This is the neighborhood in the Philippines where Marilou Danley spent time on Sunday with family – while her partner Stephen Paddock was plotting the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
Danley, 62, visited with her brother, who is a traditional ‘medicine man’ practicing an ancient Filipino healing art, at his home in Dasmarinas, a city of around 600,000 people which is 25 miles from the capital, Manila.
Reynaldo Bustos, 75, is the eldest of her large family. Another sister, Dolly, lives nearby, while two more of her sisters live in Australia.
Danley went to the Philippines fearing her relationship with Paddock was over because he paid for her ticket, her sisters have claimed.
But when she arrived at her brother’s home, she brought gifts, and stayed for more than an hour.
Family time: As Stephen Paddock prepared for his gun massacre, Marilou Danley was spending time with her brother, Reynaldo Bustos, at his home in Dasmarinas, in the Philippines
Family: Marilou Danley (second right) is from a large family which includes her sisters Liza Werner (center) and Amelia Manango (right), both of whom live in Australia – as did she until marrying an American man, Geary Danley, in 1990.
Visit: This is the home of Reynaldo Bustos, the brother in Dasmarinas who Marilou Danley was visiting hours before her partner Stephen Paddock’s mass-murder in Las Vegas
Everyday life: The Philippines is in contrast to the retirement community in Mesquite where Danley lived with Pollard. Her lawyer says she thought he was breaking up with her by paying for a ticket to her native country
Busy city: The neighborhood the Bustos family live in is close to the center of Dasmarinas, a city of 600,000 people
Family time: Stephen Paddock visited the Philippines with his girlfriend at least once and met members of her family at a celebratory meal
Paddock had also wired $100,000 to the country, apparently to help her build a house there.
Her brother and his family live in Village Park, an area where middle-class Filipino families’ homes are built on lots which cost around $6,000.
The sum Paddock sent would have allowed her to build a much larger home in a more desirable area.
‘I saw a nice car parked on the street,’ one neighbor told DailyMail.com. ‘The next-door neighbor told me that it was Marilou.’
On Wednesday, Danley’s lawyer said she believed that Paddock, 64, had bought her a plane ticket to the Philippines and then wired $100,000 US dollars because he wanted to break up with her.
He suggested that she visit her family, something she was happy to do, she claimed.
When he wired the large sum of money, she worried that he wanted to end their years-long relationship.
Danley is an Australian citizen who had renounced her Filipino citizenship, according to a local report by ABS-CBN.
Her immigration status in the U.S. has not been officially disclosed but she married Geary Danley in 1990, and is likely to have qualified for a green card shortly after that.
It is also not known precisely when she immigrated to Australia.
The Bustos family is originally from Pambuan, outside Gapan City, in Nueva Ecija province, to the north of Manila. It is unclear if that was where Danley was brought up.
Her family’s life in the Philippines is markedly different to Manley’s in the U.S.
Reynaldo Bustos practices hilot, an ancient Filipino art of healing, and herbal medicine.
Street food: The Bustos family also take part in the retail economy, selling duck eggs and smoked fish in Dasmarinas
Contrast: This is the retirement home in Mesquite, Nevada, where Paddock and Danley lived until his murder spree. It has been forensically examined by law enforcement
Back to face the feds: This was how Marilou Danley returned from her break – in a wheelchair at LAX. Her lawyer issued a statement saying she knew nothing of Paddock’s evil plans
He was not at home on Thursday and was treating a patient in Pampanga province, according to local sources.
He has said that he contacted his sister as soon as he had seen the news that he was suspected of the shooting spree from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay resort and casino on Sunday night in Las Vegas, which left 58 people dead and hundreds more injured.
In his native Tagalog , Bustos told ABC: ‘I called her up immediately and she said, ‘Relax, we shouldn’t worry about it. I’ll fix it. Do not panic. I have a clean conscience. I didn’t have anything to do with this.’
His home is on a busy street, with a church on the corner and around the corner, the busy main road is filled with food vendors, barber shops and ‘sari sari’ stores – Tagalog for ‘variety’.
Bustos shares his home with his son Miguel and daughter-in-law Marizalyn Joy Bustos Waniwan.
Along with Reynaldo’s work as a faith healer, the family sells duck eggs and smoked fish.
Baby Casamero is a fellow vendor who sells baluts, a typical Filipino street food of duck embryo boiled and eaten from the shell. She told DailyMail.com that the family usually come to sell their eggs in the same location three times a week in Dasmarinas.
She said that another of Danley’s sisters, Dolly, owned land in a subdivision called Green Breeze.
Dolly is believed to live at a gated community, around 12 miles away, where homes start at around 3 million Philippine pesos or $60,000 USD.