Covina Massacre

misconduct. a true crime podcast

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🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On the night of December 24th, 2008, a large family Christmas party was winding down. It had been another successful holiday party for the Ortega family, but shortly after 11:30 pm a man approached the residence. Once the door was opened, he forced himself in and started opening fire.

During the chaos, a call was placed to 911 that identified the shooter as the ex husband of one of the family members. Shortly after that, the house went up in flames and Pardo fled. By the end of the attack, 9 people would be dead at the hands of someone they knew. Bruce Jeffery Pardo had recently divorced his wife Sylvia and the house he attacked belonged to his ex in-laws.

By the time law enforcement tracked Pardo down, he was dead. He had killed himself shortly after the attack, but evidence showed suicide wasn’t his original plan.

Despite the divorce, anyone who knew the couple was taken aback by Pardo’s actions. Nothing about Pardo’s past suggested that he would commit such an atrocious crime, but it quickly became clear that he had been planning the attack for some time.

This week, we will go through the crime, the victims, and the man responsible. Personally, I find this case so disturbing because many of the warning signs you could look for were not there.

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0:00.0	This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats.
0:11.0	So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.
0:15.0	Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. The Welcome back to misconduct. I'm Eileen and joining me as always is Colleen. How you doing Colleen?
0:49.0	I'm good. I can't believe it's already mid-December I'm wrapping up my end of the year stuff at work
0:56.1	So I'm basically in this like weird stressful period where I'm trying to finish all of this work in a short amount of time so I can take a break
1:05.4	But it's gonna be a two-week break which is really nice.
1:10.8	Fingers crossed I don't get sick during this break because I just keep for whatever reason getting sick when I have time off. I also can't believe our next episode will be our one year
1:16.2	anniversary of misconduct but how are you? I know isn't that crazy I'm
1:21.0	great and I can't believe it's almost 2018. I just feel like time has flown by so fast. So it's just nuts. But I'm doing good. And I wanted to let everyone know. Last week we mentioned that we had a surprise. Well here it is.
1:36.2	We have been feverishly working on a new podcast. Do you believe in the paranormal? Do you like ghost stories?
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2:29.0	And if you have a paranormal experience of your own that you would like to share. You can email us at unearthly
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