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Dragonlady8
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 Posted: Dec 26, 2008 11:09 am Post subject: Ninth victim of Santa-suit killer is found |
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You can't get anymore vindictive than this
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| Quote: | Ninth victim of Santa-suit killer is found
Remains discovered at home burned by man who'd just had messy divorce
The Associated Press
updated 1:17 p.m. ET, Fri., Dec. 26, 2008
COVINA, Calif. - A ninth body was found Friday at the home where a man dressed as Santa Claus massacred eight others on Christmas Eve following a messy divorce.
All of the bodies recovered from the home of Bruce Pardo's former in-laws were badly burned and none have been positively identified.
Court documents show that Bruce and Sylvia Pardo finalized their divorce Dec. 18 after about two years of marriage. She got $10,000, their dog and her wedding ring in the settlement. He kept the house.
Bruce Pardo's attorney, Stanley Silver, said his client was still trying to pay the $10,000 as recently as Tuesday.
Pardo also fell behind on spousal support payments after he lost his job in July, Silver said.
Pardo’s next-door neighbor, who did not want her name published to protect her privacy, said Pardo was often seen walking a dog around the neighborhood and working on his lawn.
He also served regularly as an usher at evening Mass at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Montrose, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Jan Detanna, the head usher at the church, was stunned when told about the violence. “I’m just — this is shocking,” Detanna told the Times. “He was the nicest guy you could imagine. Always a pleasure to talk to, always a big smile.”
Bong Garcia, another of Pardo’s next-door neighbors, told the Times he saw Pardo between 9 and 10 p.m. Christmas Eve and spoke briefly to him. Pardo told him he was on his way to a Christmas party, Garcia said.
Still searching for bodies
The bloodbath began when an 8-year-old girl attending a Christmas Eve party answered a knock at the door. Pardo, dressed as Santa and carrying what appeared to a present, pulled out a handgun and shot her in the face, then began shooting indiscriminately as partygoers tried to flee.
By the time it was over, at least nine people at the party were dead and the house was torched. Pardo killed himself several hours later.
Pardo’s ex-wife and her parents were believed to be among the dead. On Friday, investigators resumed searching what was left of their two-story home on a cul-de-sac in a quiet Covina neighborhood 25 miles east of Los Angeles.
Pardo, 45, had no criminal record and no history of violence, according to police, but he was angry following last week’s settlement of his divorce.
“It was not an amicable divorce,” police Lt. Pat Buchanan said.
Investigators seeking further information about Pardo’s motives have begun searching his home in the suburban Los Angeles community of Montrose.
Police said he showed up at his former in-laws’ home around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday for their annual Christmas party.
The gift-wrapped box Pardo was carrying actually contained a pressurized homemade device he used to spray a liquid that quickly sent the house up in flames. Police said Pardo had recently worked in the aerospace industry. |
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Wakebrad
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| Quote: | | “It was not an amicable divorce,” police Lt. Pat Buchanan said. |
Gee, How could you tell..
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