm scared to death because shots have rang out. And I know for a fact that he's in that |
| 0:59.4 | area. Both he and his wife are in that area. And I'm scared for him. I'm scared for his wife. |
| 1:05.3 | I'm scared that they both could be one of the reported dead or injured at that point. |
| 1:15.3 | So me having news training, I know this much. |
| 1:19.5 | I'm going to send him one text, and I just sent him a text saying, |
| 1:22.8 | I'm praying that you're okay, that you're alive, you're okay, and you're safe. |
| 1:28.6 | Just get back to me as soon as you get this and are safe and can answer me back. |
| 1:32.6 | I stayed up until about 5 o'clock that morning. |
| 1:35.4 | And I got a text back from Wayne saying, |
| 1:38.5 | hey dude, thanks for the text. I appreciate it. |
| 1:41.2 | My relatives have been blowing me. I'm nonstop. |
| 1:47.8 | And we're okay. And then he proceeded to explain what had happened with him. |
| 1:52.2 | And I know he's listening. He listens to the show quite often. He and I talk a few times a week, |
| 1:59.0 | even to this day. Wayne is now in the Nashville market and doing well. |
| 2:07.4 | And I know it still scars him to this day, that incident. |
| 2:11.3 | I know it's still rough for him to this day to talk about that incident. |
| 2:16.4 | And I didn't ask him to comment about that incident today, but we are going to talk about the Route 91 Harvest Festival |
| 2:20.0 | and that shooting with our guest today, |
| 2:23.2 | who's gone deeper into this incident than anyone ever has. |
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