Bruce Jeffrey Pardo
Christmas is a time for family. It is a time for feasting together, giving and receiving new gifts and ugly sweaters, and it’s a time for shooting 8-year-old girls in the face.
No? Oh, well that is what Bruce Pardo was thinking when he did just that. The shooting the girl in the face, I mean.
Sylvia Pardo left her husband and reached a divorce settlement in September 2008 in which she was awarded the dog, $10,000, and the rights to keeping her wedding ring. After losing his job as an aerospace engineer, Bruce found it difficult to pay the remaining balance to Sylvia and he had met his breaking point. By December he had created a hit list a mile long containing the names of his ex-wife, ex-in laws, his wife’s divorce attorney, and yes, his own mother whom he felt sided with Sylvia in the divorce.
After a lot (and I mean a lot) of planning, Pardo was ready to pull off his genius plan. Dressed as Santa Clause and holding a present, Pardo crashed his ex-in-laws’ Christmas party just before midnight. An overjoyed 8-year-old raced to the door, excited at the prospect of Santa bringing her a gift! She opened the door to be greeted by a semi-automatic handgun which blasted her in the face and sent her running. Don’t worry, she survived, thank God.
At this point, many of the guests went running for cover and some escaped the house completely and were able to call the police. After firing random shots into the variously staged people, Pardo unwrapped the gift he had been holding – a type of homemade flamethrower equipped with high-octane racing fuel (super flammable). He took little time before marching about the house incinerating everything in sight.
The house did not take long to burn down and several people were unaccounted for. Sylvia, her parents, her sister, two brothers, their wives, and a nephew were all claimed by the blaze.
The speculated plan from there was that Pardo was to drive to his wife’s attorney’s house where he had planted a rental car only a short distance away packed with maps, fuel, and clothes. He was to remain dressed as Santa to shoot up the place and set fire as before and then to use the rental car to get to the airport and get on the next plane to Canada. He was found with the plane ticket and $17,000.
Luckily, his plan did not work out. Some of the fuel from his flamethrower got onto the Santa suit and ignited, melting the suit to his skin causing third degree burns. The pain was so intense he decided to put vengeance aside for this one last time to spare himself the pain and put a bullet into his own head.
Sylvia and Bruce decided to separate after she found out about him having a son from a previous girlfriend. Not a bad enough reason to divorce him? That son had suffered brain damage at 13 months of age after jumping into a pool while Pardo was babysitting. Oh, you’re okay with that? Well, after a week at the hospital he decided to abandon his child. Ah, now you’re feeling it… And although he abandoned the child, he kept writing him off as a tax deduction.
How sweet!
Did Bruce Pardo Slide Down The Chimney Straight Into Hell?
- Yes (98%, 301 Votes)
- No (2%, 6 Votes)
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Oh, another one. Another pitiful man who can’t deal with being left and having to pay a WHOLE $10,000. Oh, at least he shot himself so we don’t have to deal with him. All of thos poor people… Any word on how the little girl is doing? I’m off to Google.
I find it pretty amazing that he had almost $20,000 on him – but couldn’t cope with just giving the woman $10,000 and moving on. Should this be filed under greed too, considering how he treated his disabled son?
I remember reading about this piece of shit, this creature must have really pissed of Satan because he was summoned early! I’m glad he got burned with the same weapon he used to to hurt others. What a pussy, so quick to bring so much hurt to others, but of course couldn’t take pain himself! How the hell can you shoot up an entire Christmas party dressed as Santa?! How can you be pissed off over a divorce that your dumb, selfish, actions caused!? I will never get these people, but once again I don’t want to! I’m just glad this guy didn’t get away with it!
I hear you Lena, and YoMomma found a few extra facts that I didn’t know, specifically the stuff about his son from the previous relationship, which showed him to be an even bigger asshole than I already thought he was. I didn’t think that was even possible.
The thing that bothered me the most was how he planned the whole thing so carefully, and especially that he had a getaway worked out. Now keep in mind his wife didn’t leave him because she “fell out of love with him” or any of those lame reasons that people sometime use to end a relationship, it’s obvious she left him because he’s a lying cocksucker and didn’t tell her about the son he had that suffered brain damage on HIS watch. Oh yeah, and he forgot to mention that he split the joint a week after the kid went into the hospital, but he never forgot to take that tax exemption every year. Now the fucking loser shoots a kid in the face, kills a bunch unarmed people celebrating Christmas, and then plans to run away like a little girly-man. What a fucking coward….
If I remember correctly, he had plane tickets to Canada and like $14,000 strapped to his body. So the motive was not that he couldn’t afford to pay his wife her share, it was just that he was a coldhearted narcissistic cocksucker who was going to hurt others for his own perceived hurts.
I just hope he suffered hard before he took that trip to hell.
Just googled it and it was $17k – and this site has a picture of the car with the melted santa suit (not gross).
http://www.zimbio.com/pilot?ID=dbOFM8BWudL&ZURL=%2FBruce%2BJeffrey%2BPardo%2Fnews%2Fk4S88N390ic%2FSanta%2Bgunman%2BBruce%2BJeffrey%2BPardo%2Blonger%2Bhit&URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.valleypop.com%2FCelebrityNews%2Fsanta-killer-had-disabled-son-escape-plan-bruce-jeffrey-pardo%2F
And the best part is, after he got a taste of what his eternity was going to be like (if we’re lucky and there is a hell for losers like Brucey here) when his Santa suit caught fire burned his arms, e thinks that he’s ENDING his suffering by putting that bullet in his brain. It never occurs to him that he might find himself roasting his nuts in hell and begging God and The Devil to let him go back to being a divorced guy with money problems again.
Ahh, these are the times all those Sunday School classes pay off.
What a fucking prick!
too bad he put a bullit in his own head, if he had lived it would’ve been a great idea to exclude him from medical services, third degree burns leave a lasting impression afterall, i could think of no better way of making him suffer.
some people don’t even deserve death, he got away easy.
I know this sounds twisted, but I have a little less loathing for men who murder their families when they at least have the balls to take their own lives afterwards and save us as a society the expense of having to support them in jail and pay their legal fees. Pardo actually thought he could commit these atrocities and hop a plane to Canada! Well, I’m VERY glad divine justice caught up with him and that he burned himself up in the santa costume. His death may offer little solace to the survivors and family members of the victims, but at least it will cause them less pain than having to continue to see this guy’s face in the news and endure a lengthy trial.
Awesome write up YoMomma! Why does this whole story remind me of a shitty CSI episode?? I saw this all over the news and it pissed me off to no end. Dressed as Santa??? Really?? What the fucking fuck?? The icing is that this waste of skin was actually still claiming his son on his taxes. Douchebaggery at it’s finest folks….
the A$$hat died with burns and now is being burned for eternity. How ironic
am i the only one that takes pleasure in that thought?
:)
Geez… I strongly dislike my ex, and sure, I have a hard time with the holidays. There’s even a few people who probably helped him through his “rough times” splitting up from my sorry butt, (at the time) Somehow I just never felt is was okay to take ‘em all out. Call me crazy…
Maybe I’m getting too much negative news lately, but it seems to me that familial killing really seems like it is becoming an “acceptable” alternative to paying what one owes, and taking responsibility for ones actions, or inactions, whatever the case.
Lena, you mentioned you just don’t “get” these people. I’m with ya there! I can’t wrap my head around the concept, and quite frankly, the day I can, I’m gonna have myself committed.
I feel terribly for the little girl who survived, for all the survivors actually. What can people who are out there helping victims do to lessen that kind of pain? What kind of answers are they gonna give when victims ask why? After seeing so much crap, somehow the answer, “They were just real sick people, Honey.” doesn’t cut it. It seems so flacid, and empty. This, or anything close to it has not happened to me personally, and not having any answers bugs the hell out of me. I do a lot of praying for these poor people who just happen to be in situations involving whack jobs.
I kind of wish he got the atty first.
As far as the wedding ring – pawn it and split the proceeds.
I am glad that his plans failed and that he killed himself… one less thing I haveto pay for as a taxpayer. Let Satan feed and house him!
Geesh… Why is it we can never get these Santa Suits to inflame while the POS is alone, before he burns anyone else up…. Don’t these people know Santa is not real, and only an incredibly deranged idiot would dress up as Santa at Christmas time….
It’s nice to see though he got a headstart on what to expect in hell….
Hahahahaaaaaa Slide down the chimey into Hell….funny!
…not the murdering though. That’s not funny.
Okay maybe just the bit about catching himself alight then shooting himself. I like that bit. Cunt. (Can I say that?)
I don’t know Kiss My Aura, let’s see. Bruce Pardo is a cunt. Yessir he sure is a cunt, a stupid cunt. What a God awful cunt he is. cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt
Yep, I guess you can.
I just fainted in horror! (I prefer the term “fuckity fucktard” myself.)
My friend Donna says that all the time. Are you all friend? LOL
friends*
Friends? What are those?
lol – just kidding, but I don’t know anyone named Donna. =P
I just wish there was an equivalent male term as nasty as cunt, though cunt doesn’t bother me. Dick, prick, johnson, and tallywacker just lack the same level of spite as cunt. (Correct me guys, but wouldn’t you rather be called a dick than a cunt? I mean, if you had to choose . . .)
At any rate, lacking a better term, yep, Pardo is a big, stinking, crusty barbecued cunt. Yes indeed.
Well you could try calling him a scrotum… Or maybe even an ass pond… Give us time… We’ll think up a good nasty, disgusting name to bypass cunt for the males…
I wouldn’t want to use the word in reference to a woman I knew, like my ex-wife (although I have, when I was really, really angry), not only for just the reason you say Mia, but also because it’s a nasty, offensive word, the verbal equivalent of exposing yourself to the woman. But it’s a first class insult and perfectly acceptable to use on a guy like Pardo, IMHO.
How about “dickhole”?
Lol @ dickhole Mazzi! That’s awesome.
I find anything that attacks their sexuality or manliness REALLY pisses them off. Like cockboy, cocksucker, etc.
Ook, The Danger Zone, “ass pond” made me gag a little bit. And it works for both genders. Awesome. (It also reminds me New Orleans, where the stench of the french Quarter in the middle of summer was tres ass-pondish.)
Dickhole is good too, Mazzi, although it has more of a “gross” connotation than the sheer meanness of cunt.
It only makes you gag Mia if you think of all those little spermies swimming around in a colon filled with lube & feces…..
Ok… I’m off to puke now…
AHHHH! Not only did you invent a whole new realm of “there,” but that’s WHERE YOU WENT.
Ew. Ew, ew, ew, LOL.
I will never wrap my head around the idea of anal sex, *especially* not now. I’m so open-minded about so much, but all I can ever think when the “I can haz door number 2?” discussion comes up is, “That’s so unsanitary . . .”
No offense to those who love the anal, but for me, it’s just like “Baroo?”
Dressed as Santa? Really? How many levels of wrong is that? I was especially disgusted over the festive touch of the homemade flamethrower wrapped as a present. That’s so fucked. The level of premeditation, of planning, of “This is all you people deserve for Christmas in my homicidal opinion” is amazing. I think that even a lawyer would have a hard time justifying something so calculated as temporary insanity. Luckily, we don’t even have to worry about some bottom-feeder trying to make excuses for this scum-fuck.
(And I know it’s wrong, but why was an eight-year-old answering the door in the middle of the night? I don’t care what day of the year it was; if I wasn’t expecting a visitor – that late or at any time – I would have used the peephole.)
At any rate, I hope the kid’s okay.
I AGREE WHY WAS AN 8YR OLD ANSERWING THE DOOR AT THAT TIME OF NITE!! THAT TELLS ME WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE THEY WERE DONT GIVE A SHIT MAYBE BRUCE DID WHAT HE DID CAUSE THEY DID SOMETHNG TO HIM IAM JUST SAYING…………………………….
Maybe he did it because he’s an evil fuck who shoots children.
Looks like someone broke into the unit computer room at the “institute” again. You know they’re going to take your privileges away and give you those shock treatments again for this, don’t you?
Jees what a pathetic loser – you type in all caps and your greatest claim to fame is that a mass murdering, baby killing coward is you BFF. Bruce Pardo was a sorry excuse for a man, a husband and a human being, and he got screwed in the divorce because he deserved it. His only saving grace was that he was too fucking stupid to carry out his plan to leave the country. I laughed my ass off when I found out he had to kill himself because he setting himself on fire too. Dumbass!
Looks like you are just as fucking stupid as he was. I’d like to say I’n sure Pardo is in hell, but you never know. The idiot may have gotten lost on the way.
Dear “Friend”…
apparently you have forgotten what it’s like to be an 8 year old anticipating Christmas.
I know my children are sooo excited on Christmas Eve, they can’t go to sleep, because they want to catch Santa dropping off the presents.
Sounds to me like you lack any kind of common sense.
This mother fucker is the real Bad Santa..
It’s kind of funny really
I mean fuck this story reads like a cheap 80′s straight to video horror film……Like “silent night, deadly night” meets “stepfather”. Only in America does this kind of wacky shit happen……I tells ya.
Here in England mass murderers don’t have the imagination to wear a santa suit and kill at Christmas. Shit they would never do something so cinematic…….It even ends with a big fire like most 80′s horror trash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK-85acDd5s
I feel sorry for the poor kid who opened the door. Even if she believes in Santa still, she sure as shit is gonna hate his guts!
These sort of people disgust me. My ex used to talk about doing shit like this. It was always, “im not going to jail ever again, so ima gonna take out as many bastards with me on my way out and go down in flames.” Who the fuck thinks like that? Losers, thats who.
As if killing a bunch of innocent people is gonna make them some sort of legend! People like this are egotistical bastards who cant handle being rejected. Let the cunt burn.
SICK SICK SICK SICK!!! I read about this around the holidays, and I have no words…. just SICK!
I’m glad he’s dead though.
hell is too good for him
Wooooo! We’re having a Cuntfest!
I think it’s the Cu sound that makes it so good and the venom with which you can pronounce that first letter.
Oh cunt, you are so beautiful and poetic, how I love thee….. what would we do without cunt huh?
We’d be stuck doing twat, I guess.
I personally like doing twat… cunt… pussy… Not sure there’s a problem with any of ‘em as long as they’re clean and faithful….
But pussies, cunts, twats etc are useful. Mr Pardo here is not.
Hmm…never looked at it like that before Amy. Good point.
HO! HO! I am going to Hell!!!! Bruce Pardo got a one-way ticket to Hell!!!!!
HIS WIFE HE KILLED IS RIGHT ASIDE HIM IN HELL SHE WAS JUST AS GUILITY TAKING ALL HIS MONEY SPENDING ALL HIS MONEY WHEN THEY WERE DIVORCE SHE WAS A GOLD DIGGER BRUCE RIP BRO GOD IS WITH YOU AND HE KNOWS YOU NEVER INTENDED TO DO SUCH A THING LIKE THAT IT WAS THAT ORTEGA FAMILY THAT TWISTED HIS BUTTONS IAM JUST SAYING……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
What an idiotic thing to say. Honestly. Your comment about the 8 year old was just as stupid.
I’m sure that on the off chance that Pardo the Retardo’s wife is in hell, Brucey himself is in a much hotter area code.
You moron, do you really think a mass murderer deserves anything but scorn and ridicule? How fucking stupid are you? Now fuck off before I hunt you down and chop your dick off so you can’t pollute the earth with any offspring.
Sure…blame it on anyone but Pardo.
Because we all know that he’s a robot, and everyone around him had the remote control.
Of course he couldn’t be guilty of what he did…nooooo way.
Why does your particular breed of slobbering moron always type with capslock on? I’ve never seen a well-worded post from an intelligent person, typed all in caps. It’s always the screaming drivel from someone with a shunt in their skull (to drain off the excess stupid) that is typed with the damned capslock on.
LOUDER IS NOT BETTER! YOU NEED A BIGGER SHUNT!
“…someone with a shunt in their skull (to drain off the excess stupid)…” – lmao!
I kind of look forward to these kind of people Beck. It allows me to lower myself to a place where I can cuss like a sailor and throw insults like “Pardo the Retardo” around without feeling guilty about it. I know if I get too wordy or complex, I’ll totally confuse a guy like FRIEND here, so it’s best to keep everything at a third grade level.
“His last act before shooting himself: turning his rental car into a bomb: “He removed his shredded suit and used it to set up a booby trap in the vehicle, police said. If the suit was moved, trip wires would ignite a flash fire and explode 200 rounds of ammunition.”
Wow. The link above to the other news story about this had this little detail. He wasn’t done hurting people, he set up the Santa Suit to cause more collatoral damage to whomever unlucky official or random passerby disturbed the car. More people killed at Christmas, what the hell.
This is everyone’s worst fear when they find themselves connected to a past family member/friend/boyfriend/girlfriend/coworker that they can see the signs of illness in the person. There is so little you can do and it is completely not your fault. It is just life if your personal screwup flies a little unevenly for the rest of their life and dies or completely crashes and burns and takes you with them.
I feel horrible for the entire family and their wives, they were just trying to go to Christmas.
It reminded me of what happened in my state of Washington Christmas 2007 when Michelle Anderson and her internet boyfriend killed her parents, her brother, his wife and their 3 and 6 year old children Christmas morning.
Her parents had been nice enough to let her and her internet boyfriend stay in a trailer on their property. The boyfriend felt the “landlords” were being a touch unfair about the rent. The daughter felt her brother had unfairly taken the parents’ side. So let’s kill them all at Christmas and make the brother’s wife beg for her childrens’ lives for hours before saying “sorry, we can’t” and killing the three of them as well.
Alot of wonderful people in this world. Also alot of sad sick fucks too. Sometimes they sadly collide.
Yeah, I couldn’t find the particulars of the car like you did so I couldn’t clearly put that fact in. I know that they were able to disarm the car easily enough though! Thanks for throwing that in.