Holidays gone bad: Notorious Christmas crimes

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

3.9 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Our last Crime Stories episode before families gather for Christmas celebrations looks at the most notorious cases of holidays gone bad, including the massacre of a family by an ex-husband dressed as Santa Claus. Nancy Grace assembles a panel of experts including Los Angeles psychiatrist Dr. Carole Lieberman, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Crime Stories contributing reporter John Lemley.

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0:00.0	The Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on Sirius XM Triumph Channel 132
0:12.0	It was a family party being held at the residence on Nocrass that attended by about 25 people.
0:16.0	I think you can go through the entrance of the door and it's a sad hot tooth.
0:20.0	He was dressed in a Santa suit and brought with him a homemade device.
0:24.0	It's basically consists of two tanks, one which contained either oxygen or CO2 and the other smaller tank, appeared to contain racing fuel.
0:31.0	What do you think it needed for an oxygen tank?
0:36.0	You walked up the door once you knocked on the door, running the doorbell and gained entrance.
0:40.0	He immediately was confronted with a eight-year-old child who thought Santa Claus had come to the house.
0:44.0	He shot her once in the face and then proceeded inside the residence.
0:48.0	What is he wearing on the teeth? His face was Santa Claus close.
0:50.0	Okay, let me know what he's wearing.
0:52.0	He was Santa Claus suit that he was wearing did melt onto his body.
0:57.0	What is it about the holidays?
1:00.0	Specifically Christmas that can engender so much love and goodwill.
1:08.0	And then on the other hand at the other end of the spectrum,
1:12.0	he generates so much hate and animosity and tension.
1:19.0	I'm talking specifically about holidays gone bad.
1:25.0	Let's just start with a man, a husband, a father, who ends up making a homemade flame thrower.
1:38.0	Goes to the home and goes berserk and let me remind everybody this guy, Bruce Parto, as I recall,
1:45.0	was an aeronautical engineer.
1:48.0	Take a listen to this 9-1-1 call.
1:51.0	Hello, Paul.
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