To see pictures of your her into your the details carried out. It is devastating. Shauna tiaffay, loving mom by day and las vegas Cocktail Waitress by night. I was at one of the bars and i saw her walk and every single head turned. Reporter it was after the shift they found the victim of a ruthless attack. Your heart drops to your stomach. Reporter the suspect, how about the Casino Worker or hustler . We did not know if it was a cycle watching us work at the palms. Shauna was thinking i have to get out of the situation. Reporter from out of the blue, i tip. It would reveal a diabolical plot. Just could not understand how this was reality. Reporter was the killer too clever to be caught . Extremely smart. Smarter than we are. Welcome to deadline. Shauna tiaffay hit the jackpot in las vegas. Handsome husband, adorable daughter and good job. But there is a dark side to sin city and sadly the beautiful Cocktail Waitress became its victim. In cases like this one the husband is often the sus
breach, breach, breach. reporter: and discovered him already dead. tonight, federal law enforcement sources telling abc news they are investigating reports that the day before the massacre, he checked into multiple hotels overlooking the concert venue. and he may have looked for other opportunities. federal sources say he looked into renting a room in this building right next to another music festival just the week before. and from this perch, he would have had a clear field of fire, right down into those tens of thousands of people packed into that concert below. but for some reason, he didn t pursue the plan, instead, he waited a week for the harvest festival. and matt gutman joins us live tonight here in las vegas. and matt, we now know, he may have had several hotel options for this attack, ultimately spending more than three days in the mandalay bay hotel right behind me. and you re learning what he might have done the day before? reporter: that s right, david. we re learn
balance. scary stuff. imagine thinking you won a multimillion dollar jackpot only to be told, total mistake. veronica sass teo says she took her mother to a washington state kinds. put $100 in the slot machine. thought she hit a jackpot of more than $8 million. then a casino worker came over and told her, guess what, the machine was broken. it malfunctioned. she had actually only won $80. very excited, happy, and then i couldn t believe it. d the machine, printed a ticket and gave me $80 mitchell first thought was, how many times did they have this kind of instance and people walking away thinking they had won? well, casino ceo says they re working to get answers. meantime, she is planning to get a lawyer. what did you think about donald trump s performance on
accident. but like many of the dozen or so fires in the san diego area, sparked by a fire we the golf club or discarded cigarette or something like that. i have to get out before they catch me and charge me with this. reporter: the fire moving fast, 20 miles per hour fueled by hot desert winds. bob and sophie payne s house sat in the line of fire there. welcome to our backyard. yeah. reporter: less than a week later, they laugh. so they don t cry. as we walk through the shell of their home. it took a lifetime for the retired bus driver and casino worker to build this home. they left to go visit an aunt that day. to have a dream home go to pot and not have it again is like, wow. reporter: how important is it for you to know what caused this fire? oh, it s very important. it s important and i hope he gets caught so he doesn t do it again for somebody else. that s i mean, this is done.