The woman who received two homes from the Nashville RV bomber Anthony Quinn Warner was the daughter of one of her friends, said the attacker’s former lawyer.
Los Angeles music executive Michelle Swing, 29, became the center of several conspiracy theories after she received double deeds – including Warner’s own house exactly a month before her Christmas morning explosion.
A lawyer who represented him at the time, Ray Throckmorton III, told The Tennessean that the maddened, hate-filled and paranoid loner told him that Swing was just “the son of a friend of his”.
“I remember him saying that he knew her mother personally,” recalled Throckmorton, who said that “he never asked and never asked any questions or connections about why he wanted to do this.”
The initial transfer – from Warner’s nearly $ 250,000 childhood home in January 2019 – caused a “schism” in the family, leading to a legal battle that his mother, Betty Christine Lane, finally won, said the lawyer.
Swing transferred the deed back to his 85-year-old mother last year.
Warner – a “technical guy and computer addict” – had already fired the lawyer before the legal battle ended because he was upset about the way things were going, he recalled.
“He seemed to hate life and he hated everyone and everything,” said Throckmorton.
“He was extremely reserved, suspicious, paranoid and suspicious. There was no conversation with him. “
Swing – who did not sign the quitclaim transfers – insisted that he did not even know that Warner had given her his $ 160,000 home in Antioch in November. She declined to discuss their relationship, saying she was “instructed to forward everything else to the FBI”.
Throckmorton also represented Warner’s 64-year-old unidentified girlfriend, who alerted authorities about her bomb-making plans in 2019.
“She believed that Tony was spying on her, believed that he was breaking into her house at night while she slept,” Throckmorton told The Tennessean.
“She believed in all kinds of things. We had no way of knowing whether that was true or not, ”he said.
“My understanding is that he never showed her anything. He just bragged or bragged about it, ”he said.
Nashville police this week defended the handling of the call, saying the vague statements did not give them “reasonable suspicion to go to a judge” and request a warrant.
Warner’s explosive-laden trailer damaged 41 buildings in downtown Nashville early on Christmas Day, paralyzing phone lines in several states as it appeared to target an AT&T building that had parked outside.