EP. 48 CALIFORNIA - A Christmas Massacre: The 2008 Covina Santa Shooting
Murder In America
Blood In The Sink Productions
4.8 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Warning. The following podcast is not suitable for all audiences. |
| 0:03.8 | We go into great detail with every case that we cover and do our best to bring viewers even deeper into the stories by utilizing disturbing audio and sound effects. |
| 0:11.8 | Trigger warnings from the stories we cover may include violence, rape, |
| 0:16.0 | murder, and offenses against children. |
| 0:18.3 | This podcast is not for everyone. |
| 0:20.6 | You have been warned. Christmas is undoubtedly the best time of the year. The neighborhoods are covered in lights. |
| 0:45.2 | You get to decorate a tree, spend time with your loved ones, and practice |
| 0:50.1 | different family traditions. One of these traditions for the Ortega family |
| 0:55.4 | was to get everyone together on Christmas Eve. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, |
| 1:00.3 | and cousins of all ages sit around eat a nice dinner play some games and |
| 1:05.4 | maybe even bake cookies for Santa's arrival later that night, which is exactly |
| 1:10.6 | what they did on Christmas Eve in 2008. It was just like any other year. |
| 1:16.1 | The kids were in the back of the house playing video games and the adults were |
| 1:20.1 | wrapping up a game of Texas Holdom when all of a sudden everyone hears a knock on the front door. |
| 1:27.0 | No one is expecting any visitors so eight-year-old Katrina runs over to see who it is. |
| 1:36.2 | When she looks out the window her eyes grow wide with excitement because standing on the front porch is Santa Claus himself and the |
| 1:42.1 | best part of all is that he's holding a big |
| 1:44.5 | Christmas present in his arms but instead of the cheerful welcome you'd expect to |
| 1:49.8 | hear from Santa Claus this one has an evil look in his eye. He isn't smiling or |
| 1:56.1 | asking if she'd been a good girl. Instead, he pulls a gun out of the neatly |
| 2:01.4 | wrapped present, points it directly at the 8 year old's face, and |
| 2:06.1 | pulls the trigger. |
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