Aziz Yazdanpanah

Murder Dictionary

Brianna Miera

Comedy, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

This week we discuss how Aziz Yazdanpanah was an extremely controlling husband & father, who began to fall apart when he felt like he was losing control of his family. He responded to being separated from the family by showing up on Christmas morning dressed as Santa & killing the entire family.

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AZIZ YAZDANPANAH LINKS:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/santa-claus-killer-estranged-husband-father/story?id=15240342

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Gunman-in-Christmas-Massacre-on-911-Call-Im-Shooting-People-136348393.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079034/Christmas-Day-shootings-First-pictures-Texas-family-gunned-Aziz-Yazdanpanah-Santa-suit.html

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2012/12/25/documents-bring-glimpse-of-troubled-life-of-grapevine-mass-shooter/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-gunman-aziz-yazdanpanah-was-angry-with-wifes-success-friends-say/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/authorities-identify-shooter-victims-in-texas-christmas-day-shootings/

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/01/05/search-for-motive-in-grapevine-christmas-day-murders-continues/

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/12/28/grapevine-police-shooter-tried-spreading-blame-in-murders/

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/12/29/family-speak-out-over-christmas-day-shootings/

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/12/25/7-found-dead-inside-grapevine-apartment/

https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/12/texas-man-tells-911-i-am-shooting-people.html

https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-dallas-morning-news/20111228/286444255459306

https://www.theblaze.com/news/2011/12/28/was-the-santa-claus-killers-christmas-day-massacre-an-honor-killing

MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCE LINKS:
https://www.childhelp.org/hotline/
https://victimsofcrime.org/help-for-crime-victims/get-help-bulletins-for-crime-victims/bulletins-for-teens/bullying-and-harassment
http://stompoutbullying.org/
http://www.thehotline.org/?gclid=CjwKEAjwwcjGBRDj-P7TwcinyBkSJADymblT8HNh4scSA-G7d-xEADhi0xODIRWy3zXSWWrGXg2B5hoCdD7w_wcB
http://www.ncadv.org/
http://www.crisistextline.org/textline/?gclid=CjwKEAjw9MrIBRCr2LPek5-h8U0SJAD3jfhtHplx6Ibc8Ov7oG79YLibo1TubSfQrumNc-WnXJixDxoCKafw_wcB
https://www.mentalhelp.net/meeting-finder/ca/woodland-hills/

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Hello and welcome to Murder Dictionary Podcast.
0:41.9	Over there is Courtney and I am Brianna.
0:44.5	Hello.
0:45.2	Hey guys, welcome to the show.
0:47.6	So before we get into our case tonight,
0:50.5	we just want to remind you that there's links in the show notes for our social media
0:55.5	and for our resources that we use to research. So if you want to read up on those or follow us on
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1:12.9	T-shirts, phone cases, et cetera. So definitely check out threadless for those. And we've got a Patreon
1:21.8	at patreon.com slash murder dictionary podcast. So there's a link for that in the show notes. And if you want to join,
1:29.6	you will get access to some early release episodes, add free episodes, bonus episodes, a bunch of
1:38.9	additional content. So definitely check out our Patreon. We have a few new people on our Patreon.
1:46.1	So we want to say thank you to Kelly, Diana, and Eileen.
1:51.7	Thank you.
1:52.5	Thanks, you guys.
1:53.3	We appreciate you being on our Patreon.
1:56.8	We have an Instagram.
1:58.7	We have a Facebook.
2:00.2	We have a Facebook group. We are on Twitter. We are a murder dictionary podcast. Everywhere. We have Gmail. We're all over.
2:09.2	And then I guess there's one more thing before we start talking about the case for today. We will not be here next week because I am not going to be able to record
2:19.9	because I am marrying my girlfriend next weekend. Yay. It's a Christmas miracle.
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