The Covina Christmas Eve Massacre

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Hey weirdos, my name is Ash. And I am Elena. And this is Mommy. Whoa, it is.

I didn't know how to start. It's hard to get out of those. It is. And you know what, guys?

This is a special holiday edition. It's the holiday season. But it's going to get real shitty in here. It's the shitty season.

It's a massacre up in here. Not funny at all. So before we start with the real brutal shit, yay. Let's talk about really quick.

I, and we're not getting sponsored by this, by the way. I just really love this movie. I want everyone to watch it. Guys, on Netflix, their original holiday movie, Klaus, go watch it.

If you have kids, go watch it with kids. If you don't have kids, go watch it because it's great. I love recording, but I was just watching the beginning of it with your children and I was kind of bummed that I couldn't finish the rest. It's so good.

It looks cute. And the end will have you like cry in happy tears. It's just, it's a nice movie. And I feel like we're going to add it to our arsenal of like Christmas vacation, elf, the Santa Claus, Klaus.

Those are every year that we have to watch them in no classes on top of it. And I just want to spread the word because it's real cute. I'll have that. We're not getting anything out of this.

I just want to be clear. This is not an ad. I just want to tell you. Netflix?

Yeah. Netflix? Or else, why? Yeah.

So yeah, I just want to tell you guys that because this is going to be a real bummer of a case and you might as well have something like four, two. Maybe go watch Klaus after this. Definitely don't take you out of it. The other thing I just wanted to mention was we are going to keep you guys updated on that crazy case that everybody's been sharing.

Right now that Heidi Bursard, it's an awful tragic case. She went missing in Texas. They just found her. Yeah, this is really sad.

Yeah. In the trunk of her quote unquote best friend. They were supposedly best friends for like 20 years. This woman, Megan Fira Muska, I think it is, was in the delivery room when she gave birth to her daughter, Margot.

Margot, that's the cute and adorable. It's such a cute baby. Such a pretty girl like brand new mom. Yeah.

Out of six year old boy too. Mm-hmm. When missing when she dropped him off. So this Megan bitch is charged with murdering her and then taking Margot and pretending she was her baby.

So she had some kind of psychotic thing going on. Yeah, there's some shit there. And the worst part about it is she was telling everybody that this is her new baby Luna. Oh, I know that part.

I know it gave me the heaves. And everybody was like, but wait, when were you pregnant? Well, and she pretended she was pregnant right alongside Heidi. Oh, it's one of those kisses.

And yeah, so she basically, and she like assisted in the, like she was there. Oh, that's always so fucked up when they assisted in it. You watched this woman give birth to her child. You know she's a mother of two children and you took her away from those children.

You're just, I hate that. And then I feel even worse because everybody was thinking that it was the fiance. Oh, yeah. Because he gave like, you know, the typical interview where you're kind of like side-eyeing.

I'm like, yeah, really? And I feel bad because I mean, again, nobody has been officially cleared or anything. We don't know the whole story. We don't know if anybody else.

They did say someone else might have been involved. So I'm not blaming him by any means. Right now he's innocent and so provigilty. But I will say I feel bad that like I initially was like, oh, he did it like immediately.

So jokes on me. You know, like I'll eat my hat on that one. If it turns out you're what? You've never heard that before?

Did you say harder hat? Oh, I thought you said I'll eat my hat. No, I heard that, but I thought you said heart and I was like, okay, Boston. No, I won't eat my hat.

It sounded like you're like, I'll eat my hat out. I'll eat my hat. I'll do that too if I'm wrong. I'll do it.

I'll have a face if I'm wrong. But yeah, we'll keep you guys updated on that because I'm curious to see what happens. And it's just such a tragic story. And I feel so awful for her kids for Margot and her son and for her family.

So that's just a real bummer and R.I.P. Heidi and a fucking Megan. And yeah, so moving on from that, the one other thing we have before we dive into this case is some happy news. A little more uplifting news.

We are going to be at the Grammarcy Theatre in New York on January 30th. Can't wait to see you there. That show is sold to the fuck out. So we can't wait to see everybody who bought tickets.

It's going to be late. Then April 14th at the punchline comedy club in Philadelphia. We'll see you there. Coming out to Philly.

I'm pretty sure there's still tickets available for Philly. I believe there is. So go get them. Then on the 15th, we will be at the DC improv in Washington, DC.

I'm also pretty sure there's still tickets for that. Yep, we'll get those tickets. We'll go on to see your faces. We go.

Then we are playing an early show on May 7th 7th at Zaines Nashville, which is sold out. Which I can't believe. That's what we'll do. Oh yeah, that's fucking insane.

But we added another fucking show because we love Nashville baby. We sure did. We've never been. We love you anyway.

So we're going to be playing a late show there. So there are two shows that there are still tickets available for the second show. So go get it. Because the more shows we sell out, the more we can add.

Let's do this. We're already working on some others. Hi, yo. Let's see it left.

The link is in our bio on Instagram. I'm also going to be posting it on our website so that it can be on one central location. And we'll be sharing other updates on that. But without further ado, let's jump into this case, shall we?

What beautiful Christmas story are you going to tell me today? So this is the Covino, the Covina Christmas Eve massacre. That's horrible. It's already shitty to feel people but you really got to do it on Christmas Eve.

Yeah, and this is a real bummer of a case. So everybody get ready because it sucks. So excited. I'm going to a Christmas party after this.

I got to go to a Christmas party after this. It's the holiday season. I'm a shrimp. I'm going to show you how to get ready.

This centers around 45 year old Bruce Jeffery Pardo. Bruce was the son of an engineer. When he grew up, he immediately showed that he was pretty adept at mathematics and he really liked it. So he himself became an engineer of sorts.

But it sounds like a nice story. It's not. Don't be fooled. He graduated from John H.

Francis Polytechnic High School in Sun Valley, California. And then he went on to Cal State Northridge and there he got a degree in computer science. So far so good. He's on the right path, right?

It always starts out that way. Always does. He was a super center of attention guy. He was big.

He was goofy. He was loud. Yeah, exactly. He wasn't like a super withdrawn guy like Jeffrey Dahmer or anything like that or like an Ed Kembury kind of guy.

He was out there. He liked being the center of attention. And in fact, at his Cal State graduation, according to a Los Angeles Times article that I wrote that I wrote. I was like, I'm so crazy.

Surprise. No, I've read it. He carried a life size inflatable doll at his graduation. Why?

Because he just thought it would be funny. Like he was one of those guys. No, a jokester. Just a big old jokester.

Sounds like a frat guy. He kind of, yeah, he's like, he seems like the typical frat guy. I'm not hating on frat guys. I think you're funny.

Don't add us. Sometimes. But he was like the typical frat guy, but then add on like that he also was a murderer. Oh.

So there's that differentiates him from the typical frat guy. Yeah, I don't know typical murderous frat man. No. He was also, I'm not saying this differentiates him.

He was brilliant. He was very brilliant. Many frat guys are brilliant. Let's be clear.

I'm not saying that differentiates him. So he ended up getting a job at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Flintridge, I believe it is, sorry if I'm saying it all wrong, but he became a software engineer, obviously. That makes sense after you get a job degree in computer science. He basically just kind of like fucked around at work.

Like he was not a good employee. He used his brilliance and knowledge to hack the system there to look at his co-worker salaries. Oh, that's not allowed. That's not allowed.

And that's not cool. Dude, why do you care what everybody else is making? I don't need to see what I'm making. Damn, just ask me.

I'll tell ya. Yeah, like what a dick. When he was there, he met a woman named Delilah. I could not find her last name because apparently now she is off living her life.

She's married. She doesn't want to be associated with this. You know what I'm going to say. Hey there, Delilah.

Delilah. Delilah. Delilah. Delilah is like a radio show around here.

She's like, it's normally late night. And you're like right into her and she's like, tell me all your love woes. If you want to send somebody a song, call in and it's Delilah. I love it.

I also loved what you just did there. She got like a saucy body roll. Close her eyes. She got all into that.

I love that. It's so comforting. I appreciated it. Well, this is not the same Delilah.

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They got engaged. She ended up paying for the wedding and the honeymoon. Why? From her saving fucking software person.

Yeah, but he was kind of just like a bum in an asshole. So he just didn't pay for anything. He was like, yeah, you can just empty your savings to pay for this. And she was like, I don't want to marry.

Yeah, you know, loves love, loves wind. So June 17th, 1989 was the wedding day. They all waited and he never showed. Wait, he stood her up at the Walter.

No. After she emptied her savings to pay for this. Oh, it gets better. Weeks went by.

No one heard from him until he showed up one day and it came out that he withdrew the last $3,000 July was bank account. He took her money. Yep. And he went on a Palm Springs vacation and just blew it all.

What a fucking asshole. No wonder she's like by like, right? There's a lot more that you would want to dissociate from the student that will hear about. Did she leave him like right then?

Well, they never got married. He never showed up to the wedding. Oh, that was sad. So that was that.

So this is just to show what a fucking asshole this dude is. In 2001, he met a woman named Elena Lucano. Shut up Elena. Yeah, it's not the same.

It's like Elena. No, Elena, but kind of the same. They moved in together. But they had a 13 month old boy together.

On New Year's, the child fell into the backyard swimming pool while Bruce was supposed to be watching him and he wasn't watching him. Bruce was watching TV. Makes sense. First of all, I mean, shout out to all the parents out there or really anybody who's watched a child, especially a 13 month old.

First of all, they're probably just starting to walk. So they're totalling around falling into shit and picking stuff off the floor, putting it into their mouth. You literally have to follow that kid everywhere they go. Yeah, you need like eyes like a hawk.

For him to think that he can watch any television. Yeah, good joke. It's absurd. Elena's kids are like three and a half and we can't get through like a quarter of a show.

I have not, John and I literally took I think two years to get through Stranger Things. We have yet to watch the second season of Mind Tonsor because when the hell are we going to sit down and watch it. Right. And it's like for him to sit there and watch TV long enough for this kid to wander outside.

First of all, how did you even get outside? The fact that that happened is insane. And then for him to fall into the swimming pool and you're just sitting there watching TV. What are you doing?

Right. Like you have one job dude. Right. Like I'm sorry.

Is the kid okay? Well, he lived. So he's watching television. He was apparently when they got home, he was a fucking mess and he was like cradling the child in his arms like he was a mess.

He ended up sitting by his bedside in the hospital for like a week or two. Like yeah, good. He sat vigil with him like really like stay by his side. But then when it was revealed that he would have brain damage and be a paraplegic.

Oh no. Bruce split. Are you kidding me? Nope.

So you did that and then you're going to abandon your again and leave it up to the mother to take care. Obviously the mother, I mean your mother of a child that would not be like, we'll leave this for you, you know what I mean? But you know, you did this. Like and also it's like you are his father.

Great. This is supposed to be no matter what you are here. You would take care of your child and especially when you're responsible for it and I'm not. So again, I mean, not cool.

Piece of shit. Absolute piece of shit. I know. And I mean, I guess he's thriving with his mother.

Well that's good. But that sucks. Still. That sucks.

Because you're not fucking negligence. Yeah. And that kid is like suffering because of him. It sucks.

In 2008, Sylvia Pardo was 43 years old. She lived in Covino, California just outside of Los Angeles and worked as an administrative assistant. She was one of five children and her siblings were James, Charles, Alicia and LaTisha. She ended up meeting Bruce and marrying him.

Why? Unfortunately. Why? In 1988, she was married to her first husband and he was killed in a car accident.

The couple did share two children together and a few years later she met a man named George Orza and they eventually were married as well and in 2002 they had a daughter together. So she had three kids. Okay. They divorced soon after and he moved to Oklahoma.

So she lost one husband to a car accident and then divorced. In 2004 is when Sylvia met Bruce Pardo, which was just shitty. He was an aerospace software technician at the time. They met through one of her brother-in-laws.

I'm not sure which one. They married on January 29th, 2006 and almost immediately she went bad. Of course. She went real badly.

He was super shifty. He was just an asshole. They thought about money a lot because he wanted a separate secret bank account away from her. Go fuck yourself.

Yeah. So money became a real source of contention for them right away. And the straw that broke the camel's back, however, was when Sylvia found out. He was cheating.

Nope. That Bruce had fought her to son from a previous relationship. I abandoned him. And that the son had brain damage and Bruce had abandoned the poor child.

But what she found out was that he was still claiming this child as a tax write-off. Are you kidding me? No, he had not seen, spoken or paid for this child at all. But he was claiming him on the taxes.

He was claiming him as a tax write-off. And when she found this out, she was like, you're gross. Yeah, that's horrific. And from what I saw, she found out from his own mother.

Oh. Because Bruce part of his own mother was on Sylvia's side through all of this. Yeah, good. Yeah.

So she was like, you're a fucking monster. And she was right. They separated on March 7th, 2008. Sylvia apparently asked can I stay in the house for a little longer because she had a kindergartner like a four year old.

And she was like, can she finish kindergarten here? And then I'll move out. But I don't want to rip her out of kindergarten. Well when she was out one day, he threw all her shit onto the driveway and was like, get out.

Yeah, douchebag. Yeah, typical fucking Bruce. You know what I'm saying? I'm fucking Bruce.

Fucking Bruce. Rest in distress because spoiler alert, he's fucking dead. Bye Bruce. She was like, don't work my dad.

Don't work my dad. Bruce. So yeah, so he's a piece of shit. June 2008, he was ordered to pay Sylvia $1,785 a month in spells of support.

His first payment didn't go through. Like the check bounced. Makes sense. Cool.

Not shocked. And then the second one, he just stopped payment on it. So he just never paid her any money. Not shocked.

Now one month after that, he was fired from his job at ITT Electronic Systems for billing fraudulent hours, according to another article. He's just an asshole in every sense of the word. In June, he bought a SIG Sauer, I don't know if I'm saying this right, SIG Sauer 9 millimeter handgun. I have absolutely no idea.

I apologize if I'm saying that wrong. You know what? You know what? You know what?

You tried. And you know what? Every time I've been like, I don't know this about guns, someone help me. We always get like really helpful people that are like, I like guns and let me tell you about it.

Yeah. I appreciate that. Thank you because I don't know a lot about them. So thanks guys.

In August, September, October and November, he bought four more of those guns. So he really liked them. He only spaced them out like that because the law says you need to wait 30 days between purchasing this kind of gun. On September 8, he ordered the Santa Claus outfit that will come up soon.

Yep. He ordered a Santa Claus outfit. Okay. He rented it from Jerry's costumes and it was a custom Santa Claus outfit and he asked for extra space in it.

Okay. You're going to see why. Oh, I don't want to. Yeah, it's not awesome.

And when I say I don't want to, that doesn't mean stop telling the story because everybody gets upset and they say that they're like, Ash doesn't want to know the details. Why is she going to have to grab podcast? I do want to know the details. It's a figure of speech.

Damn it. Goddamn it. I'm kind of pretty salty week. We've got a lot of shit this week.

I don't know why. It must be like the moon or something. I don't know. This mercury retro crease.

Oh, wait. I know the moon was walking straight up orange the other night and I meant to text you. Maybe that's why. Yeah.

That orange mood is casting a salty light on us. So when, so then he ended up visiting his friend, I believe in September or October, he visited a friend in Iowa, a friend from high school and he used their different laws in Iowa. They have different laws on like how many bullets you can purchase at a time or how many bullets in a magazine you can have. He used the difference in those laws from California to buy 16 handgun magazines that held 18 bullets each.

So on December 18th, one week before Christmas, Sylvia and Bruce appeared in court before a judge. The divorce was finalized. Okay. So this was a week before Christmas.

Okay. That's sad. What should be time to get lost? It is really shitty and it's really shitty because this is really just awful timing altogether.

He ended up getting to keep the house. She got the couple's dog, which was a brown Akita named Saki. Saki. He was ordered to pay her an additional $10,000.

Yeah. I mean, she deserved it. I mean, they like order you to do that shit, but then like I feel like nine out of 10 times you never see it. I know that shit is always like it always gets held up in like a day.

Sounds good. I know $10,000 from Bruce. And when is Bruce going to pay that up? So Sylvia moved in with her parents for the time being at 1,1,2,9 East, Noel Crest Drive and West Covina.

Oh, Sylvia, you're having a time, bro. Yeah. It's just bad guys. Just to let you know, December 24th, 2008 is where shit goes down.

Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve. Sylvia's family gathered at the home of her parents. They did this every single year.

80 year old Joseph and 70 year old Alicia Ortega. Stop. The couple was married 53 years. Stop.

They moved here from Mexico and they started an industrial painting company together called Industrial Powder Coding Ink. Oh my God. They amassed a pretty great life together through just hard work. Yeah.

They were like the American dream. Yes. When Joseph and they said, I read this in an article that when Joseph spotted Alicia in their hometown in Mexico, he was 23 years old and she was 17. He said he saw her and told his sister, I'm going to marry that girl.

I'm going to leave because I have to go cry. Isn't it just like that's so beautiful? I love love. 53 years together.

I hate to tell you this is not going to end well. Well, just 53 I'm assuming. Yeah. Just 53.

And it hurts my heart because that's they seem like said this family like the Ortega family, I was reading about them like this some articles I'll post to that go through like each family member and just like go through their life and stuff. Oh, the great shit they did. And it just seemed like they were just this like wonderful loving family. Oh, they really did.

Like they loved each other. It just like really bummed me out. I used to squeeze the big shop in wherever I could. Usually when I had no time and have a list, then I tried super value online shopping or to when it suits you delivered to your door or ready for free click and collect at your local store fresh from your local super value exactly as you'd expect.

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They said they were the sweetest most loving family. Like everyone said that. In fact, a neighbor named Mitzi Avery. I want to be Mitzi.

I know that's a great name. She lived in Ex-Dorta, and she told the Los Angeles Times, quote, when you walked into a room, every one of the Ortega kids would get up and give you a kiss and a hug. They were the most respectful family I'd ever known. It all started with Joe and Alicia.

I love that. So they just like taught their kids to be respectful. They just loved each other. Just fuck man.

Fuck man. Oh, fuck man. He's a degenerate. Oh, I'm so angry.

This case makes me so angry. So this Christmas Eve 2008, there were about 25 people attending the annual holiday Sunday at their house. Big, a big sware. So later, sometime after 11 PM, some of the family, including Joseph and Alicia, were playing a game of Texas Holdum with some of their family mainly like the siblings.

They were enjoyed that. It was after they enjoyed a wonderful Christmas Eve dinner together, a nice party. According to the LA Times, a lot of the grandchildren were kind of in the back of the house playing video games. Two.

And 17 year old Michael Ortega was upstairs on the computer. Suddenly, there was a knock at the door. And they were like, come on in. It's Christmas.

Well, this is when she gets real. So just everybody hang on to your booties. Trigger warning? Yeah, kind of.

Trigger warning for death. It's coming. And eight year old Katrina Yuzov-Polsky peaked out the window. She saw none other than Santa Claus.

Standing at the front door. And he was carrying a giant, nicely wrapped Christmas present. Obviously, she psyched as any fucking eight year old would be to see Santa on Christmas Eve. Right.

Standing outside their door with a Christmas present. Right. So she ran to the door like any child would and flung it open yelling Santa. Oh my God.

Now everybody, it's bad because no sooner had she opened the door and saw Santa Claus standing there. Santa Claus shot her square in the face with a semiautomatic handgun. Yup. Shot this eight year old girl square in the face with a hand.

Now I'm going to tell you right now, the girl lives. Okay, okay, okay. I just want to leave now. I just want to let everybody know.

She lived, but like, holy shit. Shot an eight year old in the face. What kind of fucking, dressed as Santa. What the fuck is wrong with you?

Exactly. Now, hearing the commotion and the gunshot, the home just erupted into panic. Obviously. Family members were diving under tables under chairs.

They were running everywhere. They were grabbing each other and trying to save each other. I mean, it's just pandemonium. Now most of the adults were in the front of the home getting ready to leave.

And as I said, most of the kids were in the back playing video games. This allowed most of the kids to escape. Okay, that's good. That's good, but it's still.

Now during the chaos, apparently Charles Artega, Sylvia's brother, recognized who Santa was. He yelled, it's Bruce and was promptly shot and killed. Oh my God. Yes.

Bruce Pardo was literally massacring his ex-wife's entire family along with her. Like why though? Now family members who survived said they saw Charles and James Artega, Sylvia's brothers, tried to take Bruce down even after they had been shot. Oh my God.

They said they got up pouring blood and tried to save their family. Oh my God. But they were obviously overtaken. They tried to take this guy down for their family.

Now Joseph, Alicia, their three daughters, including Sylvia, hid under the dining room table and were executed and killed where they hid. Oh my God. The only survivor of the immediate family was the sister Leticia. Oh my God.

Now Leticia noticed that her daughter, Katrina, who was shot in the face, was stumbling out of the home at one point after being shot in the fucking face by Santa Claus. So she ran out after her. Now according to the LA Times, relatives that were present said that they thought that they saw Bruce Pardo, oh this is awful, lift up Katrina before putting her down and shooting her in the face. Relatives literally said that he came in.

They said some of them said I saw him pick her up and then put her down and shoot her in the face. Like why? Like pick her up like Santa would pick you up. Yeah.

So this girl was like Santa and then he puts her down and boom shoots her in the face. What the fuck? Again, she lives but like holy shit. Now after the shooting spree, Bruce Pardo was not done.

Okay. Because he, remember he had a gift in his hand, a wrapped gift. What was that? Well, he unwrapped his gift and this is the one that made Katrina think that he had to be the real Santa.

Uh huh. He was showing up with a gift. A homemade flamethrower. Wait, what?

Yup. A homemade literally Bruce Pardo put together a homemade flamethrower. What even is that? It's like, it's exactly what it is.

No, I know what it is. And it's got like what the fuck. It had like two tanks on it, like fuel tanks and everything that he could literally just spray basically spray fire. Yeah.

And he unwrapped this gift and immediately started engulfing the entire home in flames. What the? Like why? Yup.

Now this sucks. Michael Ortega, the 17 year old upstairs on the computer, he was killed in the fire. Oh my God. Now Latisha who ran out after her daughter Katrina called 911 first at 11.27 p.m.

to report that her daughter needed medical attention after being shot in the fucking face. She also told the dispatcher at 911 quote, his name is Bruce Pardo. She said she could still hear him shooting and she ended the call by saying, please, I don't know who else is alive. Oh, I just got chills.

And this is her whole family. Like this is her whole family. In the end, nine were dead. Oh my God.

He killed nine people in this family either by gunshot or by the fire. Right. Now Bruce Pardo had brought with him four semi automatic weapons and the homemade flamethrower. Right.

It's a US for extra room. Yup. In the suit to carry the guy. Because he carried all his shit in there.

Now some of the victims were shot execution style. Oh my God. Like he literally stood over these people hiding from him and shot them execution style. Why?

They're cowering away from him. Right. This is so beyond psychotic. It's unreal.

Now the bodies were so badly burned that cause of death was hard to determine like whether they were shot or died from the fire. So they ended up having to use dental records not just for cause of death but for ID purposes. Oh, that's so sad. Which is always really fucked.

Whenever they have to resort to dental records, it's like a wolf. Um, Pardo's ex wife, Sylvia Pardo was 43. Her parents, Joseph Ortega, 80 and his wife, Alicia, 70. Her two brothers, James Ortega, 52 and Charles Ortega, 50.

Their wives Teresa, 51 and Sherry, 45. Sylvia Pardo's sister, Alicia Ortiz, 46 and her son, Michael Ortiz, 17 were all killed. Oh, God. 16 year old that was there was shot in the back but survived.

A 20 year old jumped from the second story window and broke her ankle and eight year old Katrina survived but was obviously badly injured. Yeah. They said that she might have actually saved herself at the last second because she turned her head at the last second and he shot her basically through the jaw. Oh, yeah.

It took 80 firefighters, 1.5 hours to get the resulting fire out of control. They said that flames were shooting up like 50 feet in the air. Because he was probably still in there like shooting. It was just a massive fire.

I mean, that flame thrower must have just caused the perfect atmosphere for an insane bonfire to happen. Now Bruce had no priors. Right. No previous record.

Right. So this is just an insane joke. Why was he like so? Like why was it this time?

Like, no idea. It's like, because this conflicting things where some friends said that he was really upset over the divorce and in some said he seemed fine. Right. But all the time people did say that he would say like she's taking me to the cleaners.

She's trying. I think it was money. Yeah. I think he just didn't want to pay her any money.

Probably. Now after the massacre, Bruce changed out of his Santa suit. He changed into... Oh, he left.

Oh, yeah, he left. He put the flame thrower into his rental car because he rented a car a week before this because he knew what he was going to do. He drove 30 to 40 miles to the San Fernando Valley where his brother lived. He went inside his brother's home, sat on his couch and killed himself on his brother's couch with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

He still had his wedding ring on according to an LA Times article. Los Angeles County Corners Lieutenant Fred Corral said there was an exit wound at the top of his head which meant that he probably put the gun in his mouth to the crime cell. There's something so cryptic about that. Really?

It's so like, well, it just gives me the willies. It was around 3.30 AM that his brother showed up to his own home and found his brother. That's all it's called. That's all it's called.

That's all it's called. That's all it's called. Just go fuck over one more fucking person Bruce. Yes, exactly.

So the brother called the police after discovering him obviously. Now it's widely thought that he did not intend to kill himself initially and I don't think he did either. Now he had booked a plane ticket on Canadian Airlines to connect in Iowa to go visit his friend again. And he had told his friend the one that he went to visit before earlier and got the bullets when he was there.

He told him he was going to come visit him. So he was ready to leave and he bought the plane ticket. Another reason it seems like he was likely forced into taking his own life is that later the autopsy showed that he had third degree burns on his arms and sides and some of his legs. So he knew he wasn't going to get away with it.

Yeah, and so it was so bad that the pants, the Santa pants, had actually melted into his skin. So I think this is why he killed himself because escaping at that point is just not how he was going to go to a doctor. You have third degree burns. You might not even live.

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So they also found trace amounts of cocaine in his system indicating that he had probably taken some of the evening of the massacre, which makes a little sense. They also found $17,000 in cash wrapped around his leg with Saran wrap. He was definitely not playing. He was around.

Yeah. Investigators. Did you say $17,000? $17,000 in cash.

Investigators found his rental car dumped away from his brother's home and it had all the evidence in it. The flamethrower, the guns, the 200 pounds of ammo, the costume, like the Santa costume, food, water, maps of Mexico and the US, a laptop, a desktop computer. He definitely wasn't. It had extra clothing.

I mean, he was ready to leave. The costume, when they found this car, was rigged however. So it was rigged to ignite when you moved it. It would ignite and then it would trigger the 200 pounds of ammunition to explode.

Oh, and it did. His whole car lit on fire, but no one was hurt because they detonated it safely. Right. But so this is what I think.

He got the burns. He initially was ready to get the fuck out of there. Now he realizes he can't. So now he's like, well, I'm going to kill some more people on my way out because why the fuck not?

So he sets that shit up now. He's a smart guy. He knows if you set it up so that it ignites this ammunition, he probably had that as a backup plan. He was like, well, you got to do it now.

Luckily, he didn't kill anybody with that explosion because they were smart and dead. Thank God. At his home, they found four shotguns, more ammo and more gas containers that he used to fuel the flint thrower. It was later discovered that he was planning to kill his ex-wife, Sylvia's divorce attorney.

Oh, Jesus. He was planning to go to his house afterwards and kill him. Oh, my God. Yep.

And he was also planning to kill his own mother, Nancy Windsor. Oh, my God. That evening he was going to go from their house to her because she was invited to the Christmas Eve party at the Ortega's. He thought she was going to be there.