On February 9, 2018, late in the afternoon on a Friday, the Associated Press (AP) released the original PDF of Stephen Paddock’s autopsy results by linking to it in one of their articles. Rather quickly, within an hour or two, the autopsy report was spiked out of the article. Subsequent coverage by news outlets have covered the bombshell report by focusing on anti-anxiety medication being found in Paddock’s system, and how the autopsy reveals no clues on motive.
The media all ran with the story that he was sober when he did the shooting but they all missed this big question about his time of death.
What is being hidden from the public, and this appears to be the explanation as to why law enforcement has fought tooth and nail to not have Paddock’s autopsy results publicly released, is Paddock’s Time Of Death — his Time Of Death is 1200 hours (Noon) on 10/2/17; that is the day after the shooting, and approximately fourteen hours after the shooting into Route 91 ceased.
Sheriff Lombardo has told the public that Metro and SWAT first arrived on the 32nd floor at approximately 10:17PM on October 1st, but they did not initially breach the suspect’s room because the shooting had already ceased. They breached the door to room 32–135 at approximately 11:20PM. And, according to the police scanner audio, officers did indeed arrive upon a dead body in 32–135 after breaching the door — but we now know that could not have been Paddock’s body, as he was not killed until the following day.
So what is going on here. Is this a mistake by the coroner? If so I think they would of revised this report before it went public. One thing to note here is this autopsy was done on Oct 6th which could of skewed the time of death results given that it was 5 days later. I'm no expert in this field but it does seem strange, maybe it's a normal thing to be that far off, I just don't know much about autopsy results.
If anyone knows more about the process they use to determine time of death and how accurate it is 5 days later please share.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4375783/Vegasautopsy.pdf