The landlord of the apartment where the suspected San Bernardino killers built bombs and stocked ammo gave reporters a bizarre tour of their cramped lair Friday — two days after federal law enforcement agents declared it an active crime scene.
Boards were still nailed over the windows of the Redland, Calif. apartment as reporters — cameras and lights blazing — trampled through rooms, touching items and holding them up for viewers to see.
Curious neighbors reportedly followed suit, gawking at the clutter of toys, clothes, pictures and personal belongings left behind by accused killers Syef Farook and wife Tashfeen Malik.
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Playthings for the terrorist couple’s 6-month-old baby girl overflowed from a small white crib. A white plush teddybear and dozens of other toys were scattered throughout the condo.
On a bed nearby, religious prayer books were thrown next to prayer beads and a parenting tome on motherhood, while a passport and other photos were stacked in loose piles.
In the bathroom, pictures were scattered around — and the couple’s drivers licenses were left amid the mess. Bags of clothes spilled from closets, and in the kitchen evidence of recently prepared meals was still spilled across countertops.
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Reporters even cracked the couple’s fridge, revealing well-stocked shelves with fresh eggs, and opened up what appeared to be a closet crawl space.
A huge gold watch adorned one wall, while in another a baby car walker and tossed-about papers were piled next to a heap of red and gold rugs.
Several tapestries and calendars with intricate designs and what appeared to be religious texts hung on other walls.
An FBI spokeswoman said the property — where cops found thousands of rounds of ammunition and dozens of pipe bombs — had been returned to the owner and was no longer an active crime scene.
“They said the investigation was over. The police department told me,” said landlord Doyle Miller.
He said he had yet to enter the garage — which the couple reportedly turned into a bomb factory.
“I want to see it, but I’m not going to open it up,” he said. “When everybody’s gone. This is way too much attention.”
There were also signs of prior searches by law enforcement officials. The hard drive to a computer was missing and fingerprinting dust was sprinkled haphazardly.
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Investigators have said they found crushed electronics in addition to the ammunition and items to make bombs in the small apartment.
Police are still searching for a motive to explain why Farook, 28, and his wife Malik, 27, went on their horrific rampage Wednesday, killing 14 and wounding 21.
Their baby was orphaned when they died later in a bloody shootout with cops.
Law enforcement sources said Friday that Malik pledged allegiance to an ISIS leader on social media before the killing spree.
The landlord said that Farook had been “friendly” when the couple applied to live in the apartment.
“There was no red flags anywhere in their application. Nothing,” Miller said. “There was nothing weird.”
Farook, his wife, their baby and Farook’s mother lived there, he said, paying $1,200 a month with a one-year lease. A pre-rental background check turned up nothing strange, the landlord said.
“He seemed like normal, just a normal person,” Miller said.
“I never talked to the lady at all. Never seen her,” he said of Malik.
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