The Covina Christmas Massacre
Legally Brunette
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4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On Christmas Eve in 2008, Bruce Pardo dressed up as Santa Claus and set out to kill his ex-wife and all of her relatives. He used semi-automatic guns and a self-made flame thrower to accomplish his goal, killing 9 people in total.
Emily and Shane are diving into this horrific massacre, analyzing Bruce’s motives and plans to accomplish such a huge tragedy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi guys, welcome to a new episode of Legally Brunette. I will be your host, Emily Simpson, with my co-host, my Christmas co-host. |
| 0:10.0 | Shane. Shane. So, we wanted to do a case today that had something to do with Christmas because it is, it's Christmas time. Do you love Christmas time? I love Christmas time. |
| 0:21.7 | Yes, I do. |
| 0:22.8 | No, you don't. |
| 0:23.2 | You're all stressed out. |
| 0:25.5 | It's more work than it is fun. |
| 0:27.6 | For you? |
| 0:28.1 | For parents? |
| 0:28.7 | For me. |
| 0:29.4 | Well, I think for parents in general. |
| 0:31.2 | No, for me. |
| 0:32.0 | Oh, just for you? |
| 0:32.9 | Okay. |
| 0:33.9 | All right, so first, before we get into a true crime story that has to do with christmas we are going |
| 0:40.6 | to just do a little update on nick reiner so nick riner was diagnosed with schizophrenia several |
| 0:47.0 | years ago and his medication was changed or adjusted at some point before the killings of his parents |
| 0:52.7 | this is according to three different sources with |
| 0:54.8 | direct knowledge of the case. A sealed medical order was signed Friday by the judge overseeing |
| 1:00.8 | the case's initial stages. That sealed order may have to deal with Reiner's mental health condition |
| 1:05.9 | and treatment. The sources have declined to discuss the contents of the order. As of Friday, the weapon use and the slings had not been found. This is two of the sources have said. However, we don't know how legitimate that is, maybe. It seems to be likely him, but what concrete evidence is there that actually says it is him, or at least enough of first charges? Well, when he checked into the hotel, I believe that in the hotel, there was blood everywhere. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Whose blood? His parents' blood? I mean, there isn't any DNA confirmations or anything. But obviously, in order for them to go look for him that evening after, or not that evening, but it was, yeah, soon after, soon after they found the bodies. They had that had something. I want to know what that was. Yeah, well, we don't know that. But you made a good point. You said maybe they pulled up a ring footage and saw him coming in, you know, into the house and leaving. Yeah, I made lots of good points. Good for you. All right, Michael Douglas and Rob Reiner talked about parenting sons with drug issues. |
| 2:01.8 | This was a people article. |
| 2:03.4 | So Michael Douglas says he and Rob Reiner had had conversations about the challenges of parenting sons with drug addictions. |
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