IMHO, the current burning questions regarding Ryan Wesley Routh have become:
- How did Routh, with a $36k annual income, declared indigent by the Federal Court and provided court appointed attorney, travel from Hawaii to Florida? Where was he staying in Florida and who paid for it? Hawaii has the highest cost of living among all 50 states. Unless he rowed a boat across half the Pacific, he had to fly to the mainland U.S. and cross the entire continent to get to Florida. Who facilitated his travel nearly half-way around the world (across five time zones)?
- How did Routh obtain a late model SUV with stolen license plates? Where did the vehicle and plates come from? Who provided them? As an indigent with no money, Routh didn't go down to the local used car dealer and buy it, nor would he have qualified for any kind of auto loan on his income alone.
- How did Routh get his hands on a sporterized SKS modified to accept 30-round magazines? Who attempted to obliterate its serial number for him? Given his travel from Hawaii to Florida, who facilitated his illegal acquisition of the SKS? Who paid for the ballistic ceramic plates he had? Those don't come cheap. He was a "convicted felon prohibited person" (for life; it was a violent felony involving an automatic weapon). He would immediately fail a NICS. It wasn't from an FFL (gun store or pawn shop). Note that a non-prohibited person can purchase a long gun in a state other than where they reside. He could not have legally purchased the rifle due to his felony conviction and the nature of it would prevent it from ever being expunged. That an attempt was made to obliterate its serial number is not surprising. Given his travel from Hawaii to Florida, he wasn't going to have the necessary "street connections" to readily make an illegal, black market SKS purchase in some back lot or out of some dude's vehicle trunk.
