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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Demonic Discovery: Witness Sees Rug Wrapped Corpse after Brutal Son-on-Father Slaughter| Crime Alert 6AM 01.01.2026

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

A son fresh out of jail allegedly confesses to a brutal slaughter! He says a 'demonic' presence forced him to beat his elderly dad to death, pour wax on him & stuff his corpse in a rug. But that wasn't his only victim...

A mom with a history of mental illness in on the run abroad - her 4 tots in tow...to save them from "end times." Plus, a bandit in the buff...with a real beef for heists. Jennifer Gould reports. 

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0:00.0

Crime Alert, I'm Izzy Grace, an Indiana man behind bars after allegedly killing his father and injuring his mother.

0:09.5

Brian Padigo, 54 accused of killing dad, pouring wax on the victim's face,

0:15.0

wrapping him in a rug and stealing his truck.

0:17.9

Police began a death investigation based on a 911 call made by a third party.

0:22.8

When they get there, they find all the doors locked, no one home, they left. But they came back

0:29.0

later after another witness calls claiming to see a dead body from a window. Jennifer Gould

0:35.1

has the details. Nancy, as you said, the horror began with a single spine-chilling

0:40.7

glance through a living room window. A witness peering into a home in the 2100 block of South

0:47.7

Catherwood Avenue was met with a sight of pure depravity, a human body, rolled tightly inside a white-gray-patterned rug like

0:57.2

a piece of garbage. Behind those locked doors, authorities say Brian Padigo 54 had unleashed a,

1:04.8

quote, demonic assault on his elderly parents, just hours after being released from jail.

1:11.0

When Indianapolis Metropolitan Police breached the home, the graphic reality was even

1:16.7

worse than witnesses described. Inside that rug lay the battered corpse of 81-year-old John

1:25.0

Lloyd Padigo. The elderly man had been strangled and beaten to a pulp,

1:30.0

but in a bizarre and sadistic twist, the killer had poured molten candlewax over his father's

1:38.1

face. Nearby, police found a second rug stuffed with bloody clothing and inexplicably an artificial tree,

1:47.7

while blood and wax were smeared across the floor, as evidence of a desperate struggle for life.

1:54.3

The carnage, though, was not limited to the dead. In a recliner just feet away,

1:59.6

John's 79-year-old wife, Olana Padigo, sat dazed and

2:04.1

confused, her body covered in deep bruising. She was rushed to Escanazi Hospital, suffering from

2:11.0

a life-threatening brain bleed. Shelly Gindling, John Padiggo's niece, spoke to WTHR and BC 13 News.

2:20.7

There have been warning signs, knowing that this was likelihood of happening.

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