True Crime: The Covina Massacre - Flame Throwing Santa: Bruce Pardo

History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2016

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

On December 24, 2008 Bruce Pardo went to a Christmas party dressed as Santa Clause. He was carrying several automatic weapons and a homemade Flame Thrower. After killing 9 people, he torhced the home. In the process, Pardo accidentally caught himself on fire and was force to commit suicide.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome once again to History Dweaves. I'm Tim. Welcome to the podcast. If you're new to the podcast, welcome.
0:13.6	This is where we take a lighthearted look at the dark side of history. And today is the first podcast in our series of creepy christmas episodes
0:26.5	um colonel i know you're excited about that i love me some creepy christmas time i know you do well
0:33.4	this is the first one we're going to have them throughout the month and And a lot of them, strangely enough, deal with fire for some reason.
0:41.1	Well, you know, I'm surprised that they're not more mass killings around Christmas.
0:44.4	Because Christmas is a stressful time.
0:46.0	Well, what I'm finding out when I'm doing this research is there are a lot of them.
0:52.0	It makes you snap.
0:54.1	I mean, because...
0:55.6	People want...
0:56.9	They want...
0:57.9	They don't want gift cards.
1:00.3	Yeah.
1:00.6	You've got to...
1:01.3	It's like you can't get somebody
1:02.6	Amazon gift card anymore and satisfy them.
1:04.8	Yeah.
1:05.3	It's a scene like you're, you know, being dismissing them or something. I don't know. I'd be happy with Amazon gift card. I know. Anybody who wants to send a colonel. No, do not solicit, please. You've got people already trying to find out when your gospel hour is on. And it's actually a tax deductible. No, it's not. It's not true. Do not do that. Do not do that. Okay,
1:30.5	the topic of our podcast today, you're going to love this colonel.
1:33.9	Hold on. Before we start, Timmy, can I, can I just tell the people what we deal with?
1:38.8	Well, I have to introduce you first. Okay. So let me give the topic of our podcast,
1:43.0	then I'll introduce you, and then you can do your rant. That sounds good. Okay. So let me give the topic of our podcast, then I'll introduce you, and then you can do your rant.
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