[1] In April 1990, Bounds and 21-year-old Son Minh Hoang Underwood burglarized Gitcho's Discount Sales in Lacey, from where they stole four pistols, a rifle and a shotgun.

[5] After living for a short period in Tucson, where he was charged but not prosecuted for disorderly conduct, Bounds and some friends decided to move to an apartment in Greenville, South Carolina sometime in early 1998.

During this period, neighbors still regarded him as friendly, but noticed that he had a framed and matted picture of a lynching hanging in his apartment and a Ku Klux Klan Bible.

[5] In June 1999, he met a 33-year-old health nurse named Sandra "Sandi" Roberts Ott, a divorced mother who regularly went to karaoke at a local bar.

After this, Bounds started recording his thoughts and feelings in a diary, in which he wrote on multiple occasions how he was contemplating suicide and his life was seemingly falling apart.

His co-worker arrived at the Radio Shock later that day, but was puzzled by the locked front door and the "Closed" sign - once he entered, he found Lara's body still tied to the chair and immediately called the police.

[5] Six months later, on December 22, Bounds walked into a tiny flower shop on a busy street in broad daylight and killed the 30-year-old clerk, Karen Moore Hayden, leaving her face down in a back storage room in a pool of blood.

[4] The day after killing Hayden, Bounds went to Georgetown, where he decided to break into the home of his former short-term girlfriend, 33-year-old nurse Sandra Roberts Ott.

Timothy ran to the doorstep of his neighbor Idell Davenport, but found that the house was empty - before he could search for help elsewhere, Bounds caught up to him and shot him to death.

[7] Bounds stayed there for approximately half an hour, during which he watched TV, petted Adkins' dog and repeatedly asked if there was news of the recent murders.

[7] This seemingly did not attract Bounds' attention, as he was focused on watching the news and a Christmas show, but started panicking after realizing that the police were surrounding the house.